Pär Byström

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
80 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Pär Byström is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Pär Byström has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 47 papers in Ecology and 39 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Pär Byström's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (55 papers), Marine and fisheries research (33 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (20 papers). Pär Byström is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (55 papers), Marine and fisheries research (33 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (20 papers). Pär Byström collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Netherlands and Finland. Pär Byström's co-authors include Lennart Persson, Jan Karlsson, Eva Wahlström, Jenny Ask, Mats Jansson, Richard Svanbäck, Jens Andersson, André M. de Roos, Emili García‐Berthou and Magnus Huss and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Pär Byström

78 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Light limitation of nutrient-poor lake ecosystems

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pär Byström Sweden	36	2.2k	2.2k	1.4k	1.1k	972	80	4.2k
Martín Daufresne France	19	1.8k 0.8×	2.1k 1.0×	898 0.7×	686 0.6×	436 0.4×	39	3.4k
James R. Hodgson United States	24	3.2k 1.4×	3.9k 1.7×	1.8k 1.3×	1.8k 1.6×	2.6k 2.6×	47	6.4k
Brian C. Weidel United States	28	2.0k 0.9×	2.7k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	903 0.9×	102	4.1k
James H. Thorp United States	38	3.6k 1.6×	4.9k 2.2×	1.2k 0.9×	793 0.7×	1.5k 1.5×	119	6.4k
Jonathan P. Benstead United States	39	2.2k 1.0×	3.1k 1.4×	646 0.5×	528 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	87	4.3k
William M. Tonn Canada	35	3.5k 1.6×	3.1k 1.4×	1.4k 1.0×	270 0.2×	753 0.8×	116	4.7k
James M. Hood United States	22	1.4k 0.6×	1.8k 0.8×	508 0.4×	585 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	48	3.2k
W. Gary Sprules Canada	37	2.1k 0.9×	2.8k 1.3×	1.0k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	1.7k 1.7×	107	4.2k
David A. Beauchamp United States	37	2.9k 1.3×	2.2k 1.0×	1.7k 1.3×	306 0.3×	376 0.4×	115	3.8k
Jotaro Urabe Japan	37	1.4k 0.6×	3.0k 1.4×	619 0.5×	2.3k 2.0×	2.9k 3.0×	167	5.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Pär Byström

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pär Byström

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Pär Byström. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Pär Byström based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Pär Byström. Pär Byström is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Rowe, Owen, Joanna Paczkowska, Andreas Brutemark, et al.. (2025). Climate change–induced terrestrial matter runoff may decrease food web production in coastal ecosystems. Limnology and Oceanography. 70(S2). 1 indexed citations

Byström, Pär, et al.. (2025). Invasive Eurasian Minnow Alters the Trophic Niche and Growth of Brown Trout in High‐Latitude Lakes. Ecology Of Freshwater Fish. 35(1). 1 indexed citations

Amundsen, Per‐Arne, Pär Byström, Anders G. Finstad, et al.. (2024). Environmental drivers of food webs in charr and trout‐dominated cold‐water lakes. Fish and Fisheries. 25(5). 858–875. 3 indexed citations

Seekell, David A., B. B. Cael, & Pär Byström. (2022). Problems With the Shoreline Development Index—A Widely Used Metric of Lake Shape. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(10). 13 indexed citations

Seekell, David A., et al.. (2021). Patterns and Variation of Littoral Habitat Size Among Lakes. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(20). 27 indexed citations

Olsson, Jens, Eglė Jakubavičiūtė, Olavi Kaljuste, et al.. (2019). The first large-scale assessment of three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) biomass and spatial distribution in the Baltic Sea. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 76(6). 1653–1665. 28 indexed citations

Capo, Éric, et al.. (2019). Droplet digital PCR assays for the quantification of brown trout (Salmo trutta) and Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) from environmental DNA collected in the water of mountain lakes. PLoS ONE. 14(12). e0226638–e0226638. 30 indexed citations

Byström, Pär, et al.. (2018). Carbon dioxide stimulates lake primary production. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 10878–10878. 28 indexed citations

Vasconcelos, Francisco Rivera, Sebastian Diehl, Patricia Rodríguez, Jan Karlsson, & Pär Byström. (2018). Effects of Terrestrial Organic Matter on Aquatic Primary Production as Mediated by Pelagic–Benthic Resource Fluxes. Ecosystems. 21(6). 1255–1268. 26 indexed citations

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Byström, Pär, et al.. (2017). Food web interactions determine energy transfer efficiency and top consumer responses to inputs of dissolved organic carbon. Hydrobiologia. 805(1). 131–146. 41 indexed citations

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Brodin, Tomas, Jerker Fick, M. Jönsson, et al.. (2017). No evidence of increased growth or mortality in fish exposed to oxazepam in semi-natural ecosystems. The Science of The Total Environment. 615. 608–614. 13 indexed citations

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Karlsson, Jan, et al.. (2016). Brownification increases winter mortality in fish. Oecologia. 183(2). 587–595. 25 indexed citations

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Brodin, Tomas, et al.. (2016). Bioaccumulation of five pharmaceuticals at multiple trophic levels in an aquatic food web - Insights from a field experiment. The Science of The Total Environment. 568. 208–215. 117 indexed citations

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Byström, Pär, et al.. (2013). Preference for Cannibalism and Ontogenetic Constraints in Competitive Ability of Piscivorous Top Predators. PLoS ONE. 8(7). e70404–e70404. 19 indexed citations

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Ask, Jenny, et al.. (2009). Whole‐lake estimates of carbon flux through algae and bacteria in benthic and pelagic habitats of clear‐water lakes. Ecology. 90(7). 1923–1932. 115 indexed citations

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Huss, Magnus, Pär Byström, & Lennart Persson. (2008). Resource heterogeneity, diet shifts and intra-cohort competition: effects on size divergence in YOY fish. Oecologia. 158(2). 249–257. 70 indexed citations

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Byström, Pär & Jens Andersson. (2005). Size‐dependent foraging capacities and intercohort competition in an ontogenetic omnivore (Arctic char). Oikos. 110(3). 523–536. 52 indexed citations

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Byström, Pär, Jens Andersson, Lennart Persson, & André M. de Roos. (2004). Size‐dependent resource limitation and foraging‐predation risk trade‐offs: growth and habitat use in young arctic char. Oikos. 104(1). 109–121. 60 indexed citations

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Svanbäck, Richard, et al.. (1999). Size-dependent predation in piscivores: interactions between predator foraging and prey avoidance abilities. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 56(7). 1285–1292. 203 indexed citations

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Arnqvist, Göran & Pär Byström. (1991). Disruptive Selection on Prey Group Size: A Case for Parasitoids?. The American Naturalist. 137(2). 268–273. 4 indexed citations

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