Habitat networks for biodiversity are increasingly degraded and fragmented. This study investigates how Swedish municipal landscape managers accommodate biodiversity in urban and peri-urban landscapes, with particular attention to the promotion of ‘wilder landscapes’. We explore their view of nature as related to wilder landscapes too. Drawing on a national survey with responses from 70% of all Swedish municipalities, we analy...

An understanding of egg densities and juvenile production is critical in salmonid egg stocking projects, but the question is not deeply studied. Given that managers rely on the number of young of the year (YOY) fish to evaluate stocking success, this knowledge gap poses a major challenge. We studied effects of two stocking levels on YOY brown trout at different downstream distances (0–600 m) from the stocking point. Density in...

The significance of nematodes for disease development caused by other soil-borne pathogens has been demonstrated in many crops throughout the world and specifically prevalent are interactions between plant-parasitic nematodes and species of plant pathogenic fungi. Here, the interaction between the fungus Rhizoctonia solani (AG2) and the migratory endoparasitic root-lesion nematode Pratylenchus penetrans was investigated on pot...