As a continuation of the governmental funding of strategic Baltic Sea research, this interdisciplinary network of young Baltic Sea, Baltic Sea Fellows, formed at Stockholm University 2018. Their research cover the whole range from basic marine research to applied legal aspects and decision support.

Group AML Karlson studies Food web and Ecosystem ecology, Ecotoxicology and Stress ecology, Environmental monitoring and Stable isotope techniques.

Marine submerged vegetation, their productivity and role in carbon cycling

Identifying environmental drivers of variation in natural selection and population dynamics

Interactions between marine biodiversity, environmental conditions (including climate) and society.

The historical ecology of Scandinavian cultural landscapes.

Planktonic partnerships, or symbioses, between eukaryotic and prokaryotic plankton that are major players in the Nitrogen and Carbon cycles of the World’s oceans

Microbial interactions in aquatic environments and the effect of these interactions on the carbon cycle.

We are investigating the possibility of cleaning soil and water from heavy metals and PFAS using plants, so-called phytoremediation. We also investigate how we can reduce the cadmium and arsenic content in food crops by the use of phytoremediation and silca.

We do research on arthropod ecology and evolution, with a particular focus on trophic interactions.

How biodiversity evolves and is distributed globally using an experimental and phylogenetic approach.

Landscape ecology in boreal forests and tropical mosaic landscapes

The evolution of fungal genomes and its association with life history traits and extreme environments

The Marine Remote Sensing Group uses optical measurements in aquatic systems (mostly Baltic Sea and Lake Vänern) combined with satellite data to improve environmental monitoring of aquatic ecosystems. The data is also used to assess effects of climate change.

The overall focus of my research is to understand how ecosystems respond to anthropogenic and environmental disturbances both structurally and functionally.

Climate change impacts in regards to ecosystem response as well as on humans natural resource management and governance.

Our research is focussed on actinorhizal nitrogen-fixing root nodule symbiosis, a topic relevant for the understanding of root nodule symbioses in general as well as for the role of actinorhizal plants in soil restoration, shelter belts and erosion control.

Cell differentiation and coordination in tissues.

Phylogeny and evolution of parasitic plants

Source, fate and impacts of the neurotoxin BMAA and DAB.

In my group, we are interested in macroevolution in vascular plants, the relationship between structure and function, and diversity and distribution in time and space; how features and plant groups evolve over millions of years.

Group Slotte uses genomic tools to test predictions of evolutionary theory, with particular emphasis on the evolution of plant mating system variation and supergenes.

My research interests are biodiversity and food-web interactions. Since 1982 I have worked on the coastal and pelagic systems of the brackish Baltic Sea and since 2002 also on the sea-ice and pelagic systems of the Central Arctic Ocean (CAO). Today I mainly focus on two research projects in the CAO.

Interactions between plants, microbes and insects.

How natural and anthropogenic factors change and control the environmental conditions of the open Baltics Sea and its archipelagos, with focus on the pelagic zone

We study drivers of food web interactions and community dynamics to better understand the ecological impacts of environmental change on ecosystem functioning.

Effects of human and natural disturbances on marine and brackish water ecosystems.

The Marine Ecological Laboratory (MEL) at DEEP carry out field sampling and analyses of water chemistry, plankton, benthos and macrophytes with focus on the Baltic Sea. The lab is accredited through Swedac and is a leading lab in many areas, particularly regarding nutrient analyses.