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Swedish wildlife research - high quality scientific results highly relevant to society

Published: 01 April 2019
A lynx cat looking at you from a box.

Positive reviews for the Wildlife Research at SLU in an evaluation requested by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. The Evaluation Panel concludes that the wildlife research has been highly influential in developing a management system of Swedish wildlife based on scientific knowledge.

The evaluation includes wildlife research funded by the Wildlife Management Fund (through SEPA) 2003-2014. Many projects belongs to Grimsö Wildlife Research Station at the Department of Ecology and the Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies.

Some areas of this field of research in Sweden have  produced results with implications not only for wildlife biology, but also more broadly for population ecology as a whole. The Evaluation Panel also appreciates that Swedish wildlife researchers are developing novel research approaches that merge scientists from social and economic research disciplines with wildlife biologists into interdisciplinary research projects.

Recommendations:

  • Establish a new integrated research programme. Follow-up the success of the programme “Adaptive Management of Wildlife and Fish”.
  • Establish a monitoring programme of selected wildlife species in Sweden.
  • Facilitate recruitment of early-career scientists into wildlife research.
  • Enhance EU-funding of Swedish wildlife research.
  • Extend the use of modelling in Swedish wildlife research.

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