Nature-based solutions in open ecosystems must support biodiversity and people

Landscapes for Nature and People

Protecting biodiversity depends not only on safeguarding isolated habitats, but on how landscapes are managed as connected systems that support both people and nature. The LANDPATHS team, led by Associate Professor Malgorzata Blicharska at Uppsala University, is exploring how governance, citizen participation and land-...

Forests beyond carbon

Forest Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Management: From Assessment to Adaptive and Inclusive Action

Forests sustain human societies through an interdependent portfolio of provisioning, regulating, cultural, and supporting services [...]

What Does the Future Hold? Habitat Suitability and Conservation Implications for Rare and Widespread Plant Species Under Climate Change

Evaluate how future environmental conditions may reshape plant distributions to identify conservation priorities in a rapidly changing environment, thereby informing effective conservation planning and mitigating the consequences of plant decline for biodiversity, species interactions and ecosystem functioning.

Save the bogs, for peat’s sake Water, Carbon, Time: Exploring Peatlands in a Warming World Jennifer de Mooy University of Minnesota Press, 2026. 200 pp.

Peatlands are rich ecosystems and critical carbon sinks—thanks to climate change, they are drying up

Application of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems for Natural Resource Management of Forest Ecosystems

Forest ecosystems constitute one of the fundamental components of the terrestrial biosphere, as they perform essential functions in climate regulation, the carbon cycle, biodiversity conservation, hydrological regulation, soil protection, and the provision of ecosystem services [...]