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Overview

Lars Gamfeldt is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with specific attention to oceanography, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, molecular biology, and ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics as subfields.

The scientist's main topics of study include microbial community ecology and physiology, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, marine and coastal ecosystems, plant and animal studies, marine biology and ecology research, species distribution and climate change, and forest management and policy.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Ecology Letters, Environmental Research Letters, The Science of The Total Environment, Scientific Reports, and FEMS Microbiology Ecology.

Significant papers published by Lars Gamfeldt include:

  • We should not necessarily expect positive relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in observational field data, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Stand age and climate influence forest ecosystem service delivery and multifunctionality, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Microbial network complexity drives non-linear shift in biodiversity-nutrient cycling in a saline urban reservoir, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Large seasonal and spatial variation in nano- and microphytoplankton diversity along a Baltic Sea-North Sea salinity gradient, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Habitat diversity and type govern potential nitrogen loss by denitrification in coastal sediments and differences in ecosystem-level diversities of disparate N2O reducing communities, 2020, FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Common co-authors with whom they have frequently collaborated include James G. Hagan, Fabian Roger, Bram Vanschoenwinkel, Micael Jonsson, and Jan Bengtsson.

Best Publications

  • A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change

    David U. Hooper;E. Carol Adair;E. Carol Adair;Bradley J. Cardinale;Jarrett E. K. Byrnes

  • Higher levels of multiple ecosystem services are found in forests with more tree species

    Lars Gamfeldt;Tord Snäll;Robert Bagchi;Micael Jonsson

  • The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems

    Bradley J. Cardinale;Kristin L. Matulich;David U. Hooper;Jarrett E. Byrnes

  • Investigating the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality: challenges and solutions

    Jarrett E. K. Byrnes;Lars Gamfeldt;Forest Isbell;Jonathan S. Lefcheck

  • Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality across trophic levels and habitats

    Jonathan S. Lefcheck;Jarrett E. K. Byrnes;Forest Isbell;Lars Gamfeldt

  • MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS INCREASE THE IMPORTANCE OF BIODIVERSITY FOR OVERALL ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING

    Lars Gamfeldt;Lars Gamfeldt;Helmut Hillebrand;Per R. Jonsson

  • Marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: What's known and what's next?

    Lars Gamfeldt;Jonathan S. Lefcheck;Jarrett E. K. Byrnes;Bradley J. Cardinale

  • Biodiversity mediates top–down control in eelgrass ecosystems: a global comparative‐experimental approach

    J Emmett Duffy;J Emmett Duffy;Pamela L Reynolds;Christoffer Boström;James A Coyer

  • Revisiting the biodiversity–ecosystem multifunctionality relationship

    Lars Gamfeldt;Fabian Roger

  • Species richness changes across two trophic levels simultaneously affect prey and consumer biomass

    L. Gamfeldt;H. Hillebrand;P. R. Jonsson

  • Consumers mediate the effects of experimental ocean acidification and warming on primary producers

    Christian Alsterberg;Johan S. Eklöf;Lars Gamfeldt;Jonathan N. Havenhand

  • A general biodiversity–function relationship is mediated by trophic level

    Mary I. O'Connor;Andrew Gonzalez;Jarrett E.K. Byrnes;Bradley J. Cardinale

  • We should not necessarily expect positive relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in observational field data.

    James G. Hagan;Bram Vanschoenwinkel;Bram Vanschoenwinkel;Lars Gamfeldt

  • Spatial heterogeneity increases the importance of species richness for an ecosystem process

    John N. Griffin;Stuart R. Jenkins;Lars Gamfeldt;Douglas Jones

  • Continental mapping of forest ecosystem functions reveals a high but unrealised potential for forest multifunctionality.

    Fons van der Plas;Fons van der Plas;Sophia Ratcliffe;Paloma Ruiz-Benito;Paloma Ruiz-Benito;Michael Scherer-Lorenzen

  • Higher biodiversity is required to sustain multiple ecosystem processes across temperature regimes.

    Daniel M. Perkins;R. A. Bailey;R. A. Bailey;Matteo Dossena;Lars Gamfeldt

  • Habitat diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality—The importance of direct and indirect effects

    Christian Alsterberg;Fabian Roger;Kristina Sundbäck;Jaanis Juhanson

  • Experimental climate change weakens the insurance effect of biodiversity.

    Johan S. Eklöf;Johan S. Eklöf;Christian Alsterberg;Jonathan N. Havenhand;Kristina Sundbäck

  • Effects of experimental warming on biodiversity depend on ecosystem type and local species composition

    Daniel S. Gruner;Matthew E. S. Bracken;Stella A. Berger;Britas Klemens Eriksson

  • Effects of multiple dimensions of bacterial diversity on functioning, stability and multifunctionality

    Fabian Roger;Stefan Bertilsson;Silke Langenheder;Omneya Ahmed Osman

  • INCREASING INTRASPECIFIC DIVERSITY ENHANCES SETTLING SUCCESS IN A MARINE INVERTEBRATE

    Lars Gamfeldt;Johan Wallén;Per R. Jonsson;Kent M. Berntsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Helmut Hillebrand
Helmut Hillebrand Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
J. Emmett Duffy
J. Emmett Duffy Smithsonian Institution
John N. Griffin
John N. Griffin Swansea University
Bradley J. Cardinale
Bradley J. Cardinale Pennsylvania State University
Per R. Jonsson
Per R. Jonsson Stockholm University
Jonathan S. Lefcheck
Jonathan S. Lefcheck Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Johan S. Eklöf
Johan S. Eklöf Stockholm University
David U. Hooper
David U. Hooper Western Washington University
Mary I. O'Connor
Mary I. O'Connor University of British Columbia
Sara Hallin
Sara Hallin Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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