Formas and VR funds to projects on diversity, resilience, microbioms, mycorrhiza and microbes

Anders Dahlberg, Jonas Oliva and Petra Fransson will receive three million SEK each from Formas. Anders will investigate the relative importance of fungal diversity in land and forest management for ecosystem services in the boreal forest, while Jonas will investigate whether resistance to drought and pathogens can be balanced by the planting of new forests in southern Sweden. Petra will look at whether the forest's age affects carbon fluxes of mycorrhizal fungi and turnover of organic matter.

– I am very excited for the opportunity to start this collaborative project on microbial priming and deposition in forest soils, with new and old colleagues, says Petra Fransson.

Johanna Boberg will receive three million from the "Call for research and development of future research leaders" with a project on what defines a tree's microbiome.

Sara Hallin get just over four million SEK from VR for the project "Global distribution, ecological niches and processes for building communities of N2O reducing microbes - keys to the identification of terrestrial N2O sinks".

– It's great that so many people at the Department received funding this year! We can really be proud of our researchers, says Head of the Department Jan Stenlid.