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Peter A. Hambäck

Peter A. Hambäck

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
43
Citations
6785
World Ranking
5338
National Ranking
131

Overview

Peter A. Hambäck is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden. Their academic work primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with numerous publications exploring various specialized subfields and topics.

The scientist's research includes contributions to subfields such as Insect Science, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation. Their work covers key topics including Plant and Animal Studies, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Insect Symbiosis and Bacterial Influences, Insect and Pesticide Research, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Peter A. Hambäck has published in a range of academic venues. Frequent publication platforms include Basic and Applied Ecology, Ecology and Evolution, Journal of Applied Ecology, Plants, and Ecological Entomology.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Peter A. Hambäck include:

  • Tradeoffs and synergies in wetland multifunctionality: A scaling issue, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • The role of inputs of marine wrack and carrion in sandy-beach ecosystems: a global review, 2022, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Climate warming dominates over plant genotype in shaping the seasonal trajectory of foliar fungal communities on oak, 2021, New Phytologist
  • Opportunities to reduce pollination deficits and address production shortfalls in an important insect-pollinated crop, 2021, Ecological Applications
  • Pollinators, Herbivores, and Plant Neighborhood Effects, 2020, The Quarterly Review of Biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Peter A. Hambäck include Ulrika Samnegård, Jerker Jarsjö, David Åhlén, Daniel Garcı́a, and Marcos Miñarro. These collaborations reflect an active engagement in research across ecological and biological disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Trophic cascades in terrestrial systems: a review of the effects of carnivore removals on plants.

    Oswald J. Schmitz;Peter A. Hambäck;Andrew P. Beckerman

  • Community heterogeneity and the evolution of interactions between plants and insect herbivores

    Anurag A. Agrawal;Jennifer A. Lau;Peter A. Hambäck

  • A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR ASSOCIATIONAL EFFECTS : WHEN DO NEIGHBORS MATTER AND HOW WOULD WE KNOW?

    Nora Underwood;Brian D. Inouye;Peter A. Hambäck

  • Patch area, population density and the scaling of migration rates: the resource concentration hypothesis revisited

    Peter A. Hambäck;Göran Englund

  • Associational resistance: insect damage to purple loosestrife reduced in thickets of sweet gale.

    Peter A. Hambäck;Jon Ågren;Lars Ericson

  • Effects of plant neighborhoods on plant-herbivore interactions: resource dilution and associational effects.

    Peter A. Hambäck;Brian D. Inouye;Brian D. Inouye;Petter Andersson;Nora Underwood;Nora Underwood

  • Herbivory and plant resource competition: a review of two interacting interactions

    Peter A. Hamback;Andrew P. Beckerman

  • Including spatial heterogeneity and animal dispersal when evaluating hunting: A model analysis and an empirical assessment in an Amazonian community

    Anders Sirén;Peter Hambäck;José Machoa

  • The role of inputs of marine wrack and carrion in sandy‐beach ecosystems: a global review

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  • Exposing the structure of an Arctic food web

    Helena K. Wirta;Eero J. Vesterinen;Peter A. Hambäck;Elisabeth Weingartner

  • Detritivory: stoichiometry of a neglected trophic level

    Holly M. Martinson;Katie Schneider;James Gilbert;Jessica E. Hines

  • Embracing Colonizations: A New Paradigm for Species Association Dynamics

    Sören Nylin;Salvatore Agosta;Staffan Bensch;Walter A. Boeger

  • Methods to identify the prey of invertebrate predators in terrestrial field studies.

    Klaus Birkhofer;Klaus Birkhofer;Helena Bylund;Peter Dalin;Olga Ferlian

  • Linking Land and Sea: Different Pathways for Marine Subsidies

    Kajsa Mellbrand;Paul S Lavery;Glenn A Hyndes;Peter A. Hamback

  • Habitat specialization, body size, and family identity explain lepidopteran density–area relationships in a cross-continental comparison

    Peter A. Hambäck;Keith S. Summerville;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter;Jochen Krauss

  • Tradeoffs and synergies in wetland multifunctionality: A scaling issue.

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  • The Impact of Cormorants on Plant–Arthropod Food Webs on Their Nesting Islands

    Gundula S. Kolb;Lenn Jerling;Peter A. Hambäck

  • Management trade‐offs on ecosystem services in apple orchards across Europe: Direct and indirect effects of organic production

    Ulrika Samnegård;Georgina Alins;Virginie Boreux;Jordi Bosch

  • Population fluctuations of voles in North Fennoscandian tundra : contrasting dynamics in adjacent areas with different habitat composition

    Tarja Oksanen;Michael Schneider;Ullar Rammul;Peter Hamback

  • Predators indirectly protect tundra plants by reducing herbivore abundance

    Peter A. Hambäck;Lauri Oksanen;Per Ekerholm;Åsa Lindgren

  • Mechanisms of apparent competition in seasonal environments: an example with vole herbivory

    Peter A. Hambäck;Per Ekerholm

  • SCALE DEPENDENCE OF EMIGRATION RATES

    Göran Englund;Peter A. Hambäck

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristoffer Hylander
Kristoffer Hylander Stockholm University
Lars Ericson
Lars Ericson Umeå University
Göran Englund
Göran Englund Umeå University
Brian D. Inouye
Brian D. Inouye Florida State University
Daniel García
Daniel García University of Oviedo
Tomas Roslin
Tomas Roslin Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Johan Ehrlén
Johan Ehrlén Stockholm University
Lauri Oksanen
Lauri Oksanen University of Turku
Jordi Bosch
Jordi Bosch Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications
Georgia Destouni
Georgia Destouni Stockholm University

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