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Gustaf Hugelius

Gustaf Hugelius

Gustaf Hugelius publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gustaf Hugelius sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

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Gustaf Hugelius D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gustaf Hugelius sits on this spectrum.

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The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Gustaf Hugelius is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and conducts research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, and Environmental Chemistry.

They focus on a range of topics related to climate and environmental processes, with notable emphasis on climate change and permafrost, cryospheric studies and observations, peatlands and wetlands ecology, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, methane hydrates, and geology and paleoclimatology research.

Their recent papers include:

  • The Global Methane Budget 2000-2017 (2020, NOAA Institutional Repository)
  • Carbon release through abrupt permafrost thaw (2020, Nature Geoscience)
  • Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thaw (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries (2023, Nature)
  • Microbial carbon use efficiency promotes global soil carbon storage (2023, Nature)

The scientist has frequently collaborated with other researchers, including Benjamin Poulter, Stefano Manzoni, Edward A. G. Schuur, Robert B. Jackson, and Etienne Fluet-Chouinard. These collaborations occur across diverse aspects of environmental and earth science research.

Gustaf Hugelius has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues comprise Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Earth System Science Data, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Nature Communications, and Nature Geoscience.

Best Publications

  • Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback

    E. A. G. Schuur;A. D. McGuire;C. Schädel;C. Schädel;Guido Grosse

  • The global methane budget 2000–2017

    Marielle Saunois;Ann R. Stavert;Ben Poulter;Philippe Bousquet

  • Estimated stocks of circumpolar permafrost carbon with quantified uncertainty ranges and identified data gaps

    Gustaf Hugelius;Jens Strauss;Sebastian Zubrzycki;Jennifer W. Harden

  • The Ecology of Soil Carbon: Pools, Vulnerabilities, and Biotic and Abiotic Controls

    Robert B. Jackson;Kate Lajtha;Susan E. Crow;Gustaf Hugelius

  • Carbon release through abrupt permafrost thaw

    Merritt R. Turetsky;Merritt R. Turetsky;Benjamin W. Abbott;Miriam C. Jones;Katey Walter Anthony

  • Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries

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  • Microbial carbon use efficiency promotes global soil carbon storage

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  • Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thaw.

    Gustaf Hugelius;Gustaf Hugelius;Julie Loisel;Sarah Chadburn;Robert B. Jackson

  • Circumpolar distribution and carbon storage of thermokarst landscapes

    D. Olefeldt;S. Goswami;Guido Grosse;D. Hayes

  • An observation-based constraint on permafrost loss as a function of global warming

    S. E. Chadburn;S. E. Chadburn;E. J. Burke;P. M. Cox;P. Friedlingstein

  • Permafrost collapse is accelerating carbon release

    Merritt R. Turetsky;Benjamin W. Abbott;Miriam C. Jones;Katey Walter Anthony

  • Permafrost and Climate Change: Carbon Cycle Feedbacks From the Warming Arctic

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  • The Northern Circumpolar Soil Carbon Database: spatially distributed datasets of soil coverage and soil carbon storage in the northern permafrost regions

    G. Hugelius;C. Tarnocai;G. Broll;J. G. Canadell

  • Expert assessment of vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change

    E. A. G. Schuur;B. W. Abbott;W. B. Bowden;V. Brovkin

  • Deep Yedoma permafrost: A synthesis of depositional characteristics and carbon vulnerability

    Jens Strauss;Lutz Schirrmeister;Guido Grosse;Guido Grosse;Daniel Fortier

  • Permafrost Stores a Globally Significant Amount of Mercury

    Paul F. Schuster;Kevin Schaefer;George R. Aiken;Ronald C. Antweiler

  • Field information links permafrost carbon to physical vulnerabilities of thawing

    Jennifer W. Harden;Charles D. Koven;Chien-Lu Ping;Gustaf Hugelius

  • Spatial heterogeneity and environmental predictors of permafrost region soil organic carbon stocks

    Umakant Mishra;Gustaf Hugelius;Eitan Shelef;Yuanhe Yang

  • Higher climatological temperature sensitivity of soil carbon in cold than warm climates

    Charles D. Koven;Gustaf Hugelius;Gustaf Hugelius;David M. Lawrence;William R. Wieder;William R. Wieder

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

  • Decadal soil carbon accumulation across Tibetan permafrost regions

    Jinzhi Ding;Leiyi Chen;Chengjun Ji;Gustaf Hugelius;Gustaf Hugelius

  • A new data set for estimating organic carbon storage to 3 m depth in soils of the northern circumpolar permafrost region

    G. Hugelius;James G. Bockheim;P. Camill;B. Elberling;B. Elberling

  • A simplified, data-constrained approach to estimate the permafrost carbon-climate feedback

    C.D Koven;E.A.G. Schuur;C Schädel;T. J Bohn

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Kuhry
Peter Kuhry Stockholm University
Guido Grosse
Guido Grosse Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Jennifer W. Harden
Jennifer W. Harden United States Geological Survey
Edward A. G. Schuur
Edward A. G. Schuur Northern Arizona University
Jens Strauss
Jens Strauss Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Charles D. Koven
Charles D. Koven Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Charles Tarnocai
Charles Tarnocai Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Birgit Wild
Birgit Wild Stockholm University
Lutz Schirrmeister
Lutz Schirrmeister Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Bo Elberling
Bo Elberling University of Copenhagen

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