• Differences in metabolic profiles between the Burmese, the Maine Coon and the Birman cat - three breeds with varying risk for diabetes mellitus

Feline diabetes mellitus shares many features with type 2 diabetes in people, regarding clinical presentation, physiology, and pathology. A breed predisposition for type 2 diabetes has been identified, with the Burmese b...

• Evaluating created wetlands for bird diversity and reproductive success

The conducted study was done in order to investigate what habitat characteristics could explain breeding wetland bird diversity and reproductive success in created wetlands in Uppland, Sweden. The geographical study unit...

• Diameter growth of trees in miombo and acacia woodland in an eroded landscape in NE Tanzania

Diameter growth of 15 tree species in miombo and acacia woodland was monitored. All in all 239 individuals with a diameter >3 cm were measured intermittently from 1991 to 2010, in permanent plots. Growth rate per species...

• Post-fire vegetation succession after 5 years in managed pine forests at different time since clearcutting

To study plant community succession after fire and how it is influenced by time since previous (pre-fire) disturbance, vegetation data were collected in 2019, 5 years after a large (13000 hectare) wildfire in boreal Sout...

• Antibiotic use on small- and medium-sized pig farms – farmers’ knowledge and practices in North-eastern Thailand

The data was collected in October to December 2018 through structured interviews with farmers on small- and medium-sized pig farms in Khon Kaen province in northeastern Thailand. Small farms were categorized as farms kee...

• Cutting edge: A comparison of contemporary practices of riparian buffer retention around headwaters in Canada, Finland and Sweden

These data describe 286 small streams in Canada, Sweden and Finland and the conditions of their riparian buffers. All the study streams were subject to forest harvest between 2010 and 2016 and riparian buffers were left ...

• Global analysis of the slope of forest land

Forests of the world constitute one third of the total land area and are critical for e.g. carbon balance, biodiversity, water supply, and as source for bio-based products. Although the terrain within forest land has a g...

• Perceptions and practices among Zambian sheep and goat traders concerning small ruminant health and disease

The data is collected at the two largest small livestock markets in Zambia, i.e. Lusaka and Kasumbalesa small livestock markets, in April, May, September 2018, and November 2019. The main method of data collection is sem...

• Formation and mobilization of methylmercury across natural and experimental sulfur deposition gradients

Examine methylation of mercury in a west-east gradient in southern Sweden to cover a natural sulfur-deposition gradient. Peat samples were taken at a depth of 5-30 cm below the surface between May 15 and June 12 in 2003.

• Habitat patchiness, ecological connectivity and the uneven recovery of boreal stream ecosystems from an experimental drought

In an outdoor mesocosm experiment, we investigated how impacts of drought on boreal stream ecosystems are altered by the spatial arrangement of local habitat patches within stream channels, and variation in ecological co...