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Hans Henrik Bruun

Hans Henrik Bruun

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
47
Citations
9840
World Ranking
4384
National Ranking
56

Overview

Hans Henrik Bruun is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, Ecology, and Insect Science.

The scientist's work covers a diverse range of topics, notably:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions

Hans Henrik Bruun has contributed to publications in various venues. The most frequent ones include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Oikos
  • Journal of Applied Ecology

Among recent papers attributed to Bruun are:

  • Dimensions of invasiveness: Links between local abundance, geographic range size, and habitat breadth in Europe's alien and native floras, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Buffering effects of soil seed banks on plant community composition in response to land use and climate, 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE) 1.0, 2023, Vegetation Classification and Survey
  • Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats, 2021, Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Global beta-diversity of angiosperm trees is shaped by Quaternary climate change, 2023, Science Advances

Frequent collaborators in Bruun's research include:

  • Rasmus Ejrnæs
  • Camilla Fløjgaard
  • Jacob Heilmann-Clausen
  • Lars Dalby
  • Chaeho Byun

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Algorithm for post-clustering curation of DNA amplicon data yields reliable biodiversity estimates

    Tobias Guldberg Frøslev;Rasmus Kjøller;Hans Henrik Bruun;Rasmus Ejrnæs

  • Vascular plant species richness and bioindication predict multi‐taxon species richness

    Ane Kirstine Brunbjerg;Hans Henrik Bruun;Lars Dalby;Camilla Fløjgaard

  • Land-use history and fragmentation of traditionally managed grasslands in Scandinavia

    Ove Eriksson;Sara A.O. Cousins;Hans Henrik Bruun

  • Effects of altitude and topography on species richness of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens in alpine communities

    Hans Henrik Bruun;Jon Moen;Risto Virtanen;John Arvid Grytnes

  • Biodiversity in temperate European grasslands: origin and conservation.

    Meelis Pärtel;Hans Henrik Bruun;Marek Sammul

  • Local temperatures inferred from plant communities suggest strong spatial buffering of climate warming across Northern Europe

    Jonathan Lenoir;Bente Jessen Graae;Per Arild Aarrestad;Inger Greve Alsos

  • Stay or go - how topographic complexity influences alpine plant population and community responses to climate change

    Bente Jessen Graae;Vigdis Vandvik;W. Scott Armbruster;Wolf L. Eiserhardt;Wolf L. Eiserhardt

  • More is less: net gain in species richness, but biotic homogenization over 140 years.

    Tora Finderup Nielsen;Kaj Sand‐Jensen;Maria Dornelas;Hans Henrik Bruun

  • Community Assembly in Experimental Grasslands: Suitable Environment or Timely Arrival?

    Rasmus Ejrnæs;Hans Henrik Bruun;Bente Jessen Graae

  • Patterns of species richness in dry grassland patches in an agricultural landscape

    Hans Henrik Bruun

  • Rosa rugosa Thunb. ex Murray

    Hans Henrik Bruun

  • Biodiversity response to forest structure and management: Comparing species richness, conservation relevant species and functional diversity as metrics in forest conservation

    Chiara Lelli;Hans Henrik Bruun;Alessandro Chiarucci;Davide Donati

  • Why are small seeds dispersed through animal guts: large numbers or seed size per se?

    Hans Henrik Bruun;Peter Poschlod

  • Landscape genomics and a common garden trial reveal adaptive differentiation to temperature across Europe in the tree species Alnus glutinosa.

    Hanne De Kort;Katrien Vandepitte;Hans Henrik Bruun;Déborah Closset-Kopp

  • The Past Impact of Livestock Husbandry on Dispersal of Plant Seeds in the Landscape of Denmark

    Hans Henrik Bruun;Bo Fritzbøger

  • Strong microsite control of seedling recruitment in tundra

    Bente J. Graae;Rasmus Ejrnæs;Simone I. Lang;Eric Meineri;Eric Meineri

  • Latitudinal variation in plant chemical defences drives latitudinal patterns of leaf herbivory

    Xoaquín Moreira;Bastien Castagneyrol;Luis Abdala‐Roberts;Jorge C. Berny‐Mier y Teran

  • Understory succession in post-agricultural oak forests: Habitat fragmentation affects forest specialists and generalists differently

    Jörg Brunet;Karin Valtinat;Marian Lajos Mayr;Adam Felton

  • Traits related to species persistence and dispersal explain changes in plant communities subjected to habitat loss

    Lorenzo Marini;Lorenzo Marini;Hans Henrik Bruun;Risto K. Heikkinen;Aveliina Helm

  • Gradient analysis of dry grassland vegetation in Denmark.

    Rasmus Ejrnæs;Hans Henrik Bruun

  • GrassPlot - a database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands

    Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Viktoria Wagner;Iwona Dembicz;Itziar García-Mijangos

Frequent Co-Authors

Rasmus Ejrnæs
Rasmus Ejrnæs Aarhus University
Jacob Heilmann-Clausen
Jacob Heilmann-Clausen University of Copenhagen
Jens-Christian Svenning
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
Carsten Rahbek
Carsten Rahbek University of Copenhagen
Bente J. Graae
Bente J. Graae Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Toke T. Høye
Toke T. Høye Aarhus University
Rasmus Kjøller
Rasmus Kjøller University of Copenhagen
W. Scott Armbruster
W. Scott Armbruster University of Portsmouth
Kaj Sand-Jensen
Kaj Sand-Jensen University of Copenhagen
Tianhua He
Tianhua He Curtin University

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