Research

More information on the Swedish website.

More information on the Swedish website.

SLU is now announcing eight new PhD positions as part of a collaboration with the forest sector. The positions are part of the research programme Wallenberg Initiatives in Forest Research (WIFORCE), aimed at meeting future knowledge needs for the sustainable management and conservation of forests.

Are there still wild honeybee colonies in Sweden and Europe? If so, how do they survive the dreaded Varroa mite? These are some of the questions that researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) would like to answer, with the help of citizen scientists and beekeepers.

For many years, the tiny Icelandic horse, rarely bigger than a pony, has been considered fully capable of carrying adult humans. But are they really? And what determines how much a horse can carry? This is now investigated by PhD student Denise Söderroos in a project about weight-bearing capacity

In spite of elks, spruce beetles and pathogenic fungi, wind is probably the largest cause of economic loss for European forestry. A number of reports in recent years investigates how the risk of wind damage can be expected to develop during the rest of the century,

Cronartium pini is a very serious fungal disease that attacks pine trees throughout Sweden, with particularly extensive outbreaks in the north. It causes millions of Swedish kronor worth of damage to forestry each year.

When the fire risk in Sweden is high, and there is an extremely high risk of forest fires in many parts of the country, it is important to be careful and follow any fire bans. Here are some tips for homeowners and landowners on how to prevent a fire from starting and spreading.