Publications
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2012
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Flavio Paoletti Antonio Raffo Kristian Thorup-Kristensen Randi Seljåsen Torfinn Torp Nicolaas Busscher Angelica Ploeger Johannes KahlAbstract
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The combined effects of light, soil fertility, and ontogenetic changes on plant growth rates are poorly understood, yet these three factors play fundamental roles in structuring plant communities. We sought to determine how lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. ex Loud. var. latifolia), interior spruce (Picea glauca engelmanii (Moench) Voss), and subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa (Hook.) Nutt.) sapling growth responds to the combination of light, soil fertility, and ontogeny and how these three dominant conifer species in sub-boreal forests of British Columbia differ in their responses.Using maximum likelihood methods, we found that 0.204 m tall sapling growth rates changed during ontogeny and were limited by both light and soil resources. The strongest differences among species growth rates were due to tree size, with smaller differences due to soil fertility, and there were no differences among species in the shape of their growth responses to light. Rank order in growth rates for small saplings (pine spruce fir) inversely corresponded to classic shade-tolerance ratings, thus supporting the carbon balance theory. Interior spruce height growth rates increased relative to lodgepole pine with increasing soil fertility, clearly matching the landscape-scale increase in canopy dominance of interior spruce over lodgepole pine with increasing soil fertility.
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HJ Van der Fels-Klerx Sonja Klemsdal V Hietaniemi M. Lindblad E Ioannou-Kakouri ED Van AsseltAbstract
This study aimed to investigate mycotoxin contamination of cereal grain commodities for feed and food production in North Western Europe during the last two decades, including trends over time and co-occurrence between toxins, and to assess possible effects of climate on the presence of mycotoxins. For these aims, analytical results related to mycotoxin contamination of cereal grain commodities, collected in the course of national monitoring programmes in Finland, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands during a 20-year period, were gathered. Historical observational weather data, including daily relative humidity, rainfall and temperature, were obtained from each of these four countries. In total 6382 records, referring to individual sample results for mycotoxin concentrations (one or more toxins) in cereal grains were available. Most records referred to wheat, barley, maize and oats. The most frequently analysed mycotoxins were deoxynivalenol, 3-acetyl-deoxynivalenol, nivalenol, T-2 toxin, HT-2 toxin and zearalenone. Deoxynivalenol had the highest overall incidence of 46%, and was mainly found in wheat, maize and oats. Mycotoxins that showed co-occurrence were: deoxynivalenol and 3-acetyl-deoxynivalenol in oats; deoxynivalenol and zearalenone in maize and wheat; and T-2 toxin and HT-2 toxin in oats. The presence of both deoxynivalenol and zearalenone in wheat increased with higher temperatures, relative humidity and rainfall during cultivation, but the presence of nivalenol was negatively associated with most of these climatic factors. The same holds for both nivalenol and deoxynivalenol in oats. This implies that climatic conditions that are conducive for one toxin may have a decreasing effect on the other. The presence of HT-2 toxin in oats showed a slight decreasing trends over time, but significant trends for other toxins showed an increasing presence during the last two decades. It is therefore useful to continue monitoring of mycotoxins. Obtained results can be used for development of predictive models for presence of mycotoxins in cereal grains.
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Audun KorsæthAbstract
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Shahid Nadeem Sissel Hansen Marina Azzaroli Bleken Peter DörschAbstract
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Shahid Nadeem Sissel Hansen Marina Azzaroli Bleken Peter DörschAbstract
Legumes are an important source of nitrogen in stockless organic cereal production. However, substantial amounts of N can be lost from legume-grass leys prior to or after incorporation as green manure (GM). Here we report N2O emissions from a field experiment in SE Norway exploring different green manure management strategies: mulching versus removal of grass-clover herbage during a whole growing season and return as biogas residue to a subsequent barley crop. Grass-clover ley had small but significantly higher N2O emissions as compared with a non-fertilised cereal reference during the year of green manure (GM) production in 2009. Mulching of herbage induced significantly more N2O emission (+0.37 kg N2O-N ha−1) throughout the growing season than removing herbage. In spring 2010, all plots were ploughed (with and without GM) and sown with barley, resulting in generally higher N2O emissions than during the previous year. Application of biogas residue (60 kg NH4+-N + 50 kg organic N ha−1) before sowing did not increase emissions neither when applied to previous ley plots nor when applied to previously unfertilised cereal plots. Ley management (mulching vs. removing biomass in 2009) had no effect on N2O emissions during barley production in 2010. In general, GM ley (mulched or harvested) increased N2O emissions relative to a cereal reference with low mineral N fertilisation (80 kg N ha−1). Based on measurements covering the growing season 2010, organic cereal production emitted 95 g N2O-N kg−1 N yield in barley grain, which was substantially higher than in the cereal reference treatment with 80 kg mineral N fertilisation (47 g N2O-N kg−1 N yield in barley grain).
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Et overordnet samfunnsmål er å sikre en bærekraftig bruk og forvaltning av Norges arealressurser. Det krever en kontinuerlig leveranse av pålitelig og oppdatert informasjon til beslutningstakere. For å være i stand til å levere denne informasjonen, produserer Norsk institutt for skog og landskap blant annet arealressursstatistikk for alle kommuner i Norge. Statistikken produseres også på fylkesnivå og for hele landet. Arealtallene hentes ut fra en kombinasjon av ulike nasjonale datasett i ulike målestokker sammen med tolkning av satellittbilder. Gjennom en omklassifisering beregnes statistikk for visse landressursklasser som dyrka jord, beite, skog basert på produktivitet, ferskvann, snø og isbre, snaumark og bebygd område. Skog og landskap har de siste par årene brukt åpen kildekode. Hele produksjonslinje utføres ved hjelp av slik programvare. Resultatene lagres i XML-filer som legges ut på internett. Produksjonen krever behandling av flere databaser med nasjonal dekning og må håndtere geometriske operasjoner effektivt og uten feil. Den åpne kildekodeløsningen er pålitelig, stabil og rask.
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Margarita Novoa-Garrido Lise Aanensen Hans Jørgen S. Larsen Søren Krogh Jensen Håvard SteinshamnAbstract
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