Silke Langenheder
Professor at Department of Ecology and Genetics; Limnology
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 27 10
- Mobile phone:
- +46 73 820 18 54
- E-mail:
- silke.langenheder@ebc.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Evolutionsbiologiskt centrum (EBC)
Norbyvägen 18 D
752 36 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Norbyvägen 18 D
752 36 Uppsala
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Professor at Department of Ecology and Genetics; Erken Laboratory
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Short presentation
I am a professor in Limnology at Uppsala University and work on a range of projects in the field of community and ecosystem ecology. I am the Director of the Erken Laboratory, Uppsala University’s limnological field station and the Coordinator of the SITES AquaNet mesoocosm infrastructure.
Keywords
- aquatic ecosystem ecology
- community ecology
- microbial ecology
Research
The overall aim with my research is to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms that regulate diversity and functioning of microbial communities in freshwater systems, in particular in response to environmental change and disturbances.
My group addresses the following fundamental ecological questions:
(1) What determines the relationship between diversity and ecosystem functioning?
(2) What are the mechanisms regulating diversity across space and time?
(3) How do environmental change and disturbances influence biodiversity and ecosystem functioning?
To address the above questions we use primarily experimental studies using both lab-scale microcosms as well as field-based mesocosms.
Current projects focus on how the relative importance of different assembly mechanisms that structure bacterial metacommunities (selection, drift, and dispersal) is influenced by different global environmental change drivers.
I also work with coordinated mesocosm experiments using the SITES AquaNet infrastructure. Current experiments focus on effects of different run-off and salinity disturbance regimes on the functioning and composition of plankton communities. These are large, collaborative team-science projects which are open to transnational access through the EU project AQUACOSM-plus.
Publications
Recent publications
- Disinfection by-product formation potential in response to variability in dissolved organic matter and nutrient inputs (2024)
- Widespread variation in salt tolerance within freshwater zooplankton species reduces the predictability of community-level salt tolerance (2023)
- Environmental variability in aquatic ecosystems (2023)
- Lake salinization drives consistent losses of zooplankton abundance and diversity across coordinated mesocosm experiments (2023)
- Carbon dioxide reduction by photosynthesis undetectable even during phytoplankton blooms in two lakes (2023)
All publications
Articles
- Disinfection by-product formation potential in response to variability in dissolved organic matter and nutrient inputs (2024)
- Widespread variation in salt tolerance within freshwater zooplankton species reduces the predictability of community-level salt tolerance (2023)
- Environmental variability in aquatic ecosystems (2023)
- Lake salinization drives consistent losses of zooplankton abundance and diversity across coordinated mesocosm experiments (2023)
- Carbon dioxide reduction by photosynthesis undetectable even during phytoplankton blooms in two lakes (2023)
- Infection strategies of different chytrids in a diatom spring bloom (2023)
- Effects of ecosystem size-induced environmental fluctuations on the temporal dynamics of community assembly mechanisms (2022)
- Freshwater salinisation (2022)
- Accounting for temporal change in multiple biodiversity patterns improves the inference of metacommunity processes (2022)
- Current water quality guidelines across North America and Europe do not protect lakes from salinization (2022)
- Integrating multiple dimensions of ecological stability into a vulnerability framework (2022)
- Microbial Community Resilience across Ecosystems and Multiple Disturbances (2021)
- Functionally reversible impacts of disturbances on lake food webs linked to spatial and seasonal dependencies (2021)
- SITES AquaNet (2021)
- Warming mediates the resistance of aquatic bacteria to invasion during community coalescence (2021)
- Association between Aquatic Micropollutant Dissipation and River Sediment Bacterial Communities (2020)
- River biofilms adapted to anthropogenic disturbances are more resistant to WWTP inputs (2020)
- Streamlined and Abundant Bacterioplankton Thrive in Functional Cohorts (2020)
- Disturbance history can increase functional stability in the face of both repeated disturbances of the same type and novel disturbances (2020)
- Using null models to compare bacterial and microeukaryotic metacommunity assembly under shifting environmental conditions (2020)
- Factors influencing aquatic and terrestrial bacterial community assembly (2019)
- Thickness determines microbial community structure and function in nitrifying biofilms via deterministic assembly (2019)
- Decomposing multiple dimensions of stability in global change experiments (2018)
- Increased water colour affects freshwater plankton communities in a mesocosm study (2018)
