Uppsats för avläggande av filosofie kandidatexamen i Kulturvård, Landskapsvårdens hantverk 15 hp, 2013.

This degree project is based on my personal relation and engagement to the small-scaled cultural landscape. My viewpoint is the village Torpa in Östergötland. My observations of the changes and development together with the stories of the village people has lead me to the questioning about the future prospects of the small-scaled cultural landscape. The rationalization of the society and our urban culture has lead to big changes in the cultural landscape and the people have reduced to a small crowd. Fewer and fewer hands are managing the small-scaled cultural landscape and fewer and fewer young people have connection to this kind of landscape and its management.

This report is a result of a first survey of Halland?s gravel pits as an assignment from the County Administrative Board of Halland. The focus has been on Apalus bimaculatus, since the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency are creating a restoration program as it is red listed as Near Threatened. The purpose was also to get an overview of the pits since the County Administrative Board wants to continue this project. Apalus bimaculatus is easy to overlook since it is a short-lived beetle and it lives early in the spring.

Köphultasjön är en sjö som ligger inom Lagans dräneringsområde mellan SkånesFagerhult och Markaryd. Köphultasjö och dess närområde har under årens lopp utsatts avolika typer av påverkan, både naturlig och antropogen.Detta examensarbete undersöker och analyserar orsaker till Köphultasjöns igenväxning.Vidare beskrivs processer, som antas påverka igenväxningen av Köphultasjö, med hjälpav en igenväxningsmodell.De främsta indikatorerna på igenväxning av en sjö är gungfly och vass. Förekomsten avgungfly och vass pekar på både naturlig och antropogen igenväxning av Köphultasjö.Naturlig och antropogen igenväxningen av sjön har bekräftats med egna observationer ifält. Den naturliga igenväxningen motsvaras av den gungflyartade vegetationen, som harringa utbredning. Den nutida utbredningen av igenväxning består till en större del av vassän av gungfly.

Biodiversity is under threat in Sweden and many species are on the brink of extinction. This is mainly due to the large-scale drainage projects during the 19th and 20th century and the increasingly intensive land use in agriculture and forestry. The intensive land use with sharply defined boundaries between the production units has in many cases led to either overgrazing or Overgrowing. As a result many species have been pushed back to "leftover" habitats like shooting ranges, power line corridors, roadsides, dumps, embankments and other similar areas. Therefore the question has been raised, wether or not it is needed to re-introduce large herbivores into the wild in order to maintain the biodiversity that is related to the extensive land use.This study has been conducted as a literature review and will focus on the European bison?s (Bison bonasus) impact on other species and biodiversity; conditions for reintroducing large herbivores in Sweden are also discussed.Free roaming populations of large herbivores have a positive impact on plants, insects and many other groups of organisms.