Richard Svanbäck
Head of department at Biology Education Centre
- E-mail:
- richard.svanback@ebc.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- EBC, Norbyvägen 14 / BMC A8:1
- Postal address:
- Norbyvägen 14, 752 36 UPPSALA/Box 592
751 24 UPPSALA
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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Ecology and Genetics; Animal Ecology
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 29 38
- E-mail:
- Richard.Svanback@ebc.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Evolutionsbiologiskt centrum (EBC)
Norbyvägen 18 D - Postal address:
- Norbyvägen 18 D
752 36 UPPSALA
Short presentation
My research interest revolves around evolution and ecology of morphological variation. Specifically, I am interested in mechanisms of foraging efficiency; habitat choice; individual diet specialization; phenotypic plasticity; population and evolutionary dynamics as well as factors influencing gut microbiota.

Publications
Recent publications
Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
- DOI for Mitochondrial genomes of the European sardine (Sardina pilchardus) reveal Pliocene diversification, extensive gene flow and pervasive purifying selection
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Part of Austral ecology (Print), 2024
Part of Austral ecology (Print), 2024
Multi stress system: Microplastics in freshwater and their effects on host microbiota
Part of Science of the Total Environment, 2023
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Anthropogenic Change and the Process of Speciation
Part of Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 2023
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Articles in journal
Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
- DOI for Mitochondrial genomes of the European sardine (Sardina pilchardus) reveal Pliocene diversification, extensive gene flow and pervasive purifying selection
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Part of Austral ecology (Print), 2024
Part of Austral ecology (Print), 2024
Multi stress system: Microplastics in freshwater and their effects on host microbiota
Part of Science of the Total Environment, 2023
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Anthropogenic Change and the Process of Speciation
Part of Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 2023
Microplastic exposure across trophic levels: effects on the host microbiota of freshwater organisms
Part of Environmental Microbiome, 2022
- DOI for Microplastic exposure across trophic levels: effects on the host microbiota of freshwater organisms
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Part of Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
- DOI for The stressful effects of microplastics associated with chromium (VI) on the microbiota of Daphnia Magna
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Part of Ecology of Freshwater Fish, p. 17-28, 2022
- DOI for Zooplanktivore fish body growth responses to browning-induced light limitation vary over ontogeny, but not with fish density
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Part of Environmental Pollution, 2021
Sex-specific plasticity in a trophic polymorphic aquatic predator: a modeling approach
Part of Oecologia, p. 341-354, 2021
Can information from citizen science data be used to predict biodiversity in stormwater ponds?
Part of Scientific Reports, 2020
- DOI for Can information from citizen science data be used to predict biodiversity in stormwater ponds?
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Part of Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, p. 1-15, 2020
- DOI for Different Roles of Environmental Selection, Dispersal, and Drift in the Assembly of Intestinal Microbial Communities of Freshwater Fish With and Without a Stomach
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Part of Freshwater Biology, p. 947-959, 2020
- DOI for Does browning-induced light limitation reduce fish body growth through shifts in prey composition or reduced foraging rates?
