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.
1999
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Per Holm Nygaard Torbjørn ØdegaardAbstract
Vegetation data were collected in 1931, 1961 and 1991 from permanent plots in a boreo-nemoral forest 20 km north of Oslo in southern Norway. Major changes were found in the vegetation composition during 60 years. The main changes were a reduction in the frequency and frequency of joint occurrence of species like Calluna vulgaris, Vaccinium uliginosum, Trientalis europaea, Maianthemum bifolium, Melampyrum pratense, Cornus suecica, Andromeda polifolia, Eriophorum vaginatum, Vaccinium oxycoccus, Pleurozium schreberi, Hylocomium splendens, Ptilium crista-castrensis, Dicranum fuscescens and Ptilidium ciliare. The observed changes were interpreted as induced by internal processes e.g., a long-term change from paludified forest to mesic forest. In particular the growth of Picea abies seems in particular to be a main driving force. The dominance of Picea abies and Vaccinium myrtillus appears to have made the conditions more unfavourable to other species. A doubling of the living stem biomass of P.abies during the last 67 years shows that this old-growth forest has not reached a steady state. Species like Deschampsia flexuosa and Molinia caerulea did not increase in frequency as has been demonstrated in response to nitrogen deposition elsewhere in northern Europe. The results of this study indicate that protection from logging has promoted the reduction of species in the field layer and bottom layer. This study questions if monitoring of forest vegetation should be restricted to protected forests as is the practice in Scandinavia today. We recommend that areas with some kind of selective cutting are also used for monitoring of forest vegetation
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Tore SkrøppaAbstract
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Erik Næsset Bjørn TveiteAbstract
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Geir Wæhler GustavsenAbstract
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Gunnar Ogner Torild Wickstrøm Gabriele Remedios Svein Gjelsvik Guro Randem Hensel Jan Erik Jacobsen Monica Fongen Espen Skretting Britt SørlieAbstract
This article describes in brief the chemical analytical program at The Norwegian Forest Research Institute in 2000. Due to a continuous effort to develop and to improve analytical methods to meet the demands of forest research in Norway, the four earlier summaries of our methods (Ogner et al. 1975, 1977, 1984, 1991) are now outdated. This article replaces the previous ones and describes only those procedures currently being used for the analysis of water, plant and soil samples
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A. TigerstedtAbstract
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Birger VenneslandAbstract
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The study examines the economics of combined milk and meat production as an alternative to the current specialised milk production on Norwegian goat. The reasons for the study are 1) to increase goat farm incomes,2) to improve the annual distribution pattern of goat milk and 3) to reduce negative publicity of farmers killing surplus goat kids just after birth. The most promising management practice would be to change the time of kidding from February to late April or May, combined with suckling the kids during the daytime until August. The kids are to be slaughtered in August in order to utilise the summer grazing period and market the kids the month before start of the lamb slaughter season. While the kids are being suckled, the does are milked once per day and after weaning the does are milked twice a day, thereby increasing milk deliveries during autumn and winter when milk prices are higher. A discussion of how the natural conditions and the Norwegian agricultural policy contribute to the results increases the value of the study.
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Kari Anne Sølvernes Øystein Johnsen Lars Sandved Dalen Gunnar OgnerAbstract
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