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Katarina Hedlund

Katarina Hedlund

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
54
Citations
11301
World Ranking
1689
National Ranking
31

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
57
Citations
11710
World Ranking
2721
National Ranking
70

Overview

Katarina Hedlund is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden, specializing in Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans a variety of interconnected fields, focusing primarily on soil science, ecology, and global and planetary change, with significant work also in plant science and evolutionary biology.

The main topics of Katarina Hedlund's work include soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, urban green space and health, land use and ecosystem services, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, microbial community ecology and physiology, urban heat island mitigation, and plant pathogens and fungal diseases.

Frequent publication venues where Hedlund's research has appeared include Soil Biology and Biochemistry and Applied Soil Ecology, each with three publications. They have also published multiple papers in Environmental Research Letters, as well as appearances in Soils for Europe. and Ecosystem Services.

Recent significant papers authored by Hedlund or in collaboration with others highlight several key research areas:

  • A review of studies assessing ecosystem services provided by urban green and blue infrastructure, 2021, Ecosystem Services
  • Scaling up nature-based solutions for climate-change adaptation: Potential and benefits in three European cities, 2021, Urban forestry & urban greening
  • Effects of simulated drought on biological soil quality, microbial diversity and yields under long-term conventional and organic agriculture, 2020, FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  • Synthesizing multiple ecosystem service assessments for urban planning: A review of approaches, and recommendations, 2021, Landscape and Urban Planning
  • Soil carbon insures arable crop production against increasing adverse weather due to climate change, 2020, Environmental Research Letters

Katarina Hedlund collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including Pedro Martins da Silva, Katja Kozjek, José Paulo Sousa, Raül López i Losada, and Alberto Orgiazzi, with collaboration counts ranging from four to five joint publications with each.

Best Publications

  • Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe

    Maria A. Tsiafouli;Elisa Thébault;Stefanos P. Sgardelis;Peter C. de Ruiter

  • Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services across European land use systems

    Franciska T. de Vries;Franciska T. de Vries;Elisa Thébault;Elisa Thébault;Mira Liiri;Klaus Birkhofer

  • Long-term organic farming fosters below and aboveground biota: Implications for soil quality, biological control and productivity

    Klaus Birkhofer;T. Martijn Bezemer;Jaap Bloem;Michael Bonkowski

  • How does tillage intensity affect soil organic carbon? A systematic review

    Neal R. Haddaway;Katarina Hedlund;Louise E. Jackson;Thomas Kätterer

  • Plant species and functional group effects on abiotic and microbial soil properties and plant-soil feedback responses in two grasslands

    T. Martijn Bezemer;Clare S. Lawson;Katarina Hedlund;Andrew R. Edwards

  • Plant species diversity as a driver of early succession in abandoned fields: a multi-site approach.

    W. H. Van der Putten;S. R. Mortimer;K. Hedlund;C. Van Dijk

  • Global soil biodiversity atlas

    A. Orgiazzi;R.D. Bardgett;E. Barrios;V. Behan-Pelletier

  • Soil enzyme activities, microbial community composition and function after 47 years of continuous green manuring

    Sara Elfstrand;Katarina Hedlund;Anna Mårtensson

  • Plant species influence microbial diversity and carbon allocation in the rhizosphere

    Natalia Ladygina;Katarina Hedlund

  • Plant species diversity, plant biomass and responses of the soil community on abandoned land across Europe: idiosyncracy or above-belowground time lags

    K. Hedlund;I. Santa Regina;W.H. van der Putten;J. Leps

  • Divergent composition but similar function of soil food webs of individual plants: plant species and community effects

    T. M. Bezemer;M. T. Fountain;J. M. Barea;S. Christensen

  • Contrasting prevalence of selection and drift in the community structuring of bacteria and microbial eukaryotes

    Ramiro Logares;Sylvie V.M. Tesson;Björn Canbäck;Mikael Pontarp

  • Soil microbial community structure in relation to vegetation management on former agricultural land

    Katarina Hedlund

  • A review of studies assessing ecosystem services provided by urban green and blue infrastructure

    Clara J. Veerkamp;Clara J. Veerkamp;Aafke M. Schipper;Aafke M. Schipper;Katarina Hedlund;Tanya Lazarova

  • The benefits of systematic mapping to evidence-based environmental management.

    Neal R. Haddaway;Claes Bernes;Bengt Gunnar Jonsson;Katarina Hedlund

  • Long-term agricultural fertilization alters arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community composition and barley (Hordeum vulgare) mycorrhizal carbon and phosphorus exchange

    Alwyn Williams;Lokeshwaran Manoharan;Nicholas P. Rosenstock;Pål Axel Olsson

  • Trophic interactions in changing landscapes: responses of soil food webs

    Katarina Hedlund;Bryan Griffiths;Sœren Christensen;Stefan Scheu

  • Long-term effectiveness of sowing high and low diversity seed mixtures to enhance plant community development on ex-arable fields

    Jan Lepŝ;Jan Lepŝ;Jiri Doleẑal;Jiri Doleẑal;T. Martijn Bezemer;Valerie K. Brown

  • Mycelial responses of the soil fungus, Mortierella isabellina, to grazing by Onychiurus armatus (Collembola)

    Katarina Hedlund;Lynne Boddy;Christine M. Preston

  • Separating the chance effect from other diversity effects in the functioning of plant communities

    Jan Leps;Valerie K. Brown;Tomas A. Diaz Len;Dagmar Gormsen

  • Food- and density-dependent dispersal : Evidence from a soil collembolan

    Goran Bengtsson;Katarina Hedlund;Sten Rundgren

  • Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and soil decomposer food webs.

    Juha Mikola;Richard D Bardgett;Katarina Hedlund

  • Microarthropods mediate sperm transfer in mosses

    Nils Cronberg;Rayna Natcheva;Rayna Natcheva;Katarina Hedlund

  • Tritrophic interactions in a soil community enhance decomposition rates

    Katarina Hedlund;Maria Sjögren Öhrn

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Birkhofer
Klaus Birkhofer Brandenburg University of Technology
Henrik G. Smith
Henrik G. Smith Lund University
Simon R. Mortimer
Simon R. Mortimer University of Reading
Wim H. van der Putten
Wim H. van der Putten Netherlands Institute of Ecology
Richard D. Bardgett
Richard D. Bardgett Lancaster University
Thomas Kätterer
Thomas Kätterer Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Heikki Setälä
Heikki Setälä University of Helsinki
Ingrid K. Thomsen
Ingrid K. Thomsen Aarhus University
Emanuele Lugato
Emanuele Lugato University of Padua
Louise E. Jackson
Louise E. Jackson University of California, Davis

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