Published 10 March 2015 One of the plots (obsytorna) in Arkelstorp, in northern Skåne. 30 years of study of several hundred plots (obsytor) in Swedish forests have followed the developments of forest damage. The result is a unique material about the effects of air pollution on the forest and its ecosystems up to 2013. BECC researcher Cecilia Akselsson, Lund University, has led the evaluation and P

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/30-years-environmental-monitoring-shows-air-pollution-effects-forests - 2025-08-05

Published 9 March 2015 ClimBEco is a two-year graduate research school that promotes young scientists to engage in interdisciplinary research on climate, earth system and society in a changing world. Application to ClimBEco is open right now until the 14th of April. The Research School is open to students who are already enrolled as PhD students. Priority will be given to PhD students enrolled at

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/apply-climbeco-graduate-research-school-2015-2017 - 2025-08-05

Published 8 March 2015 Visit at the MAX IV Laboratory. Photo: Anna Boo On March 4, the BECC cluster “Climate, land use and biogeochemical cycles” visited the synchrotron source MAX IV. MAX IV Laboratory is a national laboratory hosted by Lund University. It operates accelerators producing x-rays of very high intensity and quality which are used for scientific research making the invisible visible.

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/cluster-meeting-max-iv - 2025-08-05

Published 13 March 2015 DataGURU is a tool for researchers to disseminate and find climate, land use, biodiversity and related data. The tool can also be of value as open data strategy in future applications for research funding. This work has been commissioned by the strategic research areas BECC and MERGE. The team, led by researcher Veiko Lehsten, developed a tool for the dissemination of the r

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/dataguru-new-tool-disseminating-and-finding-spatial-temporal-data - 2025-08-05

Published 16 March 2015 Read about new BECC related reports and articles, the webtool DataGURU and the many events that BECC is organising this spring. Some examples from the content:Hidden greenhouse gas emissions made visible in new reportNew article about climate change effects on soil nitrogen dynamics Lost genes make fungi dependent on trees30 years of environmental monitoring shows air pollu

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/new-becc-newsletter - 2025-08-05

Published 22 April 2015 BECC researchers are co-authors of a paper in Nature Climate Change: Optimal stomatal behavior around the world. Plants trade water for carbon. Every litre of water they extract from the soil allows them to take up a few more grams of carbon from the atmosphere in order to grow. A new global study published 2 March in Nature Climate Change shows that plants use their water

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/nature-climate-change-paper-optimal-stomatal-behavior-around-world - 2025-08-05

Published 22 April 2015 Bumble bee (Bombus terrestris) queen flying in one of the oilseed rape fields. Photo: Maj Rundlöf A research project has, for the first time, investigated how a neonicotinoid pesticide, clothianidin, affects both honeybees and wild bees under field conditions in agricultural landscapes. The study shows that honeybees can cope with exposure to the pesticide, but that it has

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/wild-bees-are-harmed-pesticide-becc-researchers-involved-unique-field-study - 2025-08-05

Published 30 April 2015 2010-2014 43 Swedish strategic research areas (SRA’s) was funded by the Swedish government, BECC is one of the SRA’s. During 2014 the SRA’s was evaluated. Today the evaluation, together with recommendations for the future, was announced and the BECC environment can be proud to achieve a positive and successful evaluation statement. BECC is also one of four highlighted SRAs

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/successful-evaluation-becc - 2025-08-05

Published 9 April 2015 The government has appointed a new research committee that will be providing the knowledge base for the work with the Research Policy Bill 2016. Henrik Smith, coordinator of BECC, is one of the persons appointed to the committee. The research committee will be a forum for Helene Hellmark Knutsson, Minister for Higher Education and Research, to discuss the research policy pri

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/henrik-smith-appointed-member-governments-new-research-committee - 2025-08-05

Published 28 May 2015 Tropical rainforests have long been considered the Earth’s lungs, sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thereby slowing down the increasing greenhouse effect and associated human-made climate change. Scientists in a global research project now show that the vast extensions of semi-arid landscapes occupying the transition zone between rainforest

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/new-article-science-shows-savannahs-slows-climate-change - 2025-08-05

