Stefan Hupperts

Min forskning undersöker bakteriers, svampars och växters roller i regleringen av kväve- och kolomsättning i skogar. Mina intressen inkluderar biologisk kvävefixering, mykorrhizasvampars ekologi, växtsamhällenas ekologi, skogsskötsel och skogsförvaltning.

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

Bassett KR, Hupperts SF, Jämtgård S, Östlund L, Fridman J, Perakis SS, Gundale MJ (2026) Rising atmospheric CO2 reduces nitrogen availability in boreal forests. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-10039-5

Anthony MA, Röckel N, Traistaru A, Krishna A, Meesenburg H, Wagner M, Jacob F, Gessler A, Waldner P, Schaub M, Ferretti M, Schmitz A, van den Bulk P, Hensen A, Hupperts SF, Bialic-Murphy L, Averill C (2025) Soil microbial community differences drive variation in Pinus sylvestris physiology, productivity, and responses to elevated CO2. Environmental Microbiome. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-025-00828-w

Kuťáková E, Stangl ZR, Hupperts SF, Nilsson M-C, Classen AT, Gundale MJ, Sundqvist MK (2025) Whole-seedling trait adjustments of mountain birch under contrasting environmental conditions. Oikos. https://doi.org/10.1002/oik.11580

Hupperts SF, Berninger F, Chen HYH, Fenton N, Jean M, Köster K, Larjavaara M, Mack MC, Nilsson M-C, Palviainen M, Prokushkin A, Pumpanen J, Seedre M, Simard M, Gundale MJ (2025) A network of 18 wildfire chronosequences reveals key drivers and knowledge gaps in the boreal nitrogen balance. Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/gcb.70398

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

Hupperts SF, Karst J, Pritsch K, Landhäusser SM. (2017) Host phenology and potential saprotrophism of ectomycorrhizal fungi in the boreal forest. Functional Ecology. 31 (1) 116-126.doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12695