Publicerad 12 april 2016 En vänförening, "Botans vänner", har bildats och söker medlemmar. Föreningen ska främja trädgården, stödja forskning kring botanik och verka för folkbildning.På Botans vänners webbplats kan du läsa mer. 

https://www.botan.lu.se/artikel/ny-vanforening-till-botaniska-tradgarden - 2025-03-15

Av nina [dot] hult [at] botan [dot] lu [dot] se (Nina Hult) - publicerad 25 oktober 2021 En kompost är som en mångmiljonstad som sjuder av liv och aktivitet! Men hur får man egentligen den att fungera? Kleopatra införde redan på sin tid dödsstraff för utförsel av kompostmaskar.. Följ med botanisten Julia Borg och trädgårdsteknikern Katarina Löthman-Kaliff på en tur i Botaniska trädgården och få ku

https://www.botan.lu.se/artikel/kompost-guidad-visning - 2025-03-15

Published 25 November 2014 BECC researcher Fariborz Zelli is one of the organizers of a side-event at COP 20, in Lima, Peru on the 4th of December. The title of the event is "REDD and beyond". BECC researcher Tobias Nielsen is one of the speakers at the side-event. REDD is one a series of incentive-based mechanisms for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to REDD, and partly out of criti

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-cop-20-side-event-redd-and-beyond - 2025-03-15

Published 9 December 2014 Read Fariborz Zelli's report on the side-event 'REDD and Beyond: International and Indegenous Strategies in Forest Protection', held in Lima on the 4th of December. On Thursday, 4th December, BECC was one of the initiators of a side-event on ‘REDD and Beyond: International and Indigenous Strategies in Forest Protection’. The event was co-organised by Lund University and t

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-united-nations-climate-conference - 2025-03-15

Published 10 December 2014 On 24-25 November, the BECC Annual Meeting 2014 was held in Halmstad. The meeting focused on the future possibilities of research within BECC and what is to come. For those of you who could not join the meeting - and those of you who would like to see a particularly interesting presentation again - we have collected the presentations from the meeting here. The fifth annu

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/report-presentations-becc-annual-meeting-2014 - 2025-03-15

Published 10 December 2014 Lund University has collected the top research of the university's twelve strategic reseach environments in a new book. BECC is one of these environments. In 2008, the Swedish Government designated 20 ‘Strategic Research Areas’ (SRAs) in its research-policy bill. Within these 20 areas, 43 research environments were chosen for specific funding in a special evaluation in 2

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/todays-great-explorers - 2025-03-15

Published 13 December 2014 Henrik Smith, coordinator of BECC, is appointed new member of the General Section of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry. The General section deals at an overall level with questions concerning natural resources, nature conservation, environment, countryside, research policy, dissemination of knowledge, and social planning. The section also deals with i

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/henrik-smith-appointed-new-member-royal-swedish-academy-agriculture-and-forestry - 2025-03-15

Published 13 December 2014 Tobias Dan Nielsen, PhD Candidate at the Department of Political Science and BECC researcher, is in Lima, Peru, for the UNFCCC COP20. Read about his experiences and thoughts on the Global Landscape Forum. Right now in Lima experts, civil society, practitioners and decision-maker gather to discuss solution to climate change at the UNFCCCs COP20. On December 6-7th. Lima al

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/global-landscape-forum-future-forest-management - 2025-03-15

Published 9 January 2015 The special volume "Phenological change and ecological interactions" is edited by BECC-researchers Jacob Johansson, Jan-Åke Nilsson and Niclas Jonzén. Changes in the seasonal timing of biological events, e.g. flowering or bird migration, are well documented effects of recent climate change. There is widespread concern that such changes may disrupt important ecological inte

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/special-oikos-volume-phenological-change-and-ecological-interactions - 2025-03-15

Published 25 January 2015 Today, Monday 26 January, the new report "Klimatsäkrat Skåne" will be launched. The report is a knowledge review and analysis of Skåne's climate work including opportunities and challenges. The launch event focuses on three panel discussions on how we should make our society less vulnerable to climate change, how we use ecosystem services and the implications of climate c

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/new-report-about-regional-climate-challenges-and-adaptation-skane - 2025-03-15

Published 9 February 2015 On the 13th of January 2015 the workshop "Science of Decision Making in Research" was held. You can now find both presentations and videos from the workshop. The workshop hosted 19 participants from different departments and universities. An ambition was to create contact points between BECC projects working with multi-criteria decision making and stimulate methodological

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/science-decision-making-research - 2025-03-15

Published 23 February 2015 Isotope labelling of the soil in the CLIMAITE facility, Denmark. Photo: Louise C. Andresen. A recent review article in Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems proposed a new conceptual model on nitrogen (N) cycle responses to elevated CO2: gross N mineralization is stimulated in N-limited ecosystems only, but not in phosphorus limited ones. Authors are BECC researchers Tobias

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/new-article-about-climate-change-effects-soil-nitrogen-dynamics - 2025-03-15

Published 27 February 2015 Mycorrhiza fungi and tree roots. Photo: LU, Gunnar Menander A new research study has shed light on the underground interaction between tree roots and fungi. In order to understand how this important symbiosis came about, an international team of researchers have sequenced the genomes of different fungi that live underground. The study shows that in the course of evolutio

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/lost-genes-make-fungi-dependent-trees - 2025-03-15

Published 5 March 2015 Photo: Karin Hjerpe, Jordbruksverket A new report shows that restored wetlands can reduce greenhouse gas emissions. BECC researchers Åsa Kasimir and Leif Klemedtsson at the University of Gothenburg are two of the authors. Drained peatland is a major source of greenhouse gases. The Board of Agriculture (Jordbruksverket), The Swedish Forest Agency (Skogsstyrelsen) and the Swed

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/hidden-greenhouse-gas-emissions-made-visible-new-report - 2025-03-15

Published 6 March 2015 The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services (IPBES) invites interested researchers to nominate experts to be involved in the work of IPBES. Currently there is a call out for nominations of experts to 3 of the IPBES deliverables:1) A set of regional and sub-regional assessments of biodiversity and ecosystem services implementing work programme delivera

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/nomination-open-ipbes - 2025-03-15

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 - 2025-03-15

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 - 2025-03-15

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 - 2025-03-15

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 - 2025-03-15

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 - 2025-03-15