Associate Professor

Research interests

• Pattens in biodiversity - global, regional and local scales
• Metacommunity ecology
• Phytoplankton and aquatic food webs - the influence of input of nutrients and dissolved organic carbon
• Ecology of picocyanobacteria

Ongoing projects

• Biogeographies of freshwater picocyanobacteria (Tryggers)
• DYNAMO: Towards a dynamic and mechanistic understanding of biodiversity through data intensive science. In collaboration with David Angeler (Lamm)
• REFRESH: Adaptive Strategies to Mitigate the Impacts of Climate Change on European Freshwater Ecosystems, www.refresh.ucl.ac.uk (EU 7th framework programme project, theme 6: Environment including Climate Change)
• WATERS: Water Body Assessment Tools for Ecological Reference Conditions and Status in Sweden (Swedish Environmental Protection Agency) 

Appointments

• Coordinator of Lakes and watercourses programme, SLU/ Koordinator för FOMA-programmet Sjöar och vattendrag
• Directior of studies for post graduate studies at the Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, SLU
• Supplant in steering committee Focus on Soil and Water gratuate school, SLU (www.slu.se/fosw)

Teaching

• KE0060 Environmental Impacts of Energy Systems, 10.0 credits (In Swedish: Energisystemens miljöpåverkan). The course is given in Master Programme in Energy Systems Engineering and Energy Systems Engineering Programme.
• MX0059 Energy and the Environment, 5.0 credits (In Swedish: Energi och miljö). The course is given in Biology and Environmental Science - Bachelor´s Programme and Natural Resources Programme - Biology and Soil Science.
• MV0177 Watershed management with focus on eutrophication, 10.0 credits. The course is given in the Agriculture Programme - Soil/Plant, Agriculture Programme (admission before 1 July 2007), Natural Resources Programme - Biology and Soil Science, Soil and Water Management - Master´s Programme and EnvEuro - European Master in Environmental Science.

Student supervision (active students)

Didier Baho (2011) Towards a mechanistic understanding of resilience of alternative stable states in lakes (Co-Supervisor)

Selected publications

(full list of publications)

Louge, J.B., Langenheder, S., Andersson, A.F., Bertilsson, S., Drakare, S., Lanzén A. & Lindström, E. 2011. Freshwater bacterioplankton richness in oligotrophic lakes depends on nutrient availability rather than on species-area relationships. The ISME Journal Online publ. 15 Dec 2011 

Angeler, D.G., Drakare, S. & Johnson, R. K. 2011. Revealing the organization of complex adaptive systems through multivarate time series modeling. Ecology and Society 16(3): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-04175-160305

Vrede, T., Drakare, S., Eklöv, P., Hein, A., Liess, A., Olsson, J., Persson, J., Quevedo, M., Stabo, H. R. & Svanbäck, R. 2011. Ecological stoichiometry of Eurasian perch – intraspecific variation due to size, habitat and diet. Oikos, 120: 886–896.

Drakare, S. & Liess, A. 2010. Local factors control the community composition of cyanobacteria in lakes while heterotrophic bacteria follow a neutral model. Freshwater Biology 55: 2447-2457.

Östman, Ö., Drakare, S., Kritzberg, E., Langenheder, S., Logue, J. & Lindström E. 2010. Regional invariance among microbial communities. Ecology Letters 13: 118-127.