Umuå University was established in 1965 and is now one of the large universties in Sweden with five faculties.
The department of Ecology and Environmental Science was created in 1999 by a fusion of several departments in order to stress, strengthen and develop the research in different disciplines of ecology and environmental science. The department has many doctoral students and postdocs from different countries in Europe and North America. Research activities comprize population ecology, evolution ecology, system ecology, paleoecology, landscape ecology, and physical geography. Environmental science research focuses on the effects of antropenic influences on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, such as pollution of nutrients, metals and organic compounds and effcts of land use and climate and climate change. The department includes the Umeå Marine Science Centre and the Climate Impacts Research Centre. Research is carried out in terrestrial northern ecosystems ranging from the tundra to coniferous forests and in lakes, rivers and marine systems of the north.

RESEARCH TEAM: Mats Jansson