Fish in food-webs: ecology & evolution of aquatic communities

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We are:

Anna Gårdmark, Professor

Anna is a food web ecologist, theoretician by training, interested in ecological and evolutionary dynamics, who loves to collaborate and combine methods to expand research possibilities!

Magnus Huss, Associate Professor

Magnus is an aquatic ecologist interested in how intraspecific variation and environmental change shape fish and food webs.

Jingyao Niu, PhD-student

Jingyao is studying ecological and evolutionary responses in fish to warming waters and what comes beyond the potential outcome. Her research interests lie broadly in aquatic ecosystems.

Benjamin Mooney, PhD-student

Ben is an aquatic ecologist interested in how food webs respond to climate change. He is researching how global warming and increased surface run-off may affect the efficiency in which energy flows from producers to higher trophic levels.

Olivia Bell, PhD-student

Olivia is studying how radionuclides, from nuclear power plants, bioaccumulate in food webs in the warming Baltic Sea. She is particularly interested in how warming-induced changes in food web structure might affect bioaccumulation.

 

Ingrid Bergman, research assistant

Ingrid is a limnologist with a wide interest in aquatic ecosystems and ecology. She is our general factotum for field- and lab work needs (fishing, phytoplankton identification, DNA extraction – you name it!) and leads the development of our new lab .

Olivia Åberg, MSc-student

Olivia is doing her master thesis on how fish size distribution is affected by climate change, focusing on effects of temperature and nutrients.

Ella Andersson, research intern

Ella is studying environmental science and is interested in everything about the changing climate. She assists in our research projects and is learning laborative methods for studying effects of the warming climate.

Dilara Cicek, research intern

Dilara focuses her research training on fish sampling methods and contributes to the understanding of the impact of warming on perch condition and diet. She is interested in how climate change affects the Baltic Sea ecosystem, especially different trophic levels.

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Publications (see links for open access)

Van Dorst, R.M., Gårdmark, A., Kahilainen, K., Nurminen, L., Estlander, S., Huuskonen, H., Olin, M., Rask, M. & M. Huss. 2024. Ecosystem heating experiment reveals sex-specific growth responses in fish. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 81: 90–96. doi: 10.1139/cjfas-2023-0034.

Vasemägi, A., Huss, M., Gårdmark, A. & M. Ozerov. 2023. On ability of perch to colonize new waterbodies - indirect evidence and sticky facts: a comment on Garcia et al. (2023). Biology Letters, 19: 20230233. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0233.

Lindmark, M., Karlsson, M. & A. Gårdmark. 2023. Larger but younger fish when growth outpaces higher mortality in heated ecosystem. eLife,12:e82996. doi: 10.7554/eLife.82996.

Garnier, A., Östman, Ö., Ask, J., Bell, O., Berggren, M., Rulli, M.P., Younes, H. & M. Huss. 2023. Coastal darkening exacerbates eutrophication symptoms through bottom‐up and top‐down control modification. Limnology and Oceanography, 68: 678-691. doi: 10.1002/lno.12302.

Vasemägi, A., Ozerov, M., Noreikiene, K., López, M.-E. & A. Gårdmark. 2023. Unlocking the genome of perch – from genes to ecology and back again. Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 32:677–702. doi: 10.1111/eff.12713.

Niu, J., Huss, M., Vasemägi, A. & A. Gårdmark. 2023. Decades of warming alters maturation and reproductive investment in fish. Ecosphere, 14:e4381. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.4381.

Thunell, V., Gårdmark, A., Huss, M. & Y. Vindenes. 2023. Optimal energy allocation trade-off driven by size-dependent physiological and demographic responses to warming. Ecology, e3967. doi: 10.1002/ecy.39671. 

Roesti, M., Groh, J.S., Blain, S.A., Huss, M., Rassias, P., Bolnick, D.I., Stuart, Y.E., Peichel, C.L. & D. Schluter. 2023. Species divergence under competition and shared predation. Ecology Letters, 26: 111-123. doi: 10.1111/ele.14138.

Thunell, V. 2023. Fish Life Histories in a Warming Climate: A Mechanistic Basis of Change and a Community Context. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Sueciae, no. 2023:10. doi: https://doi.org/10.54612/a.61rases4mb 

Lindmark, M., Blanchard, J., Audzijonyte, A. & A. Gårdmark. 2022. Temperature impacts on fish physiology and resource abundance lead to faster growth but smaller fish sizes and yields under warming. Global Change Biology, 28: 6239-6253. doi: 10.1111/gcb.16341.

