Johan Stendahl

Associate professor, Head of Department
Head of Swedish Forest Soil Inventory

Research area

My research is oriented towards the impact of land use on the green-house gas balance, the mineral nutrient supply of forest soils, and trends in the environmental status of soils. Applied methodologies include simulation of soil development by mechanistic models and the analysis of spatial and temporal trends using large scale environmental monitoring databases.

I also work with methods for up-scaling and mapping spatial soil information. I am the head of Swedish Forest Soil Inventory, which monitors the status of the Swedish forest soils and is used among other things to evaluate the Environmental Quality Objectives and for the Swedish reporting to the UNFCCC in the land use sector (LULUCF).

Research projects and activities

• Swedish Forest Soil Inventory Head of inventory 2010- (Swedish EPA)
• 2022- NATI00NS - Supporting the EU Mission "A Soil Deal for Europe" (EU)
• 2022-2023 NorForSoil - Integrating Soil Monitoring in Nordic Forests (SNS network)
• 2020-2023 A Swedish inventory of biodiversity in forest soils - sampling and DNA-analyses (Swedish EPA).
• 2017-2019 FutureBioEcon - Sustainable forest management; multifunctional forestry, European forest policy (ERA-Net, SumForest)
• 2017-2020 INVENT - Improving National forest inventory-based carbon stock change estimates for greenhouse gas inVENTories (ERA-Net, ERA-Gas)
• 2016-2017 Importance of carbon modelling for forest bioenergy assessments in Sweden/Finland (Swedish Energy Agency)
• 2014-2018 CLIMATE-LAND: Consequences of climate policies for multiple ecosystem services of semi-natural grasslands of the cultural landscape (KlimaForsk, Norway)
• 2011-2016 QWARTS - Quantifying Weathering Rates for Sustainable Forestry (Formas). Deputy WP leader.
• 2012-2015 Temporal aspect of the climate benefit of forest fuels analysed by LCA (Swedish Energy Agency & SLU:s programme on effects of stump harvesting). Project leader.
• 2001-2009 Heureka research programme: multi purpose decision support system for forestry (Mistra).
• 2007-2008 Verifiering av Sveriges klimatrapportering – utvärdering av olika modeller för att beräkna klimatets påverkan på markens kolförråd. (Swedish Energy Agency).
• 2004-2007 LUSTRA - Land Use Strategies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Mistra).
• 2000-2004 AFFOREST: Afforestation management in north-western Europe - influence on nitrogen leaching, groundwater recharge, and carbon sequestration (EU FP5)

Duties

• 2022- Head of the Department of Soil and Environment
• 2021-2022 - Deputy head of the Department of Soil and Environment
• 2018-2019 Deputy group leader Biogeochemistry of Forest Soils

• Head of Swedish Forest Soil Inventory
• 2017-2020 Member of the board of environmental analysis at the Faculty of Forest Sciences.
• 2017-2020. Coordinator for the Climate Environmental Monitoring and Assessment programme at SLU (link).

Schulte, M., Jonsson, R., Hammar, T., Stendahl, J., Hansson, P.-A., 2022. Nordic forest management towards climate change mitigation: time dynamic temperature change impacts of wood product systems including substitution effects. European Journal of Forest Research

Lindahl, B.D., Kyaschenko, J., Varenius, K., Clemmensen, K.E., Dahlberg, A., Karltun, E., Stendahl, J., 2021. A group of ectomycorrhizal fungi restricts organic matter accumulation in boreal forest. Ecology Letters 24, 1341-1351

Petersson, H., Ellison, D., Appiah Mensah, A., Berndes, G., Egnell, G., Lundblad, M., Lundmark, T., Lundström, A., Stendahl, J., Wikberg, P.-E., 2022. On the role of forests and the forest sector for climate change mitigation in Sweden. GCB Bioenergy 14, 793-813

Karltun, E., Stendahl, J., Iwald, J., Löfgren, S., 2021. Forest biomass accumulation is an important source of acidity to forest soils: Data from Swedish inventories of forests and soils 1955 to 2010. Ambio

Högberg, P. Wellbrock, N. Högberg, M.N., Mikaelsson, H. Stendahl, J. 2021. Large differences in plant nitrogen supply in German and Swedish forests – Implications for management. Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 482.

Ranius, T., Hämäläinen, A., Egnell, G., Olsson, B., Eklöf, K., Stendahl, J., Rudolphi, J., Sténs, A., Felton, A. 2018. The effects of logging residue extraction for energy on ecosystem services and biodiversity: A synthesis. J Environ Manage 209, 409-425.

Stendahl, J., Berg, B., Lindahl, B.D., 2017. Manganese availability is negatively associated with carbon storage in northern coniferous forest humus layers. Scientific Reports 7, 15487

Berg, B., Erhagen, B., Johansson, M.-B., Nilsson, M. Stendahl, J., Trum, F., Vesterdal, L. 2015. Manganese in the litterfall-forest floor continuum of boreal and temperate pine and spruce forest ecosystems– a review. Forest Ecology and Management 358, 248-260

Gamfeldt, L., Snäll, T., Bagchi, R., Jonsson, M., Gustafsson, L., Kjellander, P., Ruiz-Jaen, M.C., Fröberg, M., Stendahl, J., Philipson, C.D., Mikusinski, G., Andersson, E., Westerlund, B., Andren, H., Moberg, F., Moen, J., Bengtsson, J. 2013. Higher levels of multiple ecosystem services are found in forests with more tree species. Nature Communications 4, 1340.

Stendahl, J., Akselsson, C., Melkerud, P.-A. Belyazid, S. 2013. Pedon-scale silicate weathering in forest soils in different time scales; comparing concepts and weathering rates from the PROFILE model and the depletion method. Geoderma 211–212, 65–74.

Stendahl, J. Lundin, L., Nilsson, T. 2009. The stone and boulder content of Swedish forest soils. Catena 77(3), 285-291.

Eriksson, E. Gillespie, A.R. Gustafsson, L. Langvall, O. Olsson, M. Sathre, R. & Stendahl, J. 2007. Integrated carbon analysis of forest management practises & wood substitution. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37 (3), 671-681.

Link to all publications by Johan Stendahl