Theses and student projects
Last changed: 05 December 2023
PhD and master students have been associated to several of the projects and below you find links to their work and to student projects. The studies are totally or partly funded by SLU Ekoforsk
Doctoral theses - from SLU:s database of publications (SLUpub)
Crop and garden production
- Diversified agroecosystems for biodiversity and ecosystem services : Ecological intensification of faba bean cropping under land use and climate change
- Pollination and pest control in red clover seed production
- Effects of intercropping on the turnip root fly (Delia floralis)
- The cabbage root fly and the lily leaf beetle
- Population dynamics of perennial sow-thistle (Sonchus arvensis)
- Integrated weed management against Creeping thistle (Cirsium arvense)
- Resource efficient control of couch grass (Elymus repens)
- Corky-root in tomato
- Impact of Brassicaceae cover crops on pea root rot
- Plant-based biogas production
- Potassium in the soil
Animal husbandry
- Finishing pigs - welfare, performance and emissions in a stationary housing system
- Erysipelas in laying hens
- Mussel meal in feed for poultry
- Vitamins E and A to dairy cows
- Domestic protein feeds in dairy production, potential of rapeseed feeds and red clover
Master theses/student projects - from SLU:s database of publications (SLUpub); some in Swedish with abstract in English
Crop and garden production
- Bumblebee resource dynamics
- Cut fallow to replace black fallow against couch grass
- Effect of ryegrass and red clover on couch grass
- Tussilago farfara – effect of fragmentation and soil depth
- Chocolate spot on faba beans
- Faba beans to replace meat
- Intercropping faba beans and wheat – effect on nitrogen
- Intercropping faba beans and wheat – proximity to Poplar trees
- Effect of cover crops on pathogens
- Plant protection measures for limitation of root diseases on tomato
- Effects of different mycorrhizas on the quality of Northern highbush blueberries
Animal husbandry
- Methods for parasitological examination in sheep herds
- Effects of silage and haylage on feed intake, growth and health in two meat type chicken genotypes
- Perching behaviour during night-time in slow growing broiler (Gallus gallus domesticus) hybrids
- Perching behaviour and disturbance during sleep in three hybrids of broiler chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
- Behaviour in organic broilers – a comparison between two slow growing hybrids.
- Individual variation in live weight of slow-growing broiler chickens – effects on the classification
- Environmental tolerance of the free-living stages of the poultry roundworm (Ascaridia galli)
- Compact total mixed ration to dairy cows – effects on feed hygiene, feed intake, rumen environment and milk production
- Compact total mixed ration to dairy cows – effects on behavior, time budget and milk production
- Cow traffic in automatic milking systems in relation to mixed rations
- Feeding to dairy cows in AMS with free cow traffic
- Methane production from dairy cows
- The impact of parasites on cattle on pasture
- Gait and weight gain in relation to pig exterior
- Outdoor area with peat for finishing pigs
Evaluation of research