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We are thrilled to announce the Department's Autumn 2025 Seminar Series, featuring an exciting lineup of speakers from across the globe. The seminars will take place every Thursday at 13:15 in the Blue Hall in the Ecology Building. After the talks, there will be time for fika and mingling.Here is the complete schedule for autumn 2025:All links lead to external websites.DateContentSpeakerAffiliatio

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/autumn-2025-seminar-series-announced - 2026-05-15

The autumn darkness is closing in around us, and the Christmas break is approaching, with subsequent interruptions in daily operations. As the recruitment process is divided into several instances with different cut-off dates, the following will apply to the department's recruitments.27 November – Recruitment cases to be announced before/during Christmas 2025Documents must be received by the depar

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/deadlines-recruitments-and-documents-employment-decisions-preparation-christmas - 2026-05-15

As the holiday season approaches and daily operations slow down for a while, the following guidelines apply to the department’s financial function to ensure we have sufficient time to complete all tasks.Invoicing to be included in 2025Supporting documents must be received by the department’s financial function no later than 8 December.Travel expense claims/Reimbursements to be paid in December 202

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/deadlines-invoices-travel-expense-claims-and-reimbursements-preparation-christmas-2025 - 2026-05-15

We are thrilled to announce the Department's Spring 2026 Seminar Series, featuring an exciting lineup of speakers from across the globe. The seminars will take place every Thursday at 13:15 in the Blue Hall in the Ecology Building. After the talks, there will be time for fika and mingling.Here is the complete schedule for spring 2026.All links lead to external websites.DatumTypFöreläsareTillhörigh

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/spring-2026-seminar-series-announced - 2026-05-15

The department has agreed to purchase dry ice from Kemicentrum and established a routine for how this should be done. To collect dry ice from Kemicentrum, you must follow the procedure below.You may only collect dry ice for research activities within the framework of Lund University.Before your first collection, you must contact Health and Safety Coordinator Johan Tejler at johan [dot] tejler [at]

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/need-dry-ice-heres-what-you-need-know - 2026-05-15

Each month, we publish a short update on the department’s air travel. In January, flying corresponded to 0.10 tonnes of CO2e per full-time employee. That is close to the level we need to stay at to reach our departmental target: to halve emissions from air travel compared with 2024, an important step towards contributing to the Paris Agreement’s 2030 goals. But this figure should be interpreted wi

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/departments-air-travel-january-2026 - 2026-05-15

To facilitate the process for hourly employments, we have developed a form to be completed so that we can ensure all required information is submitted from the outset.The form is available on our Swedish internal website.Please note that an employment contract must be in place before anyone starts working at the department. It is not possible to process employment retroactively.At the same time, w

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/changes-procedures-regarding-hourly-contracts-and-gu-administration - 2026-05-15

The First and second cycle programmes board (GUN) held a meeting on 27 March. Topics discussed included the Ladok function for adapted classroom exams, confidentiality regarding exam questions, ESU, the new allocation model, GU premises, digital exams and reading lists. Read more in the minutes of the meeting (In Swedish; new tab; PDF; 256 kB).

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/minutes-guns-meeting-273-26 - 2026-05-15

The First and second cycle programmes board will meet on 8 May at 1.15 pm in Tanken (E-D143) in the Ecology Building. The following items are on the agenda:Opening of the meetingAppointment of a minute-takerAdoption of the agendaMinutes of the previous meeting (In Swedish; new tab; pdf; 256 kB)External announcements – the faculty:GAI for course evaluation and course analysis – opportunity to trial

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/agenda-gun-meeting-85-26 - 2026-05-15

Instead of writing blog posts, I will write news items for our internal website and link to them from BioBullen. This is to reduce the number of emails sent. Last Friday, two minibuses went on an excursion to gather edible plants. Since 2016 (with a pause during the pandemic), Honour Prentice and Torbjörn Tyler have organised these trips to educate us about edible spring plants and get together. W

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/edible-plants-good-company-and-beautiful-weather - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A recent study based on data collected by, among others, researchers at our department, finds that climate change is converting permafrost areas from carbon sinks into carbon sources. Frans-Jan Parmentier, Torben Christensen, and former PhD Student Norbert Pirk, have contributed with data to a journal article publishe

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/thawing-permafrost-turns-arctic-carbon-sink-carbon-emitter - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Giuliana Zanchi (INES) and Mark Brady (CEC) have been interviewed about new research that shows the benefits of continuous cover forestry in larger areas compared to intensified biomass utilization. Mark Brady (researcher at CEC) and Giuliana Zanchi (researcher at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Sci

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/another-type-forest-management-would-provide-greater-benefits-society - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Last week, some of our students arranged a GIS day showing cartographic material made by the department's students. Last week, on November 13th 2019, the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science celebrated GIS Day.On this occasion, for the first time in the department's history, students of the departmen

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/students-department-created-exhibition - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Anders Lindroth, Professor Emeritus, has been interviewed in Swedish TV4 news regarding effects of the 2018 drought. The ICOS research station in Hyltemossa measures, among other things, the exchange of carbon dioxide (CO2) between the forest ecosystem and the atmosphere. During recent years, the forest has been able

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/feedback-loop-anticipated-after-2018-record-drought-decreased-forests-uptake-carbon-dioxide - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. One of our students, Juliano Hanna, is on exchange in Svalbard. He is participating in a project aimed at gathering knowledge about how the Longyear River is slowly changing its path over time. One of our bachelor students, Juliano Hanna, who is on exchange at Svalbard, is featured in a recent article in Næringsliv No

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/exciting-internship-during-exchange-svalbard - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An international study led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden shows that the rapid increase in land use in the world's tropical areas is affecting the global carbon cycle more than was previously known. By studying data from a new satellite imaging system, the researchers also found that the biomass in tropic

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/increasing-tropical-land-use-disrupting-carbon-cycle - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund University will receive SEK 100 million from the EU to coordinate the international research project Interact for another four years. Among other things, the funding is to be used to send more polar researchers to the Arctic, make data available using artificial intelligence and reduce the research stations’ clim

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/lund-university-receives-sek-100-million-coordinate-major-polar-research-project - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The ability of global ecosystems to absorb carbon dioxide is regulated to a large extent by the nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus. With lower plant access to these nutrients, greater volumes of carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere, instead of being absorbed by forests and other ecosystems. A new study has now charte

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/new-study-solves-old-climate-mystery-about-ecosystems-nutrient-limitation - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Margareta Johansson has been featured in several media outlets due to her commitment to coordinate the international polar project Interact. Margareta Johansson, research coordinator at the department, was interviewed regarding her coordinating role in the international polar project, Interact.Johansson talked, among

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/she-coordinates-hundreds-researchers-bound-arctic - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An exhibition set up Nils Bergendal will take place at the entrance to Geocentrum II from Monday March 16th. Nils Bergendal, artist with photography as his main interest, has long been interested in 3D visualization. Stereo images taken from aircraft are an important way to gather information for natural geographers,

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/3d-visualization-exhibition-foyer-geocentrum-ii - 2026-05-15