RESEARCH PROJECT
Lake food web responses to variation in land use practices across environmental gradients
Updated: September 2025
Project overview
The official name official name of the project:
Lake food web responses to variation in land use practices across environmental gradients
Project start:
January 2024
Ending:
December 2026
Project manager:
Magnus Huss
Contact:
Magnus Huss
Funded by:
The Oscar and Lili Lamms Memorial Foundation
Participants
Project members:
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Short summary
This project will address how land-use change and forestry practises have altered, and may come to further alter, lake ecosystem diversity and function through inputs of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and nutrients along natural gradients in lake-biogeochemistry and catchment vegetation.
Drawing on existing monitoring data and replicated in-lake experiments, we specifically ask:
- How do land use and vegetation type interact with lake characteristics to shape lakebiodiversity?
- How do different combinations of forest fertilizers and DOM affect plankton community composition and production, depending on lake chemistry and associated water colour?
Read about one of our experiments here: Researchers study how forest fertilizers and carbon leakage affect Swedish lakes using AquaNet infrastructure