Leho Tedersoo

61.5k total citations · 25 hit papers
225 papers, 24.3k citations indexed

About

Leho Tedersoo is a scholar working on Plant Science, Insect Science and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Leho Tedersoo has authored 225 papers receiving a total of 24.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 173 papers in Plant Science, 93 papers in Insect Science and 78 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Leho Tedersoo's work include Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (155 papers), Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (91 papers) and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (78 papers). Leho Tedersoo is often cited by papers focused on Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (155 papers), Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (91 papers) and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (78 papers). Leho Tedersoo collaborates with scholars based in Estonia, Sweden and United States. Leho Tedersoo's co-authors include Mohammad Bahram, Urmas Kõljalg, Kessy Abarenkov, Peter G. Kennedy, Sten Anslan, Mark Brundrett, R. Henrik Nilsson, Matthew E. Smith, Scott T. Bates and Zewei Song and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Leho Tedersoo

214 papers receiving 23.9k citations

Hit Papers

FUNGuild: An open annotation tool for parsing... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2015 2018 2018 2005 2009 1000 2.0k 3.0k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. FUNGuild: An open annotation tool for parsing fungal community datasets by ecological guild
    2015 3.1k citations Leho Tedersoo et al. Fungal ecology profile →
  2. The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi: handling dark taxa and parallel taxonomic classifications
    2018 2.4k citations R. Henrik Nilsson, Dmitry Schigel et al. profile →
  3. Evolutionary history of mycorrhizal symbioses and global host plant diversity
    2018 989 citations Mark Brundrett, Leho Tedersoo New Phytologist profile →
  4. UNITE: a database providing web‐based methods for the molecular identification of ectomycorrhizal fungi
    2005 880 citations Urmas Kõljalg, Kessy Abarenkov et al. New Phytologist profile →
  5. Ectomycorrhizal lifestyle in fungi: global diversity, distribution, and evolution of phylogenetic lineages
    2009 716 citations Leho Tedersoo, Tom W. May et al. Mycorrhiza profile →
  6. Fungal community analysis by high‐throughput sequencing of amplified markers – a user's guide
    2013 654 citations R. Henrik Nilsson, Leho Tedersoo et al. New Phytologist profile →
  7. Mycobiome diversity: high-throughput sequencing and identification of fungi
    2018 622 citations R. Henrik Nilsson, Sten Anslan et al. profile →
  8. How mycorrhizal associations drive plant population and community biology
    2020 596 citations Leho Tedersoo, Mohammad Bahram et al. profile →
  9. High-level classification of the Fungi and a tool for evolutionary ecological analyses
    2018 456 citations Leho Tedersoo, Santiago Sánchez‐Ramírez et al. Fungal Diversity profile →
  10. 454 Pyrosequencing and Sanger sequencing of tropical mycorrhizal fungi provide similar results but reveal substantial methodological biases
    2010 456 citations Leho Tedersoo, R. Henrik Nilsson et al. New Phytologist profile →
  11. Lineages of ectomycorrhizal fungi revisited: Foraging strategies and novel lineages revealed by sequences from belowground
    2013 401 citations Leho Tedersoo et al. profile →
