Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences / Institutionen för biologi och miljövetenskap (2012-)
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Suitability of native tree species across regions of Rwanda in relation to climate sensitivity and ecosystem services
(2025-11-07)Our ability to select native tree species for forest restoration and ecosystems services in tropical areas is limited by insufficient knowledge of tree growth, survival and climate sensitivity. This thesis aims to enhance ... -
Food neophobia: a key barrier to consumer acceptance of seafood in Sweden
(2025-10-30)Food neophobia (FN), the reluctance to eat novel foods, serves an evolutionary protective function against the consumption of potentially harmful substances. Despite high modern food safety standards, FN remains a barrier ... -
Are Alternatives to Conventional Plastics really Safer? Exploring Toxicity of Biobased, Biodegradable and Recycled Microplastics in Fish: The Role of Polymer Type, Associated Chemicals, and Exposure Conditions Across Multiple Biological Endpoints
(2025-10-03)Microplastics are a pervasive and complex class of contaminants in aquatic environments, raising concerns about both their physical and chemical impacts on organisms. The plastic pollution crisis has been identified as a ... -
Unveiling pesticide effects and antibiotic resistance in freshwater microorganisms through genomics.
(2025-09-29)A large proportion of the rivers worldwide are impacted by human activities and pollution. Freshwater microorganisms, including bacteria, algae, and fungi are crucial for nutrient cycling and primary production. Chemical ... -
Resolving pollination paradoxes: Bridging theory and empirical observations to understand pollination ecology and evolution
(2025-05-14)Animal‐mediated pollination underpins the sexual reproduction of an estimated 230,000 flowering‐plant species and involves at least 300,000 florivorous animals. Yet we lack a broad, community‐level synthesis of how variation ... -
An Analysis of Potential Limitations of in Vitro Cell Lines and in Silico Models in Current Chemical Risk Assessments for Mixtures: A Case Study on Azole Mixtures in Sweden
(2025)Chemical Risk Assessments (CRAs) are a well-established method to calculate safe levels of chemicals, determined using whole animal testing (in vivo). The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) are working towards implementing ... -
Crop diversifcation for pollinator conservation
(2024)Context Intensive agriculture drives insect decline impacting insect-mediated ecosystem services that support production. Crop diversifcation shows promise in increasing crop productivity and enhancing ecosystem services, ... -
The impact of pollination requirements, pollinators, landscape and management practices on pollination in sweet and sour cherry: A systematic review
(2024)Insect-mediated pollination is crucial for global production of multiple pollinator-dependent crops, including high-value crops like sweet and sour cherry. In the face of increasing agricultural demand and continued pollinator ... -
Heat and drought responses of tropical trees in a warming world
(2024-12-11)Tropical trees face increasing heat and drought stress under climate change, yet their physiological responses remain poorly understood. This thesis explores the mechanisms underlying heat and drought tolerance in tropical ... -
Drivers of biological diversity and responses to global changes in marine invertebrates
(2024-11-08)Human activities, in particular global changes (e.g., ocean warming - OW and ocean acidification - OA) are projected to drive some marine species to extinction within the coming decades. Marine invertebrates are amongst ... -
Wood-Living Beetle Species and Communities in Swedish Forestry: Some Lessons for Conservation
(2019)The papers in this thesis examine the diversity of wood-living beetles, a highly diverse group of conservation concern, in the context of southern Swedish forestry and forest management. Since the 19th century, industrial ... -
Aquatic ecotoxicity of nanomaterials in fish in vitro models: Cytotoxicity and sublethal effect screening of pristine and transformed nanoparticles.
(2024-10-07)With the increased production and use of engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) came an increased risk of release into the aquatic environment. This has raised concerns about the unknown impact on the aquatic ecosystem. To improve ... -
Extensions of the Multispecies Coalescent in Bayesian Phylogenetics: A Study of the Southern African-centred Stoebe Clade (Gnaphalieae: Asteraceae)
(2024-09-30)The Tree of Life represents the complex relationships between all species, and recent advances in phylogenetic methods have dramatically expanded our ability to study these connections. However, there is still no universal ... -
20 years of bibliometric data illustrates a lack of concordance between journal impact factor and fungal species discovery in systematic mycology
(2024)Journal impact factors were devised to qualify and compare university library holdings but are frequently repurposed for use in ranking applications, research papers, and even individual applicants in mycology and beyond. ... -
Bridging the past to the present: investigating species boundaries with herbarium specimens and next-generation-sequencing. A case study of circumpolar Silene sect. Physolychnis
(2023-10-30)During the recent decades, genetic information enclosed in herbarium collections have been partly revealed, largely due to the fast-moving high-throughput sequencing technologies. However, the genetic outcome from herbarium ... -
Morphological and chemical leaf traits of tropical montane tree species and their responses to warming
(2023-10-26)Leaf morphological and chemical traits of tropical trees vary along climate gradients, but it is currently unclear how they will respond to a rapidly warming climate and how this will vary among species. Considering this, ... -
Novel Marine Ingredients for Aquaculture - Fish Nutrition, Physiology and Intestinal Health
(2023-10-24)Aquaculture is among the fastest growing food production sectors globally and supplies more fish to the growing human population than capture fisheries. One of the major challenges in salmonid aquaculture is to find ... -
Tomorrow is yesterday: early-life conditions shape ectotherm life histories
(2023-09-29)Life history theory seeks to explain the overwhelming diversity of resource allocation strategies in nature by exploring how evolutionary forces optimise survival and reproduction within an organism’s environment. Central ... -
Phylogenetic Relationships, Biogeography and Species Delimitation: A case study on southern African Silene (Caryophyllaceae)
(2023-09-20)The primary aim of this thesis was to explore the phylogenetic relationships and historical biogeography of African members of the plant genus Silene (Caryophyllaceae), with special focus on the eight native southern African ...
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