Environmental monitoring

At the Department of Soil and Environment, a number of environmental monitoring and assessment assignments are carried out, which include environmental monitoring programs, reporting assignments, and data hosting. The activities are primarily funded by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, but SLU also contributes.

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Soil sampling.

The Swedish Forest Soil Inventory

Environmental monitoring of forest soils and other natural land.

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National Inventories of Arable Land

SLU conducts inventories of arable land within, among other areas, the Soil and Crop Inventory.

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Soil compaction

Monitoring programme aimed at assessing the soil physical condition of Swedish arable land (page in Swedish).

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Nutrient losses from agricultural land

Two sub-programmes within the Swedish Environmental Monitoring programme provide data to support the evaluation of mitigation programs to reduce nutrient losses.

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The greenhouse gas inventory

SLU is responsible for calculating and reporting emissions and removals in the Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry sector to the UN and the EU.

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National environmental monitoring of pesticides

The Swedish national environmental monitoring programme aims to track long-term environmental trends in agricultural areas due to the use of plant protection products.

Access Data from the Inventories

We deliver quality-assured data from environmental monitoring on behalf of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. This provides the outside world faster access to the latest results.
To Data host - Agricultural land

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment at SLU

The Environmental Monitoring and Assessment at SLU is organised in twelve programmes. At the Department of Soil and Environment, we coordinate the Climate Programme, the Agricultural Landscapes Programme and the Acidification Programme.
Read more aboat the EMA at SLU
Kontakt
  • Johan Stendahl, head of department and researcher
    Biogeochemistry of Forest Soils
  • Katarina Kyllmar, researcher
    Agricultural water management
    +4618672597 +46703961923