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Grant to research on Modelling root dynamics in arctic tundra ecosystems and quantifying vegetation feedback to regional and global climate change. Research on climate change in tundra ecosystemsWenxin Zhang, researcher at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, has been awarded a Starting Grant from the Swedish Research Council (3.94 million SEK). His starting grant project "M

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/starting-grant-research-root-dynamics-arctic - 2025-11-21

On Friday 20th November Helen Eriksson is defending her thesis with the title "Harmonisation of 3D geodata – a prerequisite for a digital information flow for applications in the planning and building sector" Interview with Helen Eriksson, author of the thesisTell us short about who you are and how you came to be a doctoral student at INES?I am an industrial PhD student employed by Lantmäteriet an

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/thesis-about-harmonisation-3d-geodata-planning-and-building - 2025-11-21

The Swedish Research funding research on soil nutrient cycles and the interaction with carbon dioxide uptake in forest ecosystems. Benjamin Smith and David Wårlind from our department got the funding, as part of a larger research group.   The project aims to increase understanding of how CO2 interacts with phosphorus in forest ecosystems (Application title in Swedish: Interaktioner av fosforcykeln

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/funding-ecosystem-process-research - 2025-11-21

Zhengyao Lu, researcher at the department, has published a popular science article on The Conversation website. It's entitled “Solar panels in Sahara could boost renewable energy but damage the global climate – here’s why”. Zhengyao Lu, a researcher at the department, has published a popular science article in The Conversation on how plans to use solar panels in the Sahara can affect the climate.

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/solar-panels-sahara-could-boost-renewable-energy-damage-global-climate-heres-why - 2025-11-21

Hakim Abdi is amongst other things physical geographer, researcher, and keen bird watcher, currently featured in the new issue of the Swedish astonomy magazine Populär Astronomi. So what has physical geography to do with space? Hello Hakim... ...why is a Physical geographer featured in an astronomy magazine? This interview / profile comes after the Swedish Astronomical Society's festival called "A

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/we-live-golden-age-satellite-research - 2025-11-21

Anders Lindroth, professor emeritus, has been published in DN Debatt together with Lars Tranvik, professor of limnology at Uppsala University. Lindroth and Tranvik argue that Sweden's net emissions of greenhouse gases are much higher than society expects. In the method that the UN uses to calculate the amount of carbon dioxide emitted, lakes, watercourses and wetlands are not included. If these ar

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/emissions-greenhouse-gases-sweden-are-greatly-underestimated - 2025-11-21

A new study by 33 researchers questions the EU report on european forestry, which had a significant impact last year. In the study, data was misinterpreted which made volume of clearcutting to appear greater than it was, the researchers argue. Thomas Pugh, senior lecturer at our department, was interviewed by the magazine Extrakt, after having co-authored a study in which he and 32 other researche

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/clearcutting-increasing-europe-not-previously-reported-rate - 2025-11-21

A new project is launched, called Arctic PASSION, with focus on climate change in the Arctic. The European Union will provide 15 million euros from the Horizon 2020 Programme to fund the project from 2021 to 2025. The department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science is represented by two teams. There are two Swedish participants, both with connetions to is the department of Physical Geograph

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/arctic-passion - 2025-11-21

Lars Harrie, professor at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science (INES) and GIS Center, has been appointed a member of the National Geodata Council, representing universities and colleges. The Council aims to develop strategies and activities to ensure that geographical data can be used in, for example, climate change adaption, the creation of sustainable cities and disaster ma

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/government-appoints-member-geodata-council-gis-center - 2025-11-21

Copernicus has published a dataset that shows growing seasons and vegetation productivity in great detail. Researchers from the department - Lars Eklundh, Zhanzhang Cai and Hongxiao Jin - have developed the algorithms that form the basis of the databases. Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS), a service that provides geographic data from satellites, has recently published a large dataset cover

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/copernicus-publishes-dataset-researchers-our-department-contribute - 2025-11-21

