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Aquatic Ecology

Anders Persson
Associate Professor

I am broadly studying interactions within fish populations and the way processes at the individual level have community and ecosystem consequences. My studies are performed in a wide range of environments including lakes, streams and coastal marine systems. This has previously issues such as effects of fish on the nutrient cycling in lakes, the effects of benthic fish on the occurrance of alternative system states and the role of piscivorous fish in lakes. More recent projects include the effects of synthetic estrogen in aquatic food webs. I am currently running a multidisciplinary project on the management of coastal cod fisheries that also deals with population genetics and optimization of harvesting practises from biological, economical and sociocultural perspectives.

Selected publications

Persson, A. 1997. Effects of predation and excretion on the configuration of aquatic food webs. Oikos 79: 137-146.

Persson, A. L-A. Hansson, C. Brönmark, P. Lundberg, L. Pettersson, L. Greenberg, P. A. Nilsson, P. Nyström, P. Romare, L. J. Tranvik. 2001. The effects of enrichment on simple aquatic food webs. American Naturalist 157: 654-669.

Persson, A. & C. Brönmark. 2002. Foraging capacities and effects of competitive release on ontogenetic diet shift in bream (Abramis brama). Oikos 97: 271-281

Persson, A., & C. Brönmark. 2002. Foraging capacity and resource synchronization in an ontogenetic diet switcher, pikeperch (Stizostedion lucioperca). Ecology 83: 3014-3022.

Johansson, J., H. Turesson & A. Persson. 2004. Active selection for large guppies (Poecilia reticulata) in the pike-cichlid Crenicichla saxatilis. Oikos 105: 595-605

Persson, A. & M. Stenberg. 2006. Linking patch use behavior, habitat quality and growth expectations in benthivorous fish. Ecology 87:1953-1959

Persson, A. & J. M. Svensson. 2006. Does benthivorous fish affect biogeochemical processes of sediments? Freshwater Biology 51:1298-1309

Persson, A. & C. Brönmark. 2008. Pikeperch trapped between niches: foraging performance and prey selection in a piscivore on a planktivore diet. Journal of Fish Biology 73: 793-808.

Nilsson, E., Olsson, K., Persson, A., Nyström, P., Svensson, G. & Nilsson, U. 2008. Effects of predator richness on prey diversity and ecosystem attributes. Oecologia 157: 641-651.

Hallgren, P., O. Berglund, Z. Sorita & A. Persson. 2011. Gastropod interspecies difference in response to 17α-ethinylestradiol: a full life-cycle concentration-response experiment.(accepted in Ecotoxicology)

PhD students and PostDocs

PhD students, main advisor:
Per Hallgren Peter Ljungberg

PhD students, assistant advisor:
Kim Berndt


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