RESEARCH PROJECT
Landscape Ecology, subject area within SLU Agricultural Long-Term Experiments
Updated: October 2025
Project overview
Project manager:
Maria Viketoft
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Short summary
In the 1980s and 1990s, experiments with extended buffer zones along field edges were set up. Vegetation were established by undersowing arable crops and wild meadow plants and by planting bushes. Three experiments are still in operation, in Kasby, east of Uppsala, and on Ekenäs Farm, near Flen.
The aim with the buffer zones was to monitor the development of the vegetation, particularly regarding the incidence of weeds and the survival of the meadow plants, and to investigate the effects on insects and other invertebrates in the soil and vegetation. All experimental plots are managed by annual cutting in late summer with removal of the cut plant material.
