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Peter Eklöv

Peter Eklöv

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
37
Citations
6377
World Ranking
6820
National Ranking
172

Overview

Peter Eklöv is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden and focuses primarily on environmental science. Their research encompasses various subfields such as ecology, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, oceanography, and environmental chemistry.

The main topics of Peter Eklöv's work include fish ecology and management studies, isotope analysis in ecology, marine and coastal ecosystems, animal behavior and reproduction, physiological and biochemical adaptations, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, as well as aquaculture nutrition and growth.

Peter Eklöv has published extensively in several venues, with frequent publications in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Oecologia, Freshwater Biology, Ecology and Evolution, and Uppsala universitet /DORIS repository.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Peter Eklöv include:

  • Fatty acid accumulation in feeding types of a natural freshwater fish population, 2021, Oecologia
  • Regulation of fatty acid composition related to ontogenetic changes and niche differentiation of a common aquatic consumer, 2020, Oecologia
  • Integrating multiple dimensions of ecological stability into a vulnerability framework, 2021, Journal of Ecology
  • Chasing away accurate results: exhaustive chase protocols underestimate maximum metabolic rate estimates in European perch Perca fluviatilis, 2020, Journal of Fish Biology
  • Functionally reversible impacts of disturbances on lake food webs linked to spatial and seasonal dependencies, 2021, Ecology

Peter Eklöv collaborates frequently with other researchers in their field. Notable co-authors include Kristin Scharnweber, Fernando Chaguaceda, Matilda Andersson, Silke Langenheder, and Pablo Urrutia-Cordero.

Best Publications

  • Prey Refuges Affecting Interactions Between Piscivorous Perch and Juvenile Perch and Roach

    Lennart Persson;Peter Eklov

  • Environmentally relevant concentrations of microplastic particles influence larval fish ecology.

    Oona M. Lönnstedt;Peter Eklöv

  • Size‐Specific Interactions in Lake Systems: Predator Gape Limitation and prey Growth Rate and Mortality

    Lennart Persson;Jens Andersson;Eva Wahlstrom;Peter Eklov

  • Intrapopulation niche partitioning in a generalist predator limits food web connectivity

    Mario Quevedo;Richard Svanbäck;Peter Eklöv

  • Effects of habitat and food resources on morphology and ontogenetic growth trajectories in perch

    Richard Svanbäck;Peter Eklöv

  • Effects of habitat complexity and prey abundance on the spatial and temporal distributions of perch (Perca fluviatilis) and pike (Esox lucius)

    Peter Eklöv

  • Morphology dependent foraging efficiency in perch: a trade-off for ecological specialization?

    Richard Svanbäck;Peter Eklöv

  • Reciprocal subsidies between freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems structure consumer resource dynamics

    Pia Bartels;Pia Bartels;Julien Cucherousset;Julien Cucherousset;Julien Cucherousset;Kristin Steger;Peter Eklöv

  • Effects of Piscivore‐Mediated Habitat Use on Resources, Diet, and Growth of Perch

    Sebastian Diehl;Peter Eklov

  • Piscivore efficiency and refuging prey: the importance of predator search mode

    Peter Eklöv;Sebastian Diehl

  • Intraspecific competition drives multiple species resource polymorphism in fish communities

    Richard Svanbäck;Peter Eklöv;Rebecka Fransson;Kerstin Holmgren

  • Predation risk influences adaptive morphological variation in fish populations.

    Peter Eklöv;Richard Svanbäck

  • The effect of seasonal variation in selective feeding by zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) on phytoplankton community composition

    Rahmat Naddafi;Kurt Pettersson;Peter Eklöv

  • Nursery habitat availability limits adult stock sizes of predatory coastal fish

    Göran Sundblad;Ulf Bergström;Alfred Sandström;Peter Eklöv

  • Predatory efficiency and prey selection: interactions between pike Esox lucius, perch Perca fluviatilis and rudd Scardinus erythrophthalmus

    Peter Eklöv;Stellan F Hamrin

  • Multiple predator effects on size‐dependent behavior and mortality of two species of anuran larvae

    Peter Eklöv;Earl E. Werner

  • SPECIES-SPECIFIC ANTIPREDATOR CAPACITIES AND PREY REFUGES - INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PISCIVOROUS PERCH (PERCA-FLUVIATILIS) AND JUVENILE PERCH AND ROACH (RUTILUS-RUTILUS)

    Peter Eklöv;Lennart Persson

  • Group foraging versus solitary foraging efficiency in piscivorous predators: the perch, Perca fluviatilis, and pike, Esox lucius, patterns

    Peter Eklöv

  • FACILITATION AMONG PISCIVOROUS PREDATORS: EFFECTS OF PREY HABITAT USE

    Peter Eklöv;Tobias VanKooten

  • Individuals in food webs: the relationships between trophic position, omnivory and among-individual diet variation

    Richard Svanbäck;Mario Quevedo;Jens Olsson;Peter Eklöv

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Svanbäck
Richard Svanbäck Uppsala University
Helmut Hillebrand
Helmut Hillebrand Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Lars J. Tranvik
Lars J. Tranvik Uppsala University
Julien Cucherousset
Julien Cucherousset Paul Sabatier University
Stefan Bertilsson
Stefan Bertilsson Swedish Research Council
Lennart Persson
Lennart Persson Umeå University
David G. Angeler
David G. Angeler Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Silke Langenheder
Silke Langenheder Uppsala University
Hjalmar Laudon
Hjalmar Laudon Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Lars-Anders Hansson
Lars-Anders Hansson Lund University

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