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SLU Swedish Biodiversity Centre, CBM

SLU Swedish Biodiversity Centre provides new perspectives on the importance of biodiversity for people and communities.

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News from CBM

02 March 2021 New director at SLU Swedish Biodiversity Centre (CBM) From the first of March, Torbjörn Ebenhard is the new director of the SLU Swedish Biodiversity Centre, CBM.
31 March 2020 Can natural enemies provide biological control of aphids in a changing climate? Asmita Baral has just started doing her master thesis work at SLU. She wants to find out if a diversity of natural enemies can provide stable biological control of aphids when the climate changes. We took the opportunity to ask her some questions!
22 October 2020 Sense and non-sense in evaluating agri-environmental schemes What is known about the effects of agri-environmental schemes on farmland biodiversity? Quite a lot, but at the same time not as much as we would like, concludes a new study from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU, Sweden. There is a general lack of robust, well-designed studies and a discussion about method problems and alternative explanations are often missing. In addition, results are regularly exaggerated through incorrect use of causal language, as researchers express causal relationships when the study design does not support it.

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New publications

Read the latest reports and articles published by researchers at SLU Swedish Biodiversity Cente. Latest publication: "Wild boar behaviour during live-trap capture in a corral-style trap: implications for animal welfare", (Åsa Fahlman et al, in Acta Vet Scand).

Published: 11 March 2021 - Page editor: cbm-webmaster@slu.se

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