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The GEco group has two new faces: researcher Dr. Ida Marielle Mienna and intern Nadège Tissot.

Denne podcasten handler kort om Geo-økologisk forskningsgruppe, beskrivelsessystemet "Natur i Norge", hva naturtyper er og hvordan disse kartlegges.

This week, we have taken our laptops and thinking caps to Drøbak, to work efficiently on joint projects.

Michal Torma is our new Data steward. He will be working within the Norwegian GBIF node to publish new data, train students and employees, scale up digitisation of museum collections metadata, and much more.

Jan Sulavik defended his PhD thesis on January 21^st. The thesis "Learning from the past, assessing the present, discerning the future: a comprehensive evaluation of restoration success in alpine environment using ecosystem-, community-, and population-level studies" was preceded by a trial lecture on factors affecting restoration success in northern ecosystems.

Julien Vollering defended his PhD thesis on January 17^th. After a trial lecture about ecosystem response to climate change, the main defence was about forecasting the continued naturalization of wildly planted Sitka spruce in Norway.

We are looking for a new colleague to work with biogeography. The position is full time for a project period of two years, planned to start in the first quarter of 2022. Apply and see the full announcement here.

Anders Bryn, Ane Vollsnes og Frode Stordal har en ny kronikk ute i Nationen. Les hele teksten her.

Anders Bryn, Trine Bekkby, Eli Rinde, Hege Gundersen, and Rune Halvorsen's paper on reliability in distribution modelling is out now in Fronitiers in Ecology and Evolution. The review links the most common sources of uncertainties to different phases in the modeling process.

Peter Horvath, Rune Halvorsen, Trond Simensen, and Anders Bryn are the authors of a new paper in GIScience and Remote Sensing. They compare three methods of assembling wall-to-wall maps using modelled distributions of individual vegetation types.

Adam Eindride Naas is our new PhD student, and will do his PhD as part of the project "Modelling Ecological state and Condition Maps to support knowledge-based decision-making in Area management and spatial Planning" (ECoMAP).

Combining science and team building, most of the GEco group plus a few guests went on an excursion to the Heathland Centre in August.

A week in August 2020, GEco'ers and a few guests met in Iškoras, Karasjok (Kárášjohka), combining science with learning and teambuilding.

Skal du ut og kartlegge naturtyper med “Natur i Norge” -systemet i sommer? Eller vil du bare ha en digital oversikt over systemet?

Are you going to map naturetypes using the “Natur i Norge” system this summer, or just looking for a digital overview of the system?

In a new open-access paper in the journal Biogeosciences a team of authors from LATICE, GEco and NIBIO evaluated the performance of three methods for representing high-latitude vegetation cover.

I samarbeid med LATICE har Anders Bryn og Peter Horvath kartlagt to områder på Finse i Vestland etter Natur i Norge. Resultatene er publisert i NHM Rapport nr. 96: Kartlegging av NiN naturtyper i målestokk 1:5000 rundt flux-tårnet og på Hansbunuten, Finse (Vestland).

In a fresh collaboration paper lead by Vigdis Vandvik, University of Bergen (see UiB news), we demonstrate that biotic terms to a large degree explain variation in community turnover in replicated climate change experiments along temperature and precipitation gradients.

A recent scientific article describes the Nature in Norway system, and the principles for creating similar systems for other countries and also globally.

Det første av to feltkurs i BIOS4120 er gjennomført med koronatilpasninger. Feltkurset tar med studentene på tvers av Norge for å se på naturvariasjon. I september arrangeres det andre og siste feltkurset, med opplæring i kartlegging.

På initiativ fra Landbruksdirektoratet har Rune Halvorsen, Anders Bryn, Harald Bratli og Peter Horvath laget et konsensuskart fra et område på 500 x 500 m i Biri, Gjøvik kommune. Resultatene er nå gitt ut i NHMs rapportserie, som rapport nr. 94: Naturtypekart etter NiN for et område omkring Unsetsætra (Biri, Gjøvik, Oppland)

New paper out now: composite landscape predictors improve distribution models of ecosystem types. Trond Simensen, Peter Horvath, Julien Vollering, Lars Erikstad, Rune Halvorsen, and Anders Bryn are the authors behind this effort to improve distribution models of ecosystem types.