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Ecology and Evolution
Estonia
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
100
Citations
54931
World Ranking
271
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Estonia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Estonia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Estonia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Estonia Leader Award

Overview

Leho Tedersoo is affiliated with the University of Tartu in Estonia and has published extensively in fields related to Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their work spans multiple subfields, including Plant Science, Ecology, Cell Biology, Insect Science, and Molecular Biology. The main topics of their research include:

  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Lichen and Fungal Ecology
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies

Throughout their career, Tedersoo has frequently published in venues such as:

  • New Phytologist
  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "How mycorrhizal associations drive plant population and community biology" (2020, Science)
  • "Data sharing practices and data availability upon request differ across scientific disciplines" (2021, Scientific Data)

Tedersoo has also collaborated frequently with other researchers, such as:

  • Mohammad Bahram
  • Sten Anslan
  • Vladimir Mikryukov
  • Rein Drenkhan
  • R. Henrik Nilsson

Their contributions focus primarily on understanding the relationships between fungi and plants, especially within ecological and molecular contexts. This research provides insight into fungal roles in plant health, ecosystem dynamics, and the evolution of symbiotic traits.

Best Publications

  • Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi

    Conrad L. Schoch;Keith A. Seifert;Sabine Huhndorf;Vincent Robert

  • FUNGuild: An open annotation tool for parsing fungal community datasets by ecological guild

    Nhu H. Nguyen;Zewei Song;Scott T. Bates;Sara Branco

  • Towards a unified paradigm for sequence-based identification of fungi

    Urmas Koljalg;Urmas Koljalg;R. Henrik Nilsson;Kessy Abarenkov;Leho Tedersoo

  • Global diversity and geography of soil fungi

    Leho Tedersoo;Mohammad Bahram;Sergei Põlme;Urmas Kõljalg

  • The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi: handling dark taxa and parallel taxonomic classifications.

    Rolf Henrik Nilsson;Karl Henrik Larsson;Andy F.S. Taylor;Johan Bengtsson-Palme;Johan Bengtsson-Palme

  • Structure and function of the global topsoil microbiome.

    Mohammad Bahram;Mohammad Bahram;Mohammad Bahram;Falk Hildebrand;Sofia K. Forslund;Sofia K. Forslund;Jennifer L. Anderson

  • The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi - recent updates and future perspectives

    Kessy Abarenkov;R. Henrik Nilsson;R. Henrik Nilsson;Karl‐Henrik Larsson;Ian J. Alexander

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Evolutionary history of mycorrhizal symbioses and global host plant diversity

    Mark C. Brundrett;Leho Tedersoo

  • UNITE: a database providing web-based methods for the molecular identification of ectomycorrhizal fungi

    Urmas Kõljalg;Karl-Henrik Larsson;Kessy Abarenkov;R. Henrik Nilsson

  • Ectomycorrhizal lifestyle in fungi: global diversity, distribution, and evolution of phylogenetic lineages

    Leho Tedersoo;Tom W. May;Matthew E. Smith

  • FungalTraits: a user-friendly traits database of fungi and fungus-like stramenopiles

    Sergei Põlme;Sergei Põlme;Kessy Abarenkov;R. Henrik Nilsson;Björn D. Lindahl

  • Fungal community analysis by high-throughput sequencing of amplified markers - a user's guide

    Björn D. Lindahl;R. Henrik Nilsson;Leho Tedersoo;Kessy Abarenkov

  • How mycorrhizal associations drive plant population and community biology.

    Leho Tedersoo;Mohammad Bahram;Martin Zobel

  • Mycobiome diversity: high-throughput sequencing and identification of fungi.

    R. Henrik Nilsson;Sten Anslan;Mohammad Bahram;Christian Wurzbacher

  • High-level classification of the Fungi and a tool for evolutionary ecological analyses

    Leho Tedersoo;Leho Tedersoo;Leho Tedersoo;Santiago Sánchez-Ramírez;Urmas Kõljalg;Urmas Kõljalg;Mohammad Bahram;Mohammad Bahram

  • 454 Pyrosequencing and Sanger sequencing of tropical mycorrhizal fungi provide similar results but reveal substantial methodological biases

    Leho Tedersoo;Leho Tedersoo;R. Henrik Nilsson;R. Henrik Nilsson;Kessy Abarenkov;Teele Jairus

  • Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa

    N. N. Wijayawardene;K. D. Hyde;L. K. T. Al-Ani;L. K. T. Al-Ani;L. Tedersoo

  • Shotgun metagenomes and multiple primer pair-barcode combinations of amplicons reveal biases in metabarcoding analyses of fungi

    Leho Tedersoo;Sten Anslan;Mohammad Bahram;Sergei Põlme

  • Lineages of ectomycorrhizal fungi revisited: Foraging strategies and novel lineages revealed by sequences from belowground

    Leho Tedersoo;Matthew E. Smith

  • Strong host preference of ectomycorrhizal fungi in a Tasmanian wet sclerophyll forest as revealed by DNA barcoding and taxon‐specific primers

    Leho Tedersoo;Leho Tedersoo;Teele Jairus;Teele Jairus;Bryony M. Horton;Kessy Abarenkov

  • Towards global patterns in the diversity and community structure of ectomycorrhizal fungi

    Leho Tedersoo;Leho Tedersoo;Mohammad Bahram;Märt Toots;Abdala G. Diédhiou

  • Large-scale genome sequencing of mycorrhizal fungi provides insights into the early evolution of symbiotic traits.

    Shingo Miyauchi;Enikő Kiss;Alan Kuo;Elodie Drula

  • Finding needles in haystacks: Linking scientific names, reference specimens and molecular data for Fungi

    Conrad L. Schoch;Barbara Robbertse;Vincent Robert;Duong Vu

Frequent Co-Authors

Mohammad Bahram
Mohammad Bahram Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Urmas Kõljalg
Urmas Kõljalg University of Tartu
R. Henrik Nilsson
R. Henrik Nilsson University of Gothenburg
Karl-Henrik Larsson
Karl-Henrik Larsson University of Oslo
Rein Drenkhan
Rein Drenkhan Estonian University of Life Sciences
Maarja Öpik
Maarja Öpik University of Tartu
Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia
Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia Hasselt University
Ivika Ostonen
Ivika Ostonen University of Tartu
Matthew E. Smith
Matthew E. Smith University of Florida
Rasmus Kjøller
Rasmus Kjøller University of Copenhagen

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