• Stand-level mortality models for nordic boreal forests 

      Siipilehto, Jouni; Allen, Micky; Nilsson, Urban; Brunner, Andreas; Huuskonen, Saija; Haikarainen, Soili; Subramanian, Narayanan; Antón-Fernández, Clara; Holmström, Emma; Andreassen, Kjell; Hynynen, Jari (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-12-01)
      New mortality models were developed for the purpose of improving long-term growth and yield simulations in Finland, Norway, and Sweden and were based on permanent national forest inventory plots from Sweden and Norway. ...
    • Mixing effects on Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) productivity along a climatic gradient across Europe 

      Ruiz-Peinado, Ricardo; Pretzsch, Hans; Löf, Magnus; Heym, Michael; Bielak, Kamil; Aldea, Jorge; Barbeito, Ignacio; Brazaitis, Gediminas; Drössler, Lars; Godvod, Kšištof; Granhus, Aksel; Holm, Stig-Olof; Jansons, Aris; Makrickienė, Ekaterina; Metslaid, Marek; Metslaid, Sandra; Nothdurft, Arne; Reventlow, Ditlev Otto Juel; Sitko, Roman; Stankevičienė, Gintarė; del Río, Miren (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-12-15)
      Mixed-species stands have been found to be more productive than would be expected from the performance of their component species in monocultures due to facilitation and complementarity between species, although these ...
    • Studying phenological phenomena in subarctic biomes with international school pupils as citizen scientists 

      Klutsch, Cornelya; Aspholm, Paul Eric; Polikarpova, Natalia; Veisblium, Olga; Bjørn, Tor-Arne; Wikan, Anne; Gonzalez, Victoria; Hagen, Snorre B. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-12-30)
      Citizen science can facilitate in‐depth learning for pupils and students, contribute to scientific research, and permit civic participation. Here, we describe the development of the transnational school‐based citizen science ...
    • The Gaupne area in Sogn og Fjordane – a hot-spot for lichens in Norway 

      Arup, Ulf; Blom, Hans H.; Lindblom, Louise (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      During a three-day field trip to the Gaupne area, Luster kommune, three main localities were visited in search of lichens. A total of 35 lichens or lichenicolous fungi were found to be new to Sogn og Fjordane, most of which ...
    • A review of Sensors, Sensor-Platforms and Methods Used in 3D Modelling of Soil Displacement after Timber Harvesting 

      Talbot, Bruce; Astrup, Rasmus Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Proximal sensing technologies are becoming widely used across a range of applications in environmental sciences. One of these applications is in the measurement of the ground surface in describing soil displacement impacts ...
    • DNA-overvåking av brunbjørn i Karasjok 2020 ved bruk av hårfeller 

      Fløystad, Ida; Aspholm, Paul Eric; Häkli, Katja; Anti, Per John Aslaksen; Eira, Per Anders; Eira, Ann Maret; Gaup, Johan Henrik; Pedersen, Nikolai; Søvik, Ingrid Helle; Hagen, Snorre; Eiken, Hans Geir (NIBIO Rapport;7(132) 2021, Research report, 2021)
      DNA-overvåking av brunbjørn i et totalt 650 km2 stort område i Karasjok kommune i Troms og Finnmark ble utført med hårfeller med luktstoff i 2 måneder fra juni til august i 2020. Overvåkingen ble utført i tre deler; et ...
    • A common Nordic-Baltic costing framework for road, rail and sea transport of roundwood 

      Fjeld, Dag; Väätäinen, Kari; von Hofsten, Henrik; Noreland, Daniel; Callesen, Ingeborg; Lazdins, Andis (NIBIO-rapport;7(8) 2021, Research report, 2021-01)
      Transport cost calculations are fundamental for most types of transport research. Applications can range from estimating the cost benefits of developing transport technologies (e.g. increased truck GVWs) to comparing ...
    • Monitoring deer food and browsing in forests: Coherence and discrepancies between national and local inventories 

      Wam, Hilde Karine; Solberg, Erling Johan; Eriksen, Rune; Granhus, Aksel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-01)
      Field-based monitoring of deer food availability and browsing on recruiting forest trees is a necessary but labour-intensive task. We explored how such estimates from a low-resolution multipurpose national forest inventory ...
    • The GenTree Leaf Collection: Inter- and intraspecific leaf variation in seven forest tree species in Europe 

