Wildlife and Rangelands
Department of Wildlife and Rangelands has a multidisciplinary focus on sustainable use, innovation and management of ecosystem services from watercourses and rangelands.
Topical working areas:
- Sustainable use of forests and rangelands for domestic and wild ungulates
- Multi-use considerations in ecosystem services
- Nature- and culture-based product and service development, for example, of sheep wool and local food
- Population ecology, foraging ecology, and behaviour of wildlife
- Welfare of semi-domesticated reindeer and livestock on rangeland pastures
- New technologies for monitoring animals on rangeland pastures (e.g., drones, wildlife crossing repellents)
- Sustainable supplementary feeding of semi-domesticated reindeer
- Inventories of food for domestic and wild ungulates (food availability and utilization)
- Grazing- and climate-related vegetation changes in mountains and tundra
- Mapping of biodiversity in vegetation
- Land-use conflicts, and environmental impact assessments in reindeer herding
- Circumpolar environmental and climate-related challenges
- Norwegian Centre for Wildlife Damage Management – a national competence network for conflict mitigation between society and wildlife. The centre’s areas of expertise include grazing damage caused by geese, deer, and semi-domesticated reindeer, as well as investigations of losses and preventive measures against predator attacks on livestock.
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