  12. Shotgun metagenomes and multiple primer pair-barcode combinations of amplicons reveal biases in metabarcoding analyses of fungi
    2015 398 citations Leho Tedersoo, Sten Anslan et al. MycoKeys profile →
  13. Towards global patterns in the diversity and community structure of ectomycorrhizal fungi
    2012 322 citations Leho Tedersoo, Mohammad Bahram et al. profile →
  14. Tree diversity and species identity effects on soil fungi, protists and animals are context dependent
    2015 287 citations Leho Tedersoo, Mohammad Bahram et al. profile →
  15. FungalRoot: global online database of plant mycorrhizal associations
    2020 263 citations Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia, Milagros Barceló et al. New Phytologist profile →
  16. Mycorrhizal types differ in ecophysiology and alter plant nutrition and soil processes
    2019 238 citations Leho Tedersoo, Mohammad Bahram profile →
  17. Global mycorrhizal plant distribution linked to terrestrial carbon stocks
    2019 203 citations Mark Brundrett, Leho Tedersoo et al. profile →
  18. Data sharing practices and data availability upon request differ across scientific disciplines
    2021 182 citations Leho Tedersoo et al. profile →
  19. Phylotype diversity within soil fungal functional groups drives ecosystem stability
    2022 173 citations Leho Tedersoo, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo et al. profile →
  20. Best practices in metabarcoding of fungi: From experimental design to results
    2022 167 citations Leho Tedersoo, Mohammad Bahram et al. profile →
  21. Patterns in soil microbial diversity across Europe
    2023 161 citations Vladimir Mikryukov, Olesya Dulya et al. profile →
  22. Structure and function of the soil microbiome underlying N2O emissions from global wetlands
    2022 148 citations Mohammad Bahram, Sten Anslan et al. profile →
  23. Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide
    2023 93 citations Leho Tedersoo, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo et al. profile →
  24. Pushing the Frontiers of Biodiversity Research: Unveiling the Global Diversity, Distribution, and Conservation of Fungi
    2023 75 citations Vladimir Mikryukov, Leho Tedersoo et al. profile →
  25. Dominance of particulate organic carbon in top mineral soils in cold regions
    2024 61 citations Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Leho Tedersoo et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Leho Tedersoo Estonia 74 17.1k 7.2k 6.3k 5.7k 5.7k 225 24.3k
Jan Stenlid Sweden 64 11.4k 0.7× 6.0k 0.8× 5.5k 0.9× 3.4k 0.6× 4.2k 0.7× 313 16.1k
Thomas D. Bruns United States 75 22.8k 1.3× 8.8k 1.2× 11.7k 1.9× 9.3k 1.6× 3.6k 0.6× 183 30.3k
Petr Baldrián Czechia 80 12.1k 0.7× 5.0k 0.7× 2.1k 0.3× 3.0k 0.5× 6.4k 1.1× 277 22.7k
Marcel G. A. van der Heijden Switzerland 74 21.8k 1.3× 5.5k 0.8× 2.4k 0.4× 6.2k 1.1× 9.1k 1.6× 211 36.0k
John N. Klironomos Canada 67 18.7k 1.1× 5.9k 0.8× 2.2k 0.4× 6.8k 1.2× 4.7k 0.8× 156 26.1k
Rytas Vilgalys United States 77 17.5k 1.0× 2.9k 0.4× 10.8k 1.7× 6.4k 1.1× 3.2k 0.6× 241 24.6k
James D. Bever United States 65 14.4k 0.8× 3.6k 0.5× 1.7k 0.3× 6.2k 1.1× 2.7k 0.5× 204 19.2k
Alastair Fitter United Kingdom 80 16.7k 1.0× 4.4k 0.6× 1.7k 0.3× 4.4k 0.8× 3.8k 0.7× 180 23.8k
Peter G. Kennedy United States 39 7.9k 0.5× 3.7k 0.5× 2.5k 0.4× 2.4k 0.4× 2.8k 0.5× 112 11.2k
Lynne Boddy United Kingdom 59 8.5k 0.5× 4.4k 0.6× 2.2k 0.4× 4.0k 0.7× 2.8k 0.5× 258 13.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leho Tedersoo

