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Anders Nilsson, Professor
If it moves it’s potentially interesting! I’m an aquatic ecologist with a behavioural ecological background. My approach to research often focuses on individual animal, or, most of the time, fish behavioural decisions, performance and success, and generally aims to address higher-order effects of these behavioural attributes. The higher-order processes include forager group formation and dynamics, spatio-temporal distributions of individuals in populations, impact of interference on individuals, populations and communities, as well as effects of piscivore behaviours on trophic cascades. Recent developments in my research interests focus also on the interplay between fish and their environment, such as the effects of lake water clarity on individual behaviours, causes and concequences of fish migration, more applied issues such as management considering the effects of angling on fish populations as well as the sustainable rebuilding of fish stocks, and the potential impacts of climate change on interactions among individuals and trophic levels in lake ecosystems. On the teaching side of things, I’m involved in teaching courses on limnology, water management, aquatic ecology, marine ecology and fisheries ecology.
Selected publications
Nilsson P.A., Huntingford, F.A., Armstrong J.D., 2004, Using the functional response to determine the nature of unequal interference among foragers, Proc R Soc Lond B (Suppl.) 271: S334-S337.
Nilsson P.A., Ruxton G.D., Nilsson J.H., 2003, Temporally fluctuating prey and coexistence among unequal conspecific interferers, Oikos 101: 411-415.
Nilsson P.A., Brönmark C., 2000, Prey vulnerability to a gape-size limited predator: behavioural and morphological impacts on northern pike piscivory, Oikos 88:539-546.
Dahl J., Nilsson P.A., Pettersson L.B., 1998, Against the flow: chemical detection of downstream predators in running waters, Proc R Soc Lond B 265:1339-1344.
Nilsson P.A., 2006, Avoid your neighbours: size-determined spatial distribution patterns among northern pike individuals, Oikos 113:251-258.
Nilsson P.A., Lundberg P., Brönmark C., Persson A., Turesson H., 2007, Behavioral interference and facilitation in the foraging cycle shape the functional response. Behav Ecol 18: 354-357.
Nilsson P.A., Jacobsen L., Berg S., Skov C., 2009, Environmental conditions and intraspecific interference: unexpected effects of turbidity on pike (Esox lucius) foraging. Ethology 115: 33-38.
Skov C., Aarestrup K., Baktoft H., Brodersen J., Brönmark C., Hansson L-A., Nielsen E.E., Nielsen T., Nilsson P.A., 2010, Influences of environmental cues, migration history and habitat familiarity on partial migration, Behav Ecol, 21: 1140-1146.
Nilsson P.A., Brönmark C., 1999, Foraging among cannibals and kleptoparasites: effects of prey size on pike behavior, Behavioral Ecology 10:557-566.
Brodersen J., Nilsson P.A., Hansson L.-A., Skov C., Brönmark C., 2008, Condition-dependent individual decision-making determines cyprinid partial migration, Ecology 89: 1195-1200.
PhD students, main advisor:
Martin Stålhammar
PhD students, assistant advisor:
Peter Ljungberg Sara Ekström Johan Ahlgren Kaj Hulthén Kim Berndt Melanie Hedgespeth
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Publisher: Department of Biology
Last modified 7 Mar 2013
Anders Nilsson
Professor
Aquatic ecology
Phone:
+46462228365
E-mail:
Anders.Nilsson@biol.lu.se
Alternative stable states
Piscivore – prey fish interactions
Catch and release in recreational fisheries
SoundFish
Partial migration