• Land cover segmentation of airborne LiDAR data using stochastic atrous network 

      Arief, Hasan Asyari; Strand, Geir-Harald; Tveite, Håvard; Indahl, Ulf Geir (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-19)
      Inspired by the success of deep learning techniques in dense-label prediction and the increasing availability of high precision airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data, we present a research process that compares ...
    • Land-use dominates climate controls on nitrogen and phosphorus export from managed and natural Nordic headwater catchments 

      de Wit, Heleen A; Lepistö, Ahti; Marttila, Hannu; Wenng, Hannah; Bechmann, Marianne; Blicher-Mathiesen, Gitte; Eklöf, Karin; Futter, Martyn N.; Kortelainen, Pirkko; Kronvang, Brian; Kyllmar, Katarina; Rakovic, Jelena (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-10)
      Agricultural, forestry‐impacted and natural catchments are all vectors of nutrient loading in the Nordic countries. Here, we present concentrations and fluxes of total nitrogen (totN) and phosphorus (totP) from 69 Nordic ...
    • Large herbivores facilitate the persistence of rare taxa under tundra warming 

      Post, Eric; Pedersen, Christian; Watts, David A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-01-25)
      Ecological rarity, characterized by low abundance or limited distribution, is typical of most species, yet our understanding of what factors contribute to the persistence of rare species remains limited. Consequently, ...
    • Long-term monitoring of protected Cultural Heritage Environments in Norway: Development of methods and first-time application 

      Eiter, Sebastian; Fjellstad, Wendy Jane; Puschmann, Oskar; Krøgli, Svein Olav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-27)
      Norway has a political goal to minimize the loss of cultural heritage due to removal, destruction or decay. On behalf of the national Directorate for Cultural Heritage, we have developed methods to monitor Cultural Heritage ...
    • The look of agricultural landscapes – How do non-crop landscape elements contribute to visual preferences in a large-scale agricultural landscape? 

      Stokstad, Grete; Krøgli, Svein Olav; Dramstad, Wenche (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-04-27)
      Efficiency in agricultural food production has long been in focus and this has affected the spatial structure of agricultural land use. One outcome has been extensive criticism based on a wide range of negative consequences, ...
    • Mapping Seasonal Agricultural Land Use Types Using Deep Learning on Sentinel-2 Image Time Series 

      Debella-Gilo, Misganu; Gjertsen, Arnt Kristian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-01-15)
      The size and location of agricultural fields that are in active use and the type of use during the growing season are among the vital information that is needed for the careful planning and forecasting of agricultural ...
    • Om tettsteders vekst og effekt på arealbruk: Er von Thünen fortsatt aktuell? 

      Aune-Lundberg, Linda; Dramstad, Wenche (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-09-24)
      Bosetningsmønsteret var tidligere knyttet til forekomst av spesielle ressurser, for eksempel mineraler eller transportknutepunkt. Koblingen til transportknutepunkt er fortsatt viktig, mens koblingen til ressursforekomster ...
    • Planning the first view: Establishing a landscape monitoring scheme based on photography 

      Fjellstad, Wendy Jane; Eiter, Sebastian; Puschmann, Oskar; Krøgli, Svein Olav (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-05-20)
      The visual impacts of landscape change are important for how people perceive landscapes and whether they consider changes to be positive or negative. Landscape photographs and photographs of landscape elements may capture ...
    • Quantification of accuracy in field-based land cover maps: A new method to separate different components 

      Haga, Hannah Emma Emilie Strømsrud; Nilsen, Anne-Barbi; Ullerud, Heidrun Asgeirsdatter; Bryn, Anders (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04-02)
      Aim Many thematic land cover maps, such as maps of vegetation types, are based on field inventories. Studies show inconsistencies among field workers in such maps, explained by inter-observer variation in classification ...
    • Quantifying historical landscape change with repeat photography: an accuracy assessment of geospatial data obtained through monoplotting 

      Bayr, Ulrike (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-01-20)
      Traditional landscape photographs reaching back until the second half of the nineteenth century represent a valuable image source for the study of long-term landscape change. Due to the oblique perspective and the lack of ...
    • Regional variation in public acceptance of wind energy development in Europe: What are the roles of planning procedures and participation? 

