Tradeoffs and synergies in relation to other wetland ecosystem services

Transition of cities towards carbon neutrality requires an improved understanding of the interlinkages between land-use and energy planning, and of the complexity of coupled socio-ecological processes, and feedbacks in urban-regional systems.

BatMapper is a citizen science project to capture information on bats and their roosting locations in Sweden.

CALIPSO is aimed at understanding the fate of future CO2 and climate change through a new representation of carbon loss pathways from plants, soils and ocean, by leveraging novel observations, theoretical understanding, machine learning tools and integration of processes with Earth system models

Accelerating permafrost thaw in the Arctic drastically changes the ecosystem as a whole, which, in turn, impacts the everyday life of local communities and Indigenous populations. CAPES specifically focuses on the impact of climate change on populations living on permafrost in the Arctic using an ecosystem service approach.

COASTAL is a unique collaboration between 29 partners from 8 EU Member States, representing entrepreneurs, administrations and scientific experts in coastal and rural enterprises who engage actors and stakeholders at all levels by combining local knowledge and scientific expertise in a co-creation process.

The DeepWetland project aims to develop a machine learning (ML) platform to monitor water extent changes in wetlands by integrating multiple data sources from satellite images, radars, and other space sensors.

Soils can help mitigating climatic changes by storing carbon, but how much they can store depends on nutrient availability. Here we ask how soil organisms that facilitate carbon storage handle a diet poor in nutrients—releasing more or less carbon?

Grasslands are one of Earth's largest biomes, covering ca. 40% of the ice-free terrestrial surface. They play a vital role for many ecosystem services, such as food production, biodiversity, pollination and carbon storage.

Exploring Causes of Species and Trait Alterations in Terrestrial ecosystems: Impacts and Consequences

Forest management can contribute to climate mitigation, but we still do not know how forest soils respond to management and disturbances. This project will address this question by synthesizing knowledge on soils across European forests.

Forests are natural air conditioners: During hot and dry periods, they can cool the understory and all life below the canopy by shading the ground and evaporating water. However, this climate buffering capacity is under threat.

The flow of water in river and stream networks is dramatically affected by human activities, with important deleterious implications for coastal ecosystems.

Innovation and partnerships for effective programs of measures for good water quality and good ecological status – with pilot study for Askrikefjärden

A crucial goal in climate research is to better understand the mechanisms of observed climate variability and change to assess the relative roles of internal variability and external forcing variations in explaining observed changes in the climate system.

The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency's call "Indicators for biodiversity at landscape level" aims to increase our knowledge about the effects of fragmentation on biological diversity, important ecological structures, functions at a landscape level and proposals on how this can be measured.

Striving to limit global warming, there is an increased scientific focus on the feasibility of realizing low-emission scenarios where CO2 is actively removed from the atmosphere.

The overall aim of this project is to explore the link between mangrove ecosystem services (MES) and community livelihoods and well-being, changes in MES and associated drivers of change, adaptation options and their management in Tanzania, using the Rufiji Delta and Pangani Estuary as case studies.

The European Green Deal (GD) is a transformative action plan to a healthy, sustainable, prosperous, climate resilient and net-zero emission society

Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. Utilizing the carbon-lowering capacity of global soils has great potential to mitigate such changes.

Peatlands cover vast areas in the permafrost region and store large amounts of soil organic carbon. In a future warmer climate, permafrost thaw will probably lead to a positive climate feedback due to increased emissions of greenhouse gases when more organic matter becomes available for decay.

This project aims to get a better understanding of rapid climate changes in the past and to compare climate signals preserved in different high-resolution climate archives in the North Atlantic region.

The project will evaluate proxies of socio-cultural services provided by the river, such as mapping locals´ favorite places on the river.

Conflict between humans and wildlife

The overall aim of this project is to analyse if less intensive rice farming strategies, such as rice-fish farming could provide sustainable alternatives to more intensive rice monocropping in the Mekong Delta.

Hydro-climatic hazard, risk, and crisis management in Sweden (CrisAct)

Marine sediments indicate that the Sahara region was about 10 times as wet as today.

Evolution has shaped how soil microbes live and thus how much greenhouse gases and useful nutrients they produce. We will integrate this idea in new mathematical models to quantify land use and climate effect on soil fertility and carbon storage.

Water and soils are among the most important natural resources, without action, the pressure on these resources is likely to increase as a result of growing population, evolving food demand and the effects of a changing climate.

on the grazing lands of northern Fennoscandia

Knowledge about how changes in water flows affect conflicts is largely lacking. The goal of this project is to increase understanding of how people and the climate affect water flows and how, in turn, these changes affect cooperation and conflicts over water.

Savannas are a globally important ecosystem for climate change and grazing wildlife and livestock. Fire is a major driver of savanna vegetation dynamics, and we aim to better understand how fire management affects plant species distributions.

Plants can accelerate soil decomposition near their roots, which can increase soil CO2 release, but also nitrogen availability and thereby plant productivity. NITROPRIME will quantify the impact of this complex interplay on the Arctic CO2 balance.

Mercury (Hg) has been sequestered in Northern permafrost soils for thousands of years. If some of this Hg is released into Hg’s modern biogeochemical cycle, it could worsen Hg pollution and counteract global efforts to protect human and wildlife health from Hg exposure.

The Ryder 2019 expedition with the Swedish icebreaker Oden targets the unexplored marine realm of Ryder Glacier, more specifically the Sherard Osborne Fjord and adjacent area of northern Nares Strait and the southern Lincoln Sea.

This project is performed in collaboration between the Geological Survey of Sweden and researchers at the Linnaeus University and Stockholm University to evaluate and develop a spatial model for the occurrence of acid sulphate soils.

Synergies and trade-offs in an era of climate change and modernization.