Professor Ben Smith

is an ecologist and ecosystem modeller at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science at Lund University in Sweden. His research concerns terrestrial ecosystem functioning and interactions with climate, with a particular focus on the role of population and community processes in ecosystem dynamics.

Since 2019, Ben is Director of Research for the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Australia. He retains an affiliation at Lund University.

Selected publications

  • Haverd, V., Smith, B., Canadell, J.G., Cuntz, M., Mikaloff-Fletcher, S., Farquhar, G., Woodgate, W., Briggs, P.R. & Trudinger, C.M. 2020. Higher than expected CO2 fertilization inferred from leaf to global observations. Global Change Biology 26: 2390-2402.
  • Pugh, T.A.M., Lindeskog, M., Smith, B., Poulter, B., Arneth, A., Haverd, V. & Calle, L. 2019. Role of forest regrowth in global carbon sink dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 116: 4382-4387.
  • Haverd, V., Smith, B., Nieradzik, L., Briggs, P.R., Woodgate, W., Trudinger, C.M., Canadell, J.G. & Cuntz, M. 2018. A new version of the CABLE land surface model (Subversion revision r4601) incorporating land use and land cover change, woody vegetation demography, and a novel optimisation-based approach to plant coordination of photosynthesis. Geoscientific Model Development 11: 2995-3026.
  • Zhang, W., Miller, P.A., Jansson, C., Samuelsson, P., Mao, J. & Smith, B. 2018. Self-amplifying feedbacks accelerate greening and warming of the Arctic. Geophysical Research Letters 45: 7102-7111.
  • Engström, K., Lindeskog, M., Olin, S., Hassler, J. & Smith, B. 2017. Impacts of climate mitigation strategies in the energy sector on global land use and carbon balance. Earth System Dynamics 8: 773-799.
  • Ahlström, A., Raupach, M.R., Schurgers, G., Smith, B., Arneth, A., Jung, M., Reichstein, M., Canadell, J.P., Friedlingstein, P., Jain, A.K., Kato, E., Poulter, B., Sitch, S., Stocker, B.D., Viovy, N., Wang, Y.-P., Wiltshire, A., Zaehle, S. & Zeng, N. 2015. The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO2 sink. Science 348: 895-899.
  • Smith, B., Wårlind, D., Arneth, A., Hickler, T., Leadley, P., Siltberg, J. & Zaehle, S. 2014. Implications of incorporating N cycling and N limitations on primary production in an individual-based dynamic vegetation model. Biogeosciences 11: 2027-2054.
  • Smith, B., Samuelsson, P., Wramneby, A. & Rummukainen, M. 2011. A model of the coupled dynamics of climate, vegetation and terrestrial ecosystem biogeochemistry for regional applications. Tellus 63A: 87-106.
  • Smith, B., Knorr, W., Widlowski, J.-L., Pinty, B. & Gobron, N. 2008. Combining remote sensing data with process modelling to monitor boreal conifer forest carbon balances. Forest Ecology & Management 255: 3985-3994.
  • Lucht, W., Prentice, I.C., Myneni, R.B., Sitch, S., Friedlingstein, P., Cramer, W., Bousquet, P., Buermann, W. & Smith, B. 2002. Climatic control of the high-latitude vegetation greening trend and Pinatubo effect. Science 296: 1687-1689.
  • Smith, B., Prentice, I.C. & Sykes, M.T. 2001. Representation of vegetation dynamics in the modelling of terrestrial ecosystems: comparing two contrasting approaches within European climate space. Global Ecology & Biogeography 10: 621-637.

Contact details

From October 2018, primarily located at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Australia. Contact details below apply while at Lund University.

Mailing address:
Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science
Lund University
Geocentrum II, Sölvegatan 12
22362 Lund
Sweden

Internal mail: HS16

Visiting address:
3rd floor, Geocentrum II
Sölvegatan 12
Lund
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Telephone +46 725262200
E-mail: ben.smith.lu@gmail.com
URL: web.nateko.lu.se/personal/benjamin.smith