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Extreme polar light environment of the North and South Poles sustains biodiversity

https://www.utu.fi/en/news/press-release/extreme-polar-light-environment-of-the-north-and-south-poles-sustains

Does the world’s most widely used pesticide fuel global pollinator decline?

Blog post by Benjamin Fuchs about his research funded by the Sakari Alhopuro Foundation: Pollination decline is among the gravest...

bumblebees on purple flowers.

New article on glyphosate-based herbicide effects on bumblebees garners international attention

Press release News Researchers at the Universities of Turku and Oulu, Finland, found out how Roundup, a herbicide containing glyphosate,...

Our article received the Elias Tillandz Prize for the best scientific paper

Researchers of the Biodiversity Unit and the Department of Biology at the University of Turku won this year’s Elias Tillandz...

New funding to Ben from the Finnish Cultural Foundation

Finnish Cultural Foundation grants funding for Dr. Benjamin Fuchs to study the effects of herbicide residues in soil on plant-insect...

Seminar day at Paimio Sanatorium

The helandersaikkonenlab met for a seminar day at Paimio Sanatorium, which is one of the arcitectural master pieces of Alvar...

Grand Opening of the Bumblebee Lab

Today we celebrated the start of exciting studies on bumblebee learning behaviour and whether it is affected by glyphosate-based herbicides!...

Video shoot for Suni`s recent paper in JoVe

We published the methodology to quantify the potential impact of glyphosate-based herbicides on microbial compositions in non-target organisms in the...

New article: Dark septate endophytes: mutualism from by-products?

Ruotsalainen A. L., Kauppinen M., Wäli P. R., Saikkonen K., Helander M. & Tuomi J. 2022. Dark septate endophytes: by-product...