Johan S Eklöf
@eklof.bsky.social
Marine systems/community ecologist with a love for nature, family, guitars, climbing. Dad of 2, Professor at Stockholm University. Leading project FORCE, member of UrbanFishEries, co-PI in CoastClim (www.coastclim.org).
It was great to come and visit!
A real pleasure to host Johan Eklöf of Stockholm University!
A fantastic seminar covering the complex top-down and bottom-up controls on #BalticSea coastal food webs!
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Thanks, Johan! 🧪🦑🌊
Semianar abstract: www.umu.se/en/events/ca...
@eklof.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social
A fantastic seminar covering the complex top-down and bottom-up controls on #BalticSea coastal food webs!
🌿➡️🦐➡️🐟➡️🎣
Thanks, Johan! 🧪🦑🌊
Semianar abstract: www.umu.se/en/events/ca...
@eklof.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
It was great to come and visit!
@umeaunimarine.bsky.social Thanks for hosting me - great seeing your impressive field station and happy to share my research with you!
October 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
@umeaunimarine.bsky.social Thanks for hosting me - great seeing your impressive field station and happy to share my research with you!
Blir gäddor i fredningsområden mindre skygga, och hur påverkar detta isf ekosystemet i grunda havsvikar? Detta studerar doktorand Emil Kraft och masterstudent Alexander nu i sommar, vilket uppmärksammades av @svtnyheter.bsky.social : www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...
Se gäddan skrämma andra fiskar – kan öppna upp igenväxta vikar
”Skräckekologi” kan bromsa övergödningens effekter • Forskare undersöker fiskefredade vikar
www.svt.se
August 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Blir gäddor i fredningsområden mindre skygga, och hur påverkar detta isf ekosystemet i grunda havsvikar? Detta studerar doktorand Emil Kraft och masterstudent Alexander nu i sommar, vilket uppmärksammades av @svtnyheter.bsky.social : www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...
I wish more highly successful researchers would do what @lovedalen.bsky.social did here: reveal how much effort, and repeated rejection, that typically precedes each success in science. Never give up.
At the end of his #ESEB2025 plenary on deep-time palaeogenomes, Love Dalén shared his history of trying to obtain a big grant for his work. It eventually worked out!
August 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I wish more highly successful researchers would do what @lovedalen.bsky.social did here: reveal how much effort, and repeated rejection, that typically precedes each success in science. Never give up.
Vad händer med upptag och utsläpp av växthusgaser när havens ekosystem störs? Detta är en fråga vi i sommar studerat på Askölaboratoriet, vilket nu uppmärksammats i bl.a. i Rapport: @svtnyheter.bsky.social : www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...
@ostersjocentrum.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social
@ostersjocentrum.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social
Varmare klimat kan göra Östersjön till utsläppskälla
Forskare: ”Kan bidra till ökad uppvärmning”
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August 4, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Vad händer med upptag och utsläpp av växthusgaser när havens ekosystem störs? Detta är en fråga vi i sommar studerat på Askölaboratoriet, vilket nu uppmärksammats i bl.a. i Rapport: @svtnyheter.bsky.social : www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...
@ostersjocentrum.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social
@ostersjocentrum.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social
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Modelbased for Quick and Beautiful Model Visualization in #rstats imachordata.com/2025/07/25/m... Thanks, @easystats.github.io!
Modelbased for Quick and Beautiful Model Visualization · I'm a Chordata! Urochordata!
imachordata.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Modelbased for Quick and Beautiful Model Visualization in #rstats imachordata.com/2025/07/25/m... Thanks, @easystats.github.io!
New paper alert; we, led by @tiinasalo.bsky.social show experimentally that warming strengthens the cascading effects of predator phenotypic variation: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
New paper alert; we, led by @tiinasalo.bsky.social show experimentally that warming strengthens the cascading effects of predator phenotypic variation: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec....
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Fascinating paper on something I never thought of: When we remove big old animals from wild populations (like fish) we might be losing important cultural transmission in species that learn from elders - Essentially culling transmission of collective knowledge onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Overfishing Social Fish
Social learning is common among vertebrates, including fish. Learning from others reduces the risk and costs of adaptation. In some longer-lived species, social learning can lead to the formation of ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Fascinating paper on something I never thought of: When we remove big old animals from wild populations (like fish) we might be losing important cultural transmission in species that learn from elders - Essentially culling transmission of collective knowledge onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Pushing the research front forward… What happens with GHG fluxes in shallow-bay benthic communities with infauna vs grazers - plus warming? @coastclim.bsky.social @balticseacentre.bsky.social with @nascimentofj.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Pushing the research front forward… What happens with GHG fluxes in shallow-bay benthic communities with infauna vs grazers - plus warming? @coastclim.bsky.social @balticseacentre.bsky.social with @nascimentofj.bsky.social
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Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️...
Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong...
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Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong...
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June 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️...
Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong...
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🦑🧪
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Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong...
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home after some very fun, inspiring days at @hifmb.de symposium. Chatted with amazing peers like @jillianmpetersen.bsky.social, @ibaums.bsky.social, Martin Lindegren etc, and also presented our ongoing work in the Baltic Sea. Thank you so much @hillebr1.bsky.social for the invititation!
June 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
home after some very fun, inspiring days at @hifmb.de symposium. Chatted with amazing peers like @jillianmpetersen.bsky.social, @ibaums.bsky.social, Martin Lindegren etc, and also presented our ongoing work in the Baltic Sea. Thank you so much @hillebr1.bsky.social for the invititation!
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🚀 New paper led by Dr Becks Spake!
We make the case for precision ecology—using big data & predictive tools to tailor conservation actions to local contexts.
Can ecology learn from medicine & marketing to boost impact? We think so.
Read it here: rdcu.be/eoaR4
#Conservation #Ecology #BigData
We make the case for precision ecology—using big data & predictive tools to tailor conservation actions to local contexts.
Can ecology learn from medicine & marketing to boost impact? We think so.
Read it here: rdcu.be/eoaR4
#Conservation #Ecology #BigData
Precision ecology for targeted conservation action
Nature Ecology & Evolution - The fields of medicine and marketing use large data volumes and computational power to target individuals. This Perspective argues that applied ecologists should...
rdcu.be
June 6, 2025 at 7:52 AM
🚀 New paper led by Dr Becks Spake!
We make the case for precision ecology—using big data & predictive tools to tailor conservation actions to local contexts.
Can ecology learn from medicine & marketing to boost impact? We think so.
Read it here: rdcu.be/eoaR4
#Conservation #Ecology #BigData
We make the case for precision ecology—using big data & predictive tools to tailor conservation actions to local contexts.
Can ecology learn from medicine & marketing to boost impact? We think so.
Read it here: rdcu.be/eoaR4
#Conservation #Ecology #BigData
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Starting here in the best way: presenting a new paper.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Have a look at our new proposed way of calculating response diversity when multiple environmental drivers change simultaneously.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Have a look at our new proposed way of calculating response diversity when multiple environmental drivers change simultaneously.
Measuring the Response Diversity of Ecological Communities Experiencing Multifarious Environmental Change
This study explores how response diversity—variability in species' responses to environmental changes—relates ecological stability under complex, multifactorial environmental shifts. The authors intr...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 21, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Starting here in the best way: presenting a new paper.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Have a look at our new proposed way of calculating response diversity when multiple environmental drivers change simultaneously.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Have a look at our new proposed way of calculating response diversity when multiple environmental drivers change simultaneously.
Was just asked to review a non-political research grant proposal to a call funded by 2 countries whose politics I don’t support. Tricky to decide whether to accept the task or not. Thoughts?
April 22, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Was just asked to review a non-political research grant proposal to a call funded by 2 countries whose politics I don’t support. Tricky to decide whether to accept the task or not. Thoughts?
Easter campus in spring colors
April 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Easter campus in spring colors
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Uni Oldenburg is starting a genomics facility, and we are looking for a bioinformatician.
uol.de/en/job/bioin...
The position is initially for 3 years, but there are chances of permanency after the 3 years.
Please share!
uol.de/en/job/bioin...
The position is initially for 3 years, but there are chances of permanency after the 3 years.
Please share!
https://uol.de/en/job/bioinfo…
January 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Uni Oldenburg is starting a genomics facility, and we are looking for a bioinformatician.
uol.de/en/job/bioin...
The position is initially for 3 years, but there are chances of permanency after the 3 years.
Please share!
uol.de/en/job/bioin...
The position is initially for 3 years, but there are chances of permanency after the 3 years.
Please share!
