Congratulstions Eric!

Bumblebees in Europe collect pesticides in their pollen food - on average 8, up to 27 (!), compounds per colony. These compounds are associated with reduced colony growth, especially in apple crops. Research led, behind the scenes, by 2 AMAZING women: MajRundlof Jane Stout

Nature research paper: Disproportionate declines of formerly abundant species underlie insect loss go.nature.com/485UK4O

After more than five years of work, it is my great pleasure to announce that our synthesis on #carabid within-field distribution is now published in Proceedings B! #pestcontrol #agroecology #TeamBeetle Royal Society Publishing doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2023)

Kicking off UPSCALE General Assembly 2024 in Entebbe, Uganda

Progress update of different Work packages UPSCALE General Assembly 2024

📢 LIVE NOW IN UGANDA ​The General Assembly, hosted by the NARO Uganda kicks off today in Entebbe, Uganda! From January 29th to February 2nd, the consortium will have time to discuss push-pull tech achievement in the UPSCALE project. Stay tuned!​ #Sustainability ​#UPSCALE

Really happy to have supervised brilliant nanyikakingazi to this achievement: Tropical agroforestry supports insect pollinators and improves bean yield - Kingazi - Journal of Applied Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Really happy that this important paper is out. Well done leading this endeavor @EiriniDaouti. Functional redundancy of weed seed predation is reduced by intensified agriculture - Daouti - 2024 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

With more intensive agriculture, there is a risk of losing stable supply of important ecosystem services such as weed seed predation. Read about @EiriniDaouti, Mattias Jonsson and colleagues' study here: slu.se/en/ew-news/202…

Don,t miss our symposium on resilience today at #ECCB2024 Zoological Biodiversity

I presented our ongoing work on the complementarity of crop fields and semi-natural habitats for #biodiversity in agricultural landscapes at #ECCB2024 yesterday - stay tuned for results!

Dont miss the following presentations from our group today at #ECCB2024 Grace Mercy

Semi-natural habitat, but not aphid amount or continuity, predicts lady beetle abundance across agricultural landscapes 🪲 Retaining or adding woodland & grassland patches in agricultural landscapes is likely to support larger lady beetle populations 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

Smallholder farmers increase reliance on honeybees (in place of diverse wild pollinators) when they shift from subsistence agriculture to cash crops = major implications for the resilience of livelihoods & nutrition. More in our Journal of Applied Ecology paper: doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

Our paper is published today in nature journal! If you want to know more about how communities interact across habitats and interaction types, and their effects on ecosystem functioning and stability, the paper is here🔽 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Last week Ieva Misiune and Cassandra Vogel@[email protected] presented our project! Interesting to learn about other project funded in the SusCrop ERA-NET calls and discuss with others about opportunities and limitations when doing research about sustainable agriculture! 🌾

Grace Mercy nanyikakingazi Indeed. Very well deserved!

CBC team meeting in Malmö with plenty of #biocontrol research discussions.