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Overview

Willem Goedkoop is affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden. Their research is primarily situated within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable focus on Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Pollution, General Health Professions, and Nature and Landscape Conservation as subfields.

Their scientific work covers several main topics, including Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Climate change and permafrost, Indigenous Studies and Ecology, and Fish Ecology and Management Studies.

Goedkoop's frequent collaborations include work with Danny C. P. Lau, Jennifer Lento, Joseph M. Culp, Kirsten Christoffersen, and Tobias Vrede.

Their research has been published extensively across several venues, with the most common being Freshwater Biology, Aquatic Sciences, Hydrobiologia, Frontiers in Conservation Science, and Global Change Biology.

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Willem Goedkoop are:

  • Abruptly and irreversibly changing Arctic freshwaters urgently require standardized monitoring, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Pesticide mixture toxicity to algae in agricultural streams - Field observations and laboratory studies with in situ samples and reconstituted water, 2021, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
  • Spatial and temporal variation in Arctic freshwater chemistry-Reflecting climate-induced landscape alterations and a changing template for biodiversity, 2020, Freshwater Biology
  • Limited effects of pesticides on stream macroinvertebrates, biofilm nematodes, and algae in intensive agricultural landscapes in Sweden, 2020, Water Research
  • Temperature and spatial connectivity drive patterns in freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity across the Arctic, 2021, Freshwater Biology

Best Publications

  • Linkages between Aquatic Sediment Biota and Life Above Sediments as Potential Drivers of Biodiversity and Ecological Processes

    Margaret A. Palmer;Alan P. Covich;Sam Lake;Peter Biro

  • Global Change and the Biodiversity of Freshwater Ecosystems: Impacts on Linkages between Above-Sediment and Sediment Biota

    Phillip S Lake;Margaret A Palmer;Peter Biro;Jonathan Cole

  • The effects of nematodes on bacterial activity and abundance in a freshwater sediment

    Walter Traunspurger;Matthias Bergtold;Willem Goedkoop

  • Spatial scale and ecological relationships between the macroinvertebrate communities of stony habitats of streams and lakes

    Richard K. Johnson;Willem Goedkoop;Leonard Sandin

  • Effects of pesticides on community composition and activity of sediment microbes – responses at various levels of microbial community organization

    Anneli Widenfalk;Stefan Bertilsson;Ingvar Sundh;Willem Goedkoop

  • Pelagic-benthic coupling: Profundal benthic community response to spring diatom deposition in mesotrophic Lake Erken

    Willem Goedkoop;Richard K. Johnson

  • Evaluation of pesticide monitoring strategies in agricultural streams based on the toxic-unit concept — Experiences from long-term measurements

    Mirco Bundschuh;Mirco Bundschuh;Willem Goedkoop;Jenny Kreuger

  • Littoral macroinvertebrate communities: spatial scale and ecological relationships

    R. K. Johnson;W. Goedkoop

  • Fatty Acid Ratios in Freshwater Fish, Zooplankton and Zoobenthos – Are There Specific Optima?

    Gunnel Ahlgren;Tobias Vrede;Willem Goedkoop

  • Fatty acid composition of consumers in boreal lakes – variation across species, space and time

    Danny C. P. Lau;Tobias Vrede;Jana Pickova;Willem Goedkoop

  • Seasonal variations in food quality for pelagic and benthic invertebrates in Lake Erken - the role of fatty acids

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  • Effects of Deposit-Feeder Activity on Bacterial Production and Abundance in Profundal Lake Sediment

    Wouter J. van de Bund;Willem Goedkoop;Richard K. Johnson

  • Traits-based approaches in bioassessment and ecological risk assessment: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

    Paul J Van den Brink;Alexa C Alexander;Mélanie Desrosiers;Willem Goedkoop

  • Fatty acids in profundal benthic invertebrates and their major food resources in Lake Erken, Sweden: seasonal variation and trophic indications.

    Willem Goedkoop;Lars Sonesten;Gunnel Ahlgren;Merike Boberg

  • Trophic fractionation of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes in Chironomus riparius reared on food of aquatic and terrestrial origin

    Willem Goedkoop;Nina Åkerblom;Marnie H. Demandt

  • Effects of the pesticides captan, deltamethrin, isoproturon, and pirimicarb on the microbial community of a freshwater sediment

    Anneli Widenfalk;Jonas M. Svensson;Willem Goedkoop

  • Interactions between food quantity and quality (long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid concentrations) effects on growth and development of Chironomus riparius

    Willem Goedkoop;Marnie Demandt;Gunnel Ahlgren

  • Microbial Response of a Freshwater Benthic Community to a Simulated Diatom Sedimentation Event: Interactive Effects of Benthic Fauna

    Willem Goedkoop;KR Gullberg;RK Johnson;Ingemar Ahlgren

  • Autochthonous resources are the main driver of consumer production in dystrophic boreal lakes

    Danny C. P. Lau;Ingvar Sundh;Tobias Vrede;Jana Pickova

  • Seasonal changes in sediment phosphorus forms in relation to sedimentation and benthic bacterial biomass in Lake Erken

    Willem Goedkoop;Kurt Pettersson

  • Abruptly and irreversibly changing Arctic freshwaters urgently require standardized monitoring

    Jani Heino;Joseph M. Culp;Jaakko Erkinaro;Willem Goedkoop

  • Linkages between aquatic sediment biota and life above sediments as potential drivers of biodiversity

    Palmer;A. P. Covich;S. Lake;P. Biro

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph M. Culp
Joseph M. Culp Wilfrid Laurier University
Richard K. Johnson
Richard K. Johnson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Kirsten Christoffersen
Kirsten Christoffersen University of Copenhagen
Mirco Bundschuh
Mirco Bundschuh University of Koblenz and Landau
John E. Brittain
John E. Brittain University of Oslo
David G. Angeler
David G. Angeler Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Stefan Bertilsson
Stefan Bertilsson Swedish Research Council
Jani Heino
Jani Heino University of Oulu
Leonard Sandin
Leonard Sandin Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Ralf Schulz
Ralf Schulz University of Koblenz and Landau

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