Published 9 January 2020 Please spread the word! Ecological-Economic Framework to Investigate and Promote the Effectiveness of Biodiversity OffsetsTowards better assessments of nutrient constraints on soil carbon sequestration: including soil microbial and mineral mechanisms into terrestrial biosphere modelsExploring synergies between wild pollinators and climate-smart protein production – a mixed

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/6-becc-postdoc-positions-lund-university-0 - 2025-03-11

Published 14 January 2020 On the 5th of December 2019, BECC organized a full day of science-to-policy discussions in cooperation with the thematic collaboration initiative LU Land, on the topic of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which is currently undergoing a reform. The CAP is a strong shaping force of European land use practices, and therefore also strongly influences biodiversity and

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/report-symposium-working-together-environmentally-ambitious-evidence-based-agricultural-policy - 2025-03-11

Published 15 January 2020 BECC (Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate) welcomes proposals for research funding within the vision and aims of BECC for the years 2020-21. BECC (Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate) welcomes proposals for research funding within the vision and aims of BECC for the years 2020-21. This is a joint call between Lund university (LU

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/call-proposals-research-funding-becc - 2025-03-11

Published 20 March 2020 Different aspects of forest governance were presented as well as landscape approaches to achieve multiple goals were discussed and exemplified. Different aspects of forest governance were presented in the morning by three invited speakers, Erik Sollander from the Swedish Forest Agency, Carina Keskitalo from Umeå University and Marie Appelstrand from Lund University. In the

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/forest-governance-meet-global-challenges - 2025-03-11

Published 27 April 2020 During a one-day symposium in Gothenburg peatland was the theme, now you may follow the work organized and carried out by BECC researchers in several Swedish media. Peatland is a major questionmark in the combat of climate change. Skogaryd is an infrastructure of BECC and at the research station researcher within the BECC community have research going on that has been highl

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/focus-peatland - 2025-03-11

Published 6 May 2020 We appreciate your participation in the online conference, which was a very successful joining of about 100 participants. April 23 and 24 were two very rewarding days, filled with interesting sessions, poster presentations, office yoga, group discussions, as well as fruitful conversations and sharing of expertise. The event allowed for interesting discussions among researchers

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/thank-you-participating-becc-merge-spring-meeting-online-science-says-conference - 2025-03-11

Published 25 May 2020 “Rwanda, the land of a thousand hills, depends on its forests and trees that protect soil fertility, preserve biodiversity, help to cope with climate change and provide fuel for cooking. But the forests used to be much vaster.” Eric Mirindi Dusenge, BECC researcher at University of Gothenburg, is part of a project to find out how native tree species can contribute to tackling

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/tropical-montane-forests-warming-world - 2025-03-11

Published 14 September 2020 ClimBEco summermeeting in Lund. Photo: Ylva van Meeningen ClimBEco’s annual summer meeting was held this August over two consecutive days, with both online and in-person meetings in Lund, Malmö and Gothenburg. The summer meeting is one of the highlights of our graduate school, where current PhD students can meet, network and learn more about an interdisciplinary topic.

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/summary-climbeco-summer-meeting - 2025-03-11

Published 29 January 2021 The different disciplines represented at the ClimBEco winter meeting 2021. The theme of the ClimBEco annual meeting was “Multidisciplinary learning environments – seizing their opportunities and avoiding their pitfalls”. After an icebreaker that included seeing some sweet ‘corona-pets’ in the screens, we brought ourselves onto the level of metaphysics and the multiple way

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/summary-climbeco-winter-meeting-2021 - 2025-03-11

Published 11 June 2014 Photochemical smog, including tropospheric ozone and fine particles, is an important environmental concern over large parts of the world with strong connections to climate change climate policies. Especially in densely populated regions of the world with fast growing economies, such as China and India, there is a great risk for rising levels of air pollutants such as ozone w

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/smog-ozone-and-particles-beijing-becc-focus - 2025-03-11

