A couple of books for those interested in beaver management! This week we have been largely focused on what characteristics that defines a species as invasive – or rather, of invasive potential! As most of us know, there is widespread alarm that human encroachment upon animal habitat and climate change may have averse effects upon global… Continue reading Invasive species and reintroductions
Christmas break closing in!
Umeå City Church was filled during the performance As Christmas is closing in and an increasing number of students are leaving for home, there is still much happening – last Friday I went down to Umeå City Church to see Nationskörens christmas performance. Nationskören is open to both students and non-students alike. They mostly perform… Continue reading Christmas break closing in!
F/W student of the week: Sebastian!
Goodmorning! What are you doing up so early? Photo: Sebastian Elze What have you done before your masters programme? I studied 6 semesters of forest sciences in Dresden, Germany, so this is my exchange semester in Sweden to see how you Swedes are getting along with all the wildlife What’s your first memory involving an… Continue reading F/W student of the week: Sebastian!
Annual Winter Fair
Lake Nydala with the ice setting in. With the temperatures falling as we move into december (we’ve seen some nights venturing below -15 °C) the ice is starting to settle on lake Nydala, and allowing the snow to finally lighten up our shorter and shorter days. But as we move closer to christmas, the town… Continue reading Annual Winter Fair
Metapopulations
In the midst of the Applied Populations course right now, our work is based mostly on self-studies, where we are guided or introduced to a subject by a lecture, and then given assignments to promote us in furthering our searchlights beyond the lecture content. Out of the assignments handed out so far, we’ve covered a… Continue reading Metapopulations
Meet… Anders!
Nice pike! What did you do before enrolling at F/W? I’m very glad you asked this question Carl, as it lets me elaborate on one of my favourite matters, in fact it is one very dear to me. The topic is of course me – and I can talk about myself for hours! So, after upper… Continue reading Meet… Anders!
Coming interview series, Meet the F/W!
I’m proud to present that during the coming weeks I’ll be phasing in a new type of blog post, where you’ll get to meet those of us taking the fish and wildlife management programme! You’ll get a picture of who we are, working through from our background to how it came that we first… Continue reading Coming interview series, Meet the F/W!
Inventoring and monitoring fish populations
One of our captured (but soon released) Brown trout. Photo: Johanna Hägglund Turns out winter has decided to turn around at the doorstep – today I was met at the door by cold gusts of freezing rain settling down on the slush that remains of the snowfall we’ve had. So I thought it’d be the… Continue reading Inventoring and monitoring fish populations
Dissertation: Indirect effects of predation in human-modified landscapes
The result of 4 (or more!) years of hard work. This Friday we attended the doctoral dissertation of Ellinor Sahlén, who’s been studying how animals behave in a landscape altered by humans and what happens when large carnivores return. Up until now, most studies on the return of large predators have been conducted in North… Continue reading Dissertation: Indirect effects of predation in human-modified landscapes
Ski season open
View from Bräntberget in Umeå, down over Ängarna (the fields)! With the snow piling up after what felt like a week of constant snowing – I felt it was finally time to get those skiis out of the attic and put them in their place of honor (?) right inside the door, ready to jump out… Continue reading Ski season open