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2007
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Lars Tørres HavstadSammendrag
I forsøk med utprøving av ulike metoder for behandling av dekkvekstens halm (bygg eller vårhvete) i gjenlegg av timotei og engsvingelfrøeng, har kutting av halm med treskerens kutteutstyr vært avlingsmessig fullt på høyde med ruter hvor halmen har vært fjernet. I alle de tre artene ble de høyeste frøavlingene, både når halmen var fjernet og når halmen var kuttet, høstet på rutene som var stubbet lavt (5-10 cm) ved tresking av dekkveksten. Når halmen ble kuttet ved lav stubbehøyde under treskinga, og halmen jevnt spredd på enga, var det i forsøkene ingen avlingsgevinst å hente ved å kjøre en ekstra omgang med halmsnitter etter tresking for ytterligere å snitte halm og stubb. I tilfeller hvor halmen er ujevnt fordelt og stubben av varierende høyde, kan det likevel være en fordel å benytte halmsnitteren for å jevne ut stubb og fordele halmen bedre etter høsting.
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Janneche Utne Skåre Jan Alexander Augustine Arukwe Trine Eggen Gunnar Sundstøl Eriksen Christiane Kruse Fæste Kari Grave Helle Katrine Knutsen Amund Måge Anders RuusSammendrag
Det er ikke registrert sammendrag
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Trygve S. Aamlid Oiva NiemelainenSammendrag
The plant growth regulator Primo Maxx (trinexapac-ethyl) is being evaluated on greens and fairways in a joint Finnish-Norwegain project 2007-2008. Trials are beeing carried out at Bioforsk Øst Landvik and Ballerud Golf Club, Norway and Lepaa Golf course, Finland. Preliminary results from 2007 indicate reductions in clipping yeids varying from 10 to 50%. Depending on dosage, visual turf quality is either unaffected or decreased, mainly due to a more uneven appearance and less competition against weeds.
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Skjøtselsplanen for Skogsholmen-området baserer seg på overordnet kartlegging av vegetasjon knyttet til kulturlandskapet, samt kunnskap om tidligere arealbruk og historie. Det er utarbeidet vegetasjonskart for hovedøya, samt for Store Buøya og Slåtterøyan. Planen anbefaler tiltak for restaurering og skjøtsel av landskapet i Skogsholmen-området i form av storfebeite og etablering av slåtteeng og åker på Skogsholmen, samt sauebeiting på Store Buøya og Slåtterøyan.
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Knut G Berdal Jihong Liu Clarke Sonja Klemsdal Helge Klungland Casper Linnestad Arne Mikalsen Anne Ingeborg Myhr Audun Helge Nerland Ingolf Nes Kaare Magne Nielsen Hilde-Gunn Opsahl Sorteberg Odd Egil Stabbetorp Vibeke ThraneSammendrag
Det er ikke registrert sammendrag
Forfattere
Knut G Berdal Jihong Liu Clarke Sonja Klemsdal Helge Klungland Casper Linnestad Arne Mikalsen Anne Ingeborg Myhr Audun Helge Nerland Ingolf Nes Kaare Magne Nielsen Hilde-Gunn Opsahl Sorteberg Odd Egil Stabbetorp Vibeke ThraneSammendrag
Det er ikke registrert sammendrag
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After two decades of monitoring forest health in Europe, in response to concern for negative effects of air pollution, a similar worry is now increasing in China. In a co-operative project between Chinese and Norwegian researchers a forest monitoring was implemented in the acid rain region in south China. During 2000–2004 two small watersheds were monitored: TieShanPing (TSP) near ChongQing City and LuChongGuan (LCG) near GuiYang City. They are covered by Masson pine (Pinus massoniana) forest. The methodology of the European intensive forest monitoring programme (ICP-Forests level-II) was adopted; including crown assessments, foliar chemistry, air and soil chemistry, and more. This paper presents results of this co-operative project. Considerable forest damage was revealed by monitoring the crown condition of Masson pine trees. The average defoliation percentage for all assessed trees (predominant, dominant and co-dominant pines, corresponding to Kraft classes 1–3) in the more acidified TSP was over 40% and remained stable throughout the monitoring period, accompanied by an extremely high mortality in some years. In contrast, the defoliation in the less acidified LCG was relatively low but increased considerably, from 16% to around 40%, within the 4 monitoring years. The significance of air pollution for the forest damage remains uncertain. The annual SO2 concentration in TSP and LCG is about 2 and 4 times higher than the critical level of 20 μg m−3 given in the LRTAP convention for effects on forests. Therefore the air pollution effects cannot be ruled out as contributing factors for forest damage. However, this cannot be substantiated based on the presented monitoring data since none of the specific symptoms of air pollution damage were observed. Furthermore, an analysis of the monitoring data did not reveal any significant correlation between defoliation and the soil chemical properties. It is noteworthy that the evident agents that were identified are capable of causing the observed forest damage. These agents were insect attacks and climatic stress. It is possible that the forest damage has complex causes.
