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A large fraction of nitrogen (N) in forest soils is present in mineral-associated proteinaceous compounds. The strong association between proteins and minerals limits microbial accessibility to this source, which is a relatively stable reservoir of soil N. We have shown that the ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungus Paxillus involutus can acquire N from iron oxide-associated proteins. Using tightly control

Effective weed control in agricultural crop fields increases yields, but simultaneously reduces floral resources for pollinators because many weed species provide pollen and nectar. Consequently, efforts to enhance crop yields on organic farms by using effective weed control methods risk compromising positive effects of organic farming on pollinating insects. Thus, it is important to find manageme

Ecological Focus Areas (EFAs) to benefit biodiversity became mandatory in intensively farmed landscapes after the reform of the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 2013. The implementation of EFAs as uncropped field margins has been criticized as ineffective but created a window of opportunity to test if augmenting them with annual flower strips can benefit biodiversity. In this study, we

This paper systematically reviews the literature on how to reduce nutrient emissions to the Baltic Sea cost-effectively and considerations for allocating these costs fairly among countries. The literature shows conclusively that the reduction targets of the Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) could be achieved at considerably lower cost, if countries would cooperate to implement the least costly abateme

Agricultural management practices and extreme weather events associated with climate change can influence the diversity and abundance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) with potential consequences for crop production. However, the importance of the interactive effects of long-term agricultural management and extreme weather events on AMF communities in agricultural soils is not yet fully explor

Pollinators face multiple pressures and there is evidence of populations in decline. As demand for insect-pollinated crops increases, crop production is threatened by shortfalls in pollination services. Understanding the extent of current yield deficits due to pollination and identifying opportunities to protect or improve crop yield and quality through pollination management is therefore of inter

Nature-based solutions (NBS) can help tackle climate change and advance urban sustainability by using nature to deliver social, ecological and economic benefits. However, their success largely depend on implementation for which several barriers exist. For NBS to be meaningful in terms of delivering positive impacts in cities, we need better understanding of how implementation is embedded in NBS fr

The European Union reformed the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP 2013) to include greening measures with the aim to decrease negative impacts of farming on the environment and biodiversity. The degree to which greening measures such as permanent grassland or fallows of different ages enhance biodiversity is still debated. We investigate the effect of fallows in two different age classes and permane

Natural control of invertebrate crop pests has the potential to complement or replace conventional insecticide-based practices, but its mainstream application is hampered by predictive unreliability across agroecosystems. Inconsistent responses of natural pest control to changes in landscape characteristics have been attributed to ecological complexity and system-specific conditions. Here, we revi

Increasing human impact on the environment is causing drastic changes in disturbance regimes and how they prevail over time. Of increasing relevance is to further our understanding on biological responses to pulse disturbances (short duration) and how they interact with other ongoing press disturbances (constantly present). Because the temporal and spatial contexts of single experiments often limi

Pollen analysis is an important tool in many fields, including pollination ecology, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, honey quality control, and even medicine and forensics. However, labour‐intensive manual pollen analysis often constrains the number of samples processed or the number of pollen analysed per sample. Thus, there is a desire to develop reliable, high‐throughput, automated systems. We p

While an increasing number of studies indicate that the range, diversity and abundance of many wild pollinators has declined, the global area of pollinator-dependent crops has significantly increased over the last few decades. Crop pollination studies to date have mainly focused on either identifying different guilds pollinating various crops, or on factors driving spatial changes and turnover obs

15 september 2026 09:00 till 17 september 2026 17:00 | Konferens The ICOS (Integrated Carbon Observing System) Science Conference 2026 will be held at Lund University. The conference will gather hundreds of international scientists studying greenhouse gases and the movement of carbon across the land, ocean and atmosphere. The ICOS Science Conference, organised every second year by the ICOS communi

https://www.lu.se/evenemang/icos-science-conference-2026-0 - 2026-07-06

28 januari 2026 12:00 till 13:00 | Seminarium Topic: Building on the Shoulders of Humans: Copyright and Creativity in the Age of AIWhen: 28 January at 12.00-13.00Where: OnlineSpeaker: Dr. Johan Axhamn, Associate Professor in Business Law at Lund University School of Economics and ManagementModerator: Ellinor Blom Lussi, AI and Society, Lund UniversitySpoken language: EnglishAbstractGenerative AI s

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/evenemang/ai-lund-lunch-seminar-building-shoulders-humans-copyright-and-creativity-age-ai - 2026-07-06

28 januari 2026 12:00 till 13:00 | Seminarium Topic: Building on the Shoulders of Humans: Copyright and Creativity in the Age of AIWhen: 28 January at 12.00-13.00Where: OnlineSpeaker: Dr. Johan Axhamn, Associate Professor in Business Law at Lund University School of Economics and ManagementModerator: Ellinor Blom Lussi, AI and Society, Lund UniversitySpoken language: EnglishAbstractGenerative AI s

https://www.lu.se/evenemang/ai-lund-lunch-seminar-building-shoulders-humans-copyright-and-creativity-age-ai - 2026-07-06

5 februari 2026 13:15 till 14:30 | Seminarium Presentation by Adam Almqvist, CMES and department of Political Science. When authoritarian regimes adopt liberal international norms—such as anti-corruption standards, human rights treaties, or youth/gender inclusion agendas—they often do so to secure international legitimacy or strategic benefits. But norm adoption can trigger domestic contestation,

https://www.lu.se/evenemang/cmes-seminar-authoritarian-afterlives-international-liberal-norms-jordan-and-un-youth-peace-and - 2026-07-06

The European commission launch of the twin Sentinel-2 satellites provides new opportunities for land use and land cover (LULC) classification because of the readily availability of their data and their enhanced spatial, temporal and spectral resolutions. The rapid development of machine learning over the past decade led to data-driven models being at the forefront of high accuracy predictions of t