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.
2017
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R. Ahmad Romadhoni Surya Putra Zhen Liu Mogens LundAbstract
This paper aims to study the impact of biogas technology adoption as a livestock waste technology to support Mixed Crop and Livestock (MCL) farming among smallholder farmers in Indonesia. A cross sectional survey was conducted to collect data from 351 farm households (171 biogas adopters and 180 non-adopters) in the province of Yogyakarta. This study employed treatment effects analysis based on propensity score matching techniques to evaluate the impacts of biogas technology adoption among the farm households. The results showed that the adoption of the biogas technology reduces firewood consumption of smallholder farm households in Indonesia. Unfortunately, the impact on the use of slurry for organic fertilizers and the use of gas (Liquid Petroleum Gas, LPG) as another household cooking energy could not be evaluated. This study empirically showed that the benefits of the biogas technology had not yet been optimized at the household level which may partly explain the slow rate of biogas technology diffusion among farmers. However, the consumption reduction of firewood as a benefit of using biogas contributed to behavioral changes of the women in the households especially with respect to firewood collection and cooking activities.
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We investigate a set of long-term river runoff time series at daily resolution from Brazil, monitored by the Agencia Nacional de Aguas. A total of 150 time series was obtained, with an average length of 65 years. Both long-term trends and human influence (water management, e.g. for power production) on the dynamical behaviour are analyzed. We use Horizontal Visibility Graphs (HVGs) to determine the individual temporal networks for the time series, and extract their degree and their distance (shortest path length) distributions. Statistical and information-theoretic properties of these distributions are calculated: robust estimators of skewness and kurtosis, the maximum degree occurring in the time series, the Shannon entropy, permutation complexity and Fisher Information. For the latter, we also compare the information measures obtained from the degree distributions to those using the original time series directly, to investigate the impact of graph construction on the dynamical properties as reflected in these measures. Focus is on one hand on universal properties of the HVG, common to all runoff series, and on site-specific aspects on the other. Results demonstrate that the assumption of power law behaviour for the degree distribtion does not generally hold, and that management has a significant impact on this distribution. We also show that a specific pretreatment of the time series conventional in hydrology, the elimination of seasonality by a separate z-transformation for each calendar day, is highly detrimental to the nonlinear behaviour. It changes long-term correlations and the overall dynamics towards more random behaviour. Analysis based on the transformed data easily leads to spurious results, and bear a high risk of misinterpretation.
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We present the complete genome sequence of Luteibacter rhizovicinus type strain LJ96T, a yellow-pigmented gammaproteobacterium isolated from the rhizosphere of barley (Hordeum vulgare) Johansen et al. (2005) , a species with numerous potential applications. The genome sequence was deposited to NCBI GenBank with the accession number CP017480.
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The genus Microbacterium contains bacteria that are ubiquitously distributed in various environments and includes plant-associated bacteria that are able to colonize tissue of agricultural crop plants. Here, we report the 3,508,491 bp complete genome sequence of Microbacterium sp. strain BH-3-3-3, isolated from conventionally grown lettuce (Lactuca sativa) from a field in Vestfold, Norway. The nucleotide sequence of this genome was deposited into NCBI GenBank under the accession CP017674.
2016
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Camilla Lorange LindbergAbstract
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Brit Karen VikeAbstract
The regular movement of animals between summer and winter ranges, termed seasonal migration, is a common phenomenon among ungulates at northern latitudes. The most prominent hypothesis to explain seasonal migration is the forage maturation hypothesis; it predicts that large herbivores will preferentially follow phenological (or green-up) gradients in order to access the highest possible forage quality with sufficient quantity. Surprisingly few studies provide empirical testing of the forage maturation hypothesis, and a question not often addressed is which landscape variables underlie the phenological gradient that makes migration a beneficial strategy. I tested the forage maturation hypothesis using the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), an index of plant phenology, and feces analyses as measures of forage quality and linked it with space use data from partially migratory red deer (Cervus elaphus) in Norway. Specifically, I investigated whether migratory individuals had access to higher quality forage than stationary, and the role of landscape variables for access to high quality forage. Generalized linear mixed models were used to analyze different measures of forage quality as responses to a set of covariates, including landscape variables. I found evidence that migratory red deer gain access to more high quality forage than stationary red deer, consistent with the forage maturation hypothesis. I found a positive effect of elevation on access to high quality forage for migratory individuals, and a diverse effect of other landscape characteristics, such as aspect and home range size. There was a positive effect of distance to fjord on accessed forage quality. This study sheds light on the relationship between the landscape an ungulate inhabit and the possibilities and limitations to access high quality forage within this landscape. Considering future climate change, and consequent changes in phenological gradients, it is important to understand the mechanisms causing the phenological gradients that migratory ungulates benefit from. Given the high diversity of impact by different variables found in this study, the effect of climate change may differ for populations across ecosystems.
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Elena I. Vanguelova Eleonora Bonifacio Bruno De Vos Marcel R. Hoosbeek Torsten W. Berger Lars Vesterdal Ketutis Armolaitis L. Celi Lucian Dinca O. Janne Kjønaas Pavel Pavlenda Jukka Pumpanen Ülle Püttsepp Brian Reidy Primož Simončič Brian Tobin Miglena ZhiyanskiAbstract
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May Bente BrurbergAbstract
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