• Cambisol 

      Svendgård-Stokke, Siri; Kok, Nora Hua Ly (Journal article, 2024)
      Cambisol er selvdrenert jordsmonn med utviklet jordstruktur. Arealer med Cambisol er stort sett lettdrevne jordbruksarealer.
    • Can Action Days in a community garden contribute to social integration and cohesion? 

      Firmbach, Paula; Burckhardt, Hanna; Dermitzel, Daniel; Fjellstad, Wendy Jane; Eiter, Sebastian (NIBIO-pop;8(13) 2022, Journal article, 2022-03)
      The Prinzessinnengarten community garden uses Cultural and Culinary Action Days to invite diverse participants to come together to grow food, learn about sustainable urban agriculture and participate in other cultural and ...
    • Carcass characteristics of Nordic native cattle breeds 

      Therkildsen, Margrethe; Vestergaard, Mogens; Kargo, Morten; Keto, Liisa; Ertbjerg, Per; Thorkelsson, Gudjon; Gudjónsdóttir, Maria; Kjetså, Maria; Honkatukia, Mervi; Egelandsdal, Bjørg; Svartedal, Nina; Røe, Morten; Fikse, Freddy W.; Karlsson, Anders H.; Hessle, Anna (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-02-06)
      Native livestock breeds are part of the history of the Nordic people and comprise a resource for future food production. In this study, net gain and carcass characteristics of two Danish, three Finnish, one Icelandic, six ...
    • Carnivore Management Zones and their Impact on Sheep Farming in Norway 

      Strand, Geir-Harald; Hansen, Inger; de Boon, Auvikki Ilmarar Bjerka; Sandström, Camilla (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-10-17)
      We investigated the impact of Norway’s current zonal carnivore management system for four large carnivore species on sheep farming. Sheep losses increased when the large carnivores were reintroduced, but has declined again ...
    • Challenges and opportunities of water quality monitoring and multi-stakeholder management in small islands: the case of Santa Cruz, Galápagos (Ecuador) 

      Re, V.; Rizzi, Jonathan; Tuci, C.; Tringali, C.; Mancin, M.; Mendieta, E.; Marcomini, A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-03-18)
      Sustainable water resources management roots in monitoring data reliability and a full engagement of all institutions involved in the water sector. When competences and interests are overlapping, however, coordination may ...
    • Changes in subarctic vegetation after one century of land use and climate change 

      Kapfer, Jutta; Popova, Ksenia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-12-27)
      Questions Have species richness and composition in subarctic vegetation changed over the past ca. 90 years? Are compositional shifts linked to changes in land management or climate? Are observed changes associated with ...
    • Changing contributions of stochastic and deterministic processes in community assembly over a successional gradient 

      Måren, Inger Elisabeth; Kapfer, Jutta; Aarrestad, Per Arild; Grytnes, John-Arvid; Vandvik, Vigdis (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Successional dynamics in plant community assembly may result from both deterministic and stochastic ecological processes. The relative importance of different ecological processes is expected to vary over the successional ...
    • Climate warming feedback from mountain birch forest expansion: Reduced albedo dominates carbon uptake 

      de Wit, Heleen; Bryn, Anders; Hofgaard, Annika; Karstensen, Jonas; Kvalevåg, Maria Malene; Peters, Glen Philip (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Expanding high elevation and high latitude forest has contrasting climate feedbacks through carbon sequestration (cooling) and reduced surface reflectance (warming), which are yet poorly quantified. Here, we present an ...
    • The combined effects of centralization and carnivore management on sheep farmers and sheep farming in Norway 

      Strand, Geir-Harald (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-09-12)
      Sheep farmers in areas with large carnivores experience economic loss, psychological stress, and perceived alienation from political processes. This can result in decisions that differ from those made by farmers in areas ...
    • Composite landscape predictors improve distribution models of ecosystem types 

      Simensen, Trond; Horvath, Peter; Vollering, Julien; Erikstad, Lars; Halvorsen, Rune; Bryn, Anders (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-06-10)
      Aim: Distribution modelling is a useful approach to obtain knowledge about the spatial distribution of biodiversity, required for, for example, red-list assessments. While distribution modelling methods have been applied ...
    • The content and accuracy of the CORINE land cover dataset for Norway 

      Aune-Lundberg, Linda; Strand, Geir-Harald (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-11-20)
      The CORINE Land Cover dataset for Norway for the reference year 2018 (CLC2018) was compared to detailed national land cover and land use data. This allowed us to describe the thematic composition of the CLC-polygons and ...
    • Deforestation and Connectivity among Protected Areas of Tanzania 