      Benavides, Raquel; Carvalho, Bárbara; Bastias, Cristina C.; López-Quiroga, David; Mas, Antonio; Cavers, Stephen; Gray, Alan; Albet, Audrey; Alía, Ricardo; Ambrosio, Olivier; Aravanopoulos, Filippos; Auñón, Francisco; Avanzi, Camilla; Avramidou, Evangelia V.; Bagnoli, Francesca; Ballesteros, Eduardo; Barbas, Evangelos; Bastien, Catherine; Bernier, Frédéric; Bignalet, Henry; Bouic, Damien; Brunetto, William; Buchovska, Jurata; Cabanillas-Saldaña, Ana M.; Cheval, Nicolas; Climent, José M.; Correard, Marianne; Cremer, Eva; Danusevičius, Darius; Dauphin, Benjamin; Del Caño, Fernando; Denou, Jean-Luc; Dokhelar, Bernard; Dourthe, Rémi; Farsakoglou, Anna-Maria; Fera, Andreas; Fonti, Patrick; Ganopoulos, Ioannis; del Barrio, José M. García; Gilg, Olivier; González-Martínez, Santiago C; Graf, René; Grivet, Delphine; Gugerli, Felix; Hartleitner, Christoph; Heer, Katrin; Hollenbach, Enja; Hurel, Agathe; Issehuth, Bernard; Jean, Florence; Jorge, Veronique; Jouineau, Arnaud; Kappner, Jan-Philipp; Kärkkäinen, Katri; Kesälahti, Robert; Knutzen, Florian; Kujala, Sonja T.; Kumpula, Timo; Labriola, Mariaceleste; Lalanne, Celine; Lambertz, Johannes; Lascoux, Martin; Le Provost, Gregoire; Liesebach, Mirko; Malliarou, Ermioni; Marchon, Jérémy; Mariotte, Nicolas; Martínez-Sancho, Elisabet; Matesanz, Silvia; Meischner, Helge; Michotey, Célia; Milesi, Pascal; Morganti, Sandro; Myking, Tor; Nilsen, Anne Eskild; Notivol, Eduardo; Opgenoorth, Lars; Østreng, Geir; Pakull, Birte; Piotti, Andrea; Plomion, Christophe; Poinot, Nicolas; Pringarbe, Mehdi; Puzos, Luc; Pyhäjärvi, Tanja; Raffin, Annie; Ramírez-Valiente, José A; Rellstab, Christian; Richter, Sebastian; Robledo-Arnuncio, Juan J; San Segundo, Sergio; Savolainen, Outi; Schneck, Volker; Schueler, Silvio; Scotti, Ivan; Semerikov, Vladimir; Sønstebø, Jørn Henrik; Spanu, Ilaria; Thevenet, Jean; Tollefsrud, Mari Mette; Turion, Norbert; Vendramin, Giovanni Giuseppe; Villar, Marc; Westin, Johan; Fady, Bruno; Valladares, Fernando (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-01-06)
      Motivation Trait variation within species can reveal plastic and/or genetic responses to environmental gradients, and may indicate where local adaptation has occurred. Here, we present a dataset of rangewide variation in ...
    • Thermal modification of wood—a review: chemical changes and hygroscopicity 

      Hill, Callum Aidan Stephen; Altgen, Michael; Rautkari, Lauri (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-01-07)
      Thermal modification is a well-established commercial technology for improving the dimensional stability and durability of timber. Numerous reviews of thermally modified timber (TMT) are to be found in the scientific ...
    • Bilberry seed production explains spatiotemporal synchronicity in bank vole population fluctuations in Norway 

      Selås, Vidar; Framstad, Erik; Rolstad, Jørund; Sonerud, Geir Andreas; Spidsø, Tor K.; Wegge, Per (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-01-12)
      Population fluctuations of small rodents are often synchronized over larger areas (>100 km) than what could be explained by dispersal, suggesting that the synchronizing factor is weather-related and possibly mediated through ...
    • Constraining the HBV model for robust water balance assessments in a cold climate 

      Erlandsen, Helene Birkelund; Beldring, Stein; Eisner, Stephanie; Hisdal, Hege; Huang, Shaochun; Tallaksen, Lena Merete (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-01-19)
      Robust projections of changes in the hydrological cycle in a non-stationary climate rely on trustworthy estimates of the water balance elements. Additional drivers than precipitation and temperature, namely wind, radiation, ...
    • Genetisk variasjon mellom og innen populasjoner av gran i to dalfører i Sør-Norge Genetic variation among and within Norway spruce populations in two valleys in southern Norway 

