Kaido Soosaar

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Kaido Soosaar is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kaido Soosaar has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Ecology, 27 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 18 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Kaido Soosaar's work include Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (31 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (16 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (15 papers). Kaido Soosaar is often cited by papers focused on Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (31 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (16 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (15 papers). Kaido Soosaar collaborates with scholars based in Estonia, Finland and United States. Kaido Soosaar's co-authors include Ülo Mander, Martin Maddison, Jaak Truu, Krista Lõhmus, Tõnu Mauring, Jaan Pärn, Mikk Espenberg, Arno Kanal, Thomas Schindler and Alar Teemusk and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Kaido Soosaar

51 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Structure and function of the soil microbiome underlying N2O emissions from global wetlands

2022 148 citations Mohammad Bahram, Mikk Espenberg et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kaido Soosaar Estonia	21	611	370	268	217	174	61	1.1k
Martin Maddison Estonia	24	753 1.2×	314 0.8×	244 0.9×	323 1.5×	199 1.1×	45	1.4k
Jiafang Huang China	23	987 1.6×	293 0.8×	224 0.8×	131 0.6×	310 1.8×	78	1.4k
Xinhou Zhang China	19	520 0.9×	142 0.4×	304 1.1×	111 0.5×	208 1.2×	70	1.0k
Mika Nieminen Finland	24	901 1.5×	342 0.9×	157 0.6×	66 0.3×	391 2.2×	63	1.3k
Christian Fritz Netherlands	21	1.2k 2.0×	290 0.8×	188 0.7×	100 0.5×	320 1.8×	67	1.6k
Kerou Zhang China	20	619 1.0×	341 0.9×	369 1.4×	53 0.2×	232 1.3×	44	1.2k
Kai Yu China	18	276 0.5×	421 1.1×	583 2.2×	68 0.3×	244 1.4×	36	1.3k
Sylvia Toet United Kingdom	19	937 1.5×	424 1.1×	479 1.8×	256 1.2×	284 1.6×	33	1.8k
Tomáš Picek Czechia	24	890 1.5×	143 0.4×	623 2.3×	244 1.1×	377 2.2×	58	1.6k
Yoshitaka Uchida Japan	19	412 0.7×	250 0.7×	685 2.6×	58 0.3×	243 1.4×	60	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kaido Soosaar

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Wong, Guan Xhuan, Ryuichi Hirata, Takashi Hirano, et al.. (2025). Impact of land conversion on environmental conditions and methane emissions from a tropical peatland. The Science of The Total Environment. 962. 178466–178466. 1 indexed citations

Mander, Ülo, Maarja Öpik, Siim‐Kaarel Sepp, et al.. (2025). Temporal and spatial dynamics of microbial communities and greenhouse gas flux responses to experimental flooding in riparian forest soils. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 101(12).

Espenberg, Mikk, et al.. (2025). Springtime soil and tree stem greenhouse gas fluxes and the related soil microbiome pattern in a drained peatland forest. Biogeochemistry. 168(3). 48–48.

Laiho, Raija, Andis Lazdiņš, Thomas Schindler, et al.. (2025). Organic soils can be CO ₂ sinks in both drained and undrained hemiboreal peatland forests. Biogeosciences. 22(18). 4627–4647.

Bārdule, Arta, Raija Laiho, Jyrki Jauhiainen, et al.. (2025). Annual net CO ₂ fluxes from drained organic soils used for agriculture in the hemiboreal region of Europe. Biogeosciences. 22(16). 4241–4259.

Mander, Ülo, Maarja Öpik, Kersti Püssa, et al.. (2025). Nitrogen cycling genes abundance in soil and aboveground compartments of tropical peatland cloud forests and a wetland on Réunion Island. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 27155–27155.

Mander, Ülo, Maarja Öpik, Kaido Soosaar, et al.. (2025). Distinct microbial communities drive methane cycling in below- and above-ground compartments of tropical cloud forests growing on peat. Environmental Microbiome. 20(1). 54–54. 2 indexed citations

Krasnova, Alisa, et al.. (2025). Long-term carbon sequestration and heatwave resilience in an old hemiboreal upland coniferous forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 376. 110895–110895.

Fritze, Hannu, Jyrki Jauhiainen, Arta Bārdule, et al.. (2025). Soil trenching – are microbial communities alike in experimental peatland plots measuring total and heterotrophic respiration?. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 203. 109747–109747.

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Kull, Ain, et al.. (2024). Assessing short-term gaseous carbon losses in wetland ecosystems: The influence of winter harvesting of plants. Ecological Engineering. 204. 107278–107278. 2 indexed citations

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Kukumägi, Mai, Kaido Soosaar, Mats Varik, et al.. (2024). Short-term effect of the harvesting method on ecosystem carbon budget in hemiboreal Scots pine forest: Shelterwood cutting versus clear-cut. Forest Ecology and Management. 562. 121963–121963.

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Espenberg, Mikk, Jaan Pärn, Kalle Kirsimäe, et al.. (2023). 15N tracers and microbial analyses reveal in situ N2O sources in contrasting water regimes of a drained peatland forest. Pedosphere. 34(4). 749–758. 10 indexed citations

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Schindler, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Tree stems are a net source of CH₄ and N₂O in a hemiboreal drained peatland forest during the winter period. Environmental Research Communications. 5(5). 51010–51010. 9 indexed citations

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Kukumägi, Mai, Mats Varik, Jürgen Aosaar, et al.. (2022). Recovery dynamics of ecosystem carbon budgets in a young silver birch stand chronosequence after clear-cut – Estonian case study. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research. 37(5-8). 352–365. 3 indexed citations

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Bahram, Mohammad, Mikk Espenberg, Jaan Pärn, et al.. (2022). Structure and function of the soil microbiome underlying N2O emissions from global wetlands. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1430–1430. 148 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mander, Ülo, Alisa Krasnova, Mikk Espenberg, et al.. (2021). Forest canopy mitigates soil N2O emission during hot moments. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 4(1). 18 indexed citations

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Macháčová, Kateřina, et al.. (2020). Trees as net sinks for methane (CH₄) and nitrous oxide (N₂O) in the lowland tropical rain forest on volcanic Réunion Island. New Phytologist. 229(4). 1983–1994. 43 indexed citations

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Lõhmus, Krista, Katrin Rosenvald, Ivika Ostonen, et al.. (2019). Elevated atmospheric humidity shapes the carbon cycle of a silver birch forest ecosystem: A FAHM study. The Science of The Total Environment. 661. 441–448. 10 indexed citations

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Krasnova, Alisa, et al.. (2019). Hemiboreal forests under the 2018 Europe heat wave. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 8604. 1 indexed citations

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Järveoja, Järvi, Matthias Peichl, Martin Maddison, et al.. (2016). Impact of water table level on annual carbon and greenhouse gas balances of a restored peat extraction area. Biogeosciences. 13(9). 2637–2651. 64 indexed citations

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