- High abundances of the nuisance raphidophyte Gonyostomum semen in brown water lakes are associated with high concentrations of iron (2018)
- Dispersal Modifies the Diversity and Composition of Active Bacterial Communities in Response to a Salinity Disturbance (2018)
- Repeated disturbances affect functional but not compositional resistance and resilience in an aquatic bacterioplankton community (2018)
- Dispersal timing determines the importance of priority effects in bacterial communities (2018)
- Functional and Compositional Stability of Bacterial Metacommunities in Response to Salinity Changes (2017)
- Contribution of different dispersal sources to the metabolic response of lake bacterioplankton following a salinity change (2017)
- Bacterial metacommunity organization in a highly connected aquatic system (2017)
- Dispersal timing and drought history influence the response of bacterioplankton to drying–rewetting stress (2017)
- The legacy of the past (2017)
- Remnants of marine bacterial communities can be retrieved from deep sediments in lakes of marine origin (2016)
- Effects of multiple dimensions of bacterial diversity on functioning, stability and multifunctionality (2016)
- Effects of Dispersal and Initial Diversity on the Composition and Functional Performance of Bacterial Communities (2016)
- Combined effects of zooplankton grazing and dispersal on the diversity and assembly mechanisms of bacterial metacommunities (2015)
- The spatial structure of bacterial communities is influenced by historical environmental conditions (2014)
- Can marine bacteria be recruited from freshwater sources and the air? (2014)
- The importance of species sorting in bacterial communities differs between habitat generalists and specialists (2014)
- Biogeography of bacterial communities exposed to progressive long-term environmental change (2013)
- Mechanisms determining the fate of dispersed bacterial communities in new environments (2013)
- Weak seasonality and synchrony among bacterial communities in small pools (2013)
- Weak seasonality and synchrony among bacterial communities in small pools (2013)
- Effects of Disturbance Intensity and Frequency on Bacterial Community Composition and Function (2012)
- Unraveling assembly of stream biofilm communities (2012)
- Temporal variation of beta-diversity and assembly mechanisms in a bacterial metacommunity (2012)
- Role of functionally dominant species in varying environmental regimes (2012)
- Local and regional factors influencing bacterial community assembly (2012)
- Freshwater bacterioplankton richness in oligotrophic lakes depends on nutrient availability rather than on species-area relationships (2012)
- Fundamentals of microbial community resistance and resilience (2012)
- Importance of space and the local environment for linking local and regional abundances of microbes (2012)
- Species sorting and neutral processes are both important during the initial assembly of bacterial communities (2011)
- Function-specific response to depletion of microbial diversity (2011)
- Ubiquity of Polynucleobacter necessarius ssp asymbioticus in lentic freshwater habitats of a heterogenous 2000 km2 area (2010)
- Bacterial biodiversity-ecosystem function relations are modified by environmental complexity (2010)
- Regional invariance among microbial communities (2010)
- Environmental and spatial characterisation of microbial community composition to inform sampling strategies (2009)
- Resource availability influences the diversity of a functional group of heterotrophic soil bacteria. (2008)
- The role of environmental and spatial factors for the composition of aquatic bacterial communities (2007)
- Does ecosystem size determine aquatic bacterial richness? Comment (2007)
- Influence of dissolved organic matter source on lake bacterioplankton community structure and function (2006)
- Structure and function of bacterial communities emerging from different sources under identical conditions. (2006)
- Changes in bacterial community composition along a solar radiation gradient in humic waters (2006)
- Weak coupling between community composition and functioning of aquatic bacteria (2005)
- Growth dynamics within bacterial communities in riverine and estuarine batch cultures (2004)
- Growth dynamics within bacterial communities in riverine and estuarine batch cultures (2004)
- Heterotrophic bacterial growth efficiency and community structure at different natural organic carbon concentrations (2003)
- Heterotrophic bacterial growth efficiency and community structure at different natural organic carbon concentrations. (2003)
- Salinity as a structuring factor for the composition and performance of bacterioplankton degrading riverine DOC (2003)
- Salinity as a structuring factor for the composition and performance of bacterioplankton degrading riverine DOC (2003)
- Regulation of bacterial biomass and community structure by metazoan and protozoan predation (2001)
- Do environmental conditions determine bacterial community composition and functioning? A test of the ubiquity of aquatic bacteria
- Pulse and press disturbances induce profound functional and compositional changes in plankton food webs across lakes and seasons
- Using null models to compare bacterial and microeukaryotic metacommunity assembly under shifting environmental conditions