The ecosystem of the forest
Here you can read more about our ongoing projects within the forest ecosystem.
Biology
Biology is the doctrine of life and encompasses all levels from the molecular to the global. In biology, the organisms and functions of living organisms, reproductive capacity, hereditary mass, growth, and development, and how they spread, interact, and cooperate with their environment and how they evolved, are studied. Biology therefore spans a large area of specialized research branches where different tools are used to study living organisms. The research in biology at Mid Sweden University is focused on ecology, genetics, and conservation biology.
Research groups
Ongoing Research Projects
Functional green infrastructure in boreal forest landscapes – the role of fragmentation in time and space for wood living fungi
It is not only the quality of individual forest stand that influence where species occur. If suitable habitats occur within short distance it increases the chance for species to remain at landscape...
Veteranisation of pine - active management to create lost key elements for biodiversity in boreal forests
In this project we develop restoration methods to create ecologically important dead wood structures that are now very scarce in managed pine forests.