Ecology

Klimatförändringens effekter på Mälaren

vattenmiljo-webb@slu.se Syftet med dagen är att visa på de utmaningar som klimatförändringen för med sig för ekosystemet och dricksvattenförsörjningen. Vi har gemensam lunch och fika då tid finns

More mixed forests needed to support key insects

Varied forests with a large amount of deadwood are essential for preserving the different beetle species that depend on decaying wood. This is shown by a study from the Swedish University of

Jasper Croll

jasper.croll@slu.se How do changes in fisheries and temperature affect the number and size of fish in a population? I use dynamics models to explore the effect of anthropogenic and environmental

Diss Sandra Makaita Madamombe

Climate-smart agriculture options on coarse-textured soils for improved food security in semi-arid areas charlotta.eriksson@slu.se Sandra Makaita Madamombe defends her thesis "Climate-smart

Selecting the right tree species a possible key to sustainable forestry in the tropics

Rainforests on Borneo have experienced large scale losses because of both unsustainable forestry and the expansion of oil palm plantations. Meanwhile the resources from the tropical forests are

Adriaan De Jong

Adriaan "Adjan" de Jong adriaan.de.Jong@slu.se My research focuses on migratory birds of boreal landscapes. Focal species are Bean Goose Anser fabalis, Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata and Rustic

Pallavi Ghaskadbi

pallavi.ghaskadbi@slu.se Pallavi is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies at SLU, Umeå with a PhD in Wildlife Science. As an ecologist, her primary

Ciarán Ó Cuív

ciaran.o.cuiv@slu.se Doctoral student at the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies. I am studying the relationship between forage availability and moose forage utilisation in the

Björn Rogell

bjorn.rogell@slu.se I am a docent at SLU who works with analysis of the abundance of fish and crayfish populations, as well as with reasearch focusing of plasticity and locak adaptations. I have

Lennart Edsman

lennart.edsman@slu.se Lennart Edsman is now an external resource at the department but has worked with all aspects of freshwater crayfish including ecology, ethology, zoology, genetics, physiology,

Erica Packard

erica.packard@slu.se I am interested in studying the ecology of soil fungi, particularly mycorrhizal fungi, and their role in soil organic matter decomposition. Carbon and Nitrogen cycling

Lars Sonesten

lars.sonesten@slu.se I am a limnologist and ecotoxicologist working mainly with water chemistry and biology in inland waters. I am also working with the inputs of nutrients and hazardous substances