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Regina Lindborg

Regina Lindborg

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
43
Citations
11301
World Ranking
5211
National Ranking
126

Overview

Regina Lindborg is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work primarily focuses on global and planetary change, ecology, management and policy related to the environment, nature and landscape conservation, and forestry.

Their main research topics include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology

Lindborg has published in a variety of scientific venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Ecosystems and People
  • Applied Vegetation Science
  • Environmental Evidence
  • Nature Sustainability
  • Environmental Science & Policy

Some of their recent publications include:

  • "Ecosystem services provided by semi-natural and intensified grasslands: Synergies, trade-offs and linkages to plant traits and functional richness" (2023) in Applied Vegetation Science
  • "Biodiversity mitigates trade-offs among species functional traits underpinning multiple ecosystem services" (2023) in Ecology Letters
  • "Mapping cumulative pressures on the grazing lands of northern Fennoscandia" (2022) in Scientific Reports
  • "How does a wetland plant respond to increasing temperature along a latitudinal gradient?" (2021) in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Adaptive capacity and coping strategies of small-scale coastal fisheries to declining fish catches: Insights from Tanzanian communities" (2020) in Environmental Science & Policy

Frequent collaborators of Lindborg include Simon Jakobsson, Edmond Alavaisha, John Livsey, Stefano Manzoni, and Reinette Biggs, each contributing to multiple research efforts together.

Best Publications

  • Extinction debt: a challenge for biodiversity conservation.

    Mikko Kuussaari;Riccardo Bommarco;Risto K. Heikkinen;Aveliina Helm

  • Ecological assembly rules in plant communities--approaches, patterns and prospects.

    Lars Götzenberger;Francesco de Bello;Kari Anne Bråthen;John Davison

  • Grasslands—more important for ecosystem services than you might think

    J. Bengtsson;J. Bengtsson;J. M. Bullock;B. Egoh;B. Egoh;C. Everson

  • Habitat fragmentation causes immediate and time‐delayed biodiversity loss at different trophic levels

    Jochen Krauss;Riccardo Bommarco;Moisès Guardiola;Risto K. Heikkinen

  • HISTORICAL LANDSCAPE CONNECTIVITY AFFECTS PRESENT PLANT SPECIES DIVERSITY

    Regina Lindborg;Ove Eriksson

  • Farmland abandonment: threat or opportunity for biodiversity conservation? A global review

    Cibele Queiroz;Cibele Queiroz;Ruth Beilin;Carl Folke;Carl Folke;Regina Lindborg

  • Harnessing the biodiversity value of Central and Eastern European farmland

    Laura M. E. Sutcliffe;Peter Batary;Urs Kormann;Andras Baldi

  • Mapping ecosystem services across scales and continents – A review

    Rebecka Malinga;Line J. Gordon;Graham Jewitt;Regina Lindborg

  • Analysing how drivers of agricultural land abandonment affect biodiversity and cultural landscapes using case studies from Scandinavia, Iberia and Oceania

    Ruth Beilin;Regina Lindborg;Regina Lindborg;Marie Stenseke;Henrique Miguel Pereira

  • Landscape matrix modifies richness of plants and insects in grassland fragments

    Erik Ockinger;Regina Lindborg;N. Erik Sjödin;Riccardo Bommarco

  • Towards a trait‐based ecology of wetland vegetation

    Helen Moor;Håkan Rydin;Kristoffer Hylander;Mats B. Nilsson

  • A landscape perspective on conservation of semi-natural grasslands

    Regina Lindborg;Jan Bengtsson;Åke Berg;Sara A.O. Cousins

  • Evaluating the distribution of plant life‐history traits in relation to current and historical landscape configurations

    Regina Lindborg

  • Effects of Restoration on Plant Species Richness and Composition in Scandinavian Semi-Natural Grasslands

    Regina Lindborg;Ove Eriksson

  • Density of insect-pollinated grassland plants decreases with increasing surrounding land-use intensity

    Yann Clough;Johan Ekroos;András Báldi;Péter Batáry

  • Applying resilience thinking to production ecosystems

    L. Rist;A. Felton;M. Nyström;Max Troell

  • Exploring ‘knowns’ and ‘unknowns’ in tropical seascape connectivity with insights from East African coral reefs

    Charlotte Berkström;Martin Gullström;Martin Gullström;Regina Lindborg;Regina Lindborg;Augustine W. Mwandya;Augustine W. Mwandya

  • How does roadside vegetation management affect the diversity of vascular plants and invertebrates? A systematic review

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  • Assessing connectivity in a tropical embayment: Fish migrations and seascape ecology

    Charlotte Berkström;Regina Lindborg;Matilda Thyresson;Martin Gullström

  • Effect of habitat area and isolation on plant trait distribution in European forests and grasslands

    Regina Lindborg;Aveliina Helm;Riccardo Bommarco;Risto K. Heikkinen

  • Remnant grassland habitats as source communities for plant diversification in agricultural landscapes

    Sara A.O. Cousins;Regina Lindborg

Frequent Co-Authors

Sara A. O. Cousins
Sara A. O. Cousins Stockholm University
Riccardo Bommarco
Riccardo Bommarco Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Ove Eriksson
Ove Eriksson Stockholm University
Erik Öckinger
Erik Öckinger Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Henrik G. Smith
Henrik G. Smith Lund University
Martin Gullström
Martin Gullström Södertörn University
Lorenzo Marini
Lorenzo Marini University of Padua
Steve W. Lyon
Steve W. Lyon The Ohio State University
Jan Bengtsson
Jan Bengtsson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Aveliina Helm
Aveliina Helm University of Tartu

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