Published 9 June 2015 Photo: Göran Wallin, University of Gothenburg The photosynthesis of tropical species in montane rain forest is very sensitive to high temperature which means high-altitude rain forests are particularly under threat by global warming. This has been shown by researchers from the University of Gothenburg in a study published in the journal New Phytologist. An increase in tempera

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/tropical-montane-rain-forests-sensitive-temperature-increase - 2025-08-05

Published 8 June 2015 Read more about the visit of SSEESS, The Swedish Secretariat for Environmental Earth System Sciences, on May 7th. On Thursday May 7th Lund was visited by SSEESS’s Director Magnus Tannerfeldt, Senior Research Officer’s Neda Farahbakhshazad and Dan Wilhelmsson as well as Anna Metzger Communication officer.Magnus, Neda, Dan and Anna  presented what SSEESS is and the role of SSEE

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/what-sseess - 2025-08-05

Published 11 June 2015 BECC was one of the supporting organizations behind the workshop "Dynamic global vegetation modelling: towards a third generation" that was held in Landskrona, 11-13 May. Read the report from the meeting here. On May 11-13 a LPJ-GUESS workshop was held at Hotel Öresund in Landskrona, bringing together around 60 leading researchers within the dynamic global vegetation modelli

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/report-workshop-dynamic-global-vegetation-modelling-towards-third-generation - 2025-08-05

Published 11 June 2015 Rice in Japan. Photo: Kazuhiko Kobayashi The rapidly rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere affect plants’ absorption of nitrogen, which is the nutrient that restricts crop growth in most terrestrial ecosystems. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have now revealed that the concentration of nitrogen in plants’ tissue is lower in air with high levels of car

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/increased-carbon-dioxide-levels-air-restrict-plants-ability-absorb-nutrients - 2025-08-05

Published 22 June 2015 Tobias Nielsen, Karin Bäckstrand and Helene Axelsson. Photo by IISD/ENB On Thursday, 11 June 2015, Lund University arranged a side-event at the Bonn Climate Change Conference. Tobias Nielsen, BECC PhD student, was one of the speakers. The Bonn Climate Change Conference side-event "Carbon footprints for effective climate policy on international trade" was arranged by Lund Uni

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/report-carbon-footprints-effective-climate-policy-international-trade - 2025-08-05

Published 26 June 2015 Photo: Maj Rundlöf Can the loss of biodiversity slow down if one exposes its economic value? In a study recently published in the scientific journal Nature Communications, the scientists show that among the many thousands of species of bees in the world, only a few species are of economic importance for agriculture. The most common pollinators of crops can be promoted by rel

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/putting-price-nature-difficult-new-study-nature-communications - 2025-08-05

Published 13 August 2015 Professor Thomas Sterner, Department of Economics at the University of Gothenburg and BECC researcher, is now a member of the newly established Scientific Council for Sustainable Development. During the Almedalen Week 2015, the Swedish Government decided to establish a new council for sustainable development: the Scientific Council for Sustainable Development. The council

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/thomas-sterner-new-member-scientific-council-sustainable-development - 2025-08-05

Published 13 August 2015 Henrik Smith, photo: Kenneth Ruona, Lund Univesity Welcome to BECC cluster meetings taking part in September. It is possible to join cluster meetings on e-link, please note that when you register.Register before September 7thRegister at the latest September 7th if you want to join by using this linkFor questions about pratical issues contact anna [dot] boo [at] cec [dot] l

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/sign-becc-cluster-meetings-september - 2025-08-05

Published 26 August 2015 BECC researcher and board member, Annica Kronsell, is one of the editors of the new book: Rethinking the Green State. The book analyzes the ideals and practices of the evolving green state.. Among the writers are BECC researchers Åsa Knaggård and Roger Hildingsson. About the bookThis innovative book is one of the first to conduct a systematic comprehensive analysis of the

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/rethinking-green-state - 2025-08-05

Published 31 August 2015 Photo: Johannes Rousk Researchers from Lund University, Sweden, and USA have shown that our understanding of how organic material is decomposed by fungi and bacteria is fundamentally wrong. This means that climate models that include microorganisms to estimate future climate change must be reconsidered. When a plant dies, its leaves and branches fall to the ground. Decompo

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/fungi-and-bacteria-affects-future-climate-models - 2025-08-05