Terrestrial Ecology

Our research activities focus on ecology and nature management in alpine, boreal and cultural landscapes. We explore the impacts of global change and human activities such as hunting on terrestrial ecosystems and how such impacts cascade further into life history, species interactions, community dynamics and ecosystem functioning. Focal research areas include forest ecology, insect taxonomy and biogeography, avian and mammalian population ecology, seed dispersal and carcass ecology.

We play an important role in the conservation of regionally, nationally and internationally important or threatened species and habitats. Much of our recent research is based on extensive field studies. We build on existing knowledge by gathering complementary data from remote sensing, spatial analysis and genetic markers. Longstanding collaborations with NINA, NTNU, the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre and the Natural History Museum go from strength to strength