Bell, O., Garnier, A. & M. Huss. 2022. The effects of eutrophication and browning on prey availability and body growth of the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 267:107762. doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2022.107762.

Ozerov, M., Noreikiene, K., Kahar, S., Huss, M., Huusko, A., Kõiv, T., Sepp, M., López, M.-E., Gårdmark, A., Gross, R., & Vasemägi, A. 2022. Whole-genome sequencing illuminates multifaceted targets of selection to humic substances in Eurasian perch. Molecular Ecology, 31, 2367–2383. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16409

Uszko, W., Huss, M. and Gårdmark. A. 2022. Smaller Species but Larger Stages: Warming Effects on Inter- and Intraspecific Community Size Structure. Ecology (e) 3699. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3699

Lindmark, M., Ohlberger, J., & Gårdmark, A. 2022. Optimum growth temperature declines with body size within fish species. Global Change Biology, 28, 2259– 2271. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16067

Diehl, S., Berger, S. A., Uszko, W., & Stibor H., 2022. Stoichiometric Mismatch Causes a Warming-Induced Regime Shift in Experimental Plankton Communities. Ecology 103(5): e3674. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3674

van Dorst, R.M., Gårdmark, A., Svanbäck R, Huss, M. 2022. Zooplanktivore fish body growth responses to browning-induced light limitation vary over ontogeny, but not with fish density. Ecology Freshwater Fish, 31:17–28. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/eff.12605

Thunell, V., M. Lindmark, M. Huss, and A. Gårdmark. 2021. Effects of Warming on Intraguild Predator Communities with Ontogenetic Diet Shifts. The American Naturalist 198:706-718. https://doi.org/10.1086/716927

Huss, M., van Dorst, R. M., & Gårdmark, A. 2021. Larval fish body growth responses to simultaneous browning and warming. Ecology and Evolution, 11, 15132–15140. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8194

Simmons, B. I., P. S. A. Blyth, J. L. Blanchard, T. Clegg, E. Delmas, A. Garnier, C. A. Griffiths, U. Jacob, F. Pennekamp, O. L. Petchey, T. Poisot, T. J. Webb, and A. P. Beckerman. 2021. Refocusing multiple stressor research around the targets and scales of ecological impacts. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5:1478-1489. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01547-4

Jacobson, P., Whitlock, R., Huss, M., Leonardsson, K., Östergren, J., Gårdmark, A. 2021. Growth variation of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar at sea affects their population-specific reproductive potential. Marine Ecology Progress Series 671:165-174. doi: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13734

Ekström, A., Sundell, E., Morgenroth, D., McArley, T., Gårdmark, A., Huss, M., Sandblom, E.; Cardiorespiratory adjustments to chronic environmental warming improve hypoxia tolerance in European perch (Perca fluviatilis). J Exp Biol 15 March 2021; 224 (6): jeb241554. doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.241554

Uszko, W., S. Diehl, and J. Wickman. 2020. Fitting functional response surfaces to data: a best practice guide. Ecosphere 11(4):e03051. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3051

Svedäng, H., Thunell, V., Pålsson, A., Wikström, S.A. and Whitehouse, M.J. 2020. Compensatory Feeding in Eastern Baltic Cod (Gadus morhua): Recent Shifts in Otolith Growth and Nitrogen Content Suggest Unprecedented Metabolic Changes. Frontiers Marine Science 7:565. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00565

Gårdmark, A. & M. Huss. 2020. Individual variation and interactions explain food web responses to global warming. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London Series B, 375: 20190449. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0449.

Dee, L.E., Okamoto, D., Gårdmark, A., Montoya, J.M. & S.J. Miller. 2020. Temperature variability alters the stability and thresholds for collapse of interacting species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London Series B, 375: 20190457. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019. 0457.

Scharnweber, K. & A. Gårdmark. 2020. Feeding specialists on fatty acid rich prey have higher gonad weights: Pay-off in Baltic perch? Ecosphere, 11(8): e03234. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.3234.

Van Dorst, R.M., Gårdmark, A., Svanbäck, R. & M. Huss. 2020. Does browning‐induced light limitation reduce fish body growth through shifts in prey composition or reduced foraging rates? Freshwater Biology, 65: 947-959. doi: 10.1111/ fwb.13481.

Jacobson, P., Gårdmark, A. & M. Huss. 2020. Population and size‐specific distribution of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar in the Baltic Sea over five decades. Journal of Fish Biology, 96: 408-417. doi: 10.1111/jfb.14213.

