Ecology, The Environment and Conservation

This complex theme deals primarily with interactions between organisms and the environmental factors that impact them, but to a greater extent between individual inanimate environmental factors.

innovations-report offers informative reports and articles on topics such as climate protection, landscape conservation, ecological systems, wildlife and nature parks and ecosystem efficiency and balance.

Climate-resilient breadfruit might be the food of the future

Study finds shifting climate will have little effect on breadfruit cultivation. In the face of climate change, breadfruit soon might come to a dinner plate near you. While researchers predict…

Snow research fills gap in understanding Arctic climate

Modeling the way that snow distribution depends on terrain, elevation and vegetation will improve Earth-system models. Comprehensive data from several seasons of field research in the Alaskan Arctic will address…

National parks – islands in a desert?

Effectiveness of biodiversity conservation in national parks is associated with socioeconomic conditions. Despite commendable conservation efforts and investments by governments, NGOs and international as well as national conservation agencies, biodiversity…

Fate of the world’s biggest ice sheet is in our hands

The fate of the world’s biggest ice sheet still rests in our hands if global temperature increases are kept below the upper limit set by the Paris Agreement on climate…

New model sheds light on day/night cycle in the global ocean

Phytoplankton is the foundation of all life on the planet. Understanding how these photosynthetic organisms react to their ocean environment is important to understanding the rest of the food web….

Hundreds of large habitat shifts have shaped life on Earth today

An international team led by Uppsala University researchers has uncovered that eukaryotes (organisms with a cellular nucleus) have made hundreds of big leaps from sea to soil and freshwater habitats,…

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