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Annual cereal crops such as wheat, barley and rye have been cultivated for thousands of years for food and animal feed. They must be sown each growing season, often involving soil tillage, which can increase the risk of soil erosion and associated nutrient losses. To help reduce these impacts, researchers have worked for several decades to develop perennial grain crops through plant breeding and the domestication of wild species. Once established, these crops can produce grain for several consecutive years without needing to be resown.

The course Wildlife Biology (15 ECTS) takes place every September–October at Grimsö Wildlife Research Station, SLU. Its focus on Scandinavian wildlife, combined with its course structure, makes it popular, and over the years many students have returned for Master’s and PhD studies and/or gone on to work as wildlife managers at County Administrative Boards and elsewhere.

The Nordic Big Data Limnology Network (BigLimNet), a Nordic Early-Career Researcher network funded by NordForsk with the aim to foster networking and collaborations around understanding of environmental mechanisms in Nordic inland waters, held its kick-off meeting last week at SITES Erken.

Bolmen Research Station continues to expand it efforts as part of the SITES Water program, most recently by acquiring an automatic lake profiler. Information on the arrival and testing of the automatic profile system (in Swedish) - below follows an adapted English translation.

As part of the SITES Water Program, water balance, including stream water level and discharge as well as lake level, is measured. At Asa, water balance is monitored in the Feresjön catchment, which includes Feresjön lake as well as the lake inlets and outlet. 

The importance of putting data from a research station into a larger context cannot be emphasized enough. The Abisko Scientific Research Station does this through SITES but also through other networks such as Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS). An intensely studied field site for both SITES and ICOS Sweden in the Abisko area is Stordalen.

Shuai Yang is one of the authors of “Unraveling the depth-dependent causal dynamics of methanogenesis and methanotrophy in a high-latitude fen peatland”, published in Environmental Research Letters in 2025. The study was conducted at the Stordale Mire, part of  Abisko Scientific Research Station.

This summer, as part of SITES AquaNet, lake mesocosm experiments at SITES stations Erken and Svartberget were set up to tes

The SITES Water Program - a coordinated catchment monitoring program in lakes and streams – has been in operation for nearly 10 years and was built on efforts of existing water sampling programs at Svartberget (

Although SITES lake sampling is now in full swing for the summer season, it is a good moment to highlight that winter fieldwork is just as essential to understanding lake ecosystems. The ThinIce project’s ice sampling campaigns, carried out earlier this year, are a key part of that year-round picture.