Published 12 December 2017 Watch a video from the workshop Mainstreaming ecosystem services in agricultural production, organized by BECC and the CEC November 21-22. How to interact with farmers to develop tools for assessment of ecosystem services - Johanna Alkan Olsson, CEC Lund UniversityFive hammers, one nail. Evaluating effects of CAP greening alternatives on ecosystem services - Yann Clough,

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/video-workshop-about-ecosystem-services-agricultural-production - 2025-04-03

Published 5 March 2018 BECC is one of 12 strategic research areas at Lund University now highlighted in a new research magazine. ‘Mission is possible’ is a digital research magazine that provides thematically organised information about the impact research has on the world outside academia. Read article with the BECC theme leaders here.

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/mission-possible - 2025-04-03

Published 12 March 2018 Professor Alexandra-Maria Klein, from the University of Freiburg, will be the holder of a Hedda Andersson visiting professorship during 2019 and 2020. The Centre of Environmental and Climate research, CEC, and the strategic research area Biodiversity and Ecosystem in a Changing Climate, BECC, will act as professor Klein´s hosts during her stay at Lund University. Alexandra-

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/hedda-andersson-visiting-professorship-becc-and-cec - 2025-04-03

Published 23 April 2018 Agriculture and forestry are two sectors that are often considered separately. In fact, they are closely connected. Both from an ecological and an economic perspective, they must be considered together”, says Professor Yann Clough. Photo: Kennet Ruona Research and society in close cooperation: that is the basis for Farm2Forest, a project aiming to produce evidence guiding S

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/farm2forest-sustainable-agriculture-biobased-future - 2025-04-03

Published 20 April 2018 Formas highlights BECC PI Björn Klatt’s research on how insectoids effect beesRead more here

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/formas-highlights-becc-research - 2025-04-03

Published 17 May 2018 We are recruiting a Senior Lecturer in plant ecology with a focus on conservation biology in terrestrial habitats. The subject area includes different aspects of plant ecology (vascular plants/lichens/mosses), such as ecosystem functions and evolutionary processes, as well as anthropogenic effects on these systems by, for example, land exploitation or climate change. Here you

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-hiring-senior-lecturer-plant-ecology - 2025-04-03

Published 21 May 2018 We are looking for an ambitious political scientist in the beginning of her/his career who aims for a future career as university lecturer and researcher. The successful candidate will conduct independent research and enjoys the freedom to choose his or her own research questions, develop his or her own theoretical ideas, and choose the most appropriate methods, but will be e

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-hiring-associate-senior-lecturer-focus-environmental-politics - 2025-04-03

Published 11 June 2018 Where did all the carbon on earth really come from? How do you discuss climate change and mass extinctions without scaring children? and What positive examples do we have of mitigating human impact on the climate? These are some of the questions we have had to deal with in the process of collaborating with Vattenhallen Science Centre, Lund University to design their new exhi

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/communicating-climate-science-global-scale-young-and-interactive-audience - 2025-04-03

Published 7 August 2018 The first position is within how biogeochemical cycles are influenced by climate and their potential feedback mechanisms, while the second position is connected to the project MYR, climate smart management practices Two PhD positions are available within BECCFirst one is within how biogeochemical cycles are influenced by climate and their potential feedback mechanisms, wher

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-announces-two-phd-positions-gothenburg - 2025-04-03

Published 9 August 2018 Arctic climate change research relies on field measurements and samples that are too scarce, and patchy at best. The researchers in the BECC action group looked at thousands of scientific studies, and found that around 30% of cited studies were clustered around only two research stations in the vast Arctic region. A paper in Nature Ecology & Evoloution was one of the result

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/agpatchy-field-sampling-biases-understanding-climate-change-impacts-across-arctic - 2025-04-03

Published 5 September 2018 The project Coastal adaptation to climate change by multiple ecosystem-based measures is multidisciplinary and involves partnership between natural science, social science, geotechnology, engineers, the citizens and public administration on all levels. Congratulations Johan Hollander and Pål Axel Olsson at the Department of Biology and Hans Hanson at the Division of Wate

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-researchers-secured-funding-life-project - 2025-04-03

Published 6 September 2018 This year’s summer meeting in Höllviken used the theme ‘Land use and ecosystem-based climate adaptation’ as starting point for presentations and discussions. Inspiring talks by Terese Thoni (CEC, LU), Åsa Kasimir (Earth Sciences, GU) and Paul Miller (INES, LU) set the scene for eye-opening and fun discussions in an intense afternoon workshop led by Deniz Koca (CEC, LU),

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/climbeco-summer-meeting - 2025-04-03

Published 8 May 2014 The international workshop "Citizen Science" was held on the 24th of April with BECC as one of the organizers. You can watch the workshop on video, if you didn't have the chance to be there. Many academic biologists are unaware of the rapidly expanding field of citizen science and the aim of the workshop was to both inform and inspire. The workshop covered a range of different

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/did-you-miss-out-citizen-science-workshop-watch-it-youtube - 2025-04-03

Published 14 November 2018 An exciting, interesting and well-visited BECC annual meeting went off October 17-18 at Falkenberg Grand Hotel. The program was filled with lessons from the past and implications for the future regarding biodiversity conservation and policy. The meeting ended with perspectives from a climate journalist and his great tips on how to communicate climate research to the publ

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-yearly-meeting - 2025-04-03

By hanna [dot] holm [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Hanna Holm) - published 5 December 2018 Abisko Scientific Research Station The region is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth and its polar bears and melting glaciers have become key symbols of climate change. But the Arctic, it seems, is not as well researched as we think it is. Since the Arctic covers some 14.5 million square kilometers, and

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/environmental-change-arctic - 2025-04-03

Published 20 December 2018 A well visited full day with engaged and broad audience and speakers were the results of the first official BECC grand seminar jointly organized with MERGE. A grand seminar is defined as a full day filled with speakers and possibilities for discussions. November 26, BECC and MERGE jointly presented The Science and Politics of 1.5C. The organizers thank all participants a

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/report-science-and-politics-15c-seminar - 2025-04-03

Published 27 March 2019 6 PhD positions within the BECC area, covering drought, wetlands, post-fire forest ecosystems, microbial soil, sustainable forest management and balancing agriculture in a policy context. Six PhD positions are available within BECC1) Sustainable forest management in a changing climate - Developing a landscape approach for analyzing trade-offs between ecosystem services prov

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-announces-six-phd-positions-lund - 2025-04-03

By hanna [dot] holm [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Hanna Holm) - published 1 February 2019 Professor Natascha Kljun and Station Manager Norunda measuring station Anders Båth in the Norunda forest. Photographer: Irene Lehner Growing forests can limit climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store the carbon in their biomass as they grow. How much carbon a forest stores varies

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/well-managed-forests-can-limit-climate-change - 2025-04-03

Published 6 February 2019 The 6th and 7th of December 2018, the first multidisciplinary workshop gathering early career researcher from BECC was held in Halmstad, organized by Romain Carrié, Nils Droste and Marion Dupoux, all young researchers within BECC. The objective of this workshop was to:- Create new collaborations among early-career researchers (ECR) from Gothenburg and Lund, spanning the d

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/first-becc-ecr-workshop - 2025-04-03

Published 15 March 2019 Many BECC researchers has written a debate article that underlines that the demands from the youths are to be taken seriously and action is needed In a debate article at Dagens Nyheter more than 270 researchers, among them many involved in BECC, show respect and support for the demands the youths all over the world claim are needed in a manifestation today, March 15th.The f

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-researchers-put-attention-school-strike - 2025-04-03