Contact
Maria Kahlert

Teaching
Director of study: Graduate school 'Focus on soils and water' (FoSW)
Research
Projects
- FRESHBAR – Barcoding of freshwater organisms for improved assessment of biodiversity
- BONUS FUMARI - Future Marine Assessment and Monitoring of the Baltic
- New methods improving freshwater conservation and management
- DNAqua-net - genomic tools for routine application of biomonitoring of European water bodies
- EDNA - national network to develop DNA methos for monitoring and assessment
- Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), Freshwater Ecosystem Monitoring Group (FEMG)
- Contact for diatoms as bioindicator in national & regional monitoring programmes (Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SwAM/HaV & regional water authorities)
- Impact of toxins (heavy metals and organic pollutants) on diatom community composition and valve formation
- Benthic diatoms with DNA - method development
- WATERS (Waterbody Assessment Tools for Ecological Reference conditions and status in Sweden) Research into assessment criteria for the classification of ecological water status (Swedish Environmental Protection Agency – SEPA)
Read more about freshwater benthic algae!
NorBAF - the Nordic-Baltic Network for Benthic Algae in Freshwater
Environmental analysis
Background
- 2009 Associate Prof. in Biology with Specialization in Ecology at SLU
- 2001 Ph.D. in Limnology at Uppsala University
- 1995 Diploma in Zoology at the University of Cologne, Germany
Supervision
PhD students
- Ina Bloch (assistent supervisor)
- Steffi Gottschalk (main supervisor)
- Sophie Gröndahl (University of Cologne, DE) (assistent supervisor)
- Alexander Feckler (assistent supervisor)
- Bonnie Bailet (main supervisor)
Postdocs
Selected publications
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