Willem Goedkoop

• Professor of Environmental Assessment – Aquatic Ecology (2007).
• Associate Professor in Ecology at SLU (2000).
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Limnology, Uppsala University (1995). Thesis: Microbial food resources for profundal zoobenthos in lakes.

Ongoing and recent projects

• DAMFUN: Impact of hydropower dams on the links between water courses and their riparian zones (2024–2026, 3 MSEK, funded by FORMAS, project lead Richard K. Johnson. 
• INFORM-Hg: Newly inundated forest landscapes as hotspots for mercury bioaccumulation and transfer across the aquatic- terrestrial food web. (2021–2023, 4 MSEK, funded by FORMAS, project lead Karin Eklöf)
• ARCWEB: Ecological change in Arctic/alpine lakes – Food web effects of ongoing climate-change induced oligotrophication. (2021–2023, 3 MSEK, funded by FORMAS, PI = Danny CP Lau).
• ARCTIC-BIODIVER: Scenarios of freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem services in a changing Arctic (2019–2022, 5 MSEK, funded by BioDiversa and FORMAS) 
• REFINE: ImpRoved assEssment oF climate impact and eutrophication in arctic/alpINE lakes (2020–2024, 5 MSEK, funded by Swedish EPA)
• FRESHBAR: Barcoding of freshwater taxa for improved assessment of biodiversity (5 MSEK, 2019–2023, funded by Swedish EPA, PI = Maria Kahlert)
• CENTURION – Cumulative Effects of climate chaNge and culTUral eutRophicatION on aquatic ecosystems during the Anthropocene: towards the development of a novel paleolimnogical assessment method. Swedish EPA Research Council (2020–2024, 5 MSEK, funded by Swedish EPA, PI = Simon Belle)

I have the following appointments:

• Coordinator for SLU's assessment program for Arctic/alpine landscapes (since 2017)
• Swedish representative and co-chair for the freshwater group of the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program of the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), the biodiversity working group of the Arctic Council (since 2010)

Selected technical publications and reports:

Lento, J, Goedkoop W, Culp J, Christoffersen KS, Lárusson KF, Fefilova E, Guðbergsson G, Liljaniemi P, Ólafsson JS, Sandøy S, Zimmerman C, Christensen T, Chambers P, Heino J, Hellsten S, Kahlert M, Keck F, Laske S, Chun Pong Lau D, Lavoie I, Levenstein B, Mariash H, Rühland K, Saulnier- Talbot E, Schartau AK, Svenning M. 2019. State of the Arctic Freshwater Biodiversity Report. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna International Secretariat, Akureyri, Iceland. ISBN 978-9935-431-77-6.

CAFF. 2019. State of the Arctic Freshwater Biodiversity Report: Key Findings and Advice for monitoring. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna International Secretariat, Akureyri, Iceland. ISBN 978-9935-431-78-3.

Goedkoop, W. & M. Kahlert. 2018. Investigations of pesticide effects on benthic assemblages in agricultural streams. SLU:s Competence Centre for Chemical Pesticides, Report 2018:2. (In Swedish).

Ongoing cooperations involve colleagues at the following universities and organisations: Oslo Univ., Copenhagen Univ., University of New Brunswick (Canada), University of Bielefeld (Germany), Wilfried Laurier Univ. (Canada), Umeå Univ., CAFF-secretariat (Akureyri, Iceland), Estonian Univ. Life Sciences, regional county boards in Sweden. 

I have supervised 7 postdocs, 5 PhD-students and 17 MSc-students as the main supervisor and been the assistant supervisor for another 5 PhD-students.

Chaguaceda F, Lau DCP, Goedkoop W, Fadlaoui M, Lavoie I, Vrede T. 2024. Zooplankton in northern lakes show taxon-specific responses in fatty acids across climate-productivity and ecosystem size gradients. Limnology and Oceanography 69: 947–960. 

Lau, DCP, Brua RB, Goedkoop W, Culp JM. 2023. Fatty-acid based assessment of benthic food-web responses to multiple stressors in a large river system. Environmental Pollution 337: 122598.

