“People all over the world aspire to have water closets,” says Håkan Jönsson at the Department of Biometry and Engineering, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. “A WC brings status.”
“But with ecological sanitation they would have not only a good toilet but also good fertilizer that can make them money by increasing their yield. What’s more, it’s good for the environment.”
Ecological sanitation means separating urine and feces and using them as fertilizer after removing contagious substances. The result is a functioning closed nutritional cycle. What’s more, this saves water, since the amounts used are minimized and it is less polluted.
Håkan.Jönsson@bt.slu.se, phone: +46 18-67 10 00
13 January, 2017 - SLU
Infertile shrublands in Australia host an exceptionally high number of plant species. How the species can coexist while competing for limiting resources has puzzled ecologists for decades. Researchers, including two from SLU, suggest that part of the answer for such high plant diversity could reside in the myriad of root-associated organisms that live in soils. The study is published in Science.
30 July, 2015 - SLU
It is in moderately complex landscapes that it is most effective to deploy local conservation management measures to enhance biodiversity, such as flowering border zones. The SLU-researcher Mattias Jonsson has together with colleagues from New Zealand, Australia and USA recently published evidence for this in Journal of Applied Ecology.
26 June, 2015 - SLU
The genome of the parasite that is causing clubroot disease on several agricultural and horticultural crops is now released. The new knowledge will hopefully be useful to develop better diagnostic methods, breeding strategies and elucidating the biology of this unique plant pathogen group.
9 October, 2014 - SLU
Ultraviolet patterns can make window glass visible to birds, thus preventing fatal collisions. However, it has now been shown that such windows are not likely to work for all species, but only for birds like small passerines, gulls and parrots, who have a special type of colour vision. For birds of prey, geese, pigeons and crows, these patterns should be difficult to detect. These conclusions appear today in an article by Olle HĂĄstad and Anders Ă–deen in PeerJ.
Expertsvar, The Swedish Research Council, Hantverkargatan 11B, Stockholm SWEDENPhone +46(0)8 546 44 000
P.O. Box 1035, SE-101 38 Stockholm, expertsvar@vr.se
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