Recently finalized projects
On this page we have gathered some of the finalized projects in BECC. They are listed in the following order:
- Postdoctoral projects
- Research projects
- Action Groups
Postdoctoral projects
Farm2forest: Evaluating impacts of agricultural policy reform on biodiversity and ecosystem services in mixed farming-forestry landscapes
Farming in marginal areas with its resulting mosaic of forests, afforestation, and active and passive farmland contributes to the maintenance of biodiversity and ecosystem services in Europe. Such areas are though heavily supported by Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) payments. It is unclear how projected CAP reform after 2020, in conjunction with the rise of the bio-based economy, will affect (1) the shares and spatial distribution of farming, forestry and intermediate land-use forms in marginal areas, (2) how and where biodiversity and ecosystem services will be affected at the landscape scale, and (3) what alternative policy (e.g. results-based payments, regional prioritization) might efficiently ensure their preservation. This project addresses these questions in a spatially-explicit manner for marginal farming areas in Sweden by explicitly considering interactions between agriculture and forestry, which has not been done before. Existing agricultural agent-based models will be extended for forestry using data compiled in this project. Predictions for the different policy scenarios will be translated to GIS landscape models, and available biodiversity and ecosystem models will be used to assess their impact. The project should contribute to better understanding and decision support when considering interactions between agriculture and forestry for biodiversity and ecosystem services policy in Europe.
Contact
Postdoc
Niklas Boke Olén - portal.research.lu.se
Centre for Environmental and Climate Science
niklas [dot] boke_olen [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se
+46 222 89 69
Collaborating researchers
Yann Clough (Centre for Environmental and Climate Science) - portal.research.lu.se
Cecilia Akselsson (Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science) - portal.research.lu.se
Johan Ekroos (Centre for Environmental and Climate Science) - portal.research.lu.se
Mark Brady (AgriFood Economics Centre, SLU) - portal.research.lu.se
Paul Caplat (Centre for Environmental and Climate Science) - portal.research.lu.se
The Arctic is a critical biome for biodiversity, biogeochemical cycling and ecosystem services but most research in the region is strongly clustered around a few locations. This means that scientific understanding of Arctic processes, which guide both predictive models and policy debates, probably disproportionately influence by only a few locations with environmental conditions which may or may not be representative of the biome as a whole. This project will use a unique map of Arctic scientific research to identify six sites representing the least studied regions of the Arctic then perform a wide-ranging, rapid field survey of key environmental properties at each site. These results will be compared with matching surveys at two of the most intensively studied Arctic sites. The results will provide key insights into the full range of environmental variation across the Arctic, thereby helping to improve predictions and models of whole-Arctic processes and conditions under climate change.
Contact
Postdoc
Henni Ylänne - portal.research.lu.se
Centre for Environmental and Climate Science
henni [dot] ylanne [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se
+46 46 222 89 39
Collaborating researchers
Johannes Rousk (Department of Biology) - portal.research.lu.se
Johan Uddling (Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg) - gu.se
A grand challenge for mankind is to fight climate change, which involves both reducing and reverting CO2 emissions. Soils store much more carbon (C) than the atmosphere, and it is microorganisms that govern whether C compounds remain in the soil, or whether they are disintegrated back to CO2. An important mechanism of long-term C storage is the physical stabilization of organic matter within the soil structure, meaning that C can be “hidden” from its decomposers in the complex matrix of soil aggregates, but the processes involved are not well understood.
We have studied the dynamic process of microbial soil aggregate formation, and the nature of fungal “gluing” exudates, with help of different synchrotron light techniques at MAX IV laboratory, and in collaboration at the Canadian Light Source. We have combined these micro-scale studies with experiments at field scale, where we probed a soil aggregate structure gradient and investigated the amount of spatio-physical inaccessible C in relation to its aggregate stability. Understanding the mechanisms of physical C stabilization is the basis to identify soil cultivation techniques which foster this process, and to be able to increase the C sink potential of our soils by convincing agriculture and forestry policy makers.
