Professors Ragnar Elmgren, Sture Hansson and Pauline Snoeijs.
Our primary focus is on Baltic Sea ecosystems, from nutrients, particulate matter, primary producers and bacteria to the highest trophic levels, including fisheries. We use a wide range of approaches – from comprehensive field surveys to field and laboratory experiments, and we use techniques from molecular methods to remote sensing.
Our research questions are both basic and applied, and include biogeochemical cycling of nutrients, food web interactions, processes controlling community composition and biological production, as well as the effects of regional warming and seawater acidification. Research on eutrophication of coastal and offshore waters in the Baltic is conducted in inter-disciplinary programmes. We study fish in an ecosystem context and how fisheries impact other organisms. Large-scale experiments and ecological models are used to test and generate scientific hypotheses. We also study governance processes that influence the Baltic Sea environment. Our results are used to support adaptive management and decision making. With a long research and monitoring history in the northern Baltic proper, resulting in unique ecological time-series, we are affiliated to the European long-term ecological research network.
Link to a list of publications based on data from the national Swedish marine environmental monitoring program carried out at the Department of Systems Ecology
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