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Leif Kullman

Leif Kullman

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
46
Citations
6307
World Ranking
4718
National Ranking
119

Overview

Leif Kullman is affiliated with Umeå University in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences with a strong emphasis on Environmental Science. The scientist has contributed notably to subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Plant Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Themes prevalent in their work cover a range of environmental and ecological topics. These include:

  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

The scientist has published extensively in several academic venues with frequent contributions to the following journals:

  • International Journal of Science and Research Archive
  • European journal of applied sciences
  • Advances In Image and Video Processing
  • Journal of Natural Sciences
  • International Journal of Research in Geography

Among recent publications authored by Leif Kullman are:

  • Shrinking glaciers and ice patches disclose megafossil trees and provide a vision of the Late-glacial and Early post-glacial subalpine/alpine landscape in the Swedish Scandes - review and perspective, 2020, Journal of Natural Sciences
  • Treeline Ecotone Progression and Stability: Time Series Analysis of Individual Photographic Data 1973-2021 in the Swedish Scandes, 2022, Advances In Image and Video Processing
  • Recent and Past Arboreal Change: Observational and Retrospective Studies Within a Subalpine, Birch-Dominated (Betula Pubescens Ssp. Czerepanovii) Mountain Valley in the Southern Swedish Scandes-Responses to Climate Change and Land Use, 2022, Advances In Image and Video Processing
  • Accelerated Pine (Pinus sylvestris) Rise in the Alpine Treeline Ecotone of the Swedish Scandes - Demographic Data 1973-2024, 2025, European journal of applied sciences
  • Recent spruce (Picea abies) treeline ecotonal progression since the late1980s in the Swedish Scandes-a repeat photographic narration and analysis, 2021, International Journal of Science and Research Archive

Leif Kullman collaborates with several researchers, with the most frequent co-author being Lisa Öberg. Other coauthors include Anton Jonsson, Jacob Holmer, Maria Eriksdotter, and Jan Ahlqvist. Collaboration helps to diversify and extend the scope of their research within related environmental and ecological domains.

Best Publications

  • Rapid recent range-margin rise of tree and shrub species in the Swedish Scandes

    Leif Kullman

  • 20th Century Climate Warming and Tree-limit Rise in the Southern Scandes of Sweden

    Leif Kullman

  • Tree line population monitoring of Pinus sylvestris in the Swedish Scandes, 1973-2005: implications for tree line theory and climate change ecology

    Leif Kullman

  • Post-Little Ice Age tree line rise and climate warming in the Swedish Scandes: a landscape ecological perspective

    Leif Kullman;Lisa Öberg

  • Holocene tree-limit and climate history from the Scandes Mountains, Sweden

    Leif Kullman

  • Boreal tree taxa in the central Scandes during the Late‐Glacial: implications for Late‐Quaternary forest history

    Leif Kullman

  • Change and stability in the altitude of the birch tree-limit in the southern Swedish Scandes 1915-1975

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  • Dynamics of altitudinal tree-limits in Sweden: a review

    Leif Kullman

  • Tree limit dynamics of Betula pubescens ssp. tortuosa in relation to climate variability: evidence from central Sweden

    Leif Kullman

  • Early postglacial appearance of tree species in northern Scandinavia: review and perspective

    Leif Kullman

  • A Coherent Postglacial Tree-limit Chronology (Pinus sylvestris L.) for the Swedish Scandes: Aspects of Paleoclimate and “Recent Warming,” Based on Megafossil Evidence

    L. Kullman;L. Kjällgren

  • Early Holocene tree growth at a high elevation site in the northernmost scandes of Sweden (Lapland) : A palaeobiogeographical case study based on megafossil evidence

    Leif Kullman

  • Non-analogous tree flora in the Scandes Mountains, Sweden, during the early Holocene - macrofossil evidence of rapid geographic spread and response to palaeoclimate

    Leif Kullman

  • Recent tree-limit history of Piceaabies in the southern Swedish Scandes

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  • Holocene pine tree‐line evolution in the Swedish Scandes: Recent tree‐line rise and climate change in a long‐term perspective

    Leif Kullman;Lena Kjällgren

  • A Richer, Greener and Smaller Alpine World : Review and Projection of Warming-Induced Plant Cover Change in the Swedish Scandes

    Leif Kullman

  • Fire and age structure of Scots pine and Norway spruce in northern Sweden during the past 700 years

    Ola Engelmark;Leif Kullman;Yves Bergeron

  • The occurrence of thermophilous trees in the Scandes Mountains during the early Holocene: evidence for a diverse tree flora from macroscopic remains

    Leif Kullman

  • Recent reversal of Neoglacial climate cooling trend in the Swedish Scandes as evidenced by mountain birch tree-limit rise

    Leif Kullman

  • New and Firm Evidence for Mid-Holocene Appearance of Picea Abies in the Scandes Mountains, Sweden

    Leif Kullman

  • Long-term geobotanical observations of climate change impacts in the Scandes of West-Central Sweden

    Leif Kullman

  • Immigration of Picea abies into North-Central Sweden. New evidence of regional expansion and tree-limit evolution

    Leif Kullman

Frequent Co-Authors

Annika Hofgaard
Annika Hofgaard Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Yves Bergeron
Yves Bergeron Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

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