Contact
Postdoc
Milda Pucetaite - portal.research.lu.se
Centre for Environmental and Climate Science
milda [dot] pucetaite [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se
+46 46 222 47 80
Collaborating researchers
Edith Hammer (Department of Biology) - portal.research.lu.se
Leif Klemedtsson (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg) - gu.se
Per Persson (Centre for Environmental and Climate Science) - portal.research.lu.se
Climate change will cause extreme fluctuations in precipitation and temperatures generating intense drought and rainfall events. This will affect the functioning of most ecosystems, and the most severely affected include the world’s poorest and food security challenged nations, including Ethiopia. Microorganisms control decomposition of organic matter (OM), and
dominate the terrestrial contribution to the carbon (C) cycle. Our aim is to incorporate understanding of microbial community processes into the ecosystem model LPJ-Guess – a central BECC priority. This ambitious aim is made feasible by drawing results from funded projects.
We have:
1. Defined the dependence on moisture of microbial processes and scale this information to ecosystem, regional and global levels with LPJ-Guess.
2. Determined and incorporate both long-term and short-term legacy effects of drought on microbial functions to estimate how ecosystem carbon-budgets respond to environmental change.
3. Distinguished between microbial community and physiochemical mechanisms within modelled ecosystem carbon balances.
4. Determined how plant input modulates the microbial resilience to drought by coupling above- and belowground processes in LPJ-Guess.
5. Applied a revised LPJ-Guess (1-4) to simulate the carbon pool fate for Ethiopia, and arid regions in general.
Contact
Postdoc
Albert C Brangarí - portal.research.lu.se
Centre for Environmental and Climate Science
albert [dot] brangari [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se
+46 46 222 86 33
Collaborating researchers
Johannes Rousk (Department of Biology) - portal.research.lu.se
Paul Miller (Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science) - portal.research.lu.se
Dan Metcalfe (Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science) - portal.research.lu.se
Edith Hammer (Department of Biology) - portal.research.lu.se
Green infrastructure (GI) has been launched as a concept and policy tool to improve biodiversity conservation and support of multiple ecosystem services, by including it into large-scale land-use planning under a changing climate and land-use changes. Therefore, how different actors understand GI may have profound consequences on biodiversity conservation across Europe within the next decades. To understand challenges and opportunities that this development imposes on biodiversity conservation, we urgently need research on the links between the underlying scientific evidence base for effective conservation strategies and the conceptualization and implementation of GI across multiple governance levels.
This project has:
1) reviewed the ecological literature to establish to which extent organisms occurring in the fragmented landscapes are limited by dispersal
2) tracked the conceptual evolution of GI within peer-reviewed literature and in policy documents to better understand the interconnectedness or lack of such between science and policy in the area of GI.
3) mapped systematically how GI is understood by policy actors at different scales to establish the degree to which evidence has informed decisions.
This interdisciplinary postdoc project has established close collaboration between ecologists, environmental scientists and political scientists within the BECC community and provide a platform for planning future joint research.
Contact
Postdoc
Maria von Post - portal.research.lu.se
Department of Biology
maria [dot] von_post [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se
+46 46 222 38 22
Collaborating researchers
Johan Ekroos (Centre for Environmental and Climate Science) - portal.research.lu.se
Åsa Knaggård (Department of Political Science) - portal.research.lu.se
Ola Olsson (Department of Biology) - portal.research.lu.se
Anna Persson (Centre for Environmental and Climate Science) - portal.research.lu.se
Johanna Alkan Olsson (Centre for Environmental and Climate Science) - portal.research.lu.se
Research projects
- application to ecosystem services provided in the forest and agricultural sector.
Many environmental resources are characterized as public goods including biodiversity, carbon storage, water, soil and air quality. In this project, we are interested in the forest and agriculture as suppliers of public goods, more specifically forest soil quality and biodiversity conservation which is particularly threatened by the use of pesticides. Generally, individuals have little incentive to voluntarily provide public goods because they are reluctant to incur private cost for everyone to benefit from their contribution, and they may believe others would contribute to this public good. Still, the provision of public goods is a social dilemma which relies on a tradeoff between individuals’ self-interests and collective interests. This makes individual behavior worthwhile study ng in such a context where stakeholders (citizens, farmers, forest owners, NGOs, policy-makers) interact one with another to provide public goods. While the provision of public goods has widely been studied in the literature, we focus on two issues which are few or not tackled.