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Biodiversity loss through speciation collapse: Mechanisms, warning signals, and possible rescue
Part of Evolution, p. 1504-1516, 2019
Asymmetrical habitat coupling of an aquatic predator: The importance of individual specialization
Part of Ecology and Evolution, p. 3405-3415, 2019
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Part of Ecological Indicators, 2019
Habitat coupling mediates trophic cascades in an aquatic community
Part of Ecosphere, 2019
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Part of Biological Reviews, p. 1786-1808, 2019
- DOI for A way forward with eco evo devo: an extended theory of resource polymorphism with postglacial fishes as model systems
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Predation selects for smaller eye size in a vertebrate: effects of environmental conditions and sex
Part of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2019
Warmer and browner waters decrease fish biomass production
Part of Global Change Biology, p. 1395-1408, 2019
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Effects of predation stress and food ration on perch gut microbiota
Part of Microbiome, 2018
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Part of Oikos, p. 160-169, 2018
Synergistic selection between ecological niche and mate preference primes diversification
Part of Evolution, p. 6-22, 2017
The interaction between predation risk and food ration on behavior and morphology of Eurasian perch
Part of Ecology and Evolution, p. 8567-8577, 2017
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Dissolved Organic Carbon Reduces Habitat Coupling by Top Predators in Lake Ecosystems
Part of Ecosystems (New York. Print), p. 955-967, 2016
Part of American Naturalist, p. 272-283, 2015
Part of Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, p. 929-940, 2015
Part of Oecologia, p. 103-114, 2015
- DOI for Individuals in food webs: the relationships between trophic position, omnivory and among-individual diet variation
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Mechanisms by Which Phenotypic Plasticity Affects Adaptive Divergence and Ecological Speciation
Part of American Naturalist, 2015
Assortative mating can limit the evolution of phenotypic plasticity
Part of Evolutionary Ecology, p. 1057-1074, 2014
Individual diet has sex-dependent effects on vertebrate gut microbiota
Part of Nature Communications, p. 4500, 2014
Plastic Responses of a Sessile Prey to Multiple Predators: A Field and Experimental Study
Part of PLOS ONE, 2014
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Part of Ecology Letters, p. 979-987, 2014
Part of Oecologia, p. 245-256, 2013
Water transparency drives intra-population divergence in Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis)
Part of PLOS ONE, 2012
Intraguild predation drives evolutionary niche shift in threespine stickleback
Part of Evolution, p. 1819-1832, 2012
Niche Specialization Influences Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity in the Threespine Stickleback
Part of American Naturalist, p. 50-59, 2012
Part of Oikos, p. 848-854, 2011
Ecological stoichiometry of Eurasian perch - intraspecific variation due to size, habitat and diet
Part of Oikos, p. 886-896, 2011
The Effect of Travel Loss on Evolutionarily Stable Distributions of Populations in Space
Part of American Naturalist, p. 15-29, 2011
Catch me if you can: Predation affetcs divergence in a polyphenic species
Part of Evolution, p. 3515-3526, 2011
Population density fluctuations change the selection gradient in Eurasian perch
Part of American Naturalist, p. 507-516, 2009
Intrapopulation niche partitioning in a generalist predator limits food web connectivity
Part of Ecology, p. 2263-2274, 2009
Fluctuating population dynamics promotes the evolution of phenotypic plasticity
Part of American Naturalist, p. 176-189, 2009
Part of Ecology, p. 1981-1993, 2008
Intra-specific competition drives multiple species trophic polymorphism in fish communities
Part of Oikos, p. 114-124, 2008
Part of Oecologia, p. 48-56, 2007
Gut length plasticity in perch: Into the bowels of resource polymorphisms
Part of Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, p. 517-523, 2007
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 10075-10079, 2007
- DOI for Comparative support for the niche variation hypothesis that more generalized populations also are more heterogeneous
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Intraspecific competition drives increased resource use diversity within a natural population
Part of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, p. 839-844, 2007
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Genetic variation and phenotypic plasticity: causes of morphological variation in Eurasian perch
Part of Evolutionary Ecology Research, p. 37-49, 2006
Predation risk influences adaptive morphological variation in fish populations
Part of American Naturalist, p. 440-452, 2006
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Growth rate constrain morphological divergence when driven by competition
Part of Oikos, p. 15-22, 2006
Part of Journal of Animal Ecology, p. 973-982, 2004
- DOI for Individual diet specialization, niche width and population dynamics: implications for trophic polymorphisms
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Morphology in perch affects habitat specific feeding efficiency
Part of Functional Ecology, p. 503-510, 2004
Cannibalism in a size-structured population: energy extraction and control
Part of Ecological Monographs, p. 135-157, 2004
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Morphology dependent foraging efficiency in perch: a trade-off for ecological specialization?
Part of Oikos, p. 273-284, 2003
Effects of habitat and food resources on morphology and ontogenetic growth trajectories in perch.
Part of Oecologia 131: 61-70., p. 61-70, 2002
Articles, review/survey
Microbiomes as Metacommunities: Understanding Host-Associated Microbes through Metacommunity Ecology
Part of Trends in Ecology & Evolution, p. 926-935, 2018
Chapters in book
Part of Encyclopedia of Ecology, p. 1636-1642, 2008