By jan [dot] olsson [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Jan Olsson) - published 3 February 2021 Researchers have discovered individual traits in fungi in their hunt for food. Maze-like structure made of silicone. (Photo: Kristin Aleklett Kadish). BECC researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered the individual traits of fungi, and how their hyphae – that is, the fungal threads that grow in so

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/soldiers-snakes-and-marathon-runners-hidden-world-fungi - 2025-03-11

Published 9 December 2014 Read Fariborz Zelli's report on the side-event 'REDD and Beyond: International and Indegenous Strategies in Forest Protection', held in Lima on the 4th of December. On Thursday, 4th December, BECC was one of the initiators of a side-event on ‘REDD and Beyond: International and Indigenous Strategies in Forest Protection’. The event was co-organised by Lund University and t

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-united-nations-climate-conference - 2025-03-11

Published 10 December 2014 On 24-25 November, the BECC Annual Meeting 2014 was held in Halmstad. The meeting focused on the future possibilities of research within BECC and what is to come. For those of you who could not join the meeting - and those of you who would like to see a particularly interesting presentation again - we have collected the presentations from the meeting here. The fifth annu

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/report-presentations-becc-annual-meeting-2014 - 2025-03-11

Published 10 December 2014 Lund University has collected the top research of the university's twelve strategic reseach environments in a new book. BECC is one of these environments. In 2008, the Swedish Government designated 20 ‘Strategic Research Areas’ (SRAs) in its research-policy bill. Within these 20 areas, 43 research environments were chosen for specific funding in a special evaluation in 2

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/todays-great-explorers - 2025-03-11

Published 13 December 2014 Henrik Smith, coordinator of BECC, is appointed new member of the General Section of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry. The General section deals at an overall level with questions concerning natural resources, nature conservation, environment, countryside, research policy, dissemination of knowledge, and social planning. The section also deals with i

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/henrik-smith-appointed-new-member-royal-swedish-academy-agriculture-and-forestry - 2025-03-11

Published 13 December 2014 Tobias Dan Nielsen, PhD Candidate at the Department of Political Science and BECC researcher, is in Lima, Peru, for the UNFCCC COP20. Read about his experiences and thoughts on the Global Landscape Forum. Right now in Lima experts, civil society, practitioners and decision-maker gather to discuss solution to climate change at the UNFCCCs COP20. On December 6-7th. Lima al

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/global-landscape-forum-future-forest-management - 2025-03-11

Published 9 January 2015 The special volume "Phenological change and ecological interactions" is edited by BECC-researchers Jacob Johansson, Jan-Åke Nilsson and Niclas Jonzén. Changes in the seasonal timing of biological events, e.g. flowering or bird migration, are well documented effects of recent climate change. There is widespread concern that such changes may disrupt important ecological inte

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/special-oikos-volume-phenological-change-and-ecological-interactions - 2025-03-11

Published 25 January 2015 Today, Monday 26 January, the new report "Klimatsäkrat Skåne" will be launched. The report is a knowledge review and analysis of Skåne's climate work including opportunities and challenges. The launch event focuses on three panel discussions on how we should make our society less vulnerable to climate change, how we use ecosystem services and the implications of climate c

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/new-report-about-regional-climate-challenges-and-adaptation-skane - 2025-03-11

Published 9 February 2015 On the 13th of January 2015 the workshop "Science of Decision Making in Research" was held. You can now find both presentations and videos from the workshop. The workshop hosted 19 participants from different departments and universities. An ambition was to create contact points between BECC projects working with multi-criteria decision making and stimulate methodological

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/science-decision-making-research - 2025-03-11

Published 23 February 2015 Isotope labelling of the soil in the CLIMAITE facility, Denmark. Photo: Louise C. Andresen. A recent review article in Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems proposed a new conceptual model on nitrogen (N) cycle responses to elevated CO2: gross N mineralization is stimulated in N-limited ecosystems only, but not in phosphorus limited ones. Authors are BECC researchers Tobias

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/new-article-about-climate-change-effects-soil-nitrogen-dynamics - 2025-03-11