1- We aim to investigate the way stakeholders’ preferences shape themselves over private and public goods: this is what we call the structure of preferences or payoffs. By structure of preferences, we mean: how do private and public environmental goods combine in providing wellbeing to a given stakeholder? Are these goods perceived as rather complements or substitutes within stakeholders’ preferences? In economics, the widespread assumption is that private and public goods are perfectly substitutable, which seems restrictive. Related to our application, forests both provide soil quality as a public good and wood used for private purposes (e.g. building, heating). Forest owners and citizens for example may have a different perception of the relationship (substitutability or complementarity) between the benefits they get from forest soil quality (e.g. lower acidification) and wood production. How can we determine this underlying relationship and how does it affect forest soil quality and the services it provides to society?
2- We aim to evaluate the efficiency and social acceptability of policy instruments when it comes to reducing the use of pesticides which severely affects biodiversity. While efficiency has widely been studied, social acceptability may play a role as important as efficiency in the decision process and especially regarding its consequences after implementation (e.g. strikes postponing or canceling the policy implementation). This research question will be applied to the reduction of the use of pesticides in the agricultural field since there is a large range of policies (and associated instruments) both at the national and European levels that can be explored.
Contact
Project leader
Department of Economics
jessica [dot] coria [at] economics [dot] gu [dot] se
+46 31 786 48 67
Collaborating researchers
Postdoc: Marion Dupoux (Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg) - gu.se
Cecilia Akselsson (Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science) - portal.lu.se
Climate change has been heralded as presenting agriculture with opportunities, particularly a longer growing season, new crops and higher yields. However, the risks associated with crop production will increase if the weather (e.g., daily rainfall and temperatures) becomes more variable, because it could bring about more frequent dry or wet conditions, as well as more intense weather events. Conserving soil biodiversity (natural capital) and associated supporting ecosystem services (ES) can though provide farmers and society in general with insurance against future risks.
Contact
Project leader
Mark Brady - portal.research.lu.se
AgriFood Economics Centre, SLU
mark [dot] brady [at] agrifood [dot] lu [dot] se
+46 722 370429
Collaborating researchers
Postdoc: Nils Droste (Department of Political Science) - portal.research.lu.se
Wilhelm May (Centre for Environmental and Climate Science) - portal.research.lu.se
Yann Clough (Centre for Environmental and Climate Science) - portal.research.lu.se
Katarina Hedlund (Department of Biology) - portal.research.lu.se
The overall goal of this project is to enable stakeholders, including beekeepers, crop growers, land managers and policy makers, to manage agricultural landscapes to support healthy pollinator populations and reliable pollination service delivery. Animal pollinators, mostly bees, provide pollination services to the majority of flowering plants and benefit crop yields. The agricultural sector relies heavily on synthetic pesticides to protect crops from pest damage and this reliance is predicted to increase in a future warmer and wetter climate. Already now, each decade is warmer than the preceding and precipitation over northern Europe is increasing. It has been shown that increased precipitation and warmer weather will result in increased pest pressure and per area pesticide use in major crops, resulting in increased pesticide exposure to bees foraging in agricultural landscapes.
This project aims to identify and quantify the effects of pesticide exposure (risks) and forage availability (benefits) to bees so that agricultural landscapes can be managed for healthy bee populations and reliable pollination services. A landscape quality index of forage resources and pesticide use will be created and validated against pollen collected from honeybees and bumblebees situated within red clover fields. This validated landscape quality index will then be related to the health of the bee colonies in these fields and the pollination services that they provide. These findings will provide farmers with a better understanding of the impacts that their management practices may have and beekeepers with information on the best locations for their bees.
Contact
Project leader
Maj Rundlöf - portal.research.lu.se
Department of Biology
maj [dot] rundlof [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se
+46 46 222 95 61
Collaborating researchers
Postdoc: Jessica Knapp (Department of Biology) - portal.research.lu.se
Björn Klatt (Department of Biology) - portal.research.lu.se
Ullrika Sahlin (Centre for Environmental and Climate Science) - portal.research.lu.se
Loss of biodiversity is largely driven by increased landscape simplification and increased land-use intensity in production landscapes. Although both drivers of biodiversity loss are conceptually well-known, there is a general lack of tools to describe land-use intensity at spatial scales relevant to determinants of biodiversity, in particular regarding mobile organisms utilising multiple habitats across landscapes.
