1 Feb 2019
Well managed forests can limit climate change
Growing forests can limit climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store the carbon in their biomass as they grow. How much carbon a forest stores varies between tree [...]
MERGE facts
- MERGE is a strategic research environment coordinated by Lund University and was launched in 2010
- In 2017, MERGE involved more than 120 researchers, including senior scientists, young scientists and other contributing staff.
- The MERGE team includes five universities as well as the Swedish Metorological and Hydrological Institute
- The main research focus is regional and global climate/Earth System models, understanding key processes
and feedback of climate/Earth System’s with focus on climate-vegetation, improved global and regional climate change
projections and scenarios as well as risks of extreme events
