20 May 2026 11:00 to 22 May 2026 15:00 | Conference The Strategic Research Areas MERGE, BECC, Bolin Centre for Climate Research & EcoChange, the centres; Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research & KTH Climate Action Centre and SMHI will host the 3rd Swedish Climate Symposium on 20–22 May 2026 in Lund, Sweden. The Swedish Climate Symposium 2026 will serve as a vibrant platform for showcasing

https://www.becc.lu.se/calendar/swedish-climate-symposium-2026 - 2025-07-15

2 June 2025 09:00 to 11:15 | Are you interested in applying for funding from the Horizon Europe Framework Programme? Welcome to a Horizon Europe Inspirational Workshop!This workshop is for you who would like to get acquainted with the HEU funding mechanism, as much as for you who have been involved before or planning to get started soon  - the drafts for the 2026-2027 round of calls are available

https://www.becc.lu.se/calendar/horizon-europe-inspirational-workshop - 2025-07-15

13 June 2025 08:30 to 16:00 | Workshop Photo: Stiftelsen Skånska Landskapen How can continuous-cover forestry (CCF) be applied in practice to meet multiple goals such as biodiversity, climate adaptation, recreation and timber production? Join us for an excursion where we visit a site that will be converted to CCF, and discuss concrete strategies for forest conversion. Last year, we visited Breanäs

https://www.becc.lu.se/calendar/continuous-cover-forestry-practice-new-site-new-strategies - 2025-07-15

How can increased demands for food and fibre be combined with conservation of biodiversity which often is threatened by agricultural intensification and expansion? This project focus on the relative benefits of segregating or integrating conservation and agricutlural production (land sparing versus land sharing). On one hand it has been suggested that agriculture should be intensive on existing ar

https://www.becc.lu.se/trade-offs-and-synergies-between-biodiversity-conservation-and-ecosystem-services - 2025-07-15

We develop eco-evolutionary models and life-history optimisation models to study adaptive phenology and their effects on ecological interactions and populations. Our work guides the interpretation of changing phenology patterns and enhances the possibility to predict the ecological consequences of climate changes. 

https://www.becc.lu.se/predicting-climate-driven-changes-phenology-and-their-effects-populations-using-evolutionary-game - 2025-07-15

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 the biological responses to climate change detected to date, changes in phenological events during the spring such as onset of flowering are among the most sensit

https://www.becc.lu.se/analyses-climate-response-and-phenological-mismatch-using-data-herbarium-specimens - 2025-07-15

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 300 researchers. From natural to social sciences tackling the complexities of social-ecological systems in a world affected by global change. Stakeholder dialog

https://www.becc.lu.se/start - 2025-07-15

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 Development Goals, BECC currently focuses on three grand challenges arising from the combined consequences of climate change and land-use on biodiversity, ecosystem

https://www.becc.lu.se/research-imperative-questions-our-time - 2025-07-15

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 cycle dynamically couples the biosphere, oceans and atmosphere, and links societal and biophysical dimensions of the Earth system. A Grand Challenge is to reduce wid

https://www.becc.lu.se/research-imperative-questions-our-time/becc-grand-challenges/carbon-cycle-climate-change-4c-foresee - 2025-07-15

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, environmental and socio-economic change may negatively impact ecosystems and their services. But it may also provide opportunities such as increased agricultural and silvic

https://www.becc.lu.se/research-imperative-questions-our-time/becc-grand-challenges/ecosystem-services-under-global-change - 2025-07-15

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. The direct and indirect consequences of climate change may have compounding effects on biodiversity, such as habitat loss that limits species range shifts. A Gran

https://www.becc.lu.se/research-imperative-questions-our-time/becc-grand-challenges/biodiversity-under-global-change - 2025-07-15

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 that stretches five years at a time. This is complemented by a yearly plan of operations and a strategic plan for the Grand Challenges.We encourage all BECC resea

https://www.becc.lu.se/becc-members/becc-strategies-and-plans - 2025-07-15

We develop eco-evolutionary models and life-history optimisation models to study adaptive phenology and their effects on ecological interactions and populations. Our work guides the interpretation of changing phenology patterns and enhances the possibility to predict the ecological consequences of climate changes. 

https://www.becc.lu.se/predicting-climate-driven-changes-phenology-and-their-effects-populations-using-evolutionary-game-0 - 2025-07-15

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https://www.becc.lu.se/form/becc-annual-meeting-november-7-8 - 2025-07-15

On 18-19 April BECC held it's spring workshop in Lund, Sweden. The meeting was coorganized with the MERGE research project. The overarching theme of the workshop was: Scenarios – a unifying concept for climate change, impact and policy science Scenarios of human and biophysical change form an almost ubiquitous backdrop to global change studies and assessments, linking climate change to its anthrop

https://www.becc.lu.se/becc-researchers-internal-pages/becc-merge-annual-spring-workshops/spring-workshop-2017-presentations-and-reflections - 2025-07-15

On 18-19 October BECC held it's annual meeting in Varberg, Sweden. Arriving in Varberg! Photo: Kim Nicholas On 18-19 October BECC  held it's annual meeting in Varberg, Sweden. Around 60 BECC researchers joined the meeting with discussions, presentations and reflections. Notes from the meetingNotes from the annual meetingPresenters and presentationsHenrik Smith, coordinator, Lund UniversityHåkan Pl

https://www.becc.lu.se/2016-presentations-and-reflections - 2025-07-15

On 18-19 October BECC held it's annual meeting in Varberg, Sweden. Arriving in Varberg! Photo: Kim Nicholas On 18-19 October BECC  held it's annual meeting in Varberg, Sweden. Around 60 BECC researchers joined the meeting with discussions, presentations and reflections. Notes from the meetingNotes from the annual meetingPresenters and presentationsHenrik Smith, coordinator, Lund UniversityHåkan Pl

https://www.becc.lu.se/becc-researchers-internal-pages/becc-annual-meetings/annual-meeting-2016-presentations-and-reflections - 2025-07-15

Monday 7 MayWelcome – Paul Miller Lund University & Håkan Pleijel Gothenburg UniversityLand use, future needs and use, synergies and conflicts - Hanna Aho Fern.org - Åsa Kasimir Gothenburg University Anna Maria Jönsson presents the topics of the working groups:- Land use and biodiversity- Soil carbon and climate gases- Atmosphere and particlesPoster sessionPaul Miller and Marie-José Gaillard guide

https://www.becc.lu.se/becc-researchers-internal-pages/becc-merge-annual-spring-workshops/spring-workshop-2018-land-use-conflicts-and-synergies - 2025-07-15

BECC encompasses about 220 senior researchers and 80 PhD students from 15 departments at Lund University and the University of Gothenburg. The partner universitiesLund University is ranked as one of the world’s top 100 higher education institutes. With 47,000 students and 7,500 employees, Lund University tackles complex problems and global challenges and works to ensure that knowledge and innovati

https://www.becc.lu.se/world-leading-research-biodiversity-and-ecosystem-services-changing-climate/participating-universities-and-departments - 2025-07-15

Stakeholder interaction is an important asset of BECC – for advancing transdisciplinary research, for getting an understanding of the needs of the society, and also for reaching out, making sure that the knowledge built up is utilised outside academia. BECC research provides a crucial scientific basis for management decisions and societal policies on biodiversity and ecosystem services in a changi

https://www.becc.lu.se/interacting-society - 2025-07-15