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Professor
Integrated plant protection
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+46 40 41 53 20
Fax +46 40 46 19 91
birgitta.ramert@slu.se
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Postal address
Dept. of Plant Protection Biology
Box 102
SE-230 53 Alnarp
Sweden
Visiting address Delivery address
Sundsvägen 14 Växtskyddsvägen 3
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Education
Master degree in Horticulture, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) 1974
Graduate degree
Doctor’s degree in entomology, SLU, Uppsala. “Intercropping as a pest management strategy against carrot fly
(Psila rosae)”. 1995
Docent (Associate Professor), SLU, Uppsala. 2001
Professor, SLU, Alnarp. 2010
Research projects
Special areas of interest
More than thirty years of research experience regarding management and relationships between crop systems and pest problems in conventional and organic agricultural systems. My special interest is the development and performance of biological control strategies and their interaction.
Development of pest management strategies in organic apple production in collaboration with farmers utilizing complementary biological control strategies
Participatory development of integrated management strategies for pest insects in cucumber
Web-based forecasting of tortricids - a pilot study on integrated pest management
According to EU directives on integrated pest management growers must base plant protection measurements on scientifically well-founded monitoring and forecasting systems. The project aim is to develop a web based forecasting system for apple growers against several species of tortricid moths. The project is a collaboration with growers, a grower organization and the Swedish Board of Agriculture.
Coordinated actions against pea bruchid through a nexus of research and application of plant resistance and IPM strategies in partnership with farmers
Trap crops and physical separation of carrot fields as environmental sound control strategies for the carrot psyllid
Utilization of synergies between conservation and inoculation biological control
We are investigating the impact of complementary biological control strategies on pest control of Delia spp. and interactions between the control agents. The study combines inoculation biological control, using entomopathogenic fungi, with conservation biological.
Teaching
Agroecology Basics, 15 hp
Mangement of pest, diseases and weeds