Associate professor, Assistant Director SLU Water HUB

Research area

• Nutrient mobilization and transport at various scales
• Hydrology-chemistry interactions and effects on sediment and nutrient losses
• Modeling nutrients transport and source-apportionment
• Tools for risk assessment of erosion and phosphorus losses
• Modeling spatial distribution of erosion and phosphorus losses and identification of variable source areas
• Agricultural Best Management Practices for reduction of nutrient losses

Projects 

• Optimal placement of riparian buffer strips to improve their cost-efficiency – research project financed by Swedish Board of Agriculture
• Participation in Baltic COMPASS project
• Participation in SMED (Svenska MiljöEmissionsData)
• Research project on the role of ditches as missing links between fields and water courses
• SLF financed project regarding short-term dynamics of soluble and plant-available phosphorus following fertilizer/manure application
• Modeling nutrient losses from small agricultural catchments
• Research project on forms on organic P in arable soils
• Further development of the source-apportionment FyrisNP model
• Development of more precise map of agricultural soils at national level
• Further development of Environmental Quality criteria regarding calculations of background losses of total phosphorus

Teaching

Undergraduate courses

Land use and watershed management to reduce eutrophication

Risk assessment of pollutants in soils and waters

Soil management in crop production

PhD student supervision (active students)

Ana Villa Solis (Main supervisor)

Helena Andersson (Assisting supervisor)

Anders Lindsjö (Assisting supervisor)

Selected Publications

(full list of publications)

Djodjic, F. och Spännar, M. 2012. Identification of critical source areas for erosion and phosphorus losses in small agricultural catchment in central Sweden. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section B 2013; Soil & Plant Science, 229-240.

Villa, A., Djodjic, F., Bergström, L. och Wallin, M. 2012. Assessing soil erodibility and mobilization of phosphorus from Swedish clay soils - Comparison of two simple soil dispersion methods. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section B - Soil & Plant Science, 260-269.

Ulén, B., Von Brömssen, C., Kyllmar, K., Djodjic, F., Forsberg, L. S. och Andersson, S. 2012. Long-term temporal dynamics and trends of particle-bound phosphorus and nitrate in agricultural stream waters. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section B - Soil & Plant Science, 217-228.

Tattari, S., Jaakkola, E., Koskiaho, J., Räsänen, A., Huitu, H., Salo, T., Ojanen, H., Norman Haldén, A., Djodjic, F., Collentine, D., Norrgren, L., Boqvist, S., Ryd Ottoson, J., Strenberg Lewerin, S., Pokhomau, A., Duus Börgeson, C., Rubäk, G. och LKrisciukaitiene, I. 2012. Mapping erosion- and phosphorus-vulnerable areas in the Baltic Sea Region - data availability, methods and biosecurity aspects. MTT Report 65.

Ulen B., Djodjic F., Buciene A., Masauskiene A. 2012. Phosphorus Load from Agricultural Land to the Baltic Sea 82-101. In Jakobsson C. (ed.) 2012. Sustainable Agriculture. Ecosystem Health and Sustainable Agriculture 1. The Baltic University Programme, Uppsala University 2012.

Ahlgren, J, Djodjic, F. and Wallin, M. 2012. Barium as a Potential Indicator of Phosphorus in Agricultural Runoff. Journal of Environmental Quality 41:208–216.

Djodjic, F., Hellgren, S., Futter, M., and Brandt, M. 2012. Suspenderat material – transporter och betydelsen för andra vattenkvalitetsparametrar. SMED Rapport 2012:102.

Ulén, B., Djodjic, F., Etana, A., Johansson, G. and Lindström, J. 2011. The need for an improved risk index for phosphorus losses to water from tile-drained agricultural land. Journal of Hydrology, 400:234-243.

Ahlgren J., Djodjic, F., and Löfgren, S. 2011. Åtgärder för att förbättra fosforretention i öppna diken i riskområden i jordbrukslandskapet runt Östersjön - en kunskapssammanställning. Baltic Sea 2020.

Djodjic F., Wallin M. 2011. Förslag till vidareutveckling av bedömningsgrunder för fosfor i vattendrag vol. 2011:6.

Djodjic F., Kyllmar K., 2011. Spridning av gödselmedel på åkermark, Institutionen för vatten och miljö, Rapport 2011:22.

Ekstrand, S., Wallenberg, P., and Djodjic, F. 2010. Process Based Modeling of Phosphorus Losses from Arable Land. Ambio, 39:100–115.

Heckrath G., Bechmann M., Ekholm P., Ulen B., Djodjic F., Andersen H. 2008. Review of indexing tools for identifying high risk areas of phosphorus loss in Nordic catchments. Journal of Hydrology, 349: 68-87.

Djodjic, F., and Bergström L. 2005. Conditional phosphorus index as an educational tool for risk assessment and phosphorus management. Ambio 34: 293-297.

Shirmohammadi, A., Djodjic, F., and Bergström L. 2005. Scaling issues in sustainable management of nutrient losses. Soil Use and Management, 21: 160-166.

Djodjic F., Bergström L., and Grant C. 2005. Phosphorus management in balanced agricultural systems. Soil Use and Management, 21: 94-101.

Djodjic, F., and Bergström L. 2005. Phosphorus losses from arable fields in Sweden – effects of field-specific factors and long-term trends. Environmental Monitoring & Assessment, 102: 103-117.