Östman, Ö., Bergström, L., Leonardsson, K., Gårdmark, A., Casini, M., Sjöblom, Y., Haas, F. & J. Olsson. 2020. Analyses of Structural Changes in Ecological Time Series (ASCETS). Ecological Indicators, 116: 10646 9. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106469

Huss, M,. Lindmark, M., van Dorst, R.M., Jacobson, P. & A. Gårdmark. 2019. Large-scale experimental evidence of gradual size-dependent shifts in body size and growth of fish in response to warming. Global Change Biology, 5: 2285–2295. doi: 10.1111/gcb.14637

Lindmark, M., Ohlberger, J., Huss, M. & A. Gårdmark. 2019. Size-based ecological interactions drive food web responses to climate warming. Ecology Letters, 22: 778–786. doi: 10.1111/ ele.13235.

Van Dorst, R.M., Gårdmark, A., Svanbäck, R., Beier, U., Weyhenmeyer, G.A. & M. Huss. 2019. Warmer and browner waters decrease fish biomass production. Global Change Biology, 25(4), 1395-1408. doi: 10.1111/gcb.14551.

Jacobson, P., Bergström, U. & J. S. Eklöf. 2019. Size-dependent diet composition and feeding of Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis) and northern pike (Esox lucius) in the Baltic Sea. Boreal Environment Research, 24: 137-153. Access here.

Säterberg, T., Casini, M. & A. Gårdmark. 2019. Ecologically Sustainable Exploitation Rates – A multispecies approach for fisheries management. Fish and Fisheries, 20: 952–961. doi: 10.1111/faf.12390. 

Mugabo, M., Gilljam, D., Petteway, L., Yuan, C., Fowler, M.S. & S.M. Sait. 2019. Environmental degradation amplifies species’ responses to temperature variation in a trophic interaction. Journal of Animal Ecology, 88: 1657-1669. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13069.

Säterberg, T., Jonsson, T., Yearsley, J., Berg, S. & B. Ebenman. 2019. A potential role for rare species in ecosystem dynamics. Scientific Reports, 9: 11107. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-47541-6.

Karlsson, A.M.L., Gorokhova, E., Gårdmark, A., Pekcan-Hekim, Z., Casini, M., Albertsson, J., Sundelin, B., Karlsson, O. & L. Bergström. 2020. Linking consumer physiological status to food-web structure and prey food value in the Baltic Sea. AMBIO, 49: 391–406. doi:  10.1007/s13280-019-01201-1.

Kadin, M., Blenckner, T., Casini, M., Gårdmark, A., Torres, M.A. & S.A. Otto. 2019. Trophic interactions, management trade-offs and climate change: the need for adaptive thresholds to operationalize ecosystem indicators. Frontiers in Marine Science (section Global Change and the Future Ocean), 6: 249. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00249.

Törnroos, A., Pecuchet, L., Olsson, J., Gårdmark, A., Blomqvist, M., Lindegren, M. & E. Bonsdorff. 2019. Four decades of functional community change reveals gradual trends and low interlinkage across trophic groups in a large marine ecosystem. Global Change Biology, 25 (4), 1235-1246. doi: 10.1111/gcb.14552.

Certain, G., Barraquand, F. & A. Gårdmark. 2018. How do MAR(1) models cope with hidden nonlinearities in ecological dynamics? Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 9:1975–1995. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13021.

Jacobson, P., Gårdmark, A., Östergren, J., Casini, M. & M. Huss. 2018. Size-dependent prey availability affects diet and performance of predatory fish at sea: a case study of Atlantic salmon. Ecosphere  9(1), e02081. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.2081

Lindmark, M., Huss, M., Ohlberger, J. & Gårdmark, A. 2018. Temperature-dependent body size effects determine population responses to climate warming. Ecology Letters, 21: 181-189. doi: 10.1111/ele.12880

Donadi, S., Austin, Å. N., Bergström, U., Eriksson, B. K., Hansen, J. P., Jacobson, P., Sundblad, G., van Regteren, M. & Eklöf, J. S. 2017. A cross-scale trophic cascade from large predatory fish to algae in coastal ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences, 284:20170045. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0045

Griffiths, J.R., Kadin, M., Nascimento, F.J.A., Tamelander, T., Törnroos, A., Bonaglia, S., Bonsdorff, E., Brüchert, V., Gårdmark, A., Järnström, M., Kotta, J., Lindegren, M., Nordström, M.C., Norkko, A., Olsson, J., Weigel, B., Žydelis, R., Blenckner, T., Niiranen, S. & Winder, M. 2017. The importance of benthic-pelagic coupling for marine ecosystem functioning in a changing world. Global Change Biology, 23(6), 2179–2196. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13642

