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During last autumn and winter a team of researchers, PhD students and master students from Lund University and Leuphana University, Lüneburg, joined forces to undertake a student-driven quantitative review on temporal changes in ecosystem services. While the primary outcome of this collaboration will be a review to be published in an international scientific journal, the true added value of the st

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/student-driven-quantitative-review-temporal-changes-ecosystem-services - 2025-11-06

BECC researcher Ullrika Sahlin has together with other researchers published a debate article in Svenska Dagbladet today (17/5) arguing that the WWF's advice not to eat the endangered indigenous Swedish crayfish Astacus astacus is confusing and should be changed. Read the article on svd.se (in Swedish)

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/article-crayfish-svenska-dagbladet - 2025-11-06

Martin Green and Jens Rydell at the biology department, Lund University, have been awarded Skånes vindkraftspris 2017. Read the full article in Swedish on biologi.lu.se

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/biologists-win-skane-wind-academy-prize - 2025-11-06

To what use is the Swedish rural programme and what can be done to increase its effects? The CEC researchers Juliana Dänhardt and Henrik Smith have contributed with two chapters to the newly published book “Så här ligger landet – tankar om landsbygdsprogram och landsbygdsutveckling” (in Swedish). The book has been published by the Swedish Board of Agriculture and consists of short visionary texts

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-book-thoughts-swedish-rural-development-programme-and-rural-development-co-authors-cec - 2025-11-06

The Centre for Environmental and Climate Research has employed two new professors with research focus on human impact on environmental changes. Natascha Kljun and Yann Clough are new professors at CEC with the assignment to establish two research programmes of a high international standard in environmental science. From a starting point in science, the research programmes will be interdisciplinary

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/lunds-first-professors-environmental-science - 2025-11-06

During summer the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research (CEC) are announcing six new research positions within the Strategic Research Area Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate (BECC). Associate Senior University Lecturer in Ecological-Economic ModellingThe appointee will be expected to play a key role in CEC’s modelling team, leading the development and use of ecologic

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/six-open-research-positions-cec - 2025-11-06

Ullrika Sahlin has been appointed Reader in Environmental Science at the Faculty of Science. Her research focus on the management of uncertainty in risk analysis and evidence-based decisionmaking. Have you ever missed a train or been stunned by a surprise you did not expect to happen? In retrospect, could you have done something to prevent bad things from happening and still get the good bits? The

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/ullrika-sahlin-new-reader-environmental-science - 2025-11-06

It has previously been unsure whether microplastics from playgrounds spread to fresh water and aquatic environments. Detailed studies of schoolyards in the city of Lomma now clearly show that microplastics end up in nearby Höje river. Rubber-based surfaces with the purpose to protect our children also threaten wildlife, both at sea and on land. Read more about the study on lu.se (in Swedish)The pu

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/playgrounds-lomma-are-leaking-microplastics - 2025-11-06

Ullrika Sahlin, risk specialist at CEC, was awarded 15,000 Euros for her project “Gaming for better decisions under uncertainty” at the Climate-KIC Ideation Day II this Tuesday. Ullrikas project aims at developing a fun and educational game for decision-makers where they can develop skills in making decisions on climate-related issues with consideration of risk and uncertainty. The second Ideation

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/ullrika-sahlin-awarded-project-money-climate-kic-ideation-day - 2025-11-06

Increasing cultivation of oilseed rape may have consequences for pollinators and wild plant pollination. A recently published study from CEC suggests that oilseed rape can affect later flowering plants. By providing pollinating insects with pollen and nectar, oilseed rape benefits short-tongued, generalist insect species. Long-tongued bumble bee species, specialized to other flower types, may inst

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cultivating-oilseed-rape-can-affect-later-flowering-plants - 2025-11-06

In conjunction with the IPCC authors’ meeting in Malmö in October Sustainability Forum and Climate-KIC, both operating from the CEC, are co-organizers of three arrangements concerning climate change, climate policy and innovation as a solution. Climate change – from knowledge to politicsMonday, October 23 at 11, at Malmö Live, researchers from Lund University and Malmö University will discuss with

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climate-change-state-knowledge-politics-and-innovations-solution - 2025-11-06

Emilie Öström has written a thesis that increases our knowledge of how airborne particles, so-called aerosols, affect the climate. Globally, eight out of ten people live in environments where the amount of air pollution, in the form of small airborne particles, is above the guidelines set by the World Health Organization WHO. According to the WHO, atmospheric pollution causes 3.7 million deaths ea

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/aerosol-particles-impact-climate - 2025-11-06

Pollination is more important for strawberry growth than previously thought. A rich pollination gives better strawberry harvesting with strawberries that grow faster and weigh more. This is shown in a recently published study from the Center for Environmental and Climate Research, CEC. Three out of four cultivated crops we eat are pollinated by insects such as bees, butterflies or hoverflies. Mode

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/rich-pollination-improves-strawberry-harvesting - 2025-11-06

Reduced tillage before sowing benefits symbiotic fungi, this is shown in Sofia Hydbom's dissertation Tillage practices and their impact on soil organic carbon and the microbial community. For farmers who focus on crop production, tillage, such as plowing, has long been a fundamental part of agriculture. The plow is an effective tool that incorporates weeds to reduce interference with the new crop.

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/plow-lot-little-or-not-all - 2025-11-06

The workshop was organized by the CEC and the strategic research area BECC, November 21–22 2017. Topics and speakersHow to interact with farmers to develop tools for assessment of ecosystem services – Johanna Alkan Olsson, CEC Lund UniversityFive hammers, one nail. Evaluating effects of CAP greening alternatives on ecosystem services – Yann Clough, CEC Lund UniversityEcosystem services in decision

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/film-workshop-about-ecosystem-services-agricultural-production - 2025-11-06

Professor Tobias Kuemmerle, from the Humboldt University in Berlin, will be the holder of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, KSLA-Wallenberg Professorship 2018. The Centre of Environmental and Climate research will be professor Kuemmerles host institute during his stay in Sweden. – We are happy to welcome professor Kuemmerle to the CEC and are convinced that he will positively

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/ksla-wallenberg-professorship-cec - 2025-11-06

This game is a blessing, to practice your skills in guessing. Accuracy and precision, are good for a decision. Although being uncertain might seem less, it can lead to success. Relax your winter holiday with computer games about uncertaintyThe Climate-KIC Ideator project "Gaming for better decisions under uncertainty" is led by Ullrika Sahlin at CEC. The project aims to develop games to make peopl

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/christmas-gift-practice-your-skills-guessing - 2025-11-06

High concentrations of salt in agricultural soil is an environmental problem that has plagued human civilization from its very beginning. Also in modern times, salinization of soils is a problem restricting agricultural productivity. Irrigation can make areas suitable for agriculture that would otherwise be too dry to support high crop yields. However, water used for irrigation of fields evaporate

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/intensified-irrigation-threatens-agricultural-productivity - 2025-11-06

The climate issue is one of the biggest global societal challenges of our time. Research on where the climate is heading is an important part of that work, both to monitor the impact of emission reductions agreed between countries worldwide in Paris 2015, but also to be better prepared for the elements of climate change we will not be able to avoid. A climate model developed by researchers from Lu

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climate-models-point-way-towards-future - 2025-11-06

In recent years, ‘ecosystem services’ has become an increasingly common concept within the research community, as well as in municipalities, public authorities and industry. In simple terms, ecosystem services can be described as the benefits humans gain from nature’s ecosystems, for example regarding the food we eat, the air we breathe, purification of the water we drink, the bioenergy we use to

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/human-and-nature-symbiosis - 2025-11-06