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Christer Brönmark

Christer Brönmark

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
72
Citations
17017
World Ranking
1246
National Ranking
25

Overview

Christer Brönmark is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and is known for research primarily within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work covers various subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography.

The scientist's research topics focus extensively on Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, and Marine Animal Studies Overview.

Christer Brönmark has contributed to numerous papers published in established scientific venues. Frequent publication journals include:

  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Oikos
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Aquatic Ecology
  • Fundamental and Applied Limnology / Archiv für Hydrobiologie

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Brönmark are:

  • More than meets the eye: Predator-induced pupil size plasticity in a teleost fish (2020), Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Diel vertical migration of copepods and its environmental drivers in subtropical Bahamian blue holes (2020), Aquatic Ecology
  • Inland blue holes of The Bahamas - chemistry and biology in a unique aquatic environment (2020), Fundamental and Applied Limnology / Archiv für Hydrobiologie
  • Maladaptive migration behaviour in hybrids links to predator-mediated ecological selection (2020), Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Timing and synchrony of migration in a freshwater fish: Consequences for survival (2022), Journal of Animal Ecology

Brönmark collaborates frequently with a set of prominent researchers in related fields. These frequent coauthors include:

  • Kaj Hulthén
  • P. Anders Nilsson
  • Lars-Anders Hansson
  • Jerker Vinterstare
  • R. Brian Langerhans

Best Publications

  • The ecology and evolution of partial migration

    Ben B. Chapman;Christer Brönmark;Jan-Åke Nilsson;Lars-Anders Hansson

  • The biology of lakes and ponds

    Christer Brönmark;Lars-Anders Hansson

  • Predator-Induced Phenotypical Change in Body Morphology in Crucian Carp

    Christer Brönmark;Jeffrey G. Miner

  • INVADING HERBIVORY: THE GOLDEN APPLE SNAIL ALTERS ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING IN ASIAN WETLANDS

    Nils O. L. Carlsson;Christer Brönmark;Lars-Anders Hansson

  • Prey vulnerability to a gape-size limited predator: behavioural and morphological impacts on northern pike piscivory

    P. Anders Nilsson;Christer Brönmark

  • Environmental issues in lakes and ponds: current state and perspectives

    Christer Brönmark;Lars-Anders Hansson

  • Predicting impact of freshwater exotic species on native biodiversity: Challenges in spatial scaling

    David M. Lodge;Roy A. Stein;Kenneth M. Brown;Alan P. Covich

  • Conflicting demands on wetland ecosystem services: nutrient retention, biodiversity or both?

    Lars‐Anders Hansson;Christer Brönmark;P Anders Nilsson;Kajsa Åbjörnsson

  • Partial migration in fishes: causes and consequences

    B.B. Chapman;K. Hulthén;J. Brodersen;P.A. Nilsson

  • Partial migration in fishes: definitions, methodologies and taxonomic distribution.

    B B Chapman;C Skov;K Hulthén;Jacob Brodersen

  • To boldly go: individual differences in boldness influence migratory tendency

    Ben B. Chapman;Kaj Hulthén;David R. Blomqvist;Lars-Anders Hansson

  • Patterns in benthic food webs: a role for omnivorous crayfish?

    Per Nyström;Christer Brönmark;Wilhelm Granéli

  • Chemical communication in aquatic systems: an introduction

    Christer Brönmark;Lars-Anders Hansson

  • INTERACTIONS BETWEEN EPIPHYTES, MACROPHYTES AND FRESHWATER SNAILS: A REVIEW

    Christer Brönmark

  • The influence of multiple introduced predators on a littoral pond community

    Per Nyström;Ola Svensson;Björn Lardner;Christer Brönmark

  • CONDITION-DEPENDENT INDIVIDUAL DECISION-MAKING DETERMINES CYPRINID PARTIAL MIGRATION

    Jakob Brodersen;P. Anders Nilsson;Lars-Anders Hansson;Christian Skov

  • Predator-induced morphology enhances escape locomotion in crucian carp

    Paolo Domenici;Håkan Turesson;Jakob Brodersen;Christer Brönmark

  • Chemical cues from piscivores induce a change in morphology in crucian carp

    Christer Brönmark;Lars B. Pettersson

  • Interactions between macrophytes, epiphytes and herbivores: an experimental approach

    Christer Brönmark

  • There and back again: migration in freshwater fishes

    Christer Brönmark;Kaj Hulthén;P. A. Nilsson;C. Skov

  • Freshwater snail diversity: effects of pond area, habitat heterogeneity and isolation.

    Christer Brönmark

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars-Anders Hansson
Lars-Anders Hansson Lund University
P. Anders Nilsson
P. Anders Nilsson Lund University
Jakob Brodersen
Jakob Brodersen Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Christian Skov
Christian Skov Technical University of Denmark
Larry Greenberg
Larry Greenberg Karlstad University
Björn Malmqvist
Björn Malmqvist Umeå University
Wilhelm Granéli
Wilhelm Granéli Lund University
Per Larsson
Per Larsson Lund University
Karin Rengefors
Karin Rengefors Lund University
Henrik G. Smith
Henrik G. Smith Lund University

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