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)

Eiler, A., Drakare, S., Bertilsson S., Pernthaler, J., Peura S. , Rofner C., Simek K., Yang Y., Znachor P. & Lindström E.S. (accepted) Unveiling distribution patterns of freshwater phytoplankton by a next generation sequencing based approach. Plos One

Carvalho L., Poikane S., Lyche Solheim A. Phillips G., Borics G., Catalan J., De Hoyos C., Drakare S., Dudley B.J., Järvinen M., Laplace-Treyture C., Maileht K., McDonald C., Mischke U., J. Moe J., Morabito G., Noges P., Noges T., Ott I., Pasztaleniec A., Skjelbred B. & Thackeray S. J. (accepted) Strength and uncertainty of phytoplankton metrics for assessing eutrophication impacts in lakes. Hydrobiologia theme issue: Water bodies in Europe: integrative systems to assess ecological status and recovery

Järvinen J., Drakare S., Free G., Lyche-Solheim A., Phillips G., Skjelbred B. & Mischke U. (accepted) Phytoplankton indicator taxa for reference conditions in lowland Northern and Central European lakes. Hydrobiologia theme issue: Water bodies in Europe: integrative systems to assess ecological status and recovery

Östman, Ö., Drakare, S, Kritzberg E. S., Langenheder, S., Louge J. B. & Lindström E.S. 2012. Importance of space and the local environment for linking local and regional abundances of microbes. Aquatic Microbial Ecology. 67: 35-45

Louge, J.B., Langenheder, S., Andersson, A.F., Bertilsson, S., Drakare, S., Lanzén A. & Lindström, E. 2012. Freshwater bacterioplankton richness in oligotrophic lakes depends on nutrient availability rather than on species-area relationships. The ISME Journal 6 (June 2012): 1127-1136.