Svensson, F., Karlsson, E., Gårdmark, A., Olsson, J., Adill, A., Zie, J., Snoeijs, P. & Eklöf, J. S. 2017. In situ warming strengthens trophic cascades in a coastal food web. Oikos. 126, 1150–1161. doi: 10.1111/oik.03773

Torres, M.A., Casini, M., Huss, M., Otto, S.A., Kadin, M. and Gårdmark, A. 2017. Food-web indicators accounting for species interactions respond to multiple pressures. Ecological indicators, 77:67-79. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.01.030

Casini, M., Käll, F., Hansson, M., Plikshs, M., Baranova, T., Karlsson, O., Lundström, K., Neuenfeldt, S., Gårdmark, A. & Hjelm, J. 2016. Dead zones, density-dependence and food limitation drive the body condition of a heavily exploited marine fish predator. Royal Society Open Science, 3, 160416. doi: 10.1098/rsos.160416.

Pekcan-Hekim, Z., Gårdmark, A., Karlson, A.M.L., Kauppila, P., Bergenius, M. & Bergström, L. 2016. The role of climate and fisheries on the temporal changes in the Bothnian Bay food-web. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 73 (7), 1739-1749.

Wikström, A., Knape, J., Casini, M., Gårdmark, A., Cardinale, M., Hjelm, J. & Jonzén, N. 2016. Fishing, reproductive volume and regulation: population dynamics and exploitation of the eastern Baltic cod. Population Ecology, 58, 199-211. doi:10.1007/s10144-015-0520-3

Sellman, S., Säterberg, T. and Ebenman, B. 2016. Pattern of functional extinctions in ecological networks with a variety of interaction types. Theoretical Ecology 9:83-94.

Bernes, C., Carpenter, S.R., Gårdmark, A., Larsson, P., Persson, L., Skov, C., Speed, J.D.M. & Van Donk, E. 2015. What is the influence of a reduction of planktivorous and benthivorous fish on water quality in temperate eutrophic lakes? A systematic review. Environmental Evidence, 4 (7). doi:10.1186/s13750-015-0032-9

Conversi, A., Dakos, V., Gårdmark, A., Ling, S., Folke, C., Mumby, P. J., Greene, C., Edwards, M, Bleckner, T., Casini, M., Pershing, A. & Möllmann, C. 2015. A holistic view of marine regime shifts. Philosophical Transactions Royal Society, Series B, 370 (5), 2013.0279

Gårdmark, A., Casini, M., Huss, M., Van Leeuwen, A., Hjelm, J., Persson, L. & de Roos, A. M. 2015. Regime shifts in exploited marine food-webs: detecting mechanisms underlying alternative stable states using size-structured community dynamics theory. Philosophical Transactions Royal Society, Series B, 370 (5), 20130262. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0262

Olsson, J., Tomczak, M.T., Ojaveer, H., Gårdmark, A., Põlluma, A., Müller-Karulis, B., Ustups, B., Dinesen, G.E., Peltonen, H., Putnis, I., Szymanek, L., Simm, M., Heikinheimo, O., Gasyukov, P., Axe, P. & Bergström, L. 2015. Temporal development of coastal ecosystems in the Baltic Sea over the past two decades. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 72 (9): 2539-2548. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsv143.

Huss, M., de Roos, A.M., Van Leeuwen, A. and Gårdmark, A. 2014. Facilitation of fisheries by natural predators depends on life history of shared prey. Oikos, 123:1071-1080.

Huss, M., Howeth, J.G., Osterman, J.I. and Post, D.M. 2014. Intraspecific phenotypic variation among alewife populations drives parallel phenotypic shifts in bluegill. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284:20140275.

Möllmann, C., Lindegren, M., Blenckner, T., Bergström, L., Casini, M., Diekmann, R., Flinkman, J., Müller-Karulis, B., Neuenfeldt, S., Schmidt, J. O., Tomczak, M. T., Voss, R. & Gårdmark, A. 2014. Implementing ecosystem-based fisheries management – from single-species to integrated ecosystem assessment and advice for Baltic Sea fish stocks. ICES Journal of Marine Sciences, 71 (5): 1187-1197. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fst123

Östman, Ö., Karlsson, O., Pönni, J., Kaljuste, O., Aho, T & Gårdmark, A. 2014. Ecosystem changes and eco-evolutionary dynamics in body size of herring (Clupea harengus) in the Bothnian Sea. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 16: 417-433.

