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Incorporating both ecosystem services and disservices into land-use decisions is essential for meeting conservation and livelihood goals. We discuss the merits and challenges of this concept, termed net effects, for birds in agroecosystems. Although birds have widely documented impacts on agriculture (e.g., pest control, crop damage), the net effects of such activities are rarely quantified. This
Through geological time, cyanobacterial picoplankton have impacted the global carbon cycle by sequestrating CO 2 and forming authigenic carbonate minerals. Various studies have emphasized the cyanobacterial cell envelopes as nu
Background: Spousal violence is the most common domestic violence against women and a growing public health problem globally. As a behaviour, marital control is commonly accepted as a precursor to spousal violence. Objective: This study examines the prevalence of different types of spousal violence among women in Myanmar and their association with sociodemographic factors and husbands’ controlling
Microsoft Word - MAN AND BIOSPHERE PREK×RA SITUATIONER trycksak MAN AND BIOSPHERE PREKÄRA SITUATIONER Kristianstad 18 maj: Konsert + Filmvisning 17 juni + 12 augusti: 2 vandringar i Vattenriket 19 september: Föreläsning Vad händer när våren tystnar, vattnet stiger och jorden sjunker? Man and biosphere – prekära situationer, är ett platsspecifikt tvärvetenskapligt samarbete mellan konst och forskn
https://www.khm.lu.se/sites/khm.lu.se/files/prekara_situationer_program_2018.pdf - 2026-07-20
Optimering Optimering av dosplanering Crister Ceberg Optimering av dosplanering • Introduktion • Dosplanering • Matematisk formulering – Optimeringsvariabeln – Målfunktionen – Begränsningar • Lösningsmetoder • Realisering • Optimering av multipla kriterier Introduktion • Historia I – Lat. optimum = ”det ultimata idealet” – Studerats sedan antiken (av bla Arkimedes, Euklides, Heron) – Ett klassiskt
https://www.msf.lu.se/sites/msf.lu.se/files/12._optimering.pdf - 2026-07-20
The majority of nitrogen in forest soils is found in organic matter-protein complexes. Ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) are thought to have a key role in decomposing and mobilizing nitrogen from such complexes. However, little is known about the mechanisms governing these processes, how they are regulated by the carbon in the host plant and the availability of more easily available forms of nitrogen so
The amounts of carbon allocated to the fungal partner in ectomycorrhizal associations can vary substantially depending on the plant growth and the soil nutrient conditions, and the fungus may frequently be confronted with limitations in carbon. We used chemical analysis and transcriptome profiling to examine the physiological response of the ectomycorrhizal fungus Paxillus involutus to carbon star
Soil salinization is a growing threat to global agriculture and carbon (C) sequestration, but to date it remains unclear how microbial processes will respond. We studied the acute response to salt exposure of a range of anabolic and catabolic microbial processes, including bacterial (leucine incorporation) and fungal (acetate incorporation into ergosterol) growth rates, respiration and gross N min
Interactions between metals and natural organic matter (NOM) are of great environmental importance and one of the key factors influencing hydrolysis, solubility, and speciation of the metals. However, studying geochemically relevant metals like Al, Fe, and Cu is sometimes associated with analytical problems; for example Fe and Cu are both redox active. Gallium (Ga) is a non-redox active metal that
In saline soils, the severity of drought for the soil microbial community is exacerbated by accumulating concentrations of salts during drying. In this study we investigated how bacterial growth and respiration responses to drying-rewetting were affected by salinity. To do this, we adjusted a non-saline soil to four different salinities (0, 2, 7 and 22 mg NaCl g−1), followed by addition of plant m
Understanding the effects of different agricultural practices on the mycorrhizal symbiosis is important for agricultural production and the sustainable use of soil. We investigated the composition and diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in soils from fields under different agricultural practices (conventional and organic cereal fields, leys and permanent pastures) in southern Sweden. T
Predatory arthropods contribute to biological control, but to become an integral part of agricultural management, it is essential to identify drivers of their spatio-temporal distribution at the landscape scale. This study focuses on how agricultural land use affects the community composition, emergence and dispersal tendency of predatory arthropods. The arthropods were collected in emergence trap
Air-starved combustion of biomass and fossil fuels releases aerosols, including airborne carbonaceous particles, causing negative climatic and health effects. Radiocarbon analysis of the elemental carbon (EC) fraction can help apportion sources of its emission, which is greatly constrained by the challenges in isolation of EC from organic compounds in atmospheric aerosols. The isolation of EC usin
A common approach to the conservation of farmland biodiversity and the promotion of multifunctional landscapes, particularly in landscapes containing only small remnants of non-crop habitats, has been to maintain landscape heterogeneity and reduce land-use intensity. In contrast, it has recently been shown that devoting specific areas of non-crop habitats to conservation, segregated from high-yiel
We investigated fungal growth and community composition in buried meshbags, amended with apatite, biotite or hornblende, in Norway spruce (Picea abies) forests of varying nutrient status. Norway spruce needles and soil collected from forests overlying serpentinite had low levels of potassium and phosphorus, those from granite had low levels of magnesium, whereas those from amphibolite had comparab
The fall of Yugoslavia in the 1990s led to a series of political upheavals, culminating in the 1992 referendum in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This referendum triggered the Bosnian War, which was finally ended by the Dayton Peace Agreement signed on December 14, 1995. The Dayton Peace Agreement aimed to stabilize the country by establishing a power-sharing arrangement among its three ethnic groups - Bo
Brevmall Centrum för mi l jö- och k l imat forskn ing Eivor Terne Admin is t ra t iv chef Forskarutbildning i Miljövetenskap vid Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, Lunds universitet Utlysning av projektmedel för upp till 5 doktorandanställningar Centrum för miljö- och klimatforskning (CEC) ansvarar för den tvärvetenskapliga forskarutbildningen i miljövetenskap. Centrumet utlyser nu medel för bidrag ti
https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/sites/cec.lu.se.sv/files/utlysning_2015-10-14.pdf - 2026-07-20
Brevmall Centrum för mi l jö- och k l imat forskn ing Eivor Terne Admin is t ra t iv chef Forskarutbildning i Miljövetenskap vid Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, Lunds universitet Utlysning av projektmedel för forskare att ansöka om för anställning av upp till 5 doktorander Centrum för miljö- och klimatforskning (CEC) ansvarar för den tvärvetenskapliga forskarutbildningen i miljövetenskap. Centrumet
https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/sites/cec.lu.se.sv/files/utlysning_2015-10-14_ver2.pdf - 2026-07-20
Plant species effects on microbial communities are attributed to changes in microbial community composition and biomass, and may depend on plant species specific differences in the quality of resources (carbon) inputs. We examined the idea that plant-soil feedbacks can be explained by a chance effect, which is the probability of a highly productive or keystone plant species is present in the commu
