Sofia WikströmAssociate Professor

My research interest include:
- Effects of anthropogenic pressures (including eutrophication, boating and physical disturbance) on benthic habitats

- Mapping and monitoring of benthic species and habitats

- Biological invasions in aquatic ecosystems

- Seaweed and seagrass ecology

Current projects

Coastal exploitation and marine habitats
Investigating how human activities affect marine habitats in the coastal environment, what type of habitats that are most affected and efficiency of current protection of underwater habitats.

Selected scientific publications

Wikström S.A., N. Hedberg, N. Kautsky, L. Kumblad, E. Ehrnsten, B. Gustafsson, C. Humborg, A. Norkko, and J. Stadmark 2020: Letter to Editor Regarding Kotta et al. 2020: Cleaning up Seas Using Blue Growth Initiatives: Mussel Farming for Eutrophication Control in the Baltic Sea. Science of the Total Environment 727: 138665. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138665

Sagerman J., J.P. Hansen and S.A Wikström 2020: Effects of boat traffic and mooring infrastructure on aquatic vegetation: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Ambio 49: 517–530.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01215-9

Weinberger F., T. Paalme and S.A. Wikström 2020:  Seaweed resources of the Baltic Sea, Kattegat and German and Danish North Sea coasts. Botanica Marina 63: 61-72.  https://doi.org/10.1515/bot-2019-0019

Enge S., J. Sagerman, S.A. Wikström and H. Pavia 2017: A review of herbivore effects on seaweed invasions. Oceanography and Marine Biology: and Annual Review Vol. 55, s. 421-440.

Tano S.A., M. Eggertsen, S.A. Wikström, C. Berkström, A. Buriyo and C. Halling 2017: Tropical seaweed beds as important habitats for juvenile fish. Marine and Freshwater Research 68: 1921-1934.

Tano S.A., M. Eggertsen, S.A. Wikström, C. Berkström, A. Buriyo and C. Halling 2016: Tropical seaweed beds are important habitats for mobile invertebrate epifauna. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 183: 1-12.

Wikström S.A., J. Carstensen, M. Blomqvist and D. Krause-Jensen 2016: Cover of coastal vegetation as an indicator of eutrophication along environmental gradients. Marine Biology 163: 257.

Tano S.A., C. Halling, E. Lind, A. Buriyo, S.A. Wikström 2015: Extensive spread of farmed seaweeds causes a shift from native to non-native haplotypes in natural seaweed beds. Marine Biology 162: 1983–1992.

Sagerman J., S. Enge, H. Pavia and S.A. Wikström 2015: Low feeding preference of native herbivores for the successful non-native seaweed Heterosiphonia japonica. Marine Biology 162: 2471–2479.

Sagerman, J., S. Enge, H. Pavia and S.A. Wikström 2014: Divergent ecological strategies determine different impacts on community production by two successful non-native seaweeds. Oecologia 175: 937–946.

Halling C., S.A. Wikström, G. Lilliesköld-Sjöö, E. Mörk, E. Lundsør, & G.C. Zuccarello 2013: Introduction of Asian strains and low genetic variation in farmed seaweeds: indications for new management practices. Journal of Applied Phycology 25: 89-95.

Nyström Sandman A, S.A. Wikström, M. Blomqvist, H. Kautsky & M. Isaeus 2013: Scale-dependent influence of environmental variables on species distribution: a case study on five coastal benthic species in the Baltic Sea. Ecography 36: 354-363.

Tulldahl H.M, Philipson P., Kautsky H. & S.A. Wikström 2013: Sea floor classification with satellite data and airborne lidar bathymetry. In: Ocean Sensing and Monitoring V, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 8724.

Hansen, J.P., S.A. Wikström & L. Kautsky 2012: Taxon composition and food-web linkages in a morphometric gradient of Baltic Sea land-uplift bays. Boreal Environment Research 17: 1-20.

Tulldahl H.M. & S.A. Wikström 2012: Classification of aquatic macrovegetation and substrates with airborne lidar. Remote Sensing of Environment, 121: 347-357.

Wikström S.A. & H. Hillebrand 2012: Invasion by mobile aquatic consumers enhances secondary production and increases top-down control of lower trophic levels. Oecologia 168: 175-186.

Hansen, J.P., S.A. Wikström, H. Axemar & L. Kautsky 2011: Distribution differences and active habitat choices of invertebrates between macrophytes of different morphological complexity. Aquatic Ecology 45: 11-22.

Wahl, M., V. Jormalainen, B.K. Eriksson, J.A. Coyer, M. Molis, H. Schubert, M. Dethier, A. Ehlers, R. Karez, I. Kruse, M. Lenz, G. Pearson, S. Rohde, S.A. Wikström & J.L. Olsen 2011: Stress Ecology in Fucus: Abiotic, Biotic and Genetic Interactions. Advances in Marine Biology 59: 37-105.

Forslund, H., S.A. Wikström & H. Pavia 2010: Higher resistance to herbivory in introduced compared to native populations of a seaweed. Oecologia 164: 833–840.

Hansen, J.P., J. Sagerman & S.A. Wikström 2010: Effects of macrophyte morphology and drifting algae on small scale distributions of invertebrates. Marine Biology 157: 2143–2155.

Hansen, J.P., S.A. Wikström & L. Kautsky 2008: Effects of water exchange and vegetation on the macroinvertebrate fauna composition of shallow land-uplift bays in the Baltic Sea. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 77: 535-547.

Jormalainen, V., S.A. Wikström & T. Honkanen 2008: Fouling mediates grazing - intertwining of resistances to multiple enemies in the brown alga Fucus vesiculosus. Oecologia 155: 559-569.

Wikström, S.A. & L. Kautsky 2007: Structure and diversity of invertebrate communities in the presence and absence of canopy-forming Fucus vesiculosus in the Baltic Sea. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 72: 168-176.

Popular science publications

Schagerström E., Qvarfordt S. & Wikström S.A. 2020: Var finns den frilevande blåstången? Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 114: 260–263.

Wikström, S.A. 2016: Livsmiljöer i havet måste skyddas. Havsutsikt 1|2016: 17-19.

Wikström, S.A. M. Tulldahl & J. Berglund 2011: Lasermätning av havsbottnar – ett redskap för kustzonsplanering. Kart & Bildteknik 2011: 10-13.

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