Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences

Welcome to BioEnv!

At BioEnv we give courses and programs and conduct research within areas dealing with the world around us. Biology is the the study of life, that is all living organisms and the processes that control them, whereas environmental sciences focus on the interplay between humans and nature.
You find us in the Botanical building (close to the Botanical garden) and the Zoology building (at Medicinareberget) in Gothenburg as well as at Kristineberg Marine Research Station in Fiskebäckskil.

News and events

Here you find news from the department and upcoming seminars, dissertations and other events

News – 28 November 2022

Seagrass crucial to stemming the tide of coastal erosion

The sea devours large tracts of land when storms wash sand out to sea from the coast. In a new study involving a researcher…

News

Ocean
Seagrass crucial to stemming the tide of coastal
erosion
Science and Information Technology
Kristina “Snuttan” Sundell receives the Faculty of Science’s 2022 Synergy
Award
Science and Information Technology
Researchers have developed a super wheat for salty
soils
Science and Information Technology
AI can help preserve
biodiversity
Sustainability and environment
Tobias Andermann awarded by H.M. King Carl XVI
Gustaf

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news

Biologist guards the goal for Frölunda HC

In 2020, Stephanie Neatby left Princeton University for Sweden. The goal is to become an even better ice-hockey goalie - and…

News – 27 September 2022

Trees get overheated in a warmer rainforest

The ability of rainforests to store carbon can decrease in pace with climate change. This is due to photosynthesis rates in…

Vacancies

Associate Senior Lecturer in plant ecology and biodiversity

New deadline: December 12, 2022

Scolarship

Postdoctoral scholarship in global change ecology

Deadline: January 3, 2023

Scolarship

Postdoctoral scholarship in the Genomics of Climate Change

Deadline: December 31, 2022

Events

Start date 8 Dec 2022

Science and Information Technology
Zoology seminar: The fish move indoors: fish welfare in
RAS

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events

Lecture

Volvo Environment Prize seminars 2022

Since the first award in 1990 the Volvo Environment Prize has become one of the scientific world’s most respected…

30 Nov

About our educations

We offer courses and programs at both graduate and undergraduate level, in mainly biology and environmental science

Study here

At the department we teach students in mainly biology and environmental sciences. Most are enrolled to one of our Bachelor…

Our courses and programs

About our research

At the department we study diverse organisms in many different habitats and from many different perspectives

Our research

The research the department covers topics spanning from cellular level to population and ecosystems. We study plants and…

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Research groups at BioEnv

Research story/portrait

Hi there, Prof. Bethanie Carney Almroth

We've sat down with Prof. Bethanie Carney Almroth, researcher at the Dept. of Biological and Environmental Sciences at the…

Herbarium GB

Herbarium GB is a common research infrastructure at the University of Gothenburg, located at the Department of Biological…

Herbarium

Herbarium GB dates back to the 18th century and is a university-wide research infrastructure at the University of Gothenburg, with placement at the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Here, dried plants, fungi, algae, etc. are stored for comparative and evolutionary studies.