av John Strand | aug 24, 2021 | Wetland as buffers
This week Pia and Joachim from project WetKit have been in Halland for fieldwork in ”our” wetlands. Colaboration is always rewarding and we hade good discussions on methods and the state of the wetlands. Pia and Joachim sampled sediment cores in 19 of the...
av John Strand | aug 9, 2021 | Wetland as buffers, Wetlands 2.0
The field material (various traps nests and nest boxes) from the pollinator field experiments that now have been terminated, have been collected and stored. Due to the very high rainfall in August we could not carry out the planned test with effects of draining some...
av John Strand | aug 5, 2021 | Wetland as buffers
During our dragonfly surveys we found a Common winter damselfly (Sympecma fusca) at the wetland TA25. It is not rare in Sweden but have an easterly distribution and before our observation it had only been reorded once in Halland (in 2012) .
av John Strand | aug 4, 2021 | Wetland as buffers
We have now done the first flow measurements in the 11 streams at the same segments where we have the flowmeters located. These first measurements were done at low flow situations (low water levels), and we will repeat this under medium and high flows also, to get...
av John Strand | jul 30, 2021 | Wetlands 2.0
We investigate the effects of PFAS on the solitary bee Osmia bicornis, by placing nests with pupae in an industry area with known very high PFAS-concentrations in the water, and in the agricultural areas with low concentrations as control. The map shows the location...
