Stefan Hupperts

Researcher, Department of Forest Ecology and Management, joint staff

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Research

My research investigates the roles of bacteria, fungi, and plants in regulating forest nitrogen and carbon cycling. Interests include biological nitrogen fixation, mycorrhizal fungal ecology, plant community ecology, silviculture, and forest management.

Research groups

Forest Vegetation Ecology Unit

Teaching

Co-course leader: Forest Ecology and Conservation Biology (BI1434)

Educational credentials

PhD, Forest Science (2019) Michigan Technological University

MSc, Land Reclamation and Remediation (2016) University of Alberta

BA, Biology (2011) College of St. Scholastica

Publications

Hupperts SF, Rodriguez-Ramos, JC, Ishangulyyeva G, Wasyliw J, Birch JD, Franklin J, Kwak J-H, Chang SX, Erbilgin N, Karst J (2025) Soil fungal necromass in deciduous-dominated boreal forest after 13 years of inorganic nitrogen addition. Functional Ecology. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.14730

Gundale MJ, Axelsson EP, Buness V, Callebaut T, DeLuca TH, Hupperts SF, Ibáñez TS, Metcalfe DB, Nilsson M-C, Peichl M, Spitzer CM, Stangl Z, Strengbom J, Sundqvist MK, Wardle DA, Lindahl BD (2024) The biological controls of soil carbon accumulation following wildfire and harvest in boreal forests: A review. Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/gcb.17276

Hupperts SF, Islam KS, Gundale MJ, Kardol P, Sundqvist MK (2023) Warming influences carbon and nitrogen assimilation between a widespread Ericaceous shrub and root-associated fungi. New Phytologist. doi: 10.1111/nph.19384

Bartlick CI, Burton JI, Webster CR, Froese RF, Hupperts SF, Dickinson YL (2023) Artificial tip-up mounds influence tree seedling composition in a managed northern hardwood forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. doi: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2022-0252.

Hupperts SF, Webster CR, Froese RF, Bal B, Dickinson YL (2022) Influence of strip clearcuts, deer exclusion and herbicide on initial sapling recruitment in northern hardwood forests. Forests. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/f13071149.

Hupperts SF & Lilleskov EA (2022) Predictors of taxonomic and functional composition of black spruce seedling ectomycorrhizal fungal communities along peatland drainage gradients. Mycorrhiza. doi: 10.1007/s00572-021-01060-3

Hupperts SF, Gerber S, Nilsson M-C, Gundale MJ (2021) Empirical and Earth system model estimates of boreal nitrogen fixation often differ: A pathway toward reconciliation. Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15836.

Hupperts SF, Webster CR, Froese RE, Lilleskov EA, Marcarelli AM, Dickinson YL (2020) Increasing ground-layer plant taxonomic diversity masks declining phylogenetic diversity along a silvicultural disturbance gradient. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. doi: 10.1139/cjfr-2020-0055.

Hupperts SF, Webster CR, Froese RE, Dickinson YL (2020) Seedling and sapling recruitment following novel silvicultural treatments in Great Lakes northern hardwoods. Forest Ecology and Management. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2020.117983

Pec GJ, Scott NM, Hupperts SF, Hankin SL, Landhäusser SM, Karst J (2019) Restoration of belowground fungal communities in reclaimed landscapes of the Canadian boreal forest. Restoration Ecology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.12990

Hupperts SF, Dickinson YL, Webster CR, Kern CC (2018) Promoting structural and species diversity in Great Lakes northern hardwoods: A conceptual model and its application. Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research. 92 (1) 16-25. doi: 10.1093/forestry/cpy026