Peck, M.A., Neuenfeldt, S., Essington, T.E., Trenkel, V.M., Takasuka, A., Gislason, H., Dickey-Collas, M., Andersen, K.H., Ravn-Jonsen, L., Vestergaard, N., Kvamsdal, S.F., Gårdmark, A., Link, J. & Rice, J.C. 2014. Forage Fish Interactions: a symposium on "Creating the tools for ecosystem-based management of marine resources". ICES Journal of Marine Science, 71(1), 1–4.

Van Leeuwen, A., Huss, M., Gårdmark, A. and de Roos, A.M. 2014. Ontogenetic specialism in predators with multiple niche shifts prevents predator population recovery and establishment. Ecology, 95:2409-2422.

Bergenius, M. A. J., Gårdmark, A., Ustups, D., Kaljuste, O. & Aho, T. 2013. Fishing or the environment – what regulates recruitment of an exploited marginal vendace (Coregonus albula) population? Advances In Limnology, 64, 57-70.

Bernes, C., Carpenter, S.A., Gårdmark, A., Larsson, P., Persson, L., Skov, C., van Donk, E. 2013. What is the influence on water quality in temperate eutrophic lakes of a reduction of planktivorous and benthivorous fish? A systematic review protocol. Environmental Evidence, 2 (9). doi:10.1186/2047-2382-2-9

Gårdmark, A., Lindegren, M., Neuenfeldt, S., Blenckner, T., Heikinheimo, O., Müller-Karulis, B., Niiranen, S., Tomczak, M., Aro, E., Wikström, A. & Möllmann, C. 2013. Biological Ensemble Modelling to evaluate potential futures of living marine resources. Ecological Applications, 23(4), 742–754.

Huss, M., De Roos, A.M., Van Leeuwen, A., Casini, M. and Gårdmark, A. 2013. Cohort dynamics give rise to alternative stable community states. American Naturalist, 182:374-392.

Huss, M., Persson, L., Borcherding, J. and Heermann, L. 2013. Timing of the diet shift from zooplankton to macroinvertebrates and size at maturity determine whether normally piscivorous fish can persist in otherwise fishless lakes. Freshwater Biology, 58:1416-1424.

Olsson, J., Bergström, L. & Gårdmark, A. 2013. Top-down regulation, climate and multi-decadal changes in coastal zoobenthos communities in two Baltic Sea areas. PLoS One, 8(5), e64767. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064767.

Säterberg, T., Sellman, S. and Ebenman, B. 2013. High frequency of functional extinctions in ecological networks. Nature 499:468-470.

Van Leeuwen, A., Huss, M., Gårdmark, A., Casini, M., Vitale, F., Hjelm, J., Persson, L. and de Roos, A.M. 2013. Predators with multiple ontogenetic niche shifts have limited potential for population growth and top-down control of their prey. American Naturalist, 182:53-66.

Byström, P., Huss, M. and Persson, L. 2012. Ontogenetic constraints and diet shifts: mechanisms and consequences for intra-cohort cannibalism. Freshwater Biology, 57:847-857.

Casini, M., Blenckner, T., Möllmann, C., Gårdmark, A., Lindegren, M., Llope, M., Kornilovs, G., Plikshs, M. & Stenseth, N.-C. 2012. Predator transitory spillover induces trophic cascades in ecological sinks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(21), 8185–8189. doi:10.1073/pnas.1113286109

Faithfull, C.L, Huss, M., Karlsson, J., Vrede, T. and Bergström, A.K. 2012. Transfer of bacterial production based on labile carbon to higher trophic levels in an oligotrophic pelagic system. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 69:89-93.

Gårdmark, A., Östman, Ö., Nielsen, A., Lundström, K., Karlsson, O., Pönni, J. & Aho, T. 2012. Does predation by grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) affect Bothnian Sea herring stock estimates? ICES Journal of Marine Sciences, 69(8), 1448–1456.

Huss, M., Gårdmark, A., van Leeuwen, A. and De Roos, A.M. 2012. Size and food-dependent growth drives patterns of competitive dominance along productivity gradients. Ecology, 93:847-857.

Kaneryd, L., Borrvall, C., Berg, S., Curtsdotter, A., Eklöf, A., Hauzy, C., Jonsson, T., Münger, P., Setzer, M., Säterberg. T. and Ebenman, B. 2012. Species-rich ecosystems are vulnerable to cascading extinctions in an increasingly variable world. Ecology and Evolution 2:858-874.

