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Published 9 August 2016 Global environmental changes caused by a warmer climate can be combatted on a local level. The quality of our drinking water can be improved before it reaches water purification facilities and consumers through…

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/local-measures-could-save-our-water-climate-heats- 2023-05-05

Aims to analyse climate response in flowering time and phenological mismatch using records from herbarium specimens. Phenological data have emerged as effective tools for studying the impact of climate change on demographic processes. Of…

https://www.becc.lu.se/analyses-climate-response-and-phenological-mismatch-using-data-herbarium-specimens- 2023-05-05

Published 22 August 2016 Photo: LU/Johan Persson Henrik Smith, Coordinator of BECC, has been interviewed by BBC News on a new article that shows large-scale and long-term decline in wild bees has been linked to the use of neonicotinoid…

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/neonic-pesticide-link-long-term-wild-bee-decline- 2023-05-05

Published 8 September 2016 Photo: Pixabay Welcome to this year's annual meeting for BECC, focusing on BECC research and the new research organisation, Grand Challenge Themes. When and whereWhen: 18-19 October 2016Venue: Varberg Stadshotel …

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-annual-meeting-2016-18-19-october- 2023-05-05

Published 6 May 2014 Thomas Sterner, professor of environmental economics at the University of Gothenburg and BECC researcher was one of the authors of the last IPCC report, AR5, working group III. Read his report from the meeting in…

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/thomas-sterner-reports-uns-ipcc-meeting- 2023-05-05

Published 31 October 2016 Photo: Yann Clough An extensive study has mapped the effects of small farmers on the rain forests of Southeast Asia for the first time. The findings are discouraging, with regard to environmental impact,…

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/small-scale-agriculture-threatens-rainforest- 2023-05-05

Published 3 November 2016 Deliang Chen, photo: University of Gothenburg Deliang Chen, BECC researcher and August Röhss Professor at the University of Gothenburg, has been recently appointed chairman of the nomination committee for the…

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/deliang-chen-appointed-chairman-stockholm-water-prize- 2023-05-05

Published 9 November 2016 Welcome to kickoff meetings for the three BECC Themes during December! At the meetings we will follow up the discussions that were initiated at the BECC annual meeting in October, initiate collaborative work, and…

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/theme-meetings-december-2016- 2023-05-05

Welcome to BECC world leading research about the dynamics between biodiversity and ecosystem services in a rapidly changing world Cooperation between Lund University and University of Gothenburg 2 universities, 16 departments and more than…

https://www.becc.lu.se/start- 2025-03-26

Published 15 November 2016 Photo: Arne Sjöström Seven years ago divers discovered the oldest known stationary fish traps in northern Europe off the coast of southern Sweden. Since then, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have…

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/underwater-stone-age-settlement-mapped-out- 2023-05-05

addressing our society´s need for knowledge about the dynamics between biodiversity and ecosystem services in a rapidly changing world To generate cutting-edge research increasing the ability of societies to reach the UN Sustainability…

https://www.becc.lu.se/research-imperative-questions-our-time- 2025-01-08

One major challenge is to reduce the currently high uncertainty about how the carbon cycle responds to anthropogenic and biophysical drivers, including long-term effects of slow-responding processes of vegetation and soils. The carbon…

https://www.becc.lu.se/research-imperative-questions-our-time/becc-grand-challenges/carbon-cycle-climate-change-4c-foresee- 2025-01-13

A Grand Challenge is to integrate private and public values of ecosystem services into environmental policies and management, while accounting for the projected impacts of climate, land-use and other drivers of change. Climate,…

https://www.becc.lu.se/research-imperative-questions-our-time/becc-grand-challenges/ecosystem-services-under-global-change- 2025-01-13

Climate change threatens biodiversity directly, but also indirectly through changes in land-use caused by attempts to mitigate or adapt to climate change. This calls for effective biodiversity conservation strategies on different scales…

https://www.becc.lu.se/research-imperative-questions-our-time/becc-grand-challenges/biodiversity-under-global-change- 2025-01-13

On this page we have gathered strategies and plans that are important in BECC. We encourage all researchers and staff at BECC to read the Research strategy and the current Plan of operations. BECCs work is guided by its research strategy…

https://www.becc.lu.se/becc-members/becc-strategies-and-plans- 2024-02-08

Published 2 December 2016 The BECC board has decided to strengthen the ongoing interdisciplinary development of BECC research by announcing a call for funding salary of up to 6 two-year postdoctoral researcher positions. The aim is to…

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/announcement-call-salary-funds-6-becc-postdoctoral-positions-lund- 2023-05-05

Published 21 December 2016 Thomas Sterner and Johan Rockström. Photo: Johan Wingborg What policies are needed to cope with the global environmental challenges? What can scientists learn from economists and vice versa? This was the theme of…

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/bringing-economists-and-scientists-together-planetary-solutions- 2023-05-05

Published 5 January 2017 Professor Alexandre Antonelli, who is also Deputy Theme Coordinator of the BECC biodiversity theme is heading the new center. The first day of the new year is also the first day of opening of the Gothenburg Global…

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/new-center-biological-diversity-opens-gothenburg- 2023-05-05

Published 9 January 2017 Foto: Randa Kachef Ullrika Sahlin, Researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, CEC, has been awarded Richard J. Burk Outstanding Service Award for her work in the field of risk analyses…

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/researcher-awarded-price-society-risk-analysis- 2023-05-05

Published 10 January 2017 The action group ”Nutrient weathering from rocks” is convening a session (09K) at the conference: ‘Goldschmidt’ Paris 2017, August 13 to 18 under the Theme: Weathering, erosion and climate (past, present and…

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/action-group-nutrient-weathering-rocks-session-goldschmidt-2017- 2023-05-05