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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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. 

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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BECC has, together with the SRA MERGE, a stakeholder reference group. Its members are high-level experts, representing government authorities, branch organisations, companies and NGOs in areas of agriculture, forestry, nature conservation and climate change.  The Stakeholder Reference Group convenes annually with the Boards of BECC and MERGE. As one basis for the choice of research problems addres

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On this page you will find all BECC policy briefs, and examples of other publications. Policy briefs in English Nature on School grounds: for Learning, Health, and Sustainability 2024CEC/BECC Policy Brief Editors: Anna S. Persson, Johan Kjellberg Jensen, Maria von Post.Green, species-rich environments enhance children’s well-being and knowledge acquisition, not only by promoting health benefits as

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Grand Challenges are issues where gaps in scientific understanding constrain the ability to make informed decisions on issues of pressing concern for the well-being of people and the environment, in a world affected by continued global change. BECC revolves around three Grand Challenges that must be tackled to find solutions to the combined consequences of anthropogenic emissions, land-use and cli

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Publications, news, films and other media output from and with BECC researchers. Lund UniversityYou can find BECC research outputs at Lund University's Research Portal. portal.research.lu.seUniversity of GothenburgResearch output 2016–2018 (PDF, 1 MB, new tab)News about BECC research Please follow our news to take part of the latest research output from research projects within BECC:BECC news feed

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BECC arranges events and meetings to make sure researchers and its stakeholders are updated on the latest research findings, and to facilitate the important cooperation and interaction within the research environment and with its stakeholders. Recurring meeting placesThe events listed below are recurring, and are important meeting places for our researchers and its stakeholders. Some are only open

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A major challenge for ecology is to predict and manage global change impacts on species and eco­systems. One key focus of that research is species’ movement (or stasis), through a shift, expansion, or contraction of their ranges. We aim to identify the potential for species range-shifts in Sweden, and to assess their consequences on biodiversity. We study different taxa, with an emphasis on birds

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CASE består av forskare och forskargrupper från juridiska, medicinska och samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteterna samt LTH, Lunds Tekniska Högskola. Från och med 1 januari 2023 koordineras CASE av docent Steven Schmidt. Klicka på namnet så kommer du vidare till personens profil i Forskningsportalen. Där finns information om titel forskningsinriktning, publikationer mm.Nilla AnderssonMedicinska fakultet

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