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In recent years, ‘ecosystem services’ has become an increasingly common concept within the research community, as well as in municipalities, public authorities and industry. In simple terms, ecosystem services can be described as the benefits humans gain from nature’s ecosystems, for example regarding the food we eat, the air we breathe, purification of the water we drink, the bioenergy we use to
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/human-and-nature-symbiosis - 2025-11-20
Professor Alexandra-Maria Klein, from the University of Freiburg, will be the holder of a Hedda Andersson visiting professorship during 2019 and 2020. The Centre of Environmental and Climate research, CEC, and the strategic research area Biodiversity and Ecosystem in a Changing Climate, BECC, will act as professor Klein´s hosts during her stay at Lund University. Alexandra-Maria Klein is working o
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/hedda-andersson-visiting-professorship-cec - 2025-11-20
Hampus Nilsson, now a PhD-student at the CEC, is being awarded for his master thesis on how to predict and prevent urban flooding. The Swedish Hydrological Council (SHR) has appointed Hampus Nilsson's master thesis from LTH and Lund University's GIS Center to be the best master thesis within hydrology in 2017. Hampus began studying technical mathematics at LTH and completed his MSc thesis by devel
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/master-thesis-awarded-world-water-day - 2025-11-20
Mark Brady, Cecilia Larsson and Ida Nordin from CEC and AgriFood have, at the invitation of the European Commission, participated in a Civil Dialogue Group meeting in Brussels. On the agenda was the European Commission's first draft for reforming the Common Agricultural Policy, The Future of Food and Farming, which was published in November. The background to AgriFood’s and CEC's invitation to par
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-participated-dialogue-brussels - 2025-11-20
Lund University and the Simrishamn Municipality have received funding from Region Skåne to start a new research and innovation environment at the Marine Centre in Simrishamn. The aim is to study and solve environmental problems and societal challenges linked to the sea, water and coastal areas of Skåne and southern Sweden. The southern Baltic Sea and the Hanö Bay are located in an area with major
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-research-initiative-will-address-environmental-problems-baltic-sea-region-hano-bay - 2025-11-20
The report "Collective implementation of ecological focus areas" evaluating effects on ecosystem services, agriculture and administration is now available in English. Ecosystem services are fundamental to the welfare of mankind, yet these services are often invisible in many social decisions. The report "Collective implementation of ecological focus areas" evaluates the effects on the ecosystem s
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/report-about-ecological-focus-areas - 2025-11-20
Many pollinating insects benefit from a small-scale agricultural landscape with pastures, meadows and other unploughed environments. In landscapes dominated by arable land, they lack both food and nesting places. Sown flower strips can increase the availability of food for pollinating insects, and are therefore assumed to benefit pollination. However, new research from Lund University in Sweden sh
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/sowing-strips-flowering-plants-has-limited-effect-pollination - 2025-11-20
Följande utlysningar från Vetenskapsrådet är nu öppna Gästforskarprogram inom klimat och miljö (Söks av organisation)Forskningstid för kliniker inom infektionsområdet: antibiotika och antibiotikaresistens
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/nya-utlysningar-fran-vr-1 - 2025-11-20
Följande utlysningar från Vetenskapsrådet är nu öppna Projektbidrag för planering av klinisk behandlingsforskningNätverksbidrag för samverkan inom klinisk forskning
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/nya-utlysningar-fran-vr-2 - 2025-11-20
The Chinese National Twin Registry (CNTR) currently includes data from 61 566 twin pair from 11 provinces or cities in China. Of these, 31 705, 15 060 and 13 531 pairs are monozygotic, same‐sex dizygotic and opposite‐sex dizygotic pairs, respectively, determined by opposite sex or intrapair similarity. Read more here.
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/chinese-national-twin-registry-gold-mine-scientific-research - 2025-11-20
Application to epidemiological record data in a large-scale biobank (Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Japan) shows that a combination of kurPCA and RAMP effectively detects known errors or inconsistent patterns. Read more here.
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/outlier-detection-questionnaire-data-biobanks - 2025-11-20
Socioeconomic status has a negative impact on swimming ability in Swedish children, a new BlueHealth study has found. Read more here.
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/new-study-highlights-disparity-swimming-skills - 2025-11-20
A pan-European enterprise to provide a catalogue (https://bio.tools) of tools and databases that can be used in these workflows. bio.tools not only lists where to find resources, but also provides a wide variety of practical information. Read more here.
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/biotools-registry-software-tools-and-data-resources-life-sciences - 2025-11-20
This Glossary, rooted primarily in the Canadian context but drawing on lessons from elsewhere, describes environmental public health regulatory practice in relation to health equity, including approaches that practitioners can use to contribute to addressing the social determinants of health. Read more here.
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/glossary-health-equity-context-environmental-public-health-practice - 2025-11-20
Mediation analysis is a powerful tool for understanding mechanisms, but conclusions about direct and indirect effects will be invalid if there is unmeasured confounding of the mediator–outcome relationship. Read more here.
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/approximate-sensitivity-analysis-unmeasured-mediator-outcome-confounding - 2025-11-20
Over the past decade, several large registries of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) have been established. These registries are collecting a wealth of longitudinal data on thousands of patients with this rare disease. The data collected in these registries will be complementary to data collected in clinical trials because the patient populations studied in registries have a broader
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/patient-registries-idiopathic-pulmonary-fibrosis - 2025-11-20
The Hamburg City Health Study (HCHS) is a large, prospective, long-term, population-based cohort study and a unique research platform and network to obtain substantial knowledge about several important risk and prognostic factors in major chronic diseases. A random sample of 45,000 participants between 45 and 74 years of age from the general population of Hamburg, Germany, are taking part in an ex
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/rationale-and-design-hamburg-city-health-study - 2025-11-20
Surgical quality registries are important tools for both performing research and improving clinical practice. The Swedish National Knee Ligament Registry (SNKLR) has collected patient-reported and surgical data on more than 90% of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructions in Sweden. There has year-by-year been an increasing number of publications using data from SNKLR and the Scandinavi
Self-selection into prospective cohort studies and loss to follow-up can cause biased exposure-outcome association estimates. Previous investigations illustrated that such biases can be small in large prospective cohort studies. The structural approach to selection bias shows that general statements about bias are not possible for studies that investigate multiple exposures and outcomes, and that
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/bias-self-selection-and-loss-follow-prospective-cohort-studies - 2025-11-20
Comorbidity in stroke is common, but comprehensive reports are sparse. We describe prevalence of comorbidity and the prognostic impact on mortality and functional outcome in a large national ischemic stroke cohort. New publication in SAGE Journals