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Tedersoo, Leho, et al.. (2025). The Impact of Oil Palm Plantations and Pastures on Benthic Prokaryotic and Fungal Communities in Tropical Streams. Freshwater Biology. 70(1). 1 indexed citations
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Dang, Pengfei, Scott X. Chang, Ji Chen, et al.. (2025). Long-term climate warming substantially reduces global soil microbial richness. One Earth. 9(1). 101511–101511.
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Bezemer, Т. Martijn, Jesper Riis Christiansen, Klaus Steenberg Larsen, et al.. (2024). Reduction of forest soil biota impacts tree performance but not greenhouse gas fluxes. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 200. 109643–109643.
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Tedersoo, Leho, Rein Drenkhan, Kessy Abarenkov, et al.. (2024). The influence of tree genus, phylogeny, and richness on the specificity, rarity, and diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 16(2). e13253–e13253. 13 indexed citations
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Michalová, Tereza, Jan Borovička, Leho Tedersoo, et al.. (2024). Variation of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus content in fungi reflects their ecology and phylogeny. Frontiers in Microbiology. 15. 1379825–1379825. 5 indexed citations
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Kļaviņa, Dārta, Leho Tedersoo, Ahto Agan, et al.. (2023). Effect of stand thinning, former land use and individual tree parameters on wood inhabiting fungal community composition in young living Norway spruce. Fungal ecology. 65. 101281–101281. 7 indexed citations
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Tedersoo, Leho, Alexey S. Morgunov, Raul Rosenvald, et al.. (2023). Towards a co‐crediting system for carbon and biodiversity. Plants People Planet. 6(1). 18–28. 13 indexed citations
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Riit, Taavi, Michelle Cleary, Kalev Adamson, et al.. (2023). Oomycete Soil Diversity Associated with Betula and Alnus in Forests and Urban Settings in the Nordic–Baltic Region. Journal of Fungi. 9(9). 926–926. 1 indexed citations
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Hagh‐Doust, Niloufar, Vladimir Mikryukov, Sten Anslan, et al.. (2023). Effects of nitrogen deposition on carbon and nutrient cycling along a natural soil acidity gradient as revealed by metagenomics. New Phytologist. 238(6). 2607–2620. 28 indexed citations
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Runnel, Kadri, Kessy Abarenkov, Vladimir Mikryukov, et al.. (2022). DNA barcoding of fungal specimens using PacBio long‐read high‐throughput sequencing. Molecular Ecology Resources. 22(8). 2871–2879. 23 indexed citations
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Anslan, Sten, Vladimir Mikryukov, Kęstutis Armolaitis, et al.. (2021). Highly comparable metabarcoding results from MGI-Tech and Illumina sequencing platforms. PeerJ. 9. e12254–e12254. 23 indexed citations
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Oja, Jane, Juha M. Alatalo, Amjad Shraim, et al.. (2021). Diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and its chemical drivers across dryland habitats. Mycorrhiza. 31(6). 685–697. 25 indexed citations
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Tedersoo, Leho, Sten Anslan, Mohammad Bahram, Urmas Kõljalg, & Kessy Abarenkov. (2020). Identifying the ‘unidentified’ fungi: a global-scale long-read third-generation sequencing approach. Fungal Diversity. 103(1). 273–293. 57 indexed citations
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Loit, Kaire, Liina Soonvald, Alar Astover, et al.. (2020). Temporal and Cultivar-Specific Effects on Potato Root and Soil Fungal Diversity. Agronomy. 10(10). 1535–1535. 10 indexed citations
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Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A., Milagros Barceló, Jinhong He, et al.. (2020). FungalRoot: global online database of plant mycorrhizal associations. New Phytologist. 227(3). 955–966. 263 indexed citations breakdown →
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Anslan, Sten, R. Henrik Nilsson, Christian Wurzbacher, et al.. (2018). Great differences in performance and outcome of high-throughput sequencing data analysis platforms for fungal metabarcoding. MycoKeys. 39(39). 29–40. 40 indexed citations
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Tedersoo, Leho, Santiago Sánchez‐Ramírez, Urmas Kõljalg, et al.. (2018). High-level classification of the Fungi and a tool for evolutionary ecological analyses. Fungal Diversity. 90(1). 135–159. 456 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nilsson, R. Henrik, Christian Wurzbacher, Mohammad Bahram, et al.. (2016). Top 50 most wanted fungi. MycoKeys. 12. 29–40. 61 indexed citations
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Anslan, Sten, Mohammad Bahram, & Leho Tedersoo. (2016). Temporal changes in fungal communities associated with guts and appendages of Collembola as based on culturing and high-throughput sequencing. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 96. 152–159. 45 indexed citations

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