Green Infrastructure (GI) is widely adopted by policymakers and practitioners as a form of Nature-based solution (NbS) to help restore nature and boost biodiversity, …
More than 80% of all animal life are insects and most of this diversity stems from a single monophyletic innovation ca. 320 million years …
It is becoming abundantly clear that wild and domesticated bees are surprisingly sensitive to global warming, heatwaves, and droughts – all hallmarks of climate …
Unlike mammals, birds have nucleated red blood cells that retain almost all functional organelles in the mature state. Amongst these are the mitochondria – …
Mammals have a form of internal heat production localised to their mitochondria, which they ramp up in the cold. This heat production is localised …
Supervisors: Lisa Wasserstrom, Microbiologist, PhD, at Clinical Microbiology, Region Skåne and David Nygren, Infectious Disease Physician, PhD, VO Infectious Diseases, SUS Background In descending …
Songbirds rely on an endogenous program to follow species-specific routes and schedule their migrations to the annual cycle. The expression of the migration program …
Migratory birds use daylength, or photoperiod, to align their migration schedules to the annual cycle, and global climate change is shifting temperature gradients towards …
The tawny owl (Swedish: kattuggla; Strix aluco) is one of our most common top predators occurring in a range of landscapes including urban, agricultural …
Increasing evidence suggests that the community of microbes located within the gastrointestinal tract of vertebrates, known as the “gut microbiome”, is a crucial determinant …