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    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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, ...
    • 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 ...
    • Experiences from a National Landscape Monitoring Programme: Maintaining Continuity Whilst Meeting Changing Demands and Opportunities 

      Stokstad, Grete; Fjellstad, Wendy Jane (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-30)
      Over the past few decades, there has been increasing interest in recording landscape change. Monitoring programmes have been established to measure the scope, direction and rate of change, and assess the consequences of ...
    • Farmer surveys in Europe suggest that specialized, intensive farms were more likely to perceive negative impacts from COVID-19 

      Helfenstein, Julian; Bürgi, Matthias; Debonne, Niels; Dimopoulos, Thymios; Diogo, Vasco; Dramstad, Wenche; Edlinger, Anna; Garcia-Martin, Maria; Hernik, Józef; Kizos, Thanasis; Lausch, Angela; Levers, Christian; Mohr, Franziska; Moreno, Gerardo; Pazur, Robert; Siegrist, Michael; Swart, Rebecca; Thenail, Claudine; Verburg, Peter H.; Williams, Tim G; Zarina, Anita; Herzog, Felix (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-08-23)
      It has been shown that the COVID-19 pandemic affected some agricultural systems more than others, and even within geographic regions, not all farms were affected to the same extent. To build resilience of agricultural ...
    • Fine-grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation 

      Dembicz, Iwona; Dengler, Jürgen; Steinbauer, Manuel J.; Matthews, Thomas J.; Bartha, Sándor; Burrascano, Sabina; Chiarucci, Alessandro; Filibeck, Goffredo; Gillet, François; Janišová, Monika; Palpurina, Salza; Storch, David; Ulrich, Werner; Aćić, Svetlana; Boch, Steffen; Campos, Juan Antonio; Cancellieri, Laura; Carboni, Marta; Ciaschetti, Giampiero; Conradi, Timo; De Frenne, Pieter; Dolezal, Jiri; Dolnik, Christian; Essl, Franz; Fantinato, Edy; García-Mijangos, Itziar; del Galdo, Gian Pietro Giusso; Grytnes, John Arvid; Guarino, Riccardo; Güler, Behlul; Kapfer, Jutta; Klichowska, Ewelina; Kozub, Łukasz; Kuzemko, Anna; Löbel, Swantje; Manthey, Michael; Marcenó, Corrado; Mimet, Anne; Naqinezhad, Alireza; Noroozi, Jalil; Nowak, Arkadiusz; Pauli, Harald; Peet, Robert K.; Pellissier, Vincent; Pielech, Remigiusz; Terzi, Massimo; Uğurlu, Emin; Valko, Orsolya; Vasheniak, Iuliia; Vassilev, Kiril; Vynokurov, Denys; White, Hannah J.; Willner, Wolfgang; Winkler, Manuela; Wolfrum, Sebastian; Zhang, Jinghui; Biurrun, Idoia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05-22)
      Questions Which environmental factors influence fine-grain beta diversity of vegetation and do they vary among taxonomic groups? Location Palaearctic biogeographic realm. Methods We extracted 4,654 nested-plot series with ...
    • Five Ways of Characterizing Agricultural Land Use Dynamics and Abandonment from Subsidy Data 

      Dramstad, Wenche; Sang, Neil; Mathiesen, Henrik Forsberg; Bryn, Anders (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10-26)
      Abandonment of agricultural land is a process described from different regions of many industrialized countries. Given the current focus on land use, land use change and food security, it appears highly relevant to develop ...
    • Governing dual objectives within single policy mixes: an empirical analysis of large carnivore policies in six European countries 

      de BOON, Auvikki; Sandström, Camilla; Arbieu, Ugo; Hansen, Inger; Lehnen, Lisa; Marino, Agnese; Pohja-Mykrä, Mari; Risvoll, Camilla; Strand, Geir-Harald; Rønningen, Katrina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-11-03)
      Policy mixes (i.e. the total structure of policy processes, strategies, and instruments) are complex constructs that can quickly become incoherent, inconsistent, and incomprehensive. This is amplified when the policy mix ...
    • Herbivory and warming interact in opposing patterns of covariation between arctic shrub species at large and local scales 

      Post, Eric; Cahoon, Sean M. P.; Kerby, Jeffrey T.; Pedersen, Christian; Sullivan, Patrick F. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02-09)
      A major challenge in predicting species’ distributional responses to climate change involves resolving interactions between abiotic and biotic factors in structuring ecological communities. This challenge reflects the ...
    • Humus-rich topsoils in SW Norway – Molecular and isotopic signatures of soil organic matter as indicators for anthropo-pedogenesis 