      Gizachew, Belachew; Rizzi, Jonathan; Shirima, Deo D.; Zahabu, Eliakimu (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Protected Areas (PAs) in Tanzania had been established originally for the goal of habitat, landscape and biodiversity conservation. However, human activities such as agricultural expansion and wood harvesting pose challenges ...
    • Diverse business models support urban farming and food marketing in Bristol 

      Eiter, Sebastian; Keech, Daniel; Carey, Joy (Journal article, 2022)
      The City of Bristol has a long history and well-established practices in urban farming and city food system planning. Farms apply different urban business models that take advantage of the proximity to the city by providing ...
    • Diversity patterns in high-latitude grasslands 

      Kapfer, Jutta; Dramstad, Wenche; Pedersen, Christian; Sickel, Hanne; Heegaard, Einar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-02-17)
      Aim Grasslands of varying land-use intensity and history were studied to describe and test species richness and compositional patterns and their relationships with the physical environment, land cover of the surrounding ...
    • Driftsopplegg og lønnsomhet i kombinert melk- og kjøttproduksjon med bevaringsverdige storferaser 

      Johnsen, Hanne Margrete; Holene, Anna Caroline (Journal article, 2023)
      Landbruksøkonomer i NIBIO har undersøkt hvordan ulike tilpasninger i driftsopplegg slår ut på lønnsomheten i kombinert melk- og kjøttproduksjon med bevaringsverdige storferaser. Målet var å identifisere de viktigste faktorene ...
    • Driftsopplegg og lønnsomhet i spesialisert kjøttproduksjon med bevaringsverdige storferaser 

      Holene, Anna Caroline; Johnsen, Hanne Margrete (Journal article, 2023)
      Landbruksøkonomer i NIBIO har undersøkt hvordan ulike tilpasninger i driftsopplegg slår ut på lønnsomheten i spesialisert kjøttproduksjon med bevaringsverdige storferaser. Målet var å identifisere de viktigste faktorene ...
    • The effects of progress in genetics and management on intensities of greenhouse gas emissions from Norwegian pork production 

      Bonesmo, Helge; Enger, Eli Gjerlaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12)
      The environmental sustainability of food production systems, including net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, is of increasing importance. In Norwegian pork production, animal performance is high in terms of reproduction, ...
    • Er 86 år nok til å viske ut landbrukets spor i subarktisk vegetasjon? 

      Kapfer, Jutta; Popova, Ksenia (NIBIO POP;6(17) 2020, Journal article, 2020-04)
      Beiting og slått har skapt noen av de mest artsrike økosystemene i Nord-Europa, men slike tradisjonelle driftsformer har blitt mindre vanlige i det 20. århundre. Denne endringen er en viktig drivkraft for påfølgende ...
    • Estimating the Permeability of Naturally Structured Soil From Percolation Theory and Pore Space Characteristics Imaged by X-Ray 

      Koestel, John; Dathe, Annette; Skaggs, Todd H.; Klakegg, Ove Mindor; Ahmad, Muhammad Arslan; Babko, Maryia; Giménez, Daniel; Farkas, Csilla; Nemes, Attila; Jarvis, Nicholas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-10-30)
      The saturated hydraulic conductivity of soil, Ks, is a critical parameter in hydrological models that remains notoriously difficult to predict. In this study, we test the capability of a model based on percolation theory ...
    • A European map of groundwater pH and calcium 

      Hájek, Michal; Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja; Hájek, Ondřej; Brancaleoni, Lisa; Cantonati, Marco; Carbognani, Michele; Dedić, Anita; Dítě, Daniel; Gerdol, Renato; Hájková, Petra; Horsáková, Veronika; Jansen, Florian; Kamberović, Jasmina; Kapfer, Jutta; Kolari, Tiina Hilkka Maria; Lamentowicz, Mariusz; Lazarević, Predrag; Mašić, Ermin; Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold; Pérez-Haase, Aaron; Peterka, Tomáš; Petraglia, Alessandro; Pladevall-Izard, Eulàlia; Plesková, Zuzana; Segadelli, Stefano; Semeniuk, Yuliya; Singh, Patrícia; Šímová, Anna; Šmerdová, Eva; Tahvanainen, Teemu; Tomaselli, Marcello; Vystavna, Yuliya; Biţă-Nicolae, Claudia; Horsák, Michal (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03-17)
      Water resources and associated ecosystems are becoming highly endangered due to ongoing global environmental changes. Spatial ecological modelling is a promising toolbox for understanding the past, present and future ...