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Roland Jansson

Roland Jansson

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
45
Citations
10290
World Ranking
4776
National Ranking
120

Overview

Roland Jansson is affiliated with Umeå University in Sweden. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science, emphasizing ecological and hydrological processes. The scientist has contributed extensively to studies related to riverbank vegetation, riparian zones, and the interaction between ecological benefits and hydropower production in regulated river systems.

The recent papers authored or co-authored by Roland Jansson include:

  • Hydropeaking affects germination and establishment of riverbank vegetation, 2020, Ecological Applications
  • Riparian Zones-From Policy Neglected to Policy Integrated, 2022, Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Bringing the margin to the focus: 10 challenges for riparian vegetation science and management, 2022, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
  • Let it flow: Modeling ecological benefits and hydropower production impacts of banning zero-flow events in a large regulated river system, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • How does a wetland plant respond to increasing temperature along a latitudinal gradient?, 2021, Ecology and Evolution

Frequent co-authors in Roland Jansson's work include:

  • Patricia María Rodríguez-González
  • Birgitta Malm-Renöfält
  • Simon Dufour
  • Åsa Widén
  • Remigiusz Pielech

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Applied Ecology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Ecological Applications

Roland Jansson's main fields of study include Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these broader disciplines, their work focuses on subfields such as Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science, Water Science and Technology, and Plant Science.

The primary topics addressed in their research involve:

  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics

Best Publications

  • Reducing redundancy in invasion ecology by integrating hypotheses into a single theoretical framework

    Jane A. Catford;Roland Jansson;Christer Nilsson

  • Evolutionary consequences of changes in species' geographical distributions driven by Milankovitch climate oscillations

    Mats Dynesius;Roland Jansson

  • The role of hydrochory in structuring riparian and wetland vegetation

    Christer Nilsson;Rebecca L. Brown;Roland Jansson;David M. Merritt

  • The Fate of Clades in a World of Recurrent Climatic Change: Milankovitch Oscillations and Evolution

    Roland Jansson;Mats Dynesius

  • Global patterns in endemism explained by past climatic change

    Roland Jansson

  • Effects of river regulation on river-margin vegetation : A comparison of eight boreal rivers

    Roland Jansson;Christer Nilsson;Christer Nilsson;Mats Dynesius;Elisabet Andersson

  • Long-Term Responses of River-Margin Vegetation to Water-Level Regulation

    Christer Nilsson;Roland Jansson;Ursula Zinko

  • Effects of hydropower generation and opportunities for environmental flow management in Swedish riverine ecosystems

    Birgitta Malm Renöfält;Roland Jansson;Christer Nilsson

  • Fragmentation of riparian floras in rivers with multiple dams

    Roland Jansson;Christer Nilsson;Christer Nilsson;Birgitta Renöfält

  • Hydrochory increases riparian plant species richness: a comparison between a free‐flowing and a regulated river

    Roland Jansson;Ursula Zinko;David M. Merritt;David M. Merritt;Christer Nilsson

  • Towards optimizing riparian buffer zones: Ecological and biogeochemical implications for forest management

    Lenka Kuglerová;Anneli Ågren;Roland Jansson;Hjalmar Laudon

  • The Latitudinal Diversity Gradient: Novel Understanding through Mechanistic Eco-evolutionary Models

    Mikael Pontarp;Lynsey Bunnefeld;Juliano Sarmento Cabral;Rampal S. Etienne

  • Forecasting Environmental Responses to Restoration of Rivers Used as Log Floatways: An Interdisciplinary Challenge

    Christer Nilsson;Fabio Lepori;Björn Malmqvist;Erik Törnlund

  • Restoring freshwater ecosystems in riverine landscapes: the roles of connectivity and recovery processes

    Roland Jansson;Christer Nilsson;Björn Malmqvist

  • A Comparison of Species Richness and Traits of Riparian Plants between a Main River Channel and Its Tributaries

    Christer Nilsson;Alf Ekblad;Mats Dynesius;Susanne Backe

  • Cracking the Code of Biodiversity Responses to Past Climate Change

    David Nogués-Bravo;Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez;Luisa Orsini;Erik de Boer

  • The effects of hydropeaking on riverine plants: a review.

    María D. Bejarano;Roland Jansson;Christer Nilsson

  • Drowned, buried and carried away: effects of plant traits on the distribution of native and alien species in riparian ecosystems

    Jane A. Catford;Jane A. Catford;Jane A. Catford;Roland Jansson

  • Floristic differences between riparian corridors of regulated and free-flowing boreal rivers

    Christer Nilsson;Roland Jansson

  • Global variation in diversification rates of flowering plants: energy vs. climate change.

    Roland Jansson;T. Jonathan Davies

  • WHAT CAN MULTIPLE PHYLOGENIES SAY ABOUT THE LATITUDINAL DIVERSITY GRADIENT? A NEW LOOK AT THE TROPICAL CONSERVATISM, OUT OF THE TROPICS, AND DIVERSIFICATION RATE HYPOTHESES

    Roland Jansson;Genoveva Rodriguez-Castaneda;Larisa E. Harding

Frequent Co-Authors

Christer Nilsson
Christer Nilsson Umeå University
Mats Dynesius
Mats Dynesius Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Hjalmar Laudon
Hjalmar Laudon Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
David M. Merritt
David M. Merritt US Forest Service
Jane A. Catford
Jane A. Catford King's College London
Björn Malmqvist
Björn Malmqvist Umeå University
Robert J. Naiman
Robert J. Naiman University of Washington
Michael N Dawson
Michael N Dawson University of California, Merced
Jon Moen
Jon Moen Umeå University
David Nogués-Bravo
David Nogués-Bravo University of Copenhagen

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