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Plant Science and Agronomy
Sweden
2026

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
75
Citations
31389
World Ranking
523
National Ranking
7

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
77
Citations
31648
World Ranking
942
National Ranking
15

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Peter Högberg is affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions to the study of global and planetary change, insect science, soil science, nature and landscape conservation, and plant science.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including forest ecology and biodiversity studies, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, forest ecology and management, peatlands and wetlands ecology, and forest management and policy.

Peter Högberg has published multiple papers, with notable recent publications including:

  • Managing existing forests can mitigate climate change (2022) in Forest Ecology and Management
  • Quantifying forest change in the European Union (2021) in Nature
  • Re-examining the evidence for the mother tree hypothesis - resource sharing among trees via ectomycorrhizal networks (2023) in New Phytologist
  • Large differences in plant nitrogen supply in German and Swedish forests - Implications for management (2021) in Forest Ecology and Management
  • Carbon benefits from Forest Transitions promoting biomass expansions and thickening (2020) in Global Change Biology

Frequent publication venues include Forest Ecology and Management with five publications, Nature and New Phytologist with two publications each, Global Change Biology, and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

Collaboration with other researchers is reflected in frequent co-authors, such as Mona N. Högberg (6 publications), Pekka E. Kauppi (4 publications), Tomas Lundmark (4 publications), Iddo K. Wernick (3 publications), and Annika Nordin (3 publications).

Best Publications

  • The Global Carbon Cycle: A Test of Our Knowledge of Earth as a System

    P. Falkowski;R. J. Scholes;E. Boyle;J. Canadell

  • Plant diversity and productivity experiments in european grasslands

    A. Hector;Bernhard Schmid;Carl Beierkuhnlein;M. C. Caldeira

  • Large-scale forest girdling shows that current photosynthesis drives soil respiration

    Peter Högberg;Anders Nordgren;Nina Buchmann;Andrew F. S. Taylor

  • Tansley Review No. 95 15N natural abundance in soil-plant systems

    Peter Högberg

  • Boreal forest plants take up organic nitrogen

    Torgny Näsholm;Alf Ekblad;Annika Nordin;Reiner Giesler

  • Spatial separation of litter decomposition and mycorrhizal nitrogen uptake in a boreal forest

    Björn D. Lindahl;Katarina Ihrmark;Johanna Boberg;Susan E. Trumbore

  • Is microbial community composition in boreal forest soils determined by pH, C-to-N ratio, the trees, or all three?

    Mona N. Högberg;Peter Högberg;David D. Myrold

  • Extramatrical ectomycorrhizal mycelium contributes one‐third of microbial biomass and produces, together with associated roots, half the dissolved organic carbon in a forest soil

    Mona N. Högberg;Peter Högberg

  • Tree growth and soil acidification in response to 30 years of experimental nitrogen loading on boreal forest

    Peter Högberg;Houbao Fan;Houbao Fan;Maud Quist;Dan Binkley

  • ECOSYSTEM EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY MANIPULATIONS IN EUROPEAN GRASSLANDS

    E. M. Spehn;A. Hector;J. Joshi;M. Scherer-Lorenzen

  • Towards a more plant physiological perspective on soil ecology.

    Peter Högberg;David J. Read

  • Nitrogen isotopes link mycorrhizal fungi and plants to nitrogen dynamics

    Erik A. Hobbie;Peter Högberg

  • Natural abundance of 13C in CO2 respired from forest soils reveals speed of link between tree photosynthesis and root respiration.

    Alf Ekblad;Alf Ekblad;Peter Högberg

  • No Consistent Effect of Plant Diversity on Productivity

    M. A. Huston;L. W. Aarssen;M. P. Austin;B. S. Cade

  • Quantification of effects of season and nitrogen supply on tree below-ground carbon transfer to ectomycorrhizal fungi and other soil organisms in a boreal pine forest.

    Mona N. Högberg;Maria J. I. Briones;Maria J. I. Briones;Sonja G. Keel;Daniel B. Metcalfe

  • High temporal resolution tracing of photosynthate carbon from the tree canopy to forest soil microorganisms

    Peter Högberg;M N Högberg;S G Göttlicher;N R Betson

  • Tree root and soil heterotrophic respiration as revealed by girdling of boreal Scots pine forest: extending observations beyond the first year

    Bhupinderpal-Singh;A. Nordgren;M. Ottosson Löfvenius;M. N. Högberg

  • Fertile forests produce biomass more efficiently

    Sara Vicca;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Josep Penuelas;Matteo Campioli

  • Fertilization of boreal forest reduces both autotrophic and heterotrophic soil respiration

    Per Olsson;Sune Linder;Reiner Giesler;Peter Högberg

  • Soil nitrogen form and plant nitrogen uptake along a boreal forest productivity gradient

    Annika Nordin;Peter Högberg;Torgny Näsholm

  • A synthesis: The role of nutrients as constraints on carbon balances in boreal and arctic regions

    Sarah E. Hobbie;Knute J. Nadelhoffer;Peter Högberg

  • Does atmospheric deposition of nitrogen threaten Swedish forests

    Dan Binkley;Dan Binkley;Peter Högberg;Peter Högberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Torgny Näsholm
Torgny Näsholm Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Kerstin Huss-Danell
Kerstin Huss-Danell Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Alf Ekblad
Alf Ekblad Örebro University
Ari Jumpponen
Ari Jumpponen Kansas State University
Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
David Read
David Read University of Sheffield
Christa P. H. Mulder
Christa P. H. Mulder University of Alaska Fairbanks
Daniel B. Metcalfe
Daniel B. Metcalfe Umeå University
Sune Linder
Sune Linder Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen University of Freiburg

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