Possibilities to develop indicators of land-use intensity on relevant spatial scales have constantly improved in terms of grain accuracy, exemplified by the recently launched Sentinel-2 satellites for high-resolution remote sensing. While these methods now have the potential to revolutionise research in landscape ecology, remote sensing methods have been underutilised because of lack of communication between researchers in landscape ecology and remote sensing (Pettorelli et al. 2014). This project will bridge this gap by identifying ecologically relevant indicators of land-use intensity based on cutting-edge methods in remote sensing and other GIS sources to analyse responses in biotic communities.
Apart from (1) fostering collaboration between ecology and physical geography and significantly advancing research in landscape ecology, we will (2) synthesise the literature on consequences of increasing land-use intensity on biodiversity, with a particular focus on the pros and cons of different ways to measure land-use intensity, and (3) facilitate the development of a tool integrating various sources of land-cover and land-use intensity with the intention to benefit future research in landscape ecology and related disciplines in BECC.
Contact
Project leader
Johan Ekroos - portal.research.lu.se
Centre for Environmental and Climate Science
johan [dot] ekroos [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se
+46 46 222 86 30
Collaborating researchers
Lars Eklundh (Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science) - portal.research.lu.se
Lars Pettersson (Department of Biology) - portal.research.lu.se
Åke Lindström (Department of Biology) - portal.research.lu.se
Peter Olsson (Centre for Environmental and Climate Science) - portal.research.lu.se
Recent studies have predicted dramatic declines in biodiversity in the face of projected climate change and habitat destruction1. However, these studies have primarily been based on models of species’ current climatic tolerances, which disregards life’s evolving capacity. A better understanding of historical responses to the challenges and opportunities of climate and landscape changes may allow “hindcasting” life’s response to change in the past and forecasting how it may respond to future change. This project applied recently developed statistical approaches, robust time-calibrated phylogenetic trees, rich species occurrence data, and remote sensing techniques to develop a general predictive framework for biodiversity responses. Our approach (learning from the past to predict the future) was transdisciplinary and has been seldom explored. We contribute to BECC’s mission by providing empirical validation of novel methodology with potential for designing strategies for conservation and landscape planning.
Contact
Project leader
Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg
alexandre [dot] antonelli [at] bioenv [dot] gu [dot] se
+46 703 98 95 70
Collaborating researchers
Postdoc: Nicolas Chazot (now at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) - slu.se
Rutger A Vos (Institute of Biology, Universiteit Leiden) - universiteitleiden.nl
Niklas Wahlberg (Department of Biology) - portal.research.lu.se
Johan Ekroos (Centre for Environmental and Climate Science) - portal.research.lu.se
The aim of this project was to predict how plants will adapt their flowering times to climatic changes.
Specifically we have:
- enhanced life-history theory for plants by taking into account temperature and daylength as cues to control flowering times in seasonal environments.
- validated the theory in growth experiments at different latitudes with five lines of barley differing genetically in their use of these cues.
- tested the predictions using four plant species which include rare or invasive taxa. Our long-term vision is a genetically informed life-history theory that can be applied in climate adaptation and mitigation, e.g. to;
- predict outcomes of assisted colonization of threatened species by identifying regions where they may thrive, become invasive or face unsuitable climates.
- assist crop plant breeding or selection among existing cultivars by predicting which flowering time strategies will maximize yields in different regions.
- help to understand adaptations of invasive species, which are often phenologically distinct and may have range limits caused by daylength requirements.
Contact
Project leader
Jacob Johansson - portal.research.lu.se
Department of Biology
jacob [dot] johansson [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se
+46 708275247
Collaborating researchers
Postdoc: Shakhira Zakhrabekova (Department of Biology) - portal.research.lu.se
Mats Hansson (Department of Biology) - portal.research.lu.se
Stefan Andersson (Department of Biology) - portal.research.lu.se
Åslög Dahl (Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg) - gu.se
Anna Maria Jönsson (Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science) - portal.research.lu.se
Northern peatlands are one of the main terrestrial carbon reservoirs and a key feature of the boreal landscape. Current climate change threatens the functioning of these ecosystems and hence the fate of their carbon reservoir is highly uncertain; e.g. mires in Southern Sweden have shrubified in the past 100 years for unknown reasons.