      Acksel, Andre; Giani, Luise; Stasch, Carolin; Kühn, Peter; Eiter, Sebastian; Potthoff, Kerstin; Regier, Tom; Leinweber, Peter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-10-03)
      Some previous studies showed that the formation of several deep dark humus-rich topsoils in Northern Europe was strongly influenced by the application of different organic materials by anthropogenic activities in former ...
    • Hyperspectral and Lidar Data Applied to the Urban Land Cover Machine Learning and Neural-Network-Based Classification: A Review 

      Kuras, Agnieszka Kinga; Brell, Maximilian; Rizzi, Jonathan; Burud, Ingunn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08-26)
      Rapid technological advances in airborne hyperspectral and lidar systems paved the way for using machine learning algorithms to map urban environments. Both hyperspectral and lidar systems can discriminate among many ...
    • Image Classification by Integrating Reject Option and Prior Information 

      Taff, Gregory; Shao, Yang; Ren, Jie; Zhang, Ruoyu (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-11-11)
      The accuracy in land-cover classification using remotely sensed imagery can be increased using Bayesian methods that incorporate prior probabilities of classes. However, estimating these prior probabilities can be expensive ...
    • An increase in food production in Europe could dramatically affect farmland biodiversity 

      Jeanneret, Philippe; Lüscher, Gisela; Schneider, Manuel K.; Pointereau, Philippe; Arndorfer, Michaela; Bailey, Debra; Balázs, Katalin; Báldi, András; Choisis, Jean-Philippe; Dennis, Peter; Díaz, Mario; Eiter, Sebastian; Elek, Zoltán; Fjellstad, Wendy Jane; Frank, Thomas; Friedel, Jürgen Kurt; Geijzendorffer, Ilse R.; Gillingham, Pippa; Gomiero, Tiziano; Jerkovich, Gergely; Jongman, Rob H. G.; Kainz, Max; Kovács-Hostyánszki, Anikó; Moreno, Gerardo; Nascimbene, Juri; Oschatz, Marie-Louise; Paoletti, Maurizio Guido; Sarthou, Jean-Pierre; Siebrecht, Norman; Sommaggio, Daniele; Wolfrum, Sebastian; Herzog, Felix (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-09-02)
      Conversion of semi-natural habitats, such as field margins, fallows, hedgerows, grassland, woodlots and forests, to agricultural land could increase agricultural production and help meet rising global food demand. Yet, the ...
    • Introducing the index-based ecological condition assessment framework (IBECA) 

      Jakobsson, Simon; Evju, Marianne; Framstad, Erik; Imbert, Alexis; Lyngstad, Anders; Sickel, Hanne; Sverdrup-Thygeson, Anne; Töpper, Joachim Paul; Vandvik, Vigdis; Velle, Liv Guri; Aarrestad, Per Arild; Nybø, Signe (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05)
      Sustainable nature management and ecosystem conservation depends critically on scientifically sound and stakeholder-relevant analytical frameworks for monitoring and assessing ecological condition. Several general frameworks ...
    • Lamb performance on island pastures in Northern Norway 

      Lind, Vibeke; Holand, Øystein; Haugen, Finn-Arne; Steinheim, Geir (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-07-14)
      The Norwegian sheep industry is based on utilization of “free” rangeland pasture resources. Use of mountain pastures is dominating, with about two million sheep grazing these pastures during summer. Regional challenges ...
    • Land cover classification of treeline ecotones along a 1100 km latitudinal transect using spectral- and three-dimensional information from UAV-based aerial imagery 

      Mienna, Ida Marielle; Klanderud, Kari; Ørka, Hans Ole; Bryn, Anders; Bollandsås, Ole Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-03-04)
      The alpine treeline ecotone is expected to move upwards in elevation with global warming. Thus, mapping treeline ecotones is crucial in monitoring potential changes. Previous remote sensing studies have focused on the usage ...
    • Land cover in Norway based on an area frame survey of vegetation types 

      Bryn, Anders; Strand, Geir-Harald; Angeloff, Michael; Rekdal, Yngve (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-05-21)
      The Norwegian area frame survey of land cover and outfield land resources (AR18X18), completed in 2014, provided unbiased statistics of land cover in Norway. The article reports the new statistics, discusses implications ...