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#Seaweed farming has many potential benefits, but scaling these farms cannot be at the expense of other habitats (e.g. #seagrass) that support people! In our short letter, me, @eklof.bsky.social, @zosterar.bsky.social & others discuss why caution is needed.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Risks of habitat loss from seaweed cultivation within seagrass | PNAS
Risks of habitat loss from seaweed cultivation within seagrass
www.pnas.org
February 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
#Seaweed farming has many potential benefits, but scaling these farms cannot be at the expense of other habitats (e.g. #seagrass) that support people! In our short letter, me, @eklof.bsky.social, @zosterar.bsky.social & others discuss why caution is needed.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
revising a lecture on disturbances in tropical seagrasses, and recall having read a quote where early European explorers found hundreds of manatees grazing on seagrass somewhere in tropical western Atlantic, and that the seagrass looked like a golf lawn. Ring any bells? @boardshortsben.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
revising a lecture on disturbances in tropical seagrasses, and recall having read a quote where early European explorers found hundreds of manatees grazing on seagrass somewhere in tropical western Atlantic, and that the seagrass looked like a golf lawn. Ring any bells? @boardshortsben.bsky.social
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One of the most important things you can do today is your science. Knowing calculus/physics/genetics/chemistry etc. makes you rare and the world will need you to rebuild tomorrow. Practice your skills and pass them on. Keep the flame alive.
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January 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
One of the most important things you can do today is your science. Knowing calculus/physics/genetics/chemistry etc. makes you rare and the world will need you to rebuild tomorrow. Practice your skills and pass them on. Keep the flame alive.
💚🌱🧪
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Our new Nature paper on the multi-dimensional contributions of small scale fisheries just dropped www.nature.com/articles/s41.... We find that SSF supply ~40% of global fish catch worth >$77billion, with knock on benefits that support numerous sustainable development goals. A truly monumental effort
Illuminating the multidimensional contributions of small-scale fisheries - Nature
A study aimed at revealing the role of small-scale fisheries in sustainable development shows they provide at least 40% of the global fishing catch and affect the livelihoods of 1 in 12 people in the ...
www.nature.com
January 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Our new Nature paper on the multi-dimensional contributions of small scale fisheries just dropped www.nature.com/articles/s41.... We find that SSF supply ~40% of global fish catch worth >$77billion, with knock on benefits that support numerous sustainable development goals. A truly monumental effort
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Just finished reading this fab new paper by @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social
Bending the curve of #biodiversity loss requires a 'satnav' for nature
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
The satnav analogy helps to focus on forward-looking course corrections to our conservation policy + actions
Bending the curve of #biodiversity loss requires a 'satnav' for nature
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
The satnav analogy helps to focus on forward-looking course corrections to our conservation policy + actions
Bending the curve of biodiversity loss requires a ‘satnav’ for nature | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Georgina Mace proposed bending the curve of biodiversity loss as a fitting ambition
for the Convention on Biological Diversity. The new Global Biodiversity Monitoring
Framework (GBMF) may increase the...
royalsocietypublishing.org
January 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Just finished reading this fab new paper by @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social
Bending the curve of #biodiversity loss requires a 'satnav' for nature
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
The satnav analogy helps to focus on forward-looking course corrections to our conservation policy + actions
Bending the curve of #biodiversity loss requires a 'satnav' for nature
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
The satnav analogy helps to focus on forward-looking course corrections to our conservation policy + actions
In a new study in @icesmarine.bsky.social journal led by Serena Donadi, we show that herring is an underestimated piscivore and that the herring decline in the Baltic Sea may have contributed to the increase in three-spined stickleback: academic.oup.com/icesjms/adva...
Reduced predation and competition from herring may have contributed to the increase of three-spined stickleback in the Baltic Sea
Abstract. In many areas of the Baltic Sea, three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) has increased several fold since the early 2000s. Two major pl
academic.oup.com
January 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
In a new study in @icesmarine.bsky.social journal led by Serena Donadi, we show that herring is an underestimated piscivore and that the herring decline in the Baltic Sea may have contributed to the increase in three-spined stickleback: academic.oup.com/icesjms/adva...
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Atlantic herring is one of the most abundant fishes in the world. In two new studies, we show that some herring in the Baltic Sea have become fish eaters. These piscivorous herring are genetically unique, grow fast, and play an important role in regulating stickleback populations.
Piscivorous herring – a unique fish in the Baltic Sea ecosystem | slu.se
In the coastal areas of the Baltic Sea, unusually large herring are sometimes caught, which has long raised questions. Are these large herring a separate population, or are they individuals that ha...
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January 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Atlantic herring is one of the most abundant fishes in the world. In two new studies, we show that some herring in the Baltic Sea have become fish eaters. These piscivorous herring are genetically unique, grow fast, and play an important role in regulating stickleback populations.
I stare at numbers of fish counts, wishing I could myself count more fish.
December 31, 2024 at 7:43 AM
I stare at numbers of fish counts, wishing I could myself count more fish.