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Richard Svanbäck

Richard Svanbäck

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
39
Citations
11790
World Ranking
6249
National Ranking
158

Overview

Richard Svanbäck is a researcher affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden. Their work primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a notable focus on subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Pollution, Ecology, Oceanography, and Environmental Chemistry. Their research contributes to the understanding of multiple environmental issues through diverse scientific approaches.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Svanbäck has published papers in various scientific venues, demonstrating a broad engagement with the research community. Frequent publication venues include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Austral Ecology, Scientific Reports, Environmental Pollution, and Freshwater Biology.

Selected recent publications of Richard Svanbäck include:

  • "Single and combined effects of microplastics, pyrethroid and food resources on the life-history traits and microbiome of Chironomus riparius" (2021, Environmental Pollution)
  • "Does browning-induced light limitation reduce fish body growth through shifts in prey composition or reduced foraging rates?" (2020, Freshwater Biology)
  • "Microplastic exposure across trophic levels: effects on the host-microbiota of freshwater organisms" (2022, Environmental Microbiome)
  • "Different Roles of Environmental Selection, Dispersal, and Drift in the Assembly of Intestinal Microbial Communities of Freshwater Fish With and Without a Stomach" (2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution)
  • "Multi stress system: Microplastics in freshwater and their effects on host microbiota" (2022, The Science of The Total Environment)

Collaboration features prominently in Svanbäck's research profile, with frequent coauthors including Javier Edo Varg, Anna Gårdmark, Magnus Huss, Frank Johansson, and Renee M. van Dorst. These collaborations reflect a network of interdisciplinary expertise contributing to environmental and ecological studies.

Best Publications

  • The Ecology of Individuals: Incidence and Implications of Individual Specialization

    Daniel I. Bolnick;Richard Svanbäck;Richard Svanbäck;James A. Fordyce;Louie H. Yang

  • Intraspecific competition drives increased resource use diversity within a natural population

    Richard Svanbäck;Daniel I Bolnick

  • MEASURING INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL RESOURCE SPECIALIZATION

    Daniel I. Bolnick;Louie H. Yang;James A. Fordyce;Jeremy M. Davis

  • Comparative support for the niche variation hypothesis that more generalized populations also are more heterogeneous

    Daniel I. Bolnick;Richard Svanbäck;Márcio S. Araújo;Lennart Persson

  • Individual diet has sex-dependent effects on vertebrate gut microbiota

    Daniel I. Bolnick;Lisa K. Snowberg;Philipp E. Hirsch;Philipp E. Hirsch;Christian L. Lauber

  • Individual diet specialization, niche width and population dynamics: implications for trophic polymorphisms

    Richard Svanbäck;Richard Svanbäck;Lennart Persson

  • Network analysis reveals contrasting effects of intraspecific competition on individual vs. population diets.

    Márcio S. Araújo;Paulo R. Guimarães;Richard Svanbäck;Aluisio Pinheiro

  • Size-dependent predation in piscivores : interactions between predator foraging and prey avoidance abilities

    David Lundvall;Richard Svanbäck;Lennart Persson;Pär Byström

  • Individuals' diet diversity influences gut microbial diversity in two freshwater fish (threespine stickleback and Eurasian perch)

    Daniel I. Bolnick;Lisa K. Snowberg;Philipp E. Hirsch;Philipp E. Hirsch;Christian L. Lauber

  • 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

  • Microbiomes as Metacommunities: Understanding Host-Associated Microbes through Metacommunity Ecology.

    Elizabeth Theresa Miller;Richard Svanbäck;Brendan J.M. Bohannan

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

    Richard Svanbäck;Peter Eklöv

  • Intraspecific competition drives multiple species resource polymorphism in fish communities

    Richard Svanbäck;Peter Eklöv;Rebecka Fransson;Kerstin Holmgren

  • Gigantic cannibals driving a whole-lake trophic cascade

    Lennart Persson;André M. De Roos;David Claessen;Pär Byström

  • Predation risk influences adaptive morphological variation in fish populations.

    Peter Eklöv;Richard Svanbäck

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

    Richard Svanbäck;Mario Quevedo;Jens Olsson;Peter Eklöv

  • CANNIBALISM IN A SIZE‐STRUCTURED POPULATION: ENERGY EXTRACTION AND CONTROL

    Lennart Persson;David Claessen;David Claessen;André M. De Roos;Pär Byström

  • A way forward with eco evo devo: an extended theory of resource polymorphism with postglacial fishes as model systems

    Skúli Skúlason;Kevin J. Parsons;Richard Svanbäck;Katja Räsänen

  • Morphology in perch affects habitat specific feeding efficiency

    Richard Svanbäck;Peter Eklöv

  • Diet-dependent body morphology and ontogenetic reaction norms in Eurasian perch

    Joakim Hjelm;Richard Svanbäck;Pär Byström;Lennart Persson

  • Genetic variation and phenotypic plasticity: Causes of morphological and dietary variation in Eurasian perch

    Richard Svanbäck;Peter Eklöv

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Eklöv
Peter Eklöv Uppsala University
Frank Johansson
Frank Johansson Uppsala University
Lennart Persson
Lennart Persson Umeå University
Alexander Eiler
Alexander Eiler University of Oslo
Daniel I. Bolnick
Daniel I. Bolnick University of Connecticut
Pär Byström
Pär Byström Umeå University
Michael Doebeli
Michael Doebeli University of British Columbia
J. Gregory Caporaso
J. Gregory Caporaso Northern Arizona University
Göran Englund
Göran Englund Umeå University
Anna Gårdmark
Anna Gårdmark Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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