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To stabilize organic cereal production systems it is necessary to control Canadian thistle (Cirsium arvense) and other perennial weed species. The aim of the two presented experiments (I and II) has been to evaluate the effects of mechanical treatment in spring combined with competition from a one season cover crop. In both experiments we used the same mixture of cover crops; phacelia (Phacelia tanacetifolia Benth.), common vetch (Vicia sativa L.), red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) and Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.). The first experiment (I) was arranged in a complete factorial split-plot design. In this experiment different root burial depths and root lengths of C. arvense simulated different mechanical treatments. Use of cover crop was the single factor that most effectively reduced the gain of biomass of C. arvense. At the final harvest combined treatment of deep root burial (15 cm), short root length (5 cm) and cover crop reduced number of new shoots of C. arvense by 95% and root biomass by 97% compared to shallow burial and no cover crop. At minimum regenerative capacity of C. arvense the number of leaves were 2 to 6 for the treatment with cover crop and 4 to 8 for the treatment without cover crop. In the second experiment (II), which had a complete factorial design, ± ploughing in autumn was combined with different fallow strategies in spring before sowing the cover crop. The disc harrowing during the fallow period was performed either 2x when fallow lasted for 3 weeks, or 4x when fallow lasted for 6 weeks. Additionally, all combinations of ± ploughing in autumn and length of the fallow period were combined with ± ploughing before sowing the cover crop (all together 8 treatments). In two additional subplots shallow ploughing preceded the autumn ploughing treatment (± ploughing). Preliminary results from experiment II confirms in general the conclusions from experiment I. Combining soil tillage and competition from a fast growing cover crop have potential for retarding perennial weeds. The classical approach for controlling couch grass (Elymus repens) was confirmed in this experiment, the longer soil tillage period the better weed control, and the soil tillage period should be proceeded by a deep ploughing. Ploughing in the autumn gave no additional effect on couch grass. Best control of Canadian thistle was obtained when only shallow ploughing was performed in the autumn, followed by a 6 week soil tillage period (3 weeks was not tested here) in spring and early summer and completed by ploughing before sowing the green manure cover crop. In conclusion, the experiments showed that intensive soil tillage combined with competition from a cover crop gave promising results for weed control. Due to the positive effect of moderate tillage operations attention to factors as nutrient supply, soil structure and energy use may still be ensured while a satisfying weed control is obtained.
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Oil transportation from the Russian part of the Barents Region along the Norwegian coast had insignificant volumes before 2002. However, in 2002 there was a dramatic increase in oil shipment, when 4 million tons of oil was transported across the northern regions. In 2003, the volume reached 8 million tons. The trend continued in 2004, and about 12 million tons of export oil and oil products were delivered from the Russian part of the Barents Region to the western market along the Norwegian coast. In 2005, the oil shipment volumes dropped to 9.5 million tons, and in 2006 increased to 10.5 million tons. In the present report on oil transportation from the Russian North, we have given special attention to the description of the existing and prospective offshore and onshore oil shipment terminals, and their connection to the oil reserves on one hand and to the export routes on the other. In this report we demonstrate that even without a trunk oil pipeline to the Barents Sea coast, the annual oil exports from the Russian part of the Barents Region may reach a volume of about 50-80 million tons in the next decade. About 50 million tons of crude oil and oil products can be delivered by railway to the Murmansk ports in the Barents Sea, and Kandalaksha and Arkhangelsk in the White Sea. In addition, up to 20 million tons of oil will come from the northern oil fields in the Nenets Autonomous Region, and from Prirazlomnoye oil field in the Pechora Sea. Prirazlomnoye is the first offshore industrial oil field in the Russian part of the Barents Region, the operations there will go on all year round, and most of the year in ice-covered waters. Dolginskoye oil field, which is also in the Pechora Sea and estimated to be three times as big as Prirazlomnoye, can produce the first oil in 2013. There will be stable increase in the amounts of oil shipped from Western Siberia. The terminals in the Kara Sea can load 2-3 million tons of crude oil for transhipment in the Kola Bay of the Barents Sea. In the European part of Russia there are three possibilities for shipping oil for export. The first way is through the Black Sea via the Bosporus to the Mediterranean Sea. Another route is through the Baltic Sea via the Gulf of Finland and Kattegat. The third alternative is to transport oil through the Barents Sea along the coasts of north-western Russia and northern Norway. Out of these three options only the northern one, the Barents Sea route, can provide the possibility of stable shipping large amounts directly to European and other major harbours, avoiding the challenges of transit through the neighbouring countries or heavy traffic in the sea straits. Oil pollution prevention should be the central issue during oil transportation in the Barents Sea. In this report we pay attention to the environmental safety matters in oil transportation and Norwegian-Russian co-operation in the oil pollution prevention. The increasing internationalisation of the transport system in the region appears to affect the present trend toward more advanced and safer terminals and vessels that comply with international safety rules. Early warning and notification of ships passing through the Norwegian waters has been used more frequently and on voluntary basis, but still not as often as desired and can be arranged within a bilateral Russian-Norwegian agreement. The establishment of traffic control centres in Vardø and Murmansk will considerably improve the oil spill prevention and response preparedness.
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In the north-western European countries Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland, variability in the forms, amounts and timing of phosphorus (P) loss from agricultural land is related to national differences in climate, soil, hydrological conditions and agricultural production. The dissolved form of P constitutes 9"93% of the total phosphorus (TP) in water, subsurface drainage can contribute 12"60% and surface erosion 40"88% of TP transfer. TP export in small agricultural streams is generally in the range 0.3"6 kg ha)1 year)1, with the highest losses in Norway and UK. All four countries are complying with the EU Water Framework Directive and developing a range of measures based on P source with transport controls over P losses. A decreasing trend in TP losses has been detected in agricultural streams following the introduction of measures to reduce erosion in Norway. Average P concentrations in Swedish streams have shown a reduction of nearly 2% per year since 1993 as a result of measures introduced in southern Sweden. However, in two large rivers in agricultural regions of Sweden, the concentrations of suspended solids (SS) and TP were shown to increase by 0.4% and 0.7% per year, respectively, over the period 1975"2004, possibly as a result of climate change. It is too early to detect trends in agricultural contributions to P in surface waters as a result of catchment-sensitive farming (CSF) in the UK and Ireland.