      Skrøppa, Tore (NIBIO-rapport;7(28) 2021, Research report, 2021-02)
      Denne studien hadde til formål å karakterisere den genetiske variasjonen i fenologi og vekst mellom og innen granpopulasjoner fra ulike høydelag i to dalfører på Østlandet. Trær fra frø samlet inn på mortrær i naturlige ...
    • Satsing på reindrift i NIBIO – utdrag fra vår aktivitet 

      Bjørn, Tor-Arne; Eilertsen, Svein; Hansen, Inger; Jørgensen, Grete Helen Meisfjord; Tenge, Ingrid Midtsundstad; Wagner, Gabriela; Winje, Erlend (NIBIO-pop;7(3) 2021, Journal article, 2021-02)
      NIBIO er et statlig forskningsinstitutt som driver med forskning, utviklingsarbeid og informasjonsformidling knyttet til primærnæring og utmarksbruk.
    • 76-year decline and recovery of aspen mediated by contrasting fire regimes: Longunburned, infrequent and frequent mixedseverity wildfire 

      Brewen, Cerena J.; Berrill, John-Pascal; Ritchie, Martin W.; Boston, Kevin; Dagley, Christa M.; Jones, Bobette; Coppoletta, Michelle; Burnett, Coye L. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02-04)
      Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) is a valued, minor component on northeastern California landscapes. It provides a wide range of ecosystem services and has been in decline throughout the region for the last century. ...
    • Improving living biomass c-stock loss estimates by combining optical satellite, airborne laser scanning, and nfi data 

      Breidenbach, Johannes; Ivanovs, Janis; Kangas, Annika; Nord-Larsen, Thomas; Nilsson, Mats; Astrup, Rasmus Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02-16)
      Policy measures and management decisions aimed at enhancing the role of forests in mitigating climate change require reliable estimates of carbon (C)-stock dynamics in greenhouse gas inventories (GHGIs). The aim of this ...
    • Performance and Phenotypic Stability of Norway Spruce Provenances, Families, and Clones Growing under Diverse Climatic Conditions in Four Nordic Countries 

      Skrøppa, Tore; Steffenrem, Arne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02-17)
      Genetic variation and phenotypic stability in Norway spruce were studied based on provenances, families, and clones planted in trials at 12 sites in four Nordic countries. The families were generated in a factorial cross ...
    • The global water resources and use model WaterGAP v2.2d: model description and evaluation 

      Schmied, Hannes Müller; Caceres, Denise; Eisner, Stephanie; Flörke, Martina; Herbert, Claudia; Niemann, Christoph; Peiris, Thedini Asali; Popat, Eklavyya; Portmann, Felix Theodor; Reinecke, Robert; Schumacher, Maike; Shadkam, Somayeh; Telteu, Camelia-Eliza; Trautmann, Tim; Döll, Petra (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02-23)
      WaterGAP is a global hydrological model that quantifies human use of groundwater and surface water as well as water flows and water storage and thus water resources on all land areas of the Earth. Since 1996, it has served ...
    • Direct and indirect impacts of climate change on wheat yield in the Indo-Gangetic plain in India 

      Daloz, Anne Sophie; Rydsaa, Johanne Hope; Hodnebrog, Øivind; Sillmann, Jana; Oort, Bob Eric Helmuth van; Mohr, Christian Wilhelm; Agrawal, Madhoolika; Emberson, Lisa; Stordal, Frode; Zhang, Tianyi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02-28)
      The Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) is one of the main wheat-production regions in India and the world. With climate change, wheat yields in this region will be affected through changes in temperature and precipitation and ...
    • NIBIO båatsoem jarngese beaja – bietske mijjen darjoemijstie 

      Bjørn, Tor-Arne; Eilertsen, Svein; Hansen, Inger; Jørgensen, Grete Helen Meisfjord; Tenge, Ingrid Midtsundstad; Wagner, Gabriela; Winje, Erlend (NIBIO-pop;7(15) 2021, Journal article, 2021-03)
      NIBIO lea staateles dotkemeinstituhte mij dotkeminie, evtiedimmiebarkojne jïh -bïevnesebæjhkoehtimmine gïehtele mah leah vïedteldihkie aalkoejieliemasse jïh miehtjiesdajveåtnose.