Lindegren, M., Dakos, V., Gröger, J. P., Gårdmark, A., Kornilovs, G., Otto, S. & Möllmann, C. 2012. Early detection of ecosystem regime shifts: a multiple method evaluation for management application. PLoS One, 7(7), e38410. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038410

Mäntyniemi, S., Romakkaniemi, A., Dannewitz, J., Palm, S., Pakarinen, T., Pulkkinen, H., Gårdmark, A. & Karlsson, O. Both predation and feeding opportunities may explain changes in survival of Baltic salmon post-smolts. 2012. ICES Journal of Marine Sciences, 69(9), 1574-1579. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fss088.

Olsson, J., Bergström, L. & Gårdmark, A. 2012. Abiotic drivers of coastal fish community change during four decades in the Baltic Sea. ICES Journal of Marine Sciences, 69(6), 961-970. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fss072

Faithfull, C.L., Huss, M., Vrede, T. and Bergström, A.K. 2011. Bottom-up carbon subsidies and top-down predation pressure interact to affect aquatic food web structure. Oikos 120:311-320.

Gårdmark, A., Nielsen, A., Floeter, J., Möllmann, C. 2011. Depleted marine fish stocks and ecosystem-based management: on the road to recovery we need to be precautionary. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 68, 212-220.

Huss, M. and Nilsson, A.K. 2011. Experimental evidence for emergent facilitation: promoting the existence of an invertebrate predator by killing its prey. Journal of Animal Ecology 80:615-621.

Lindegren, M., Östman, Ö., Gårdmark, A. 2011. Interacting trophic forcing and the population dynamics of herring. Ecology, 92(7), 1407-1413.

Möllmann, C., Blenckner, T., Casini, M., Gårdmark, A., Lindegren, M. 2011. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: management of Baltic cod stock requires an ecosystem approach. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 431, 293-297.

van de Woolfshaar, K., HilleRisLambers, R., Gårdmark, A. 2011. The effect of habitat productivity and exploitations on populations with complex life cycles. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 438, 175-184.

Huss, M., van Kooten, T. and Persson L. 2010. Intra-cohort cannibalism and size bimodality: a balance between hatching synchrony and resource feedbacks. Oikos 119:2000-2011.

Huss, M., Byström, P. and Persson, L. 2010. Growing through predation windows: effects on body size development in young fish. Oikos 119:1796-1804.

Huss, M., Byström, P. and Persson, L. 2010. Effects of ontogenetic scaling on resource exploitation and cohort size distributions. Oikos 119:384-392.

Österblom, H., Gårdmark, A., Bergström, L., Müller-Karulis, B., Folke C., Lindegren, M., Casini, M., Olsson, P., Diekmann, R., Blenckner, T., Humborg, C., Möllmann, C. 2010. Making the ecosystem approach operational – Can regime shifts in ecological- and governance systems facilitate the transition? Marine Policy, 34, 1290-1299.

Vainikka, A., Mollet, F., Casini, M., Gårdmark, A. 2009. Spatial variation in growth, condition and maturation reaction norms of the Baltic herring (Clupea harengus membras). Marine Ecology Progress Series, 383, 285-294.

Vainikka, A., Gårdmark, A., Bland, B., Hjelm, J. 2009. Two- and three-dimensional maturation reaction norms for the eastern Baltic cod, Gadus morhua. ICES Journal of Marine Sciences, 66, 248-257.

Huss, M., Byström, P., Strand, Å., Eriksson, LO. and Persson, L. 2008. Influence of growth history on the accumulation of energy reserves and winter mortality in young fish. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65: 2149-2156.

Huss, M., Byström, P. and Persson L. 2008. Resource heterogeneity, diet shifts and intra-cohort competition: effects on size divergence in YOY fish. Oecologia 158:249-257.

Jørgensen, C., Enberg,K, Dunlop, E.S., Arlinghaus,R., Boukal, D.S., Brander, K., Ernande, B., Gårdmark, A., Johnston, F., Matsumura, S., Pardoe, H., Raab, K., Silva, A., Vainikka, A., Dieckmann, U., Heino,M., & Rijnsdorp, A.D. 2008. The role of Fisheries-Induced Evolution – Response. Science, 320:47-50.

Huss, M., Persson, L. and Byström, P. 2007. The origin and development of individual size variation in early pelagic stages of fish. Oecologia 153:57-67.

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