The diversity of plant communities in mire ecosystems reflects the mosaic of their microtopographic features. We can assume that the differences in the quality of the organic material provided by different plant communities is reflected in the diversity of microbial communities. These microbial communities are responsible for processing carbon compounds and as such control to a large part the greenhouse gas (GHG) budgets of mires.
The change in vegetation and associated microbial communities can thus alter the GHG budgets of mire ecosystems. Of these, especially methane (CH4) is of great importance, as it partially counteracts the mitigating effect of increased carbon dioxide (CO2) uptake. Wetland ecosystems are the largest source of methane in Sweden and the largest natural source globally.
The mosaic-like nature of wetland vegetation results in spatially varying CH4 emissions. Similarly, the responses of vegetation communities to changing climate occur in this mosaic.
The main aim of the proposed project was to better constrain methane emissions from the microtopographic mosaic of the mire ecosystem and to upscale it from microbial community level to ecosystem and landscape scale.
Contact
Project leader
Janne Rinne - portal.research.lu.se
Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science
janne [dot] rinne [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se
+46 46 222 40 19
Collaborating researchers
Natascha Kljun (Centre for Environmental and Climate Science) - portal.research.lu.se
Lena Ström (Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science) - portal.research.lu.se
Leif Klemedtsson (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg) - gu.se
Johannes Edvardsson (Department of Geology) - portal.research.lu.se
The aim of the project was:
- To develop experimental protocols that will allow the characterization of organic colloids in field samples exposed to minimal manipulation using X-ray scattering and X-ray absorption techniques at the MAX IV synchrotron facility.
- To characterize the colloidal properties of organic matter in water from different landscapes elements, and thereby make connections between environmental factors and the properties of colloidal organic matter.
- To explore temporal effects in colloidal organic matter.
- To follow the variation of colloidal organic matter in a complete catchment area.
- To determine the mutual effects of the interactions between Fe and colloidal organic matter, and their influence on organic matter transport and Fe redox chemistry.
Contact
Project leader
Per Persson - portal.researcher.lu.se
Centre for Environmental and Climate Science
per [dot] persson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se
+46 46 222 17 96
Collaborating researchers
Postdoc: Viktoriia Meklesh (Centre for Environmental and Climate Science) - portal.research.lu.se
Anders Tunlid (Department of Biology) - portal.research.lu.se
Ulf Olsson (Department of Chemistry) - portal.research.lu.se
Growing evidence shows that tropical forests are highly sensitive to climate change and variability. There are pronounced negative effects of warm and dry conditions during El Niño years (Lewis et al. 2011). Unusually warm and dry years have become more common lately, probably explaining the decline of the Amazon carbon sink since the early 1990s (Brienen et al. 2015). These negative effects of hot and dry conditions on tropical forest biomass were caused by increased tree mortality rather than by decreased productivity of living trees. Improved understanding of the causes of tropical tree mortality is thus critical for more reliable predictions of the global carbon cycle in a changing climate.
The mechanisms causing drought-induced tree mortality is a matter of intense debate in the literature (McDowell et al. 2011). Two competing hypotheses suggest that it is either primarily caused by hydraulic failure of the water conducting tissue and subsequent desiccation, or by stomatal water-saving responses leading to decreased photosynthesis and subsequent tissue carbohydrate starvation. Controlled experiments have shown that both mechanisms may trigger tree mortality, and that they are highly interdependent. However, we still know little regarding why trees in nature die under dry and hot conditions. What are the functional traits predisposing trees to mortality? Do the same traits control both heat- and drought-induced mortality? Can tree mortality be predicted by a relatively simple trait-based model, suitable for future incorporation into dynamic vegetation models?
Contact
Project leader
Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg
johan [dot] uddling [at] bioenv [dot] gu [dot] se
+46 703 88 13 57
Collaborating researchers
Göran Wallin (Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg) - gu.se
Dan Metcalfe (Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science) - portal.research.lu.se
The aim of this research project was to explore stories about forests and examine the potential power they have to generate political, economic and social responses to the challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss in the Swedish forests. Through focusing on desire and grief, and the potentially conflicting stories they generate, we explored new ways by which ecosystems services can be understood and engaged.
