Limnic environmental monitoring in Sundstatjärn
Sundstatjärn is a popular bathing lake in central Karlstad, that has been struggling with eutrophication for many years. Eutrophication gives rise to cyanobacteria during the warm months of the year. ...
Read more »Fish assemblages & habitat patterns in the Baltic Sea
A new study in Marine Biodiversity has been published focusing on seagrass fish assemblages in a seascape ecology perspective in the Baltic Sea in collaboration with the Department of Ecology, Environ...
Read more »AquaBiota in HELCOM
Since September 2018, Antonia Nyström Sandman is Chair of the HELCOM Expert Network on Benthic habitats, EN BENTHIC. In November she chaired her first meeting. Over the past years, AquaBiota has pa...
Read more »Breakthrough in monitoring methods of polar bears through snow tracks. News from the BBC.
To date, in order to take tests, polar bears have been tranquilised with dart guns or by examining dead animals. With a new method it is enough to find traces in the snow to be able to identify polar ...
Read more »Temperature drives cod movements
A new study in Ecology and Evolution has been published focusing on the movement patterns of Atlantic cod in collaboration with Stockholm University, Zoological Society of London and the County Admini...
Read more »AquaBiota has finished its summer field season
AquaBiota has recently completed its summer field season. One of the tasks that AquaBiota performed was conducting SCUBA diving surveys around Hanö, in the Bight of Hanö. We were struck by how beautif...
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