Research

The station’s unique location between a freshwater lake and the sea offers superb conditions for both freshwater and brackish water studies.

Completed research projects

• GRASS: Growing algae sustainably in the Baltic Sea
  Researcher in charge: Gunilla Rosenqvist, Uppsala University
• Pilot project to study the impacts of seal and cormorant on fish stocks around Gotland
• Impacts of ocean acidification on reproduction in marine and brackish fish - Researcher in charge: Josefin Sundin.
• Development of a crayfish population (Astacus astacus) over time – impacts on growth, sexual maturity, sex ratio and migration patterns) - Researcher in charge: Rolf Gydemo, Gotland County Administrative Board.
• Sexual selection and life history traits in pipefish - Researchers in charge: Anders Berglund and Gunilla Rosenqvist.
• Offspring competition in pipefish - Researchers in charge: Mario Cunha, Gunilla Rosenqvist and Anders Berglund.
• Effects of drug contamination on aquatic organisms – Researchers in charge: Josefin Sundin, Gunilla Rosenqvist and Anders Berglund.
• Monitoring for sustainable management of Gotlandic flounder - Researcher in charge: Anders Nissling
• Population structure of flounder (BONUS INSPIRE) - Researcher in charge: Anders Nissling
• Effects of eutrophication, ocean acidification and oxygen deficiency on sexual selection in pipefish – Researchers in charge: Josefin Sundin, Gunilla Rosenqvist and Anders Berglund
• Impact of harvesting algal maths on recruitment of flatfishes - Researcher in charge: Jesper Martinsson
• Development of a sustainable Gotland flatfish fishery – resource exploitation and management - Researcher in charge: Anders Nissling
• How environmental change can affect the reproduction of the sand goby (Pomastoschistus microps) - Researcher in charge: Isabel Mück, Universität Tübingen (Germany)
• Studies of cod behaviour when caught in cages - Researcher in charge: Sven-Gunnar Lunneryd, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• Egg production in turbot and flounder - Researcher in charge: Anders Nissling
• Biology of flatfish fry – with the focus on turbot - Researcher in charge: Jesper Martinsson
• Reproductive success in three species of the plaice family (Pleuronectidae) in the Baltic - Researchers in charge: Anders Nissling and Lars Westin
• Development of cod and sprat stocks in the Baltic – factors affecting the balance in Baltic fish populations - Researcher in charge: Anders Nissling
• Energy resources and reproduction in herring/Baltic herring in the Baltic - Researcher in charge: Anders Nissling
• Ecology of the sea trout in small watercourses - Researchers in charge: Peter Landergren
• Pike recruitment in coastal areas around Gotland - Researchers in charge: Peter Landergren
• Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) spawning in Gotland’s watercourses – a threat to natural sea trout stocks? - Researchers in charge: Peter Landergren
• The interaction of MHC – mediated mate choice and plastic immune challenge on mate choice behavior in Syngnathus typhle and Nerophis ophidion – Researchers in charge: Olivia Roth, Gunilla Rosenqvist and Anders Berglund
• Within-population selection component analysis to identify the signature of sexual selection in a population of straight-nosed pipefish, and among-population phenotypic and genome-wide variation to identify how much sexually selected genomic and phenotypic variation exists and how population structure affects the signature of selection – Researchers in charge: Sarah Flanagan, Gunilla Rosenqvist, Anders Berglund and Adam Jones