About the project

• Goal

  Our goal is to develop a method that can predict where the most important biodiversity is located in Norwegian coniferous forests. The method should be usable by forest management to prevent the loss of species and their functions.

• Background

  In Norway, habitat loss and change are the main reasons species are threatened. To ensure the survival of species and their functions in ecosystems, we need to know where they are located. As much as 48 percent of Norway’s threatened species are associated with forest landscapes. Most of these are insects and fungi, species groups that are particularly time-consuming to map.

• Methods

  We are testing whether remote sensing technology and other environmental variables can be used to map elements that we know are important for the biodiversity of insects and fungi. We are also testing how well nature mapping (NiN) may explain the distribution of species.

  The project includes researchers from NMBU, UiO, and the University of East Anglia, representatives from the forestry sector (Mathiesen Eidsvold Værk and NORSKOG), and interest organizations (WWF and SABIMA)

Participants

• NMBU researchers
• User partners

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