Ida Ahlbeck Bergendahl

I have a broad interest in fish behaviour, aquatic ecology and fisheries management.

In my current role, I am mainly working with Atlantic and pink salmon monitoring and management on the Swedish west coast within ICES, NASCO and independent reserach projects.

The invasive pink salmon: distribution, reproductive potential and biodiversity threats in Sweden. Swedish Research Council FORMAS funded project 2023-2024. 

2013-2014, Postdoc at Pennsylvania State University, USA.  Project: Determining the effects of duration and recency of exposure to environmental enrichment.

2012, Reseracher, Stockholm University. Projekt: Pikeperch in Himmerfjärden - a biomanipulation project.

2008-2012, PhD candidate at Stockholm University. Project: Living in a predation matrix – studies on fish and their prey in a Baltic Sea coastal area.

PhD in marine ecology, Stockholm University, 2012. https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:515330/FULLTEXT02.pdf

MSc Linköping University, 2005. 

Staveley, T. A., Hellström, M., Birgersson, V., Hernvall, P., Schibli, H., Axelsson, E., Larliander, L., Molander, L., Thorstad, E. B., Berntsen, H, H. & Ahlbeck Bergendahl, I. (2025). Detection of Non‐Native Pink Salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) in Swedish Rivers Using eDNA. Environmental DNA, 7(3), e70117.

Bergendahl, I.A., DePasquale, C., Vea Salvanes, A.G., 2024. Fish learning and memory. In: Alderman, S.L., Gillis, T.E. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology, vol. 1. Elsevier, Academic Press, pp. 457–465. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90801-6.00011-2. ISBN: 9780323908016

Staveley, T. A., & Ahlbeck Bergendahl, I. (2022). Pink salmon distribution in Sweden: The calm before the storm?. Ecology and Evolution, 12(8), e9194.

Braithwaite, Victoria & Ahlbeck Bergendahl, Ida. (2020). The Effects of Early Life Experience on Behavioural Development in Captive Fish Species. In: The welfare of fish, Vol. 20. Eds: Kristiansen, T. S., Fernö, A., Pavlidis, M. A., & Van de Vis, H., Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. pp. 111-127. 

Ahlbeck Bergendahl, I., Miller, S., Depasquale, C., Giralico, L., and Braithwaite, V. A. (2016) Becoming a better swimmer: structural complexity enhances agility in a captive‐reared fish. Journal of Fish Biology.

Ahlbeck Bergendahl, I., Holliland, P. B., Hansson, S., and Karlöf, O. (2017) Feeding range of age 1+ year Eurasian perch Perca fluviatilis in the Baltic Sea. Journal of Fish Biology, 90(5): 2060-2072.

Bergendahl, I.A., Salvanes, A.G.V. and Braithwaite V.A. (2016) Determining the effects of duration and recency of exposure to environmental enrichment. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 176: 163–169.

Ahlbeck, I. and Holliland, P.B. (2012) Rearing environment affect important life skills in pikeperch (Sander lucioperca). Boreal Environment Research, 17:
291-304.

Holliland, P.B., Ahlbeck, I., Westlund, E. and Hanson, S. (2012) Ontogenetic and seasonal changes in diel vertical migration amplitude of the calanoid copepods
Eurytemora affinis and Acartia spp. in a coastal area of the northern Baltic Proper. Journal of plankton research 34: 298-307.

Ahlbeck, I., Hansson, S. and Hjerne, O. (2012) Evaluation of
diet analysis methods by individual based modelling. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 69: 1184-1201.

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