One of the cornerstones of life history theory is that there exists a trade-off between current and future reproduction. What that really means is …
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The water flea, Polyphemus, uses its large, highly-specialised eye to hunt for prey and navigate its habitat. They live in freshwater lakes that can …
Nitrogen availability is a key factor governing plant growth and soil fertility, and maintaining agricultural productivity. In agroecosystems, crops form the nexus for nutrient …
The Cell Death, Lysosomes and Artificial Intelligence Group at the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University in Sweden has open positions for Bachelor/Master theses …
Climate change is a growing global concern and is predicted to increase the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, such as drought. Soil …
Accelerometers allow the remote study of animal activities and thus offer a huge advantage over traditional studies based on direct human observations. Beyond simple …
In the forest ecosystem, dead wood is a dynamic and complex ecological niche in which fungi play a central role in the decomposition of …
There are several known cases of fungi altering insect behaviour, but few studies have turned the question around and asked the opposite: how are …
The loss of plant diversity is a growing global concern, driven by changes in land-use and climate. Maintaining plant diversity is important for ecosystem …
Soil microbial decomposers, including bacteria and fungi, are the gatekeepers of the soil carbon cycle, determining the fraction of decomposed carbon that becomes part …
Bacteria and fungi associated with plants play critical roles in plant growth, fitness, and stress tolerance. These microbial communities inhabit the rhizosphere—the soil zone …
Soils are the largest organic carbon reservoir in terrestrial ecosystems, storing carbon as organic matter derived from decomposed plant, microbial, and animal residues that …
Ectomycorrhizal fungi form symbiotic relationships with trees, playing a pivotal role in forest ecosystems by enhancing plant nutrient uptake in exchange for carbon from …
Songbirds rely on an endogenous program to follow species-specific routes and schedule their migrations to the annual cycle. Due to competition, birds are often …
The main goal of the project is to process microscope images of fungal mycelium and conduct dimensionality reduction and hierarchical clustering to find out …
The task is to develop and make publicly available a web application that allows anyone to calculate population trends based on systematic monitoring data …
The evolutionary ecology of cognition and memory in Caenorhabditis worms We have two MSc projects (45-60 credits each) to investigate the evolution and ecology …
Cancers are bad, but why do they occur? The prevalence of cancer, or malignant neoplasia, varies across and within species. Theories argue that life-history …
The most well-known life-history trade-off involves the survival cost of reproduction – reproduction (e.g., fertility, number of eggs) is commonly ‘costly’ in terms of …
Aim: The water flea, Polyphemus, uses its large, highly specialised eye to hunt for prey and navigate its habitat. They live in freshwater lakes …