Publications
NIBIOs employees contribute to several hundred scientific articles and research reports every year. You can browse or search in our collection which contains references and links to these publications as well as other research and dissemination activities. The collection is continously updated with new and historical material.
2025
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Åsmund Mikalsen KvifteSammendrag
Presentasjon av NIBIO, NIBIO Fureneset og noko om jord og nedbryting
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Trine Hvoslef-Eide Aasmund Bunkholt Atle Wehn Hegnes Petter D. Jenssen Roland Peter Kallenborn Jan Ludvig Lyche Melesse Eshetu_Moges Trine Aulstad Sogn TomasgaardSammendrag
To meet the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, we must address the challenge of feeding a growing global population while preserving biodiversity and minimizing land use. Solutions lie in increasing yields on existing farmland and expanding food production in urban and semi-urban areas. Urban environments, traditionally resource-intensive and polluting, must evolve into hubs of circular bioresource use. Biological waste should be seen not as waste, but as recyclable resources. This paper explores how urban food production can be supported by recycling household grey and black water, reducing reliance on costly treatment plants. Black water, combined with food waste, can generate bioenergy in biogas reactors. The resulting digestate can serve as fertilizer or growth media. Research is needed to ensure the safe, circular use of these resources, protecting public health. In parallel, we must develop innovative horticultural technologies – such as rooftop gardens, vertical farming, and wall-based cultivation – using plant varieties tailored for urban conditions. Strengthening local food resilience also involves understanding production in balconies, backyards, allotments, and community gardens. Citizens are eager to learn, and trained urban horticulturalists can guide them. In Norway, we have launched a master’s program in Urban Agriculture, integrating these themes. Students from diverse backgrounds tackle real-world challenges from municipalities and businesses, addressing complex problems that require interdisciplinary solutions, using real-life external cases.
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Marisa Di Sabatino Richard Randle-Boggis Ronald Reagon Ravi Kumar Harry Malhi Gabriele Lobaccaro Helge Bonesmo Ashok Sharma Steve Völler Gaute StokkanSammendrag
Agrivoltaics, also known as solar sharing or agri-PV, represents a pioneering con- cept that seeks to optimise land use by combining agriculture with photovoltaics on the same land area. While research and development on this topic have increased significantly, few studies address the issue in the Continental Subarctic Climate zone. In this paper, we report on the modelling and installation of a 48 kWp agrivoltaic system at the Skjetlein High School in Trondheim (Norway, lat. 63.34), which is currently the highest latitude system in the World, and we present the initial results of the impacts of the system on Timothy grass biomass. This work takes the first steps towards realising agrivoltaic opportunities for a broad area of Norwegian agriculture.
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Poster Presentation at the 58th European Marine Biology Symposium (EMBS) in Bodø, Norway | 6-9th July 2025
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Ievina SturiteSammendrag
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Stefano Zanotto Chloé Grieu Jon Arne Dieseth Muath K Alsheikh Wendy Marie Waalen Susanne Skinnehaugen Windju Anne Kjersti UhlenSammendrag
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Markus A. K. Sydenham Anders Nielsen Yoko L. Dupont Claus Rasmussen Henning B. Madsen Marianne S. Torvanger Bastiaan StarSammendrag
Pollinator conservation schemes typically focus on conserving existing, restoring degraded, or creating new wild bee habitats. Their effectiveness depends on dispersal corridors enabling habitat colonization by bees. However, the role of seminatural linear landscape structures (LLS) in connecting pollinator communities across intensively managed landscapes remains poorly understood. We analyzed 953 occurrences of wild bees comprising 79 nonparasitic species sampled at 68 study sites across a Norwegian and a Danish landscape. We first tested whether bee species richness was positively associated with the lengths of seminatural LLS in bee foraging ranges of study sites while controlling for local plant species richness. We then combined maps identifying seminatural LLS with least‐cost path (LCP) analysis to determine whether bee species compositional similarity, a proxy for connectivity, decreased as LCP length increased. The length of seminatural LLS, such as forest edges, was positively correlated with bee species richness and habitat connectivity. Specifically, wild bee species richness sampled along roadsides increased as the length of seminatural LLS increased in 1.5 km circles around the study sites, and increased as local plant species richness increased. The most likely dispersal routes between our bee communities tracked forest edges. The length of LCPs provided better models of bee species compositional similarity than geographic distance, suggesting that seminatural LLS, particularly forest edges, act as dispersal corridors in intensively managed landscapes. However, bee species compositional similarity among communities depended on site‐specific plant species richness and similarity in plant community composition, which highlights the importance of improving the habitat quality of seminatural LLS if they are to function as dispersal corridors. Our findings suggest that maps of LCPs can be used to identify important dispersal corridors between bee habitats and to direct wild bee habitat management actions along seminatural LLS to facilitate the dispersal of bees in intensively managed landscapes.
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