Key takeaway: Natural carbon sinks are more cost effective than technological ones. Management can influence natural carbon sinks🌲
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Alek and Peter had a surprise visit at the Dahra flux tower site in Senegal today, when local villagers arrived on camels to see what was going on. They gave them a quick tour of the site and shared the story behind their work, before carrying on with system maintenance
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Great Fieldwork Friday out measuring N₂O fluxes in ley ecosystems across southern Sweden. Perfect conditions, solid data and today Stig had excellent support from BSc student Eva.
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New project on the horizon - rewetting a section of farmland and rebuilding the soil with clay and topsoil to see how it transforms the climate footprint and supports restoration and increase food production.
We’ll be monitoring GHG fluxes closely in the coming years.
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Alek and Peter just touched down at the Dahra site in Senegal, where they’ll be installing new sensors, calibrating instruments and performing maintenance on the eddy‑covariance and flux‑gradient systems to keep everything running smoothly.
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Matilda and Stig are out at the SITES Skogaryd research station today, gearing up for a round of measurements on tree methane exchange. Exciting to see if the forest will reveal more of its hidden chemistry...
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Sug på den: ”Omvandlingen av skogslandskapet har orsakat en kolförlust större än Sveriges fossila utsläpp sedan 1834, enligt en ny studie.” www.dn.se/sverige/skog...
Exciting new Science paper from colleagues in Lund: Sweden’s primary forests store ~72% more carbon than managed ones. The gap is way bigger than anyone thought — especially in soils.
Big implication for climate policies
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You start with flux measurements at a remote clear‑cut, and 11 years later you need a full “stairway to heaven” just to get the solar panels into the sun. The trees grew, the setup grew, and the dataset grew - a lot of hard work, but incredibly exciting science.
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We had the pleasure of hosting Prof. Em. Deborah Neher from the University of Vermont and The Land Institute at our agricultural site today. Such a fun visit with lots of great conversations and ideas flying around.
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Alexandra Pongracz on Why You Shouldn’t Miss Swedish Climate Symposium:
– It's a rare opportunity to meet colleagues from disciplines & sectors we don’t usually meet in our work... all gathering around the same purpose: ensuring climate knowledge leads to actions & societal change: shorturl.at/FCQYd
Biodiversity and climate strongly shape forest resilience after multi-year droughts, but after accounting for the human footprint, biodiversity’s contribution is consistently and strongly negative 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Very exciting N₂O dynamics emerging from our ley experiments — big emission pulses during snowmelt and soil thaw captured with our chamber measurements yesterday.
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Still time to submit an abstract to the ICOS Science conference 2026 in Lund! #ICOS2026SC
And while you're in Lund come visit us! An excursion to #Hyltemossa will be part of the programm.
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CO₂, CH₄, and N₂O fluxes measured at our agricultural site. Weather: uncooperative. Crew: unstoppable.
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Some of our BSc students are on field excursion in Rwanda. Here they are working with Rwandan students and teachers with maintenance of a Meter weather stations installed last year (funded by The Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography).
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Networks, integration, and community have been at the center of Kernza development. This figure shows how increasingly diverse stakeholder groups have and may continue to engage with Kernza over time.
Development and adoption of #Kernza—A perennial grain crop for sustainable #agriculture
Jessica L. Gutknecht, et al.
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Tough day for the field crew today. Sub-zero temperatures, snow and strong winds at our agricultural site Alnarp. Perfect conditions for sampling soil water and ground water... but they still managed to download data groundwater loggers etc.
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Consider submitting an abstract to the ICOS Science Conference 15-17 September 2026 in Lund, Sweden. Sessions 10, 14 and 22 has LU Fluxes members as convenors but there are many other interesting options as well
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New exciting paper with Lu Fluxes involvement, highlighting how trees, ponds and grazing strongly shape greenhouse gas dynamics in Sahel savannas, showing how complex and dynamic semi‑arid ecosystems really are.
Well Done Alek!
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A climate‑friendly perennial grain that could reshape European agriculture has been held up in the EU approval system for over six years. Researchers call the rules outdated.
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Swedish Climate Symposium: Call for Abstracts open
SCS is a symposium for increased scientific understanding of climate change and its environmental and societal consequences. Explore the programme to see which sessions are accepting abstracts. Submit by 30 January: swedishclimatesymposium.com
Hard work forvStig and Nele to drag hundreds of liters of water across the fields te get infiltration rate estimates
Infiltration rate estimates underway in the perennial wheat (Kernza) field
Our hardworking team are measuring infiltration rates and ground water levels to support hydrological modelling and estimates of nutrient leaching in perennial and annual grain crops in Alnarp.
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Stig and Nele have been busy installing tension lysimeters the last few days. This will help us estimate nutrient leaching from perennial wheat #Kernza and the annual reference crop (currently winter wheat).
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It's a challenge, to say the least 😀
Our amazing field assistants are hard at work conducting forest inventory in our continuous cover forest at Rumperöd.
Their efforts help us monitor forest structure, growth and dynamics, supporting sustainable management and carbon balance research.
#ContinuousCoverForestry
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Stig had a great fieldwork Friday with chamber measurements of CO2 and CH4 fluxes at both our perennial wheat field and the annual winter wheat field
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