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Continued funding for the Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science (SITES) External web Department of Biosystems and Technology Department of Ecology Department of Agricultural Research for Northern Sweden Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment On start page external web Sites The Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science (SITES) has been awarded continued funding for 2023–2027 from the Swedish Research Council (VR). SITES is a national infrastructure for ecosystem research that facilitates long-term field-based ecosystem research. Five of the SITES stations are operated by SLU and SLU is also the coordinator of SITES. 14 October 2021
Share your research at the Science Festival SciFest in March! External web Department of Ecology Department of Crop Production Ecology On start page staff web At SciFest, you have the chance to present your research to school students and the general public. You can count on many questions and exciting discussions. All you need is an interesting and fun activity - and judging from earlier years researchers in Uppsala are creative! You will get help from the SciFest team develop you activity. 11 October 2021
Seminar on pastoralist land rights External web Department of Ecology Department of Animal Environment and Health Department of Animal Nutrition and Management Institutionen för landskapsarkitektur, planering och förvaltning Department of Soil and Environment Department of Forest Ecology and Management Department of Forest Resource Management Department of Forest Economics Department of Urban and Rural Development Department of Crop Production Ecology School for Forest Management SLU Global Per Knutsson, one of the Dryland Transform researchers will on the 6th of October have a webinar on the topic "Commoning or Commodification? Pastoralist Land Rights in the Face of Political, Economic and Institutional Change in Northern Kenya". 24 September 2021
Livestock cafés as pathways to transformative change External web Staff web Animal and dairy science Rural development Soil science Department of Ecology Department of Animal Environment and Health Department of Animal Nutrition and Management Department of Soil and Environment Department of Forest Ecology and Management Department of Forest Resource Management Department of Forest Economics Department of Urban and Rural Development Department of Crop Production Ecology School for Forest Management SLU Global Environmental sciences The concept of a livestock café is an excellent and novel way of engaging with farmers and local communities through a participatory approach of having field experiments. 23 September 2021
Grace contributes to food security with push-pull technologies External web Ecology Entomology Agricultural science Centre for biological control (CBC) Department of Ecology SLU Global SLU Nätverk växtskydd Grace Mercy want to contribute to food security, sustainable agriculture and new biocontrol solutions with her new PhD project on push-pull technology. This is a cropping system that that reduces pest pressure by providing repellent stimuli (push), combined with attractive stimuli (pull). We took the chance to ask her some questions! 09 September 2021
Old floras reveal shifts in the flowering season in response to a warming climate External web Swedish biodiversity centre (CBM) Department of Ecology On start page external web Press releases SLU researcher Alistair Auffret discovered a new way to track plant responses to climate change. Delving into floras and wildflower guides from the late 1700 until 2018, he could show how species are now starting to flower earlier and continuing to flower later into the summer and early autumn. On average, the floras showed that the flowering season has increased with almost 4 weeks over a 220-year period. Alistair Auffret believes that historical sources such as this can be an important way... 31 August 2021
These insects are not so picky with their food – and therefore they can help us to protect out plants External web Department of Ecology On start page external web Research news SLU Global Some insects eat both plants and other insects (omnivores). In the future they may play an important role in plant protection by eating insect pests in our crops. The problem is that they also feed on the crop itself. But maybe the pros can outweigh the cons? Omnivores that feed on the plants can trigger the plant's defenses and attract more natural enemies. No study has so far weighed together all these effects, but now SLU is is exploring this field in experiments with rapeseed and willow. 14 July 2021
Field work is on, after Covid-19 lockdown External web Staff web Department of Ecology Department of Animal Nutrition and Management Department of Soil and Environment Department of Forest Ecology and Management Department of Forest Economics Department of Urban and Rural Development Department of Crop Production Ecology International Environmental monitoring and assessment SLU Global Agenda 2030 Healthy, functioning ecosystems are a prerequisite for human health and well-being. In the drylands of East Africa, pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities are highly reliant on ecosystem services for their livelihoods. In Drylands Transform (an SLU led project), we investigate the interlinkages between land health, livestock-based livelihoods, human well-being and land governance mechanisms to contribute to transformative change and sustainable development of the socio-ecological system... 29 June 2021
Bats don´t thrive close to the road External web Department of Ecology Research news Many animals avoid the area closest to the road due to noise, vibration, light and pollution. It is called the road effect zone. Manisha Bhardwaj, researcher at SLU, and her colleagues have calculated the road effect zone for bats. The study was conducted in Australia, but the phenomenon is relevant for road planning and efforts to preserve biological diversity also in other places. 17 June 2021
A sustainable future in low-income countries in the spotlight External web Department of Ecology Department of Urban and Rural Development Department of Crop Production Ecology International SLU Global Agenda 2030 To meet the great challenges of our time, a change in society is required. DevRes2021 is a creative meeting place for actors working for a sustainable future in low-income countries. SLU is one of the organisers of this year’s conference and our researchers contribute to several sessions of the conference, as chairs or as speakers. 11 June 2021

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