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2026

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Environmental Sciences

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97
Citations
31598
World Ranking
439
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Hjalmar Laudon is affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden. Their research spans primarily within the field of Environmental Science, with particular focus on several subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Chemistry, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's main research topics cover areas such as Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, and Fish Ecology and Management Studies.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Laudon are the following:

  • Use of multiple LIDAR-derived digital terrain indices and machine learning for high-resolution national-scale soil moisture mapping of the Swedish forest landscape, 2021, Geoderma
  • Stable isotopes of water reveal differences in plant - soil water relationships across northern environments, 2020, Hydrological Processes
  • Northern landscapes in transition: Evidence, approach and ways forward using the Krycklan Catchment Study, 2021, Hydrological Processes
  • Current water quality guidelines across North America and Europe do not protect lakes from salinization, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Drought alters the biogeochemistry of boreal stream networks, 2020, Nature Communications

The frequent co-authors with whom Laudon has collaborated include Matthias Peichl, Ryan A. Sponseller, Eliza Maher Hasselquist, Mats B. Nilsson, and Jörgen Wallerman.

Laudon has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Global Change Biology
  • Hydrological Processes
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

    Thomas W. Crowther;Katherine E.O. Todd-Brown;Clara W. Rowe;William R. Wieder

  • Energy exchange and water budget partitioning in a boreal minerogenic mire

    Matthias Peichl;Jörgen Sagerfors;Anders Lindroth;Ishi Buffam;Ishi Buffam

  • Sources of and processes controlling CO2 emissions change with the size of streams and rivers

    E. R. Hotchkiss;E. R. Hotchkiss;R. O. Hall;R. A. Sponseller;D. Butman

  • Experimental insights into the importance of aquatic bacterial community composition to the degradation of dissolved organic matter.

    Jürg Brendan Logue;Colin A Stedmon;Anne M Kellerman;Nikoline J Nielsen

  • Patterns and dynamics of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in boreal streams: The role of processes, connectivity, and scaling

    Hjalmar Laudon;Martin Berggren;Martin Berggren;Anneli Ågren;Ishi Buffam

  • Contemporary carbon accumulation in a boreal oligotrophic minerogenic mire – a significant sink after accounting for all C‐fluxes

    Mats Nilsson;Joergen Sagerfors;Ishi Buffam;Hjalmar Laudon

  • Resolving the Double Paradox of rapidly mobilized old water with highly variable responses in runoff chemistry

    Kevin Bishop;Jan Seibert;Stephan Jürgen Köhler;Hjalmar Laudon

  • Current Browning of Surface Waters Will Be Further Promoted by Wetter Climate

    Heleen A. de Wit;Salar Valinia;Gesa A Weyhenmeyer;Martyn N. Futter

  • Modeling spatial patterns of saturated areas: A comparison of the topographic wetness index and a dynamic distributed model

    T Grabs;Jan Seibert;Jan Seibert;K Bishop;H Laudon

  • Thirty-five years of synchrony in the organic matter concentrations of Swedish rivers explained by variation in flow and sulphate

    Martin Erlandsson;Ishi Buffam;Jens Fölster;Hjalmar Laudon

  • The river as a chemostat: fresh perspectives on dissolved organic matter flowing down the river continuum

    Irena F. Creed;Diane M. McKnight;Brian A. Pellerin;Mark B. Green

  • Intermediate tree cover can maximize groundwater recharge in the seasonally dry tropics

    U. Ilstedt;A. Bargués Tobella;H.R. Bazié;J. Bayala

  • Seasonal TOC export from seven boreal catchments in northern Sweden

    Hjalmar Laudon;Stephan Jürgen Köhler;Ishi Buffam

  • Importance of seasonality and small streams for the landscape regulation of dissolved organic carbon export

    Annelie Ågren;I Buffam;Mats Jansson;Hjalmar Laudon

  • A meta-analysis of the effects of nitrogen additions on base cations: Implications for plants, soils, and streams

    R. W. Lucas;Jonatan Klaminder;M. N. Futter;K. H. Bishop;K. H. Bishop

  • Aqua Incognita: the unknown headwaters

    Kevin H Bishop;Ishi Buffam;M Erlandsson;J Fölster

  • How does landscape structure influence catchment transit time across different geomorphic provinces

    D. Tetzlaff;J. Seibert;K.J. McGuire;H. Laudon

  • The effect of trees on preferential flow and soil infiltrability in an agroforestry parkland in semiarid Burkina Faso

    A. Bargués Tobella;H. Reese;A. Almaw;J. Bayala

  • Replacing monocultures with mixed-species stands: Ecosystem service implications of two production forest alternatives in Sweden

    Adam Felton;Urban Nilsson;Johan Sonesson;Annika M. Felton

  • Browning of freshwaters: Consequences to ecosystem services, underlying drivers, and potential mitigation measures

    Emma S. Kritzberg;Eliza Maher Hasselquist;Martin Škerlep;Stefan Löfgren

  • 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

  • The Krycklan Catchment Study—A flagship infrastructure for hydrology, biogeochemistry, and climate research in the boreal landscape

    Hjalmar Laudon;Ida Taberman;Anneli Ågren;Martyn Futter

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin Bishop
Kevin Bishop Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Jan Seibert
Jan Seibert University of Zurich
Doerthe Tetzlaff
Doerthe Tetzlaff Leibniz Association
Stephan J. Köhler
Stephan J. Köhler Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Ryan A. Sponseller
Ryan A. Sponseller Umeå University
Chris Soulsby
Chris Soulsby University of Aberdeen
Ishi Buffam
Ishi Buffam University of Cincinnati
Sean K. Carey
Sean K. Carey McMaster University
Jim Buttle
Jim Buttle Trent University
Martyn N. Futter
Martyn N. Futter Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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