Rate My Professor Didac Pascual

Didac Pascual is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science at Lund University. He is affiliated with the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and is a member of the strategic research areas BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate and MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system. Pascual completed his doctoral thesis in 2022 titled "The Torneträsk System - A basis for predicting future subarctic ecosystems." His research examines carbon storage in primary and secondary boreal forests, subarctic ecosystems, permafrost dynamics, winter warming events, and climate change impacts in northern Sweden, including effects on Sámi reindeer pastoralism and pasturelands. Key publications include the 2026 article "Higher carbon storage in primary than secondary boreal forests in Sweden" in Science, the 2024 paper "Accounting for Winter Warming Events in the Ecosystem Model LPJ-GUESS: Evaluation and Outlook" in Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, the 2023 article "Compound hazards of climate change, forestry, and other encroachments on winter pasturelands: a storyline approach in a forest reindeer herding community in Northern Sweden" in Regional Environmental Change, the 2022 paper "Increasing impacts of extreme winter warming events on permafrost" in Weather and Climate Extremes, the 2021 article "Soil organic carbon storage in a mountain permafrost area of Central Asia (High Altai, Russia)" in Ambio, and the 2020 paper "The missing pieces for better future predictions in subarctic ecosystems: A Torneträsk case study" in Ambio. He has also contributed a 2024 report chapter on pastureland restoration for Sámi reindeer pastoralism. Pascual has presented on carbon stocks in Swedish primary forests.