Research group Group Eklöf

Interactions between marine biodiversity, environmental conditions (including climate) and society

Our research deals broadly with understanding the relationships between environmental conditions, properties of communities (including their composition and biodiversity) and ecosystem processes (including ecosystem services). Most of the projects we do bridge fundamental and applied questions in community and ecosystem ecology, and uses coastal benthic ecosystems (seagrass beds, coral reefs, mussel beds, etc.) as a model.

Group members

Group managers

Johan Eklöf

Professor

Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences

johan.eklof@su.se

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Members

Anaïs Richard

Forskare

Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences

anais.richard@su.se

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Åsa Nilsson Austin

Forskare

Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre

asa.austin@su.se

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Research projects

Ongoing

Completed

FORCE – Facilitating Ocean Recovery in a Changing climatE

The transdisciplinary FORCE project will identify the most effective management actions for reversing biodiversity loss and increasing resilience to climate change of the Baltic Sea coast.

NordSalt: Climate Change Impacts and Biodiversity Interactions in Nordic Salt Marshes

Saltmarshes are some of the most efficient carbon sinks, but climate warming and altered land use threatens to diminish their diversity and turn them into sources of the potent greenhouse gas methane.

Seagrass biodiversity, social-ecological systems and poverty alleviation:

A collaborative, comparative study in the Indo-Pacific.

Spatially cascading regime shifts

– using network theory to understand and reverse the ‘stickleback wave"