OIKOS Norway 2023 - The 6th conference of the Norwegian Ecological Society (OIKOS)

Conference: Ecology on a used planet

February 13-15, 2023, NMBU, Ås, Norway

Human land use and activities have altered ecosystems across the planet. Understanding the drivers and impacts of biodiversity loss and climate change is essential to ensure sustainable use of the Earth’s limited resources.

The main topic of this conference is the dilemma between the society’s adaptation to climate change, such as development of green energy and the land use required, and at the same time conserve nature and biodiversity.

Quiz

There will be a quiz and social gathering on Monday evening.

We welcome all researchers, students, managers, policy-makers, government officials, members of the media, and anyone interested in ecology and the natural world.



Partners and sponsors


Program

Monday 13: Workshops

Workshop schedules are as follows:

TimeEventPlace
10:00 – 16:00Managing ecological data
Living Norway Ecological Data Network
SU113, Sørhellinga
11:00 – 16:00Scientist Rebellion networking workshopAdmiralen, Bikuben
10:00 – 16:00Hvordan formidle økologi og økologisk forskning - til folk flest?
Anne Sverdrup Thygeson & Inger Auestad
Styrerommet, Sørhellinga (S257)
18:00 – 22:00Ecology pub quizÅs Stasjon kafé  
Workshop descriptions


1) "Managing ecological data: Best practices for data sharing and data reuse based on transparent and reproducible workflows"

Lead: Organized by Aud Halbritter (University of Bergen) and Erlend B. Nilsen (Norwegian Institute for Nature Research and Nord University, and project leader of Living Norway Ecological Data Network)

Good data management is fundamental to high-quality research. Increasingly, universities, journals, and funding bodies demand open and reproducible research practices and data management across the scientific community.

Sharing and re-using data and FAIR principles are becoming the standard in ecology and improve the efficiency and quality of research and thus the credibility of science. Applying these practices however requires a set of data management skills.

In this workshop we will discuss what data management is and why it is important. We will show best practice in managing ecological data for sharing your own data, applying FAIR principles, and for reusing existing datasets. The workshop will also include hands-on training tools for sharing data and making reproducible documents.

The workshop is aimed at ecologists that create and/or reuse ecological data from early career researchers with little experience with data management to more experienced researchers. The hands-on training will be based on selected case studies, and implemented in statistical program R (with associated add-on packages).

Registration: Maximum number of participants is 30. Please register by sending an e-mail to oikos2023@nmbu.no. Mark the e-mail with "WORKSHOP Managing ecological data"


2) Scientist Rebellion networking workshop

The climate and biodiversity crises have accelerated to a point that demands urgent action from our societies. We scientists have a responsibility to step up to this challenge. Both the IPCC and IPBES reports paint a grim picture for the future: losses of biodiversity and whole ecosystems at scales only previously seen in mass extinctions; water and food insecurity; global threats to human health; and activation of tipping points pushing planetary systems past points of no return.

We know that the only way to guarantee a safe future — for ourselves, for our study organisms, and the rest of the natural world — is to act on this threat now, without any further delay. However, the actions needed to achieve this are not addressed and discussed in the scientific community enough, if at all.

In the Oikos Norway 2023 conference, we in Scientist Rebellion Norway want ​​to bring ecologists as well as other scientists together to discuss our responsibility in the ecological and climate crises, and how to take collective action to create the changes needed.

We will provide a brief introduction to Scientist Rebellion, after which we can discuss together how to push for change beyond just writing papers and documenting the destruction of ecosystems.

Registration: Join us in this informal networking workshop on February 13: sign up by emailing SRTrondheim@protonmail.com

3) In Norwegian: "Hvordan formidle økologi og økologisk forskning - til folk flest?" - FULL!

Lead: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, NMBU, Inger Auestad Sogndal, HVL

Vil du nå fram til flere med forskningen din? Velkommen til workshop i historiefortelling, for deg som gjerne vil formidle forskning populærvitenskapelig!

Beskrivelse: På workshopen vil vi jobbe med historiefortelling – hvordan du kan finne og forme det du vil si, til en fortelling som når fram til mottakeren. Vi skal snakke om metaforer, om faguttrykk, om forenkling, om overskrifter, om å skape bilder i hodet på leseren din, og om hvordan du kan utvikle et nært og engasjerende språk som folk forstår. Opplegget blir en mosaikk av korte forelesninger, oppgaver og diskusjoner, og vi legger til rette for erfaringsutveksling. Selv om workshopen tar utgangspunkt i skriftlig populærformidling, er poengene gyldige også for andre formater.

Du trenger ikke ha noen spesiell erfaring med formidlingsarbeid, men du må ha lyst til å prøve!

Tid: 10-16, med lunsjpause fra 12-12:30

Forarbeid: Alle deltakerne må, før de kommer, ha valgt ut et vitenskapelig arbeid (eget eller andres) som de har lyst til å formidle i populærform. Dette arbeidet skal du presentere (kort og uformelt, 1 minutt) som en del av den innledende presentasjonsrunden.

Registrering: Maksimum antall deltakere på denne workshopen er 15. WORKSHOPEN ER NÅ FULL. Vil du stå på venteliste? Send e-post til oikos2023@nmbu.no.

Tuesday 14: Conference day 1

Venue: Vitenparken

TimeEventPlace
08:00 – 09:00Coffee and registrationHovedkvarteret
09:00 – 09:15Welcome 
09:15 – 10:00Keynote:
Professor emerita Lena Gustafsson
25 years of conservation biology research in Nordic production forest landscapes – what have we learnt?
Hovedkvarteret
10:15 – 12:00Parallel sessions:
Forest ecologyHovedkvarteret
 Land use changeKornrommet
12:00 – 13:00Lunch 
13:00 – 13:45Keynote:
Professor Richard Bischof
What individuals do and do not teach us about populations

Hovedkvarteret
13:45 – 14:00Break 
14:00 – 15:30Parallel sessions:
Wildlife ecologyHovedkvarteret
 Carbon dynamicsKornrommet
15:30 – 16:00Break 
16:00 – 17:00Parallel sessions:
Wildlife management and monitoringHovedkvarteret
 Arctic and alpine ecologyKