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Kristoffer Hylander

Kristoffer Hylander

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
50
Citations
10109
World Ranking
3833
National Ranking
94

Overview

Kristoffer Hylander is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Ecological Modeling, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Hylander's work explores various topics, notably Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Coffee Research and Impacts, Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy, Bryophyte Studies and Records, and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management.

Among recent publications are several papers published in notable scientific venues:

  • "Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda," 2021, Global Change Biology
  • "SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature," 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis," 2022, Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "ForestTemp - Sub-canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests," 2021, Global Change Biology
  • "Maintaining forest cover to enhance temperature buffering under future climate change," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment

Hylander frequently collaborates with a group of coauthors, many of whom have contributed to multiple research projects:

  • Ayco J. M. Tack
  • Pieter De Frenne
  • Biruk Ayalew
  • Beyene Zewdie
  • Sileshi Nemomissa

Their work has been published in several recurrent venues, indicating consistent contributions to these journals:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Basic and Applied Ecology
  • Landscape Ecology
  • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • Journal of Applied Ecology

Best Publications

  • Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda.

    Pieter De Frenne;Jonathan Lenoir;Miska Luoto;Brett R. Scheffers

  • Global buffering of temperatures under forest canopies

    Pieter De Frenne;Florian Zellweger;Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez;Brett R. Scheffers

  • The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

    Lawrence N. Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L.L. Hill;Samantha L.L. Hill

  • The mechanisms causing extinction debts

    Kristoffer Hylander;Johan Ehrlén

  • 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

  • The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts

    Lawrence N Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L L Hill;Samantha L L Hill

  • 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

  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature

    Jonas J. Lembrechts;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Michael B. Ashcroft;Michael B. Ashcroft;Pieter De Frenne

  • Aspect modifies the magnitude of edge effects on bryophyte growth in boreal forests

    Kristoffer Hylander

  • Reframing the Food–Biodiversity Challenge

    Jörn Fischer;David James Abson;Arvid Olof Daniel Bergsten;Neil French Collier

  • Differences in habitat quality explain nestedness in a land snail meta‐community

    Kristoffer Hylander;Christer Nilsson;Bengt Gunnar Jonsson;Tove Göthner

  • Balancing Ecosystem Services and Disservices : Smallholder Farmers' Use and Management of Forest and Trees in an Agricultural Landscape in Southwestern Ethiopia

    Tola Gemechu Ango;Lowe Börjeson;Feyera Senbeta;Kristoffer Hylander

  • The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis

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  • Towards a trait‐based ecology of wetland vegetation

    Helen Moor;Håkan Rydin;Kristoffer Hylander;Mats B. Nilsson

  • SUBSTRATE FORM DETERMINES THE FATE OF BRYOPHYTES IN RIPARIAN BUFFER STRIPS

    Kristoffer Hylander;Mats Dynesius;I Bengt Gunnar Jonsson;Christer Nilsson;Christer Nilsson

  • EVALUATING BUFFER STRIPS ALONG BOREAL STREAMS USING BRYOPHYTES AS INDICATORS

    Kristoffer Hylander;Bengt Gunnar Jonsson;Christer Nilsson;Christer Nilsson

  • Effects of slash harvest on bryophytes and vascular plants in southern boreal forest clear‐cuts

    Marcus Åström;Mats Dynesius;Kristoffer Hylander;Christer Nilsson

  • Edge influence on vegetation at natural and anthropogenic edges of boreal forests in Canada and Fennoscandia

    Karen A. Harper;Karen A. Harper;S. Ellen Macdonald;Michael S. Mayerhofer;Shekhar R. Biswas

  • ForestTemp - Sub-canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests.

    Stef Haesen;Jonas J. Lembrechts;Pieter De Frenne;Jonathan Lenoir

  • Predicting climate change effects on wetland ecosystem services using species distribution modeling and plant functional traits

    Helen Moor;Kristoffer Hylander;Jon Norberg

  • Fine‐grain, large‐domain climate models based on climate station and comprehensive topographic information improve microrefugia detection

    Eric Meineri;Kristoffer Hylander

  • Monthly microclimate models in a managed boreal forest landscape

    Caroline Greiser;Eric Meineri;Eric Meineri;Miska Luoto;Johan Ehrlén

  • Research, part of a Special Feature on Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Cultural Landscapes: Analysis and Management Options Balancing Ecosystem Services and Disservices: Smallholder Farmers' Use and Management of Forest and Trees in an Agricultural Landscape in Southwestern Ethiopia

    Tola Gemechu Ango;Lowe Börjeson;Feyera Senbeta;Kristoffer Hylander

Frequent Co-Authors

Mats Dynesius
Mats Dynesius Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Johan Ehrlén
Johan Ehrlén Stockholm University
Peter A. Hambäck
Peter A. Hambäck Stockholm University
Miska Luoto
Miska Luoto University of Helsinki
Joern Fischer
Joern Fischer Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Tom M. Fayle
Tom M. Fayle Queen Mary University of London
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Alain Dejean
Alain Dejean Paul Sabatier University
Christer Nilsson
Christer Nilsson Umeå University
Jan Hanspach
Jan Hanspach Leuphana University of Lüneburg

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