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Jan Karlsson

Jan Karlsson

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
51
Citations
10820
World Ranking
3619
National Ranking
89

Overview

Jan Karlsson is affiliated with Umeå University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular focus on atmospheric science, oceanography, global and planetary change, ecology, and environmental chemistry.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Methane hydrates and related phenomena
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Peatlands and wetlands ecology

Jan Karlsson has a record of publications in several venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Freshwater Biology
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Frequent coauthors in Karlsson's work include:

  • Marcus Klaus
  • David A. Seekell
  • H. A. Verheijen
  • Oleg S. Pokrovsky
  • Artem G. Lim

Recent notable research papers by Jan Karlsson are:

  • Carbon emission from Western Siberian inland waters, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Paired O2-CO2 measurements provide emergent insights into aquatic ecosystem function, 2020, Limnology and Oceanography Letters
  • Integrating terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to constrain estimates of land-atmosphere carbon exchange, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Turbulence in a small boreal lake: Consequences for air-water gas exchange, 2020, Limnology and Oceanography
  • Integrating carbon emission, accumulation and transport in inland waters to understand their role in the global carbon cycle, 2020, Global Change Biology

Best Publications

  • The Swedish SF-36 Health Survey: I. Evaluation of data quality, scaling assumptions, reliability and construct validity across general populations in Sweden.

    Marianne Sullivan;Jan Karlsson;John E. Ware

  • Light limitation of nutrient-poor lake ecosystems

    Jan Karlsson;Pär Byström;Jenny Ask;Per Ask

  • The Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire-R18 Is Able to Distinguish among Different Eating Patterns in a General Population

    Blandine de Lauzon;Monique Romon;Valérie Deschamps;Lionel Lafay

  • 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

  • Reviews and syntheses: Effects of permafrost thaw on Arctic aquatic ecosystems

    J. E. Vonk;S. E. Tank;W. B. Bowden;I. Laurion

  • Ecosystem Consequences of Changing Inputs of Terrestrial Dissolved Organic Matter to Lakes: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges

    Christopher T. Solomon;Stuart E. Jones;Brian C. Weidel;Ishi Buffam

  • Genetic and environmental influences on eating behavior: the Swedish Young Male Twins Study.

    Sanna Tholin;Finn Rasmussen;Per Tynelius;Jan Karlsson

  • Global change-driven effects on dissolved organic matter composition : Implications for food webs of northern lakes

    Irena F. Creed;Ann Kristin Bergström;Charles G. Trick;Nancy B. Grimm

  • 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 influence of dissolved organic carbon on primary production in northern lakes

    David A. Seekell;Jean‐François Lapierre;Jenny Ask;Ann‐Kristin Bergström

  • Terrestrial organic matter and light penetration: Effects on bacterial and primary production in lakes

    Jenny Ask;Jan Karlsson;Lennart Persson;Per Ask

  • Is restrained eating a risk factor for weight gain in a general population

    Blandine de Lauzon-Guillain;Arnaud Basdevant;Monique Romon;Jan Karlsson

  • Sources of carbon dioxide supersaturation in clearwater and humic lakes in northern Sweden

    Anders Jonsson;Jan Karlsson;Mats Jansson

  • Control of zooplankton dependence on allochthonous organic carbon in humic and clear-water lakes in northern Sweden

    Jan Karlsson;Anders Jonsson;Markus Meili;Mats Jansson

  • Terrestrial organic matter support of lake food webs: Evidence from lake metabolism and stable hydrogen isotopes of consumers

    Jan Karlsson;Martin Berggren;Jenny Ask;Pär Byström

  • Lake secondary production fueled by rapid transfer of low molecular weight organic carbon from terrestrial sources to aquatic consumers

    Martin Berggren;Lena Ström;Hjalmar Laudon;Jan Karlsson

  • High carbon emissions from thermokarst lakes of Western Siberia.

    Svetlana Serikova;O. S. Pokrovsky;H. Laudon;I. Krickov

  • Nonlinear response of dissolved organic carbon concentrations in boreal lakes to increasing temperatures

    Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer;Jan Karlsson

  • Whole‐lake estimates of carbon flux through algae and bacteria in benthic and pelagic habitats of clear‐water lakes

    Jenny Ask;Jan Karlsson;Lennart Persson;Per Ask

  • High emission of carbon dioxide and methane during ice thaw in high latitude lakes

    Jan Karlsson;Reiner Giesler;Jenny Persson;Erik Lundin

  • Littoral energy mobilization dominates energy supply for top consumers in subarctic lakes

    Jan Karlsson;Pär Byström

  • A synthesis of carbon dioxide and methane dynamics during the ice-covered period of northern lakes

    Blaize A. Denfeld;Helen M. Baulch;Paul A. del Giorgio;Stephanie E. Hampton

  • Net ecosystem production in clear‐water and brown‐water lakes

    Jenny Ask;Jan Karlsson;Mats Jansson

  • Productivity of high‐latitude lakes: climate effect inferred from altitude gradient

    Jan Karlsson;Jan Karlsson;Anders Jonsson;Anders Jonsson;Mats Jansson

  • Respiration of allochthonous organic carbon in unproductive forest lakes determined by the Keeling plot method

    Jan Karlsson;Mats Jansson;Anders Jonsson

  • 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

Pär Byström
Pär Byström Umeå University
Mats Jansson
Mats Jansson Umeå University
Oleg S. Pokrovsky
Oleg S. Pokrovsky National Research Tomsk State University
Ann-Kristin Bergström
Ann-Kristin Bergström Umeå University
Reiner Giesler
Reiner Giesler Umeå University
Hjalmar Laudon
Hjalmar Laudon Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Markku Peltonen
Markku Peltonen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Lars Sjöström
Lars Sjöström University of Gothenburg
Liudmila S. Shirokova
Liudmila S. Shirokova Paul Sabatier University
David Bastviken
David Bastviken Linköping University

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