av John Strand | maj 20, 2020 | Management of CW
The start of the years arthropod collection! The collection methods we use are suction sampling, pitfall trapping, and Malaise trapping. The tent-like trap is a Malaise trap, invented in the 1930’s by René Malaise, and optimized for catching flying insects. The...
av John Strand | maj 15, 2020 | Wetlands 2.0
We have done the first sampling of pollinators using pan traps (colour bowls). 3 traps of different colour have been placed at 50 CWs.
av John Strand | apr 29, 2020 | Wetland as buffers
At the Swedish EPA´s “Environmantal research day” (Miljöforskningsdagen) there was a time slot for short presentations of the projects on wetland ecosystem services. So today the project leaders for the 8 projects again did short presentations of their projects, again...
av John Strand | apr 28, 2020 | Wetland as buffers
The kick-off meeting for the 8 awarded projects had to be done online due to Corona. It was interesting to hear about the other projects and valuable for future possible collaboration between projects and synergistic effects.
av John Strand | apr 14, 2020 | Wetland as buffers
The work with deploying water level meters continues. It is time consuming, but our method works well, on the meters we also place trap nests to investigate the pollinator population at the sites. It is the brown-orange cylinder seen in the picture.
