Lars Lundin is Professor in soil science at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala. The research is focused on catchment hydrological balances and chemical budgets often in relation to land-use, especially related to forestry. Soil hydrological processes including peat soils and mire landscapes exert important parts of the scientific work. Related issues concern peatland management and wetland restoration. Furthermore, a large part of the time is used in various environmental assessment programs and long-term monitoring.

Co-ordinator for the Swedish Integrated Monitoring Programme

The overall interest is directed on effects of impacts on soil and water in the forest landscape. Both terrestrial and aquatic systems are included and the integrated monitoring on an ecosystem catchment approach furnishes the research possibilities for cause-effects relationships and the understanding of basic prerequisites. The long-term determinations and monitoring of natural conditions of complete number of included compartments at the same site gives the complete picture of existing properties and processes. Forest ecosystem functions and biodiversity in a wide context are included. The work, often related to environmental monitoring and assessment, is directed on:

• Integrated monitoring of air pollution effects on ecosystems
• Research and networking in the context of biodiversity
• Hydrology and water balances and chemical budgets in the forested catchment context
• Impacts of forestry on soil and waters
• Wetlands, mires and peatlands, their role in the landscape, climate change interactions and restoration

Besides the activities in SoilTrEC, activities are linked to longitudinal monitoring and assessment with the work under the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, especially in the International Cooperative Programme on Integrated monitoring of air pollution effects on ecosystems. Further research and scientific exchange belongs to the NoE ALTER-Net, "A Long-Term Biodiversity, Ecosystem and Awareness Research Network". Forest monitoring and evaluations concern the EU LIFE+ projects FutMon and EnvEurope. Special research includes mire restoration and activities in the International Peat Society.