Lento J, Lau DCP, Brittain JE, Culp JM, Goedkoop W. 2023. Macroinvertebrate traits in Arctic streams reveal latitudinal patterns in physiology and habits that are strongly linked to climate. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11: 1209612.

Barry T, Behe C, Christensen T, Coon C, Culp JM, Fletcher S, Gill M, Goedkoop W, et al. 2023. Development of a multi-scale monitoring programme: Approaches for the Arctic and lessons learnt from the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Programme (CBMP) 2002-2022. Frontiers in Conservation Science 4: 1220521. 

McKie BG, Taylor A, Nilsson T, Frainer A, Goedkoop W. 2023. Ecological effects of mosquito biocontrol with Bti: Evidence for shifts in the trophic structure of soil- and ground-based food webs. Aquatic Sciences 85: 47. 

Goedkoop W, Culp JM, Christensen T, Christoffersen KS, Fefilova E, Gudbergsson G, Lárusson KF, Liljaniemi P, Novichkova AA, Òlafsson JS, Sandøy S, Lento J. 2022. Improving the framework for assessment of ecological change in the Arctic – A circumpolar synthesis of freshwater biodiversity. Freshwat. Biol. 67: 210–223.

Lau DCP, Christoffersen KS, Erkinaro J, Hayden B, Heino J, Hellsten S, Holmgren K, Kahilainen KK, Kahlert M, Karjalainen SM, Karlsson J, Forsström L, Lento J, Mjelde M, Ruuhijärvi J, Sandøy S, Schartau A-K, Svenning M-A, Vrede T, Goedkoop W. 2022. Multitrophic biodiversity patterns and environmental descriptors of Arctic and sub-Arctic lakes in northern Europe. Freshwat. Biol. 67: 30–48. 

Culp JM, Goedkoop W, Christensen T, Christoffersen KS, Fefilova E, Liljaniemi P, Novichkova AA, Olafsson J, Sandøy S, Zimmerman CE, Lento J. 2022. Establishing biodiversity baselines and trends and evaluating drivers of ecological change in circum-Arctic rivers and lakes. Freshwat. Biol. 67: 1–13.

Goedkoop W, Choudhury MI, Lau DCP, Grandin U. 2021. Inverting nutrient fluxes across the land-water interface – Exploring the potential of zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) farming. J. Environ. Management 281: 111889

Heino J, Culp JM, Erkinaro J, Goedkoop W, Lento J, Rühland KM, Smol JP. 2020. Abruptly and irreversibly changing Arctic freshwaters urgently require standardized monitoring. J Applied Ecol. 57: 1192–1198.

Bighiu, MA, Gottschalk S, Arrhenius Å, Goedkoop W. 2020. Pesticide mixtures cause short-term, reversible effects on the function of autotrophic periphyton assemblages. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 139: 1367–1374.

Bighiu, MA, Höss, S, Traunspurger W, Kahlert M, Goedkoop W. 2020. Limited effects of pesticides on stream macroinvertebrates, biofilm nematodes, and algae in intensive agricultural landscapes. Water Research 174: 115640.

Belle, S, Nilsson LJ, Tönno I, Freiberg R, Vrede T, Goedkoop W. 2019. 
Climate-induced changes in carbon flows across the plant-consumer interface in a small subarctic lake. Scientific Reports 9: 17087.

Lau DCP, Vrede T, Goedkoop W.  2017. Lake responses to long-term disturbances and management practices. Freshw. Biol. 62:792–806.

Johansson KSL, Trigal C, Vrede T, van Rijswijk P, Goedkoop W, Johnson RK. 2016. Algal blooms induce shifts in basal food resources for consumers in boreal lakes – Evidence from fatty acid biomarkers. Limnol. Oceanogr. 61: 1563–1573.

Lau, DCP, Sundh I, Vrede T, Pickova J, Goedkoop W. 
2014. Autochthonous resources are the main driver of consumer production in dystrophic boreal lakes. Ecology 95: 1506–1519.

• SLU:s Arctic/alpine Landscapes Assessment Program
• Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna