title: Implications of climate and land-use change for landscape processes, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and governance.
abstract: This introduction to the Special Issue summarizes the results of 14 scientific articles from the interdisciplinary research program Ekoklim at Stockholm University, Sweden. In this program, we investigate effects of changing climate and land use on landscape processes, biodiversity, and ecosystem services, and analyze issues related to adaptive governance in the face of climate and land-use change. We not only have a research focus on the 22 650 km(2) Norrström catchment surrounding lake Mälaren in south-central Sweden, but we also conduct research in other Swedish regions. The articles presented here show complex interactions between multiple drivers of change, as well as feedback processes at different spatiotemporal scales. Thus, the Ekoklim program highlights and deals with issues relevant for the future challenges society will face when land-use change interacts with climate change.
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden, bodil.elmhagen@zoologi.su.se.
authors.forename: Bodil
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Elmhagen
authors.forename: Ove
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Eriksson
authors.forename: Regina
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lindborg
mesh_terms: D044822:Biodiversity; D057231:Climate Change; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods*; D017753:Ecosystem; D013548:Sweden