Hyungwoo Lim

My research focuses on investigating complex interactions and feedbacks between forest carbon dynamics and variations of climates and management practices. 

I place a strong emphasis on identifying connections across different scales: from theory and mechanisms to observations and projections. This framework involves at least one of the following processes: elucidating the underlying mechanisms responsible for the observed phenomena; upscaling the observation to address their implications; informing models with the characterized processes to assess their broader impacts.

My current projects are:

i) interactive effects between soil nitrogen status and water fluxes on nutrient availability and plant growth,

ii) projecting soil carbon dynamics with various forest structure and climates, and

iii) improving assessment of forest growth and standing biomass by incorporating neglected carbon fluxes and forest structure complexity.

Postdoc. in Silviculture, Jan. 2018-Dec. 2020 SLU Umeå 
Supervisor: Prof. Tomas Lundmark (SLU)

PhD in Biology (Ecophysiology), Dec. 2017 SLU Umeå 
Supervisors: Prof. Torgny Näsholm (SLU); Prof. Ram Oren (Duke Univ.)

H Lim, D Medvigy, A Mäkelä et al. 2024. Overlooked branch turnover creates a widespread bias in forest carbon accounting. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A

*G Baek, *H Lim, NJ Noh, C Kim. 2023. No impact of nitrogen fertilization on carbon sequestration in a temperate Pinus densiflora forest. Scientific Reports *Equal contribution

H Lim, S Jämtgård, R Oren et al. 2022. Organic nitrogen enhances nitrogen nutrition and early growth of Pinus sylvestris seedlings. Tree Physiol

Henriksson N, Lim H, Marshall J et al. 2021. Tree water uptake enhances nitrogen acquisition in a fertilized boreal forest – but not under nitrogen‐poor conditions. New Phytol 

H Lim, CA Alvares, MG Ryan, D Binkley. 2020. Assessing the cross-site and within-site response of potential production to atmospheric demand for water in Eucalyptus plantations. For Ecol Manag

H Lim, R Oren, T Näsholm et al. 2019. Boreal forest biomass accumulation is not increased by two decades of soil warming. Nature Climate Change