This is how they will help the hazel dormouse
Biodiversity is severely tested by us humans. It is on the brink of depletion. However, at the University of Skövde, we have researchers who want to reverse this trend. For example, they are developing tools to strengthen biodiversity and contribute to new smart ways to protect endangered species.
Explore biodiversity and the University's work
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Biodiversity entails nature being rich in variation. It encompasses several different ecosystems and habitat types that provide living environments for numerous species inhabiting these habitats and ecosystems, as well as genetic variation within each individual species.
The concept of biodiversity encompasses all parts of nature, from majestic mountains and pine trees to catnip and chanterelles, as well as a variety of animal species such as deer, hazel dormice, and tiny amoebas.
This web of genes, species, and ecosystems is crucial for our survival through what are known as ecosystem services. Carbon sequestration that mitigates global warming, water purification that provides us with clean drinking water, and pollination that enables us to produce food are some examples.
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- Recreate and strengthen biodiversity in landscapes with power lines
- Improve habitat quality and climate-adaptivity of freshwater ecosystems
- Advancing the Metabolic theory of Ecology
- Studying Nordic brown bees
- End biodiversity loss through improved tracking of threatened invertebrates
- Landscape biodiversity capacity: a tool for measuring, monitoring and managing
- Biodiversity in the marine algae belt