Forest management in the climate debate is splitting the forest community of researchers, forest owners, organisations and companies. Which way is the right way to go to make forestry work to help to counteract climate change? Several of our researchers appear in this, and professor emeritus Anders Lindroth explains his view on today´s forest management. Swedish National television program Vetensk

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/our-researchers-battle-forest - 2025-11-21

Weiming Huang is awarded in EuroSDR Award winner 2021 for the best PhD thesis related to geoinformation science for his thesis about knowledge-based geospatial data integration and visualisation with Semantic Web technologies. The thesis was presented during the 139th EuroSDR Board of Delegates meeting on October 22, 2021. Dr. Weiming Huang has been awarded by the European Spatial Data Research fo

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/dr-weiming-huang-awarded-best-phd-thesis - 2025-11-21

The increasing amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are causing our climate to warm at an alarming rate. The consequent changes are unprecedented, and difficult to predict due to the complexity of the Earth system.  While we know that half of the carbon emissions released to the atmosphere by fossil fuel usage are re-captured by the ocean and land ecosystems, we still lack knowledge when i

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/icos-supports-science-and-policy-making-first-comprehensive-article-describing-icos-published - 2025-11-21

Dan Metcalfe has written a perspective piece in Science about a recently published paper. Dr Dan Metcalfe at the department has written a perspective piece in Science about a featured paper. The paper itself looked at the effect of 26 years of continual experimental warming on soil microbial populations and carbon cycling. The authors found that over extended periods of warming the soil microbial

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/much-greater-portion-global-soil-carbon-store-could-potentially-be-vulnerable-decomposition-and - 2025-11-21

A large "curtain" is being installed in order to reduce water input to parts of the forest. NBC News recently covered the ongoing activities associated with a VR-Uforsk funded project coordinated by Dr Dan Metcalfe. The project is installing a 30 metres high, 40 metres wide curtain in the middle of pristine cloud forest in Peru. The purpose is to reduce cloud water inputs to a portion of the fores

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/dan-metcalfe-coordinating-project-cloud-forest-peru - 2025-11-21

Anders Lindroth featured in several media outlets. Anders Lindroth, professor emeritus at the department, was interviewed in several media outlets about new research showing that earlier springs increase the forests’ ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Among other things, Lindroth explains that spring now arrives eight days earlier than 35 years ago.

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/earlier-spring-increases-forests-carbon-uptake - 2025-11-21

The COP23 climate change summit in Bonn will host a session during which Margareta Johansson will present the impacts of thawing permafrost. Warming at almost twice the global average rate, the Arctic is a key region for understanding wider climate change impacts. Mitigation and adaptation strategies in the Arctic are thus an integral part of the EU’s wider efforts to combat climate change and to

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/margareta-johansson-will-give-talk-cop23 - 2025-11-21

Petter Pilesjö, Andras Persson, Ali Mansourian, and Micael Runnström have, together with researchers at the Eduardo Mondlane University (EMU) in Mozambique, received a grant to develop educational programmes at EMU as well as training for PhD students in Sweden. Petter Pilesjö (professor), Andreas Persson (senior lecturer), Ali Mansourian (senior lecturer) and Micael Runnström (senior lecturer) ha

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/researchers-granted-sek-18-million-collaboration-project - 2025-11-21

The carbon and nitrogen losses attributable to forest fires are much larger than was previously thought. This has now been shown by an extensive study that has compiled fire experiments from around the world. It is not just vegetation that is lost in forest fires. When a forest burns, there is also an impact on the soil, through the loss of carbon and other nutrients. This loss of nutrients can ne

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/forest-fires-cause-unexpectedly-large-nutrient-losses - 2025-11-21

Two new research projects will shortly begin at Lund University in Sweden to investigate how particle emissions from spruce forests affect the climate. The trees’ emissions of reactive hydrocarbons are thought to have a cooling effect on the climate. Almost 70 per cent of land in Sweden is covered with forest, mainly commercially managed coniferous forest. The forests play a central role in affect

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/researchers-set-study-particle-emissions-coniferous-trees - 2025-11-21