Climate and ecosystem change

One of SLU's strengths

"SLU research on the impact of climate change on ecosystem dynamics is very strong from an international perspective. Leading research on aquatic environments has shown that ecosystems can abruptly change status, with massive consequences for the chemistry and biology of lakes.

The effect of climate change on agricultural systems and on different crops is a strong, growing research area at SLU.

Research on the structure and function of forest ecosystems and work on the interactions between plants, microbes, and the soil is regarded as world class, as is research on carbon balance and the interactions between carbon cycles and nitrogen cycles.

Within environmental analysis and soil science, databases and long time series are used to study the effects of the warming climate on carbon storage in soil and on the leakage of humus and the uptake and release of greenhouse gases, in addition to how their flow is influenced by land use and management models."

(From The Life Sciences and Knowledge for a Sustainable Future, pdf)