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Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre

Research

The Department carries out research, teaching and dissemination of scientific findings with direct application to the sustainable management of forests. We are a multidisciplinary institution, with global relevance but specialized expertise on issues related to the dynamic forest landscapes of southern Sweden. We closely collaborate with multiple stakeholders and conduct applied research in forest management, forest ecology, pathology, policy and planning. We teach bachelor, Masters and PhD level courses addressing all of these subject areas. 

Phytophthora. Photo: Cameron Colleypriest

Forest pathology group

We conduct basic and applied research on trees and their pathology, in the city and in the forest. We want to be relevant for the forest owner as well as for the society.

Silviculture group

Our focus is management of southern Swedish conifer and broadleaf forests. We also conduct research in other parts of Sweden and other countries.
People in forest

Forest policy and planning

We analyze models for forest management and planning, on a landscape and global level. Our largest project is ALTERFOR.
Nature

Forest ecology group

Our interest is the forest ecosystem. We conduct research about interactions between the organisms in the forest, vegetation history and conservation biology, for example.

Research networks

COST Action PEN-CAFoRR

GRDI Cold Forests

NordicDendro

Northern European Forest Ungulate Network (NEFUN)

Dendrochronologically Laboratory

Fleur Network

forestREplot

IUFRO networks

Division one – silviculture

Forest policies in the Baltic and Cee regions

Transforming forest landscapes for future climates and human well-being

Tree health in urban forests

Southern Swedish Mixed Forest Group

A large interdisciplinary team at our department researches issues the management, biodiversity, and ecosystem services provisioned by mixed-species production forests.

We are currently investigating the importance of the spatial grain of mixtures (patch versus intimate scale) on biodiversity and ecosystem service outcomes and the implications of increasing the broadleaf component of production forests from Norway spruce-birch mixtures, to birch dominated stands, on forest bird communities.

Website of Southern Swedish Mixed Forest Group

ALTERFOR is an EU financed project, which goal is to provide new and improved approaches that are robust enough to address the pressures of increased bioenergy use and uncertainties such as climate change, the complex dynamics of evolving global markets, and the increased focus on forests’ social values.

Website of ALTERFOR

Published: 21 September 2021 - Page editor: klas.pernebratt@slu.se
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