      Suškevičs, Monika; Eiter, Sebastian; Martinat, Stanislav; Stober, Dina; Vollmer, Elis; de Boer, Cheryl L.; Buchecker, Matthias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-11-15)
      The successful transition towards renewable energy (RE) technologies is closely intertwined with various societal aspects. Wind energy (WE) is one of the most controversial RE-types, possibly due to the multiplicity of ...
    • Restoration of seagrass habitats: Effects of artificial and natural sediments on the development of transplanted eelgrass (Zostera marina) 

      Størdal, Ingvild; Uleberg, Embla Vildalen; Alemu, Diress Tsegaye; Colman, Jonathan Edward (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-06-19)
      Near-shore areas face multiple stressors, effects of climate change, coastal construction and contamination. Although capping the seabed in these areas with mineral masses can reduce the impact of legacy contaminants in ...
    • Setting reference levels and limits for good ecological condition in terrestrial ecosystems – Insights from a case study based on the IBECA approach 

      Jakobsson, Simon; Töpper, Joachim Paul; Evju, Marianne; Framstad, Erik; Lyngstad, Anders; Pedersen, Bård; Sickel, Hanne; Sverdrup-Thygeson, Anne; Vandvik, Vigdis; Velle, Liv Guri; Aarrestad, Per Arild; Nybø, Signe (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-05-16)
      Effective evidence-based nature conservation and habitat management relies on developing and refining our methodological toolbox for detecting critical ecological changes at an early stage. This requires not only optimizing ...
    • Species–area relationships in continuous vegetation: Evidence from Palaearctic grasslands 

      Dengler, Jürgen; Matthews, Thomas J.; Steinbauer, Manuel J.; Wolfrum, Sebastian; Boch, Steffen; Chiarucci, Alessandro; Conradi, Timo; Dembicz, Iwona; Marcenó, Corrado; García-Mijangos, Itziar; Nowak, Arkadiusz; Storch, David; Ulrich, Werner; Campos, Juan Antonio; Cancellieri, Laura; Carboni, Marta; Ciaschetti, Giampiero; De Frenne, Pieter; Doležal, Jiří; Dolnik, Christian; Essl, Franz; Fantinato, Edy; Filibeck, Goffredo; Grytnes, John-Arvid; Guarino, Riccardo; Güler, Behlül; Janišová, Monika; Klichowska, Ewelina; Kozub, Łukasz; Kuzemko, Anna; Manthey, Michael; Mimet, Anne; Naqinezhad, Alireza; Pedersen, Christian; Peet, Robert K.; Pellissier, Vincent; Pielech, Remigiusz; Potenza, Giovanna; Rosati, Leonardo; Terzi, Massimo; Valkó, Orsolya; Vynokurov, Denys; White, Hannah; Winkler, Manuela; Biurrun, Idoia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-09-19)
      Aim Species–area relationships (SARs) are fundamental scaling laws in ecology although their shape is still disputed. At larger areas, power laws best represent SARs. Yet, it remains unclear whether SARs follow other shapes ...
    • sPlotOpen – An environmentally-balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots 

