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-Maria Klein is working o

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/hedda-andersson-visiting-professorship-becc-and-cec - 2025-08-25

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 Swedish and European agri

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/farm2forest-sustainable-agriculture-biobased-future - 2025-08-25

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 - 2025-08-25

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 will find the whole a

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-hiring-senior-lecturer-plant-ecology - 2025-08-25

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 expected to dedicate mo

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-hiring-associate-senior-lecturer-focus-environmental-politics - 2025-08-25

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 exhibition, focused on plan

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/communicating-climate-science-global-scale-young-and-interactive-audience - 2025-08-25

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, where we especially try to f

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-announces-two-phd-positions-gothenburg - 2025-08-25

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 from the action group "

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/agpatchy-field-sampling-biases-understanding-climate-change-impacts-across-arctic - 2025-08-25

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 Water Resources Engineering who

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-researchers-secured-funding-life-project - 2025-08-25

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), triggering reflections on l

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/climbeco-summer-meeting - 2025-08-25

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 areas of citizen sci

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/did-you-miss-out-citizen-science-workshop-watch-it-youtube - 2025-08-25

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 public (and journalists!).     

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-yearly-meeting - 2025-08-25

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 conducting research in remote locations is very expensive, time consuming and often dang

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/environmental-change-arctic - 2025-08-25

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 and presenters of the day an

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/report-science-and-politics-15c-seminar - 2025-08-25

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 provided by forests with Cec

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-announces-six-phd-positions-lund - 2025-08-25

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 between tree species, the forests age, weather conditions and how the forest is managed

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/well-managed-forests-can-limit-climate-change - 2025-08-25

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 different areas of expertis

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/first-becc-ecr-workshop - 2025-08-25

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 fundamental science behin

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-researchers-put-attention-school-strike - 2025-08-25

Several interesting talks and discussion was undertaken during this one day workshop in March 2019. Presentations held at the workshop as pdf. Mikael Svensson, Artdatabanken Linda Hellberg, Helsingborgs stad Richard Åkesson Höganäs kommun Niklas Carlström, Dupont: Tina D'Hertefeldt, Lunds Universitet BECCHur påverkar klonväxters ekologi kontrollmetodens effektivitet?Jan Pergl, Academy of Science o

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/report-stakeholder-workshop-prevention-and-control-alien-invasive-plants - 2025-08-25

The guide: Stakeholder Interaction in Research Processes has been updated, please take part of the new updated version guide_stakeholder_interaction_in_research_processes_revised_2019-06-05.pdf Please do take part of the process by Daniel Slunge, Olof Drakenberg, Anders Ekbom, Maria Göthberg, Åsa Knaggård and Ullrika Sahlin that led to the guide here

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/stakeholder-interaction-research-processes - 2025-08-25