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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 grazing systems for domestic and wild ungulates
- Multi-use trade-offs in ecosystem services
- Nature- and culture-based tourism
- Ecology and management of wildlife populations
- Animal welfare in livestock on rangeland, including remote monitoring
- Field surveys of forage production, stocking capacity and browsing damages on rangelands
- Norwegian Wildlife Damage Centre – a national network for mitigation of society-wildlife conflicts
- Circumpolar environments and climate challenges
- Grazing and climate related vegetation dynamics in mountain and tundra ecosystems
- Mapping of biodiversity and grazing quality
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