      Sabatini, Francesco Maria; Lenoir, Jonathan; Hattab, Tarek; Arnst, Elise Aimee; Chytrý, Milan; Dengler, Jürgen; De Ruffray, Patrice; Hennekens, Stephan M.; Jandt, Ute; Jansen, Florian; Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja; Kattge, Jens; Levesley, Aurora; Pillar, Valério D.; Purschke, Oliver; Sandel, Brody; Sultana, Fahmida; Aavik, Tsipe; Aćić, Svetlana; Acosta, Alicia T.R.; Agrillo, Emiliano; Álvarez, Miguel; Apostolova, Iva; Khan, Mohammed A. S. Arfin; Arroyo, Luzmila; Attorre, Fabio; Aubin, Isabelle; Banerjee, Arindam; Bauters, Marijn; Bergeron, Yves; Bergmeier, Erwin; Biurrun, Idoia; Björkman, Anne D.; Bonari, Gianmaria; Bondareva, Viktoria; Brunet, Jörg; Čarni, Andraž; Casella, Laura; Cayuela, Luis; Cerny, Tomas; Chepinoga, Victor; Csiky, János; Ćušterevska, Renata; De Bie, Els; De Gasper, André Luis; De Sanctis, Michele; Dimopoulos, Panayotis; Dolezal, Jiri; Dziuba, Tetiana; El-Sheikh, Mohamed Abd El-Rouf Mousa; Enquist, Brian; Ewald, Jörg; Fazayeli, Farideh; Field, Richard; Finckh, Manfred; Gachet, Sophie; Galán-De-Mera, Antonio; Garbolino, Emmanuel; Gholizadeh, Hamid; Giorgis, Melisa; Golub, Valentin; Alsos, Inger Greve; Grytnes, John Arvid; Guerin, Gregory Richard; Gutiérrez, Alvaro G.; Haider, Sylvia; Hatim, Mohamed Z.; Herault, Bruno; Mendoza, Guillermo Hinojos; Holzel, Norbert; Homeier, Jürgen; Kącki, Zygmunt; Kapfer, Jutta; Karger, Dirk Nikolaus; Kavgaci, Ali; Kearsley, Elizabeth; Bruelheide, Helge (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-06-21)
      Motivation Assessing biodiversity status and trends in plant communities is critical for understanding, quantifying and predicting the effects of global change on ecosystems. Vegetation plots record the occurrence or ...
    • The Value of Urban Farming in Oslo, Norway: Community Gardens, Aquaponics and Vertical Farming 

      Gustavsen, Geir Wæhler; Berglann, Helge; Jenssen, Elisabeth; Kårstad, Signe; Rodriguez, Divina Gracia P. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-01)
      Urban agriculture is increasingly recognized as an important sustainable pathway for climate change adaptation and mitigation, for building more resilient cities, and for citizens’ health. Urban agriculture systems appear ...
    • Variability in greenhouse gas emission intensity of semi-intensive suckler cow beef production systems 

      Samsonstuen, Stine; Åby, Bente Aspeholen; Crosson, Paul; Beauchemin, Karen A.; Wetlesen, Marit Smith; Bonesmo, Helge; Aass, Laila (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-05-20)
      Emission intensities from beef production vary both among production systems (countries) and farms within a country depending upon use of natural resources and management practices. A whole-farm model developed for Norwegian ...
    • Vegetables and social relations in Norway and the Netherlands: A comparative analysis of urban allotment gardeners 

      Veen, Esther J.; Eiter, Sebastian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-01)
      This article aims to explore differences in motivation for and actual use of allotment gardens. Results from questionnaire surveys and semistructured interviews in two Norwegian and one Dutch garden show that growing ...
    • What explains inconsistencies in field-based ecosystem mapping? 

      Naas, Adam Eindride; Halvorsen, Rune; Horvath, Peter; Wollan, Anders Kvalvåg; Bratli, Harald; Brynildsrud, Katrine Marie; Finne, Eirik Aasmo; Keetz, Lasse Torben; Lieungh, Eva; Olson, Christine; Simensen, Trond; Skarpaas, Olav; Tandstad, Hilde; Torma, Michal; Værland, Espen Sommer; Bryn, Anders (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-02-11)
      Questions: Field-based ecosystem mapping is prone to observer bias, typically resulting in a mismatch between maps made by different mappers, that is, inconsistency. Experimental studies testing the influence of site, ...
    • What is the quality of participatory renewable energy planning in Europe? A comparative analysis of innovative practices in 25 projects 

      Stober, Dina; Suškevičs, Monika; Eiter, Sebastian; Müller, Stefanie; Martinat, Stanislav; Buchecker, Matthias (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-01)
      There is widespread agreement that society must urgently go over to renewable energy and that effective participation is crucial for a sustainable transition. Recent literature highlights that the quality of participatory ...