Climate research

The sustainable management of forest ecosystems is central to resolving this crisis. Furthermore, forests support 80% of terrestrial biodiversity, provide a diverse range of essential ecosystem services, while simultaneously possessing the carbon storage and sequestration capacity essential to achieving net-zero emissions and stabilizing the Earth’s climate.

The extent to which these multiple truths can coexist beneath the canopies of Sweden’s production forests is a key starting point for our department’s research and teaching efforts.

These efforts encompass a diverse array of scientific areas and societal concerns involving forests; from production, pathogens and policy, to forest restoration, browsing pressure, and conservation ecology.