2024-07-05

Open access on the rise in life science

90 percent of the articles from SciLifeLab in 2023 were published open access. There are obvious advantages in publishing open access, according to Christopher Erdmann, head of open science at SciLifeLab.

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2024-07-04

Do hunting and fishing bring us closer to nature?

Buying fish, sausage or meat saves you from breaking a social taboo in some industrialized nations, especially when hunting and fishing are conducted for recreation. In an article in Nature Sustainability, a research team including Erica von Essen at Stockholm Resilience Centre, adds a new perspective to the topic of "recreational use of wild animals".

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2024-07-03

Many populations too small to sustain genetic diversity

A new global study shows that more than half of the studied populations are too small to maintain enough genetic diversity to safeguard adaptive capacity. Genetic indicators for 919 species, representing more than 5 000 populations, have been assessed.

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