Department of Ecology
Urban Forests - Green & Blue Infrastructure for Urban Health and Well-Being
Green & Blue Infrastructure for Urban Health and Well-Being hanna.weiber.post@slu.se The spring semester's third and last webinar in the series on urban forests, arranged by SLU Urban Futures and
Urban Forests -A more diverse forestry
A more diverse forestry hanna.weiber.post@slu.se Helena Dehlin is a Nature Conservation Specialist and responsible for issues related to Green Infrastructure at the Swedish Forest Agency. Helena
Urban Forests - Johan Östberg
The tree population of Swedish cities – development and challenges during the past five years viktor.karlsson@slu.se The webinar series on urban forests, arranged by SLU Urban Futures and Future

UF seed funding - Urban Healthscapes
SLU Urban Futures' hub in Alnarp issues seed funding grants that support efforts to strengthen SLU’s interdisciplinary expertise on urban healthscapes. This call is open to all researchers at SLU,
Crop protection futures in agriculture-en
Crop protection futures in agriculture futurefood@slu.se Crop production is the vital basis for our food system, but the current set up is highly dependent on inputs of chemical pesticides and
Webinar: Visit another research institution for training purposes or soil sampling and analysis
markmiljo-webb@slu.se The EJP SOIL programme offers the opportunity to visit another research institution in Europe for the purpose of training or soil sampling and analysis. In this open webinar,

Political deafness may impede transition to biological control
The EU Commission has proposed a new Regulation on the sustainable use of plant protection products. One of its goals is that chemical control has largely been replaced with biological control not
Kraftsamling växthälsa
Plant Health Joint Action (Kraftsamling växthälsa) katja.fedrowitz@slu.se SLU together with the Swedish Board of Agriculture have developed a plan for a Plant Health Joint Action (Kraftsamling

Drylands Josefine Krueger
When doing my master’s degree in Global Studies at University of Gothenburg, I attended a course on adaptation to climate change organized by Per Knutsson who is one of the social scientists in the

The invasive Spanish slug is attacked by parasitic worms
For the first time, a survey of slug-parasitic worms was conducted in Sweden. Parasitizing worms could potentially reduce the size of slug populations that cause yield losses in agriculture, such as

Fröbanker i jorden skyddar inte floran från klimatförändringar
Plant species have evolved several clever ways to survive changes in their local environment. A new study from a European research team has shown that one common method – storing their seeds in the

SLU Centre for Biological Control's annual report 2022
“SLU has never had such a strong position in biological control as now”, says Johan Stenberg, the Director of the SLU Centre for Biological Control, CBC. Now, CBC’s annual popular science overview of