About the research programme
WIFORCE is a research programme seeking answers to what influences forest growth, resilience and biodiversity. The goal: new knowledge to manage and conserve forests in a changing climate.
The story behind WIFORCE
The forest is expected to meet many needs – but its growth is more uncertain than before. WIFORCE was born out of the need for new knowledge to help us manage and preserve forests in a changing climate.
WIFORCE Research School
The research school provides doctoral students with scientific competence to contribute to sustainable forest management. It brings together around 50 PhD students, including several industrial and collaborative doctoral students.
News
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Trees repurpose flowering gene toolkit to control winter growth stop
Deciduous trees and annual plants rely on the same ancestral genes, but evolution has assigned them different tasks. Now researchers from Sweden and China show that aspen trees use flowering-related genes to stop growth as winter approaches - yet in the opposite way compared to annual plants. -
Eavesdropping: PhD-project captures the chatter of the riparian zone
Scolarship allows PhD-student Ernie Haglund to study the airborne diversity along the forest's waterways. -
13 new PhD projects granted in WIFORCE’s final call
A total of 13 new PhD projects have been granted within the WIFORCE Research School at SLU’s Faculty of Forest Sciences.