Woodworlds – Stories of desire and grief in Swedish forests - portal.research.lu.se
Contact
Project leader
Johannes Stripple - portal.research.lu.se
Department of Political Science
johannes [dot] stripple [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se
+46 46 222 04 88
Collaborating researchers
Postdoc: Alexandra Nikoleris (Environmental and Energy Systems Studies, LTH) - portal.reserach.lu.se
Anna Maria Jönsson (Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science) - portal.research.lu.se
Paul Miller - (Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science) - portal.research.lu.se
Johan Uddling (Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg) - gu.se
Action Groups
Soil as a tool for climate change mitigation: can it really buy us the time that we need?
Action Group leader:
Edith Hammer (Department of Biology) - portal.research.lu.se
Aquatic-terrestrial interactions in agricultural landscapes
Action Group leader:
Björn Klatt (Department of Biology) - portal.research.lu.se
Aquatic-terrestrial interactions in agricultural landscapes - portal.research.lu.se
V-Bio: Assessing the link between biodiversity and democracy
Action Group leaders: Alexandre Antonelli and Allison Perrigo
A methodological road map to value changes in forest ecosystem services under alternative
Action Group leaders: Giuliana Zanchi and Mark Brady
Microbial responses to drought and drought cycles in soil (MICRODRY)
Action Group leader: Johannes Rousk
Microbial responses to drought and drought cycles in soil (MICRODRY) – portal.research.lu.se
Identifying gaps and priorities in Arctic environmental research
Action Group leader: Dan Metcalfe
Identifying gaps and priorities in Arctic environmental research – portal.research.lu.se
Evidence relying on simulation models and expert judgment
Action Group leader: Ullrika Sahlin
Evidence relying on simulation models and expert judgment – portal.research.lu.se
Initiating collaboration between BECC and ESG
Action Group leaders: Kristin Aleklett and Maja Essebo
EnviroSync (Synchrotron applications in environmental sciences)
Action Group leader: Edith Hammer
EnviroSync (Synchrotron applications in environmental sciences) – portal.research.lu.se
Towards more reliable estimates of past climates applicable for ecosystem modelling. Integrating proxy based climate reconstructions with GCM simulations
Action Group leader: Anneli Poska
Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Plant Ecosystems Across Time and Space
Action Group leaders: Alexandre Antonelli and Johan Uddling
Nutrient weathering from rocks
Action Group leader: Louise Andresen
Nutrient weathering from rocks – portal.research.lu.se
Stakeholder Interaction in Research Processes
Action Group leader: Daniel Slunge
Multifunctional landscapes: trade-offs between ecosystem services in farmland
Action Group leader: Tina D'Hertefeldt
Consequences of phenological shifts for wild and managed ecosystems in Sweden
Action Group leader: Jacob Johansson
Constraints on range-shifts: consequences for conservation strategies
Action Group leader: Nils Cronberg
Arctic tree line dynamics: drivers, consequences and challenges
Action Group leader: Anna Ekberg
Land-sea interactions in a long time perspective
Action Group leaders: Anneli Poska and Anne Birgitte Nielsen
Microbial control of global biogeochemical cycles (MICROGLOBE)
Action Group leader: Johannes Rousk
Sustainable forestry in a changing climate
Action Group leaders: Cecilia Akselsson and Per Bengtson
Constraints on range-shifts: consequences for conservation strategies
Action Group leader: Fredrik Haas
Scenarios and climate data
Action Group leader: Veiko Lehsten
Multifunctional landscapes: trade-offs between ecosystem services in farmland
Action Group leader: Klaus Birkhof
Effects of ozone, carbon dioxide and temperature on crops and forests in a global change perspective
Action Group leader: Johan Uddling
Monitoring Forests and the Effects of Forestry Governance in a Changing Climate – an interdisciplinary analysis of ecological, social and economic implications
Action Group leader: Fariborz Zelli and Fredrik Lagergren
The influence of climate change and forest management on nutrient cycling and N leaching - an integrated empirical and modelling approach
Action Group leader: Nicholas Rosentstock
Land-sharing vs. land-sparing in a changing climate: consequences for ecosystem services and biodiversity
Action Group leader: Johan Ekroos
Data assimilation and multi-model integration
Action Group leader: Johan Lindström