Research

Our research activities stretch from the alpine ecosystem, through forests, cultivated land and streams, all the way into the marine environment.

In these environments we study different levels of biological organisation from genes, individuals and populations, to communities and ecosystems. We work within ecology, evolution, physiology, systematics and combinations of these fields in order to understand the impact of natural and anthropogenic changes of the environment. 

Research areas

Research at the Department is organised in research areas:

Animal Ecology | Chemical Ecology | Ecology and Conservation | Ecophysiology and Biogeochemistry | Ecotoxicology | Fish, Shellfish and Aquaculture | Functional and Structural Dynamics | Herbarium GB | ICZM and Conservation Biology | Molecular Ecology, Evolution and Genomics | Pelagic Ecology | Plant Cell and Molecular Biology | Stress and Global Change Biology | Systematics and Biodiversity | Theoretical Ecology and Modelling | Zoophysiology

Scientists at the department are engaged in various interdisciplinary platforms at Gothenburg University, in strong and strategic research environments financed by the Swedish research councils, as well as in a multitude of national and international research projects.

Marine research facilites

• GU Marine Algal Culture Collection (GUMACC)
• Phytoplankton checklists
• Genetic and living resources within CeMEB - The Linneaus Centre for Marine Evolutionary Biology

Platforms

CTBio - Centre for Theoretical Biology studies evolution using mathematical tools

EGO - Ecotoxicology – from Gene to Ocean

GRIP - interdisciplinary research and education within integrative physiology

MARICE – Marine Chemical Ecology

Tellus - Centre for system research on climate and environment

Strategic research areas

BECC - Biodiversity and ecosystem services in a changing climate (VR)

SMOLTPRO: Integrated research for sustainable smolt production (Formas)

LAGGE – Green house gas balance at landscape level – integration of both terrestrial and aquatic sources and sinks (Formas)

Strong research environments

NICE – new methodology for effect based assessment of chemical contamination in coastal ecosystems.

CeMEB - the Linnaeus Centre for Marine Evolutionary Biology with focus on evolutionary processes and mechanisms in marine species and populations.