Wildlife 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.