Clear-felling, a method which is now debated. Photo: Patrik Vestin, Departmetn of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science. 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 pr

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/our-researchers-battle-forest - 2025-08-21

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 - 2025-08-21

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 - 2025-08-21

Picture of the experiment, showing warmed plots melted out of the snow. Credit: Audrey Barker-Plotkin 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 popul

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/much-greater-portion-global-soil-carbon-store-could-potentially-be-vulnerable-decomposition-and - 2025-08-21

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 - 2025-08-21

Anders Lindroth 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 - 2025-08-21

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 - 2025-08-21

By Rosino ([1]) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons 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), Andrea

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/researchers-granted-sek-18-million-collaboration-project - 2025-08-21

Forest fire. 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 nut

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/forest-fires-cause-unexpectedly-large-nutrient-losses - 2025-08-21

Spruce forests. Photo: Ylva van Meeningen. 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

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/researchers-set-study-particle-emissions-coniferous-trees - 2025-08-21

Environmental research is being done at Lund University's research station in Hyltemossa, Skåne. Photo: Tobias Biermann / ICOS. Lund University is, together with Stockholm University, offering graduate school for upper secondary school teachers, focusing on climate and the environment. The initiative will benefit not only the teachers, but also their students. Upper secondary school teachers who w

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/upper-secondary-school-teachers-offered-research-training - 2025-08-21

Markku Rummukainen Markku Rummukainen has recently been featured in a number of media outlets because of unusually high temperatures in the Arctic. He was also recently mentioned in Effekt News Magazine because of his participation in the newly launched Swedish Climate Policy Council. Markku Rummukainen, Professor at the Department, has been interviewed in several media after unusually high temper

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/markku-rummukainen-interviewed-about-high-arctic-temperatures - 2025-08-21

Tomsk State University is offering a summer course for young scientists For the fifth summer in a row, Tomsk State University offers a summer course for students, PhD students or Faculty aged 18-35. The course is called "Natural and human environment of Arctic and Alpine areas: relief, soils, permafrost, glaciers, biota and life style of native ethnic groups in a rapidly changing climate" and it c

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/summer-course-offered-tomsk-state-university - 2025-08-21

Birgitta Svenningsson and Paul Miller. Paul Miller has been interviewed in "Mission is possible" together with Birgitta Svenningsson. Mission is possible is a Lund University digital research magazine about the impact research has on the world outside academia. In the preamble it's stated that a "climate model developed by researchers from Lund University and other institutes is becoming increasin

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/climate-models-point-way-towards-future - 2025-08-21

Från the left: Edith Hammar, Johan Ekroos, Cecilia Akselsson Cecilia Akselsson has been interviewed in the Lund University research magazine "Mission is possible" together with her colleagues Edith Hammar and Johan Ekroos. The preamble states that "In recent years, ‘ecosystem services’ has become an increasingly common concept within the research community, as well as in municipalities, public aut

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/human-and-nature-symbiosis - 2025-08-21

By U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters (Arctic Tundra Uploaded by Dolovis) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Geert Hensgens has received SEK 130 000 from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography. Geert Hensgens, doctoral student at the department, has received SEK 130 000 from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/geert-hensgens-granted-funding-research-project - 2025-08-21

Patrik Vestin Patrik Vestin, research engineer at the department, has received the Alfort Prize of SEK 40 000 from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography. Patrik Vestin has received Alfortska prize of SEK 40,000 by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography. The award is awarded for his dissertation entitled "Effects of forest management on greenhouse gas fluxes in a boreal for

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/patrik-vestin-awarded-his-thesis - 2025-08-21

By Khushnood7 [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons At least three members of our staff have been interviewed in different media outlets as experts in their field. Professor Emeritus Anders Lindroth was interviewed in Dagens ETC about greenhouse gases and harmful emissions. “Absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is the only way we can achiev

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/co-workers-featured-media - 2025-08-21

By "The New York Herald" ("The New York Herald") [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Jonas Ardö and Markku Rummukainen were featured in SVT News and Forskning & Framsteg respectively. Jonas Ardö, senior lecturer at our department, was interviewed by SVT News on the subject of NASA having mapped the world’s freshwater reserves using two satellites. “These satellites provide us with a global over

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/more-co-workers-featured-media-outlets - 2025-08-21

Master students at our department created a toolbox for ArcGIS 10.5. Three master students at our department – Szilvia Johansson, Nina Nesterova and Enzo Zerega – have developed a toolbox for the geographic information system software ESRI ArcGIS (v. 10.5).The toolbox is called Arctic DEM Data management, and helps retrieving a digital elevation model for a defined time range in a specified study

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/students-created-toolbox-gis-software - 2025-08-21