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Knut Rydgren publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Knut Rydgren sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 74 publications — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Knut Rydgren D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Knut Rydgren sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Knut Rydgren is affiliated with the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences in Norway. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with contributions to subfields such as nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, ecology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and plant science.

Their work covers a range of topics including ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, forest management and policy, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, species distribution and climate change, peatlands and wetlands ecology, plant and animal studies, and climate change impacts on agriculture.

Rydgren's recent publications include the following papers:

  • "Impacts of recent climate change on crop yield can depend on local conditions in climatically diverse regions of Norway," 2023, Scientific Reports
  • "Ungulate herbivory reduces abundance and fluctuations of herbivorous insects in a boreal old-growth forest," 2021, Basic and Applied Ecology
  • "Assessing recovery of alpine spoil heaps by vascular plant, bryophyte, and lichen functional traits," 2020, Restoration Ecology
  • "Use climatic space-for-time substitutions with care: Not only climate, but also local environment affect performance of the key forest species bilberry along elevation gradient," 2023, Ecology and Evolution
  • "Nest building in titmice Paridae: Selectivity in bryophyte use," 2023, Ecology and Evolution

The scientist frequently publishes in journals such as Ecology and Evolution, Scientific Reports, Basic and Applied Ecology, Restoration Ecology, and Agriculture.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Rune Halvorsen, Inger Auestad, Stein Joar Hegland, Mark A. Gillespie, and Marte S. Lilleeng.

Best Publications

  • DISTURBANCE SEVERITY AND COMMUNITY RESILIENCE IN A BOREAL FOREST

    Knut Rydgren;Rune H. Økland;Geir Hestmark

  • Variation in environmental conditions, understorey species number, abundance and composition among natural and managed Picea abies forest stands

    Tonje Økland;Knut Rydgren;Rune Halvorsen Økland;Ken Olaf Storaunet

  • A Scandinavian perspective on ecological gradients in north‐west European mires: reply to Wheeler and Proctor

    R. H. Økland;T. Økland;K. Rydgren

  • Revegetation following experimental disturbance in a boreal old-growth Picea abies forest

    Knut Rydgren;Geir Hestmark;Rune H. Økland

  • Vegetation-environment relationships of boreal spruce swamp forests in Østmarka Nature Reserve, SE Norway

    R.H. Økland;T. Økland;K. Rydgren

  • Land-cover and structural changes in a western Norwegian cultural landscape since 1865, based on an old cadastral map and a field survey

    Liv Norunn Hamre;Stein Tage Domaas;Ingvild Austad;Knut Rydgren

  • Bunching up the background betters bias in species distribution models

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  • The soil propagule bank in a boreal old-growth spruce forest: changes with depth and relationship to aboveground vegetation

    Knut Rydgren;Geir Hestmark

  • Species response curves along environmental gradients. A case study from SE Norwegian swamp forests

    Knut Rydgren;Rune Halvorsen Økland;Tonje Økland

  • Scale-dependence of vegetation-environment relationships in semi-natural grasslands

    Inger Auestad;Knut Rydgren;Rune H. Økland

  • Investigating the interaction between ungulate grazing and resource effects on Vaccinium myrtillus populations with integral projection models

    Stein Joar Hegland;Eelke Jongejans;Knut Rydgren

  • Road Verges: Potential Refuges for Declining Grassland Species Despite Remnant Vegetation Dynamics

    Inger Auestad;Knut Rydgren;Ingvild Austad

  • Single-tree influence on understorey vegetation in a Norwegian boreal spruce forest

    Rune Halvorsen Okland;Knut Rydgren;Tonje Okland

  • Short-term Costs of Sexual Reproduction in the Clonal Moss Hylocomium splendens

    Knut Rydgren;Rune H. Økland

  • Effects of fine-scale disturbances on the demography and population dynamics of the clonal moss Hylocomium splendens

    Knut Rydgren;Hans De Kroon;Rune H. Økland;Jan Van Groenendael

  • Impacts of recent climate change on crop yield can depend on local conditions in climatically diverse regions of Norway

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  • Recreating semi-natural grasslands: A comparison of four methods

    Knut Rydgren;Nordbakken Jørn-Frode;Austad Ingvild;Auestad Inger

  • Glacier foreland succession and the fading effect of terrain age

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  • PLANT SPECIES COMPOSITION OF BOREAL SPRUCE SWAMP FORESTS: CLOSED DOORS AND WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY

    Rune Halvorsen Økland;Knut Rydgren;Tonje Økland

  • Species richness in boreal swamp forests of SE Norway: the role of surface microtopography

    Rune H. Økland;Knut Rydgren;Tonje Økland

  • Population biology of the clonal moss Hylocomium splendens in Norwegian boreal spruce forests. 4. Effects of experimental fine-scale disturbance

    Knut Rydgren;Rune Halvorsen Økland;Tonje Økland

  • Restoration of alpine spoil heaps: Successional rates predict vegetation recovery in 50 years

    Knut Rydgren;Rune Halvorsen;Arvid Odland;Gudrun Skjerdal

  • Advancing restoration ecology: A new approach to predict time to recovery

    Knut Rydgren;Rune Halvorsen;Joachim Paul Töpper;Inger Auestad

Frequent Co-Authors

Rune Halvorsen Økland
Rune Halvorsen Økland University of Oslo
Eelke Jongejans
Eelke Jongejans Radboud University

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