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Toward a unified understanding of people’s aversion to nature: biophobia Open
Human–nature relationships are often framed positively, but research rarely addresses biophobia, the aversion to nature. However, negative relationships with nature are likely to become more widespread following societal and environmental …
View article: Critical habitat thresholds for effective pollinator conservation in agricultural landscapes
Critical habitat thresholds for effective pollinator conservation in agricultural landscapes Open
Biodiversity in human-dominated landscapes is declining, but evidence-based conservation targets to guide international policies for such landscapes are lacking. We present a framework for informing habitat conservation policies based on t…
Evidence-based urban greening: a missing piece in biodiversity conservation Open
With calls for increased greenery in cities to safeguard biodiversity and its associated benefits to humans, urban vegetation must be managed carefully and efficiently. It is time to change paths from current spurious attempts to manufactu…
Learning Nonlinear Finite Element Solution Operators using Multilayer Perceptrons and Energy Minimization Open
We develop and evaluate a method for learning solution operators to nonlinear problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). The approach is based on a finite element discretization and aims at representing the solution operat…
View article: Pollinator‐mediated effects of landscape‐scale land use on grassland plant community composition and ecosystem functioning – seven hypotheses
Pollinator‐mediated effects of landscape‐scale land use on grassland plant community composition and ecosystem functioning – seven hypotheses Open
Environmental change is disrupting mutualisms between organisms worldwide. Reported declines in insect populations and changes in pollinator community compositions in response to land use and other environmental drivers have put the spotli…
Evolutionary plant–pollinator responses to anthropogenic land‐use change: impacts on ecosystem services Open
Agricultural intensification at field and landscape scales, including increased use of agrochemicals and loss of semi‐natural habitats, is a major driver of insect declines and other community changes. Efforts to understand and mitigate th…
Historical and citizen-reported data show shifts in bumblebee phenology over the last century in Sweden Open
Bumblebees are a key taxon contributing to the provision of crop pollination and ecosystem functioning. However, land use and climate change are two of the main factors causing bee decline across the world. In this study, we investigated h…
View article: The Swedish green infrastructure policy as a policy assemblage: What does it do for biodiversity conservation?
The Swedish green infrastructure policy as a policy assemblage: What does it do for biodiversity conservation? Open
Green infrastructure (GI) is increasingly used in policymaking to promote biodiversity and enhance ecosystem services through the protection, creation, restoration and connection of natural and man‐made green areas. The EU Commission adopt…
Citizen science initiatives increase pollinator activity in private gardens and green spaces Open
Wild insect pollinators are essential to cultivated and natural ecosystems globally. Today, many pollinator species are declining. One reason is a general lack of flowering habitats at landscape scales. However, urban areas, including priv…
Comparing pre-linguistic normalization models against US English listeners’ vowel perception Open
We investigate the role of pre-linguistic normalization in the perception of US English vowels.We train Bayesian ideal observer (IO) models on unnormalized or normalized acoustic cues to vowel identity using a phonetic database of 8 /h-VOW…
Backyard buzz: human population density modifies the value of vegetation cover for insect pollinators in a subtropical city Open
Urbanisation drives overall declines in insect pollinators. Although urban green spaces can provide suitable habitat for pollinators much remains to be learned about how urban landscapes either promote or negatively impact pollinators. We …
On optimal convergence rates for discrete minimizers of the Gross-Pitaevskii energy in LOD spaces Open
In this paper we revisit a two-level discretization based on the Localized Orthogonal Decomposition (LOD). It was originally proposed in [P.Henning, A.Målqvist, D.Peterseim. SIAM J. Numer. Anal.52-4:1525-1550, 2014] to compute ground state…
View article: Editorial: Habitat Modification and Landscape Fragmentation in Agricultural Ecosystems: Implications for Biodiversity and Landscape Multi-Functionality
Editorial: Habitat Modification and Landscape Fragmentation in Agricultural Ecosystems: Implications for Biodiversity and Landscape Multi-Functionality Open
Biodiversity is the basis of several important ecosystem functions, which guarantee the provision of irreplaceable Nature’s contribution to people, for example food production. Long-term maintenance of such functions and services in agricu…
Contrasting effects of tree origin and urbanization on invertebrate abundance and tree phenology Open
The ongoing wide‐scale introduction of nonnative plants across the world may negatively influence native invertebrate fauna, due to a lack of coevolved traits related to the novel plants, e.g., unique phytochemicals or shifted phenology. N…
Long-term data shows increasing dominance of Bombus terrestris with climate warming Open
While many bumblebee species decline due to climate and land-use changes, others cope well with contemporary conditions. One example is Bombus terrestris, which is common in intensively managed agricultural landscapes. During the 20th cent…
Efficient, automated and robust pollen analysis using deep learning Open
Pollen analysis is an important tool in many fields, including pollination ecology, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, honey quality control, and even medicine and forensics. However, labour‐intensive manual pollen analysis often constrains t…
Urban green spaces in Dhaka, Bangladesh, harbour nearly half the country’s butterfly diversity Open
Cities currently harbour more than half of the world’s human population and continued urban expansion replaces natural landscapes and increases habitat fragmentation. The impacts of urbanisation on biodiversity have been extensively studie…
Antiviral Activity, Pharmacokinetics, and Safety of BMS-488043, a Novel Oral Small-Molecule HIV-1 Attachment Inhibitor, in HIV-1-Infected Subjects Open
BMS-488043 is a novel and unique oral small-molecule inhibitor of the attachment of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) to CD4 + lymphocytes. The antiviral activity, pharmacokinetics, viral susceptibility, and safety of BMS-488043 …
Intensive management reduces butterfly diversity over time in urban green spaces Open
Loss and fragmentation of semi-natural grasslands have had negative consequences for grassland biodiversity, such as butterflies. Urban parks and other urban green spaces have so far largely been overlooked as suitable butterfly habitats, …
Urban and rural pollinators and pollination – When is the city green enough? Open
The declines of insect pollinators have largely been attributed to human induced land use changes such as farming intensification and concomitant landscape changes have been identified as major drivers1. Declines in pollinators are negativ…
When beggars are choosers—How nesting of a solitary bee is affected by temporal dynamics of pollen plants in the landscape Open
Wild bees are declining in intensively farmed regions worldwide, threatening pollination services to flowering crops and wild plants. To halt bee declines, it is essential that conservation actions are based on a mechanistic understanding …
Finite element convergence for the time-dependent Joule heating problem\n with mixed boundary conditions Open
We prove strong convergence for a large class of finite element methods for\nthe time-dependent Joule heating problem in three spatial dimensions with mixed\nboundary conditions on Lipschitz domains. We consider conforming subspaces for\nt…
A generalized finite element method for linear thermoelasticity Open
We propose and analyze a generalized finite element method designed for linear quasistatic thermoelastic systems with spatial multiscale coefficients. The method is based on the local orthogonal decomposition technique introduced by M{\aa}…
Sparing Land for Biodiversity at Multiple Spatial Scales Open
A common approach to the conservation of farmland biodiversity and the promotion of multifunctional landscapes, particularly in landscapes containing only small remnants of non-crop habitats, has been to maintain landscape heterogeneity an…
Food redistribution in Stockholm : A comparative analysis of two scenarios – with and without a food bank Open
Food waste is a serious problem in today’s society. Functional food waste is going to waste treatment while people are suffering from food insecurity. Food redistribution in form of a central food bank which collects food waste at food com…