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.
The past few months have been challenging, and research and teaching in GEco has had to adapt to a changing and different situation. We are lucky to keep working, and have digital morning coffee meetings to catch up with each other.
Martha Karijord recently defended her master thesis on the endangered Northern dragonhead (Dracocephalum ruyschiana). She investigated how the populations relate to different habitats, with implications for conservation of this species.
Øyvind Lynne recently defended his master thesis, where he compared unequal probability sampling with random stratified sampling with the aim of making distribution models and finding rare species.
Ariane Karlsen recently defended her master thesis on urban nature and NiN in Oslo. She also became the first GEco student to defend their master thesis digitally.
GEco's Anders Bryn is among the co-authors of a new paper out in Nature Climate Change: Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic. Isla H. Myers-Smith and Jeffrey T. Kerby are the lead authors of the paper.
We asked hundreds of children at the Oslo Science Expo what they think will happen with the trees in the mountains when Norway gets warmer and wetter. Almost all said the trees will die. This wrong answer inspired us to write a popular science piece on the feedbacks between vegetation and climate, now available (in Norwegian) in Aftenposten Viten.
Gratulerer til Anders Bryn, Inger Kristine Volden, Peter Horvath, Michal Torma, Frode Stordal og alle andre som har bidratt! De ble i dag tildelt Hjernekraftprisen 2019 for folkeforskningsprosjektet Natur i endring, hvor hele Norge inviteres til å kartlegge tre- og skoggrensa.
Les hele saken på NHM sine nettsider.
Julien Vollering, Rune Halvorsen and Sabrina Mazzoni's R package and paper has just come out in Ecology and Evolution. The package allows scientists to make more ecologically-informed choices when they build models of species distributions.
Natur i endring representerte NHM på Forskningstorget på Karl Johan i helga. Mange hundre barn og voksne var innom for å teste artskunnskap og gjette hvor den høyeste tregrensa i Norge er.
Julie Brastein Halvorsen recently defended her MSc thesis, titled "Characterisation and typification of urban ecosystem types: a test of the NiN system".
Anders Bryn har vært i media med ny rekord for norsk tregrense på 1404 meter over havet. Treet er registrert i folkeforsknings-appen Natur i endring - les om prosjektet i denne artikkelen fra Forskning i Friluft-konferansen 2018.
A new paper is now available in Applied Vegetation Science: Peter Horvath, Rune Halvorsen, Frode Stordal, Lena M. Tallaksen, Hui Tang and Anders Bryn authored the paper titled "Distribution modelling of vegetation types based on area‐frame survey data".
Rapporten "Oppsett og tilrettelegging av QGIS for NiN naturtypekartlegging" ligger nå ute på nett. Rapporten kan du lese her.
Titan skriver om noe av forskningen vi gjør på Finse forskningsstasjon. Les hele saken på titan.uio.no for å se hva masterstudentene Sindre Jakobsen og Miriam Landa holder på med!
Michal Torma recently defended his MSC thesis on the viability of collecting citzen-science data through the "Natur i Endring" citizen-science project.
This year's field trip in BIO4120 is complete, introducing students to the natural variation of southern Norway from east to west and spanning as much of the NiN system as possible.
Beautiful Jeløya was last week's destination for a GEco outing, looking for new field sites and discussing our ongoing and future research.
The project 'Terrestrial ecosystem-climate interactions of our EMERALD planet' had its kickoff meeting last week in the historic Domus Academica in Oslo.
April 2nd marks the official release of the new landscape classification of NiN (Nature in Norway), freely available from nin.artsdatabanken.no.
Introduksjonskurs til NiN som system og for kartlegging ble holdt på Blindern 12.-13. mars. Vi har fått gode tilbakemeldinger fra de rundt 140 deltagerne.
GEco is involved in two newly funded projects that relate to feedbacks in the climate system: an eXtension of LATICE, and EMERALD; "Terrestrial ecosystem-climate interactions of our EMERALD planet".
