Published 12 May 2025 Researchers Maria Svensson Coelho and Hannah Blossom perform winter sampling of the green alga Chlamydomonas in Lake Krageholmssjön. Photo: Karin Rengefors. Humans and animals are not the only ones affected by viruses. Unicellular organisms can also be attacked. In a new study, scientists establish that green algae can carry latent giant virus DNA in their genome. Biology res

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/unicellular-green-algae-may-carry-giant-virus-dna-their-genome - 2025-08-05

By Johan [dot] Joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 5 September 2024 Øystein Opedal, associate senior lecturer at the Department of Biology, has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. Congratulations, Øystein! Can you tell us a little about your project?“The project aims to better understand how plants adapt to new pollination environments, such as declining pollinator

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/biologist-receives-erc-starting-grant - 2025-08-05

By Johan [dot] Joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 24 September 2024 Film: Johan Nyman. Dung beetles are among the strongest animals in the world. They also possess an exceptional ability to cooperate. Research shows that female and male spider dung beetles together are able to move large dung balls across difficult obstacles. However, same-sex attempts to do the s

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/beetles-cooperate-tricky-dung-moves - 2025-08-05

By Johan [dot] Joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 6 December 2024 Andreas Nord. Photo: Erik Thor. Andreas Nord, a researcher at the Department of Biology, will receive EUR 2 million to study how warm-blooded animals are affected as the climate becomes warmer and more unpredictable. As part of the project, he will study different species of birds to determine how q

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/researcher-receive-erc-consolidator-grant - 2025-08-05

By Lena [dot] Bjork_Blixt [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Lena Björk Blixt) - published 16 August 2024 In the study, each bumblebee had a small tag attached to its back so that the researchers could distinguish the various individuals when testing their navigation ability. Photo: Rickesh Patel. Bumblebees have a great capacity to navigate despite their small brain size. This is borne out of new re

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/bumblebees-sense-direction-rivals-humans - 2025-08-05

By Johan [dot] Joelsson [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 11 October 2024 Grazing zooplankton, daphnia, which are an important source of food for fish, were found to be particularly vulnerable. Photo: Erik Selander/Lund University. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have studied how nanoplastic affects aquatic organisms in lakes and rivers. The results are surprising,

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/grazing-zooplankton-severely-impacted-nanoplastic-particles - 2025-08-05

By Johan [dot] Joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 17 June 2025 Professor Eric Warrant. Photo: Inger Ekström. Eric Warrant, a professor at the Department of Biology, has received an ERC Advanced Grant for his project “Incredible journeys: How do multiple sensory cues allow animal migrants to precisely navigate to a distant goal?” Congratulations Eric, how does it f

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/biology-professor-receives-prestigious-eu-grant - 2025-08-05

Published 19 June 2025 Photo: Ajay Narendra. A groundbreaking study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the Australian Bogong moth uses the stars and the Milky Way as a compass during its annual 1,000-kilometre journey to cool inland caves. It also reveals that the Earth’s magnetic field plays an important role in the enigmatic moth’s navigation. It is absolutely amazing considering the leng

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/moths-use-stars-and-earths-magnetic-field-compass - 2025-08-05

By pia [dot] romare [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Pia Romare) - published 28 April 2020 After climate change, biodiversity loss is the biggest environmental challenge facing the world today. The loss of plant and animal species also means a loss of the resources that humans obtain from well-functioning ecosystems. At Lund University, a project is underway in which researchers are studying how work t

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/green-infrastructure-planning-and-designing-functioning-nature - 2025-08-05

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 30 April 2020 The researchers think support should be directed towards grazing land that needs protection the most. Photo: Lovisa Nilsson. Sweden does not need more cattle to save natural grazing land with high biodiversity. This is the conclusion of a new report by researchers at Lund University in Sweden. What

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/profitability-not-more-cattle-needed-save-natural-grazing-land - 2025-08-05

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 2 May 2020 Wood anemones may get new competitors. Photo: Hanna Gamdrup. In recent decades, the climate in Sweden has become about two degrees warmer on average and this year we have seen an unprecedentedly mild winter and early spring. How is nature responding – animals, insects, plants – to an increasingly mild

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/unusually-early-spring-how-nature-sweden-responding-increasingly-warm-climate - 2025-08-05

Published 6 May 2020 We appreciate your participation in the online conference, which was a very successful joining of about 100 participants. April 23 and 24 were two very rewarding days, filled with interesting sessions, poster presentations, office yoga, group discussions, as well as fruitful conversations and sharing of expertise. The event allowed for interesting discussions among researchers

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/thank-you-participating-cecs-online-science-says-conference-and-becc-merge-spring-meeting - 2025-08-05

By johan [dot] nyman [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Nyman) - published 27 May 2020 The regional flora has dramatically changed the last centuries. Photo: Kristine Cinate, Unsplash A study from Lund University indicates that the flora of Skåne in southern Sweden changed drastically throughout the 1900s and up to the present day. The greatest decline in species diversity can be seen in

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/dramatic-changes-regional-flora - 2025-08-05

By stina [dot] johannesson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Stina Johannesson) - published 5 June 2020 The new collaboration will strengthen the national climate and biodiversity research. Photo by Ars Buchatski on Unsplash. The graduate research schools ClimBEco and the Bolin Centre Climate Research School (CRS) have recently initiated a collaboration with multiple climate-focused intentions. The join

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-strengthens-climate-and-biodiversity-research - 2025-08-05

By kristina [dot] lindgarde [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Kristina Lindgärde) - published 27 August 2020 Photo: Unsplash A unique study has analyzed in detail how EU agricultural subsidies flow down to the local level. The new data show that most income support payments go to intensively farmed regions already above median EU income, while climate-friendly and biodiverse farming regions, as well as

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/revealed-how-billions-eu-farming-subsidies-are-being-misspent - 2025-08-05

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 27 August 2020 Image: Jorchr, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia Population density, and not the proportion of green spaces, has the biggest impact on species richness of pollinators in residential areas. This is the result of a study from Lund University in Sweden of gardens and residential courtyards in and around Malmö,

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/high-human-population-density-negative-pollinators - 2025-08-05

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 27 August 2020 Wooden barrel with parts of the sturgeon (in orange) Photo: Brett Seymour Researchers at Lund University in Sweden can now reveal what the Danish King Hans had planned to offer when laying claim to the Swedish throne in 1495: a two-metre-long Atlantic sturgeon. The well-preserved fish remains were

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/atlantic-sturgeon-kings-pantry-unique-discovery-baltic-sea-wreck-1495 - 2025-08-05

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 24 November 2020 Johanna Alkan Olsson talking to professionals during last years programme on sustainable cities. Photo: Kenneth Ruona. CEC is one of the actors behind a new international education programme with the purpose to strengthen innovation in the public sector and support the implementation of the 2030

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-provides-education-co-design-and-inclusive-public-environments - 2025-08-05

By stina [dot] johannesson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Stina Johannesson) - published 25 November 2020 Forest in Morzine, France. Photo by Guy Bowden on Unsplash. The climate crisis has received less media coverage during the corona pandemic despite that many think the climate challenges demand equally urgent attention. During the coming two weeks the United Nations gather the world in the Climate

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/global-climate-dialogues-boost-climate-work - 2025-08-05

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 2 December 2020 Japanese knotweed, one of the most damaging invasive plants in Europe. Photo: Michael Gasperl/Wikipedia (GFDL). Researchers at the Pufendorf Institute are working together in a Theme about Invasive Alien Plants, and are interested in finding out how the public, as well as experts, regard different

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/researchers-want-know-how-public-perceive-invasive-alien-plants - 2025-08-05