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Ulrik Ilstedt is affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a notable focus on subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, Environmental Engineering, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The main topics of their work concentrate on various aspects of forest and environmental management including:

  • Forest ecology and management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies

Ulrik Ilstedt has contributed to several journals and publication venues. They have frequently published in:

  • Forests
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Restoration Ecology
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Journal of Applied Ecology

Their recent papers include:

  • The road to recovery: a synthesis of outcomes from ecosystem restoration in tropical and sub-tropical Asian forests, 2022, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Explore before you restore: Incorporating complex systems thinking in ecosystem restoration, 2024, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Excessive livestock grazing overrides the positive effects of trees on infiltration capacity and modifies preferential flow in dry miombo woodlands, 2021, Land Degradation and Development
  • Positive Effects of Scattered Trees on Soil Water Dynamics in a Pasture Landscape in the Tropics, 2021, Frontiers in Water
  • Functional traits to predict financial value of enrichment planting in degraded tropical forests, 2024, New Forests

Ulrik Ilstedt collaborates often with a set of frequent co-authors, including:

  • E. Petter Axelsson
  • Aida Bargués Tobella
  • David Alloysius
  • Niles J. Hasselquist
  • Daniel Lussetti

Best Publications

  • Trees, forests and water : Cool insights for a hot world

    David Ellison;Cindy E. Morris;Cindy E. Morris;Bruno Locatelli;Douglas Sheil

  • The moisture response of soil heterotrophic respiration: interaction with soil properties

    F. E. Moyano;N. Vasilyeva;L. Bouckaert;F. Cook

  • Intermediate tree cover can maximize groundwater recharge in the seasonally dry tropics

    U. Ilstedt;A. Bargués Tobella;H.R. Bazié;J. Bayala

  • The effect of afforestation on water infiltration in the tropics: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Ulrik Ilstedt;Ulrik Ilstedt;Anders Malmer;Elke Verbeeten;Daniel Murdiyarso

  • The effect of trees on preferential flow and soil infiltrability in an agroforestry parkland in semiarid Burkina Faso

    A. Bargués Tobella;H. Reese;A. Almaw;J. Bayala

  • Optimum soil water for soil respiration before and after amendment with glucose in humid tropical acrisols and a boreal mor layer

    Ulrik Ilstedt;Anders Nordgren;Anders Malmer

  • Effects of trees on infiltrability and preferential flow in two contrasting agroecosystems in Central America

    Laura Benegas;Laura Benegas;Ulrik Ilstedt;Olivier Roupsard;J. Jones

  • Carbon sequestration in tropical forests and water: a critical look at the basis for commonly used generalizations

    Anders Malmer;Daniel Murdiyarso;L. A. (Sampurno) Bruijnzeel;Ulrik Ilstedt;Ulrik Ilstedt

  • A 12-year record reveals pre-growing season temperature and water table level threshold effects on the net carbon dioxide exchange in a boreal fen

    Matthias Peichl;Mats Öquist;Mikaell Ottosson Löfvenius;Ulrik Ilstedt

  • Nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of soil microbial respiration in two tropical agroforestry parklands in the south-Sudanese zone of Burkina Faso: The effects of tree canopy and fertilization

    Z. Gnankambary;U. Ilstedt;U. Ilstedt;G. Nyberg;V. Hien

  • High-Resolution Characterization of Organic Phosphorus in Soil Extracts Using 2D 1H–31P NMR Correlation Spectroscopy

    Johan Vestergren;Andrea G Vincent;Mats Jansson;Per Persson

  • Effects of soil frost on growth, composition and respiration of the soil microbial decomposer community

    Mahsa Haei;Johannes Rousk;Johannes Rousk;Ulrik Ilstedt;Mats Öquist

  • Changes in soil chemical and microbial properties after a wildfire in a tropical rainforest in Sabah, Malaysia

    U. Ilstedt;R. Giesler;A. Nordgren;A. Malmer

  • The road to recovery: a synthesis of outcomes from ecosystem restoration in tropical and sub-tropical Asian forests

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  • The Forest Observation System, building a global reference dataset for remote sensing of forest biomass

    Dmitry Schepaschenko;Dmitry Schepaschenko;Jérôme Chave;Oliver L. Phillips;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • The effect of temperature and substrate quality on the carbon use efficiency of saprotrophic decomposition

    Mats G. Öquist;Björn Erhagen;Björn Erhagen;Mahsa Haei;Tobias Sparrman

  • Soil property changes over a 120-yr chronosequence from forest to agriculture in western Kenya

    G. Nyberg;A. Bargués Tobella;J. Kinyangi;U. Ilstedt

  • Canopy cover effects on local soil water dynamics in a tropical agroforestry system: Evaporation drives soil water isotopic enrichment

    Niles J. Hasselquist;Laura Benegas;Laura Benegas;Olivier Roupsard;Anders Malmer

  • Microbially Available Phosphorus in Boreal Forests: Effects of Aluminum and Iron Accumulation in the Humus Layer

    Reiner Giesler;Fuyuki Satoh;Fuyuki Satoh;Ulrik Ilstedt;Anders Nordgren

  • Winter climate controls soil carbon dynamics during summer in boreal forests

    Mahsa Haei;Mats G ¨ Oquist;Juergen Kreyling;Ulrik Ilstedt

  • Microbial responses to P addition in six South African forest soils

    Camilla Esberg;Ben du Toit;Rickard Olsson;Ulrik Ilstedt

Frequent Co-Authors

Reiner Giesler
Reiner Giesler Umeå University
Mats Nilsson
Mats Nilsson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Daniel Murdiyarso
Daniel Murdiyarso IPB University
Kevin Bishop
Kevin Bishop Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Hjalmar Laudon
Hjalmar Laudon Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Per Persson
Per Persson Linköping University
Douglas Sheil
Douglas Sheil Wageningen University & Research
Mats Jansson
Mats Jansson Umeå University
Anders Karlsson
Anders Karlsson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
John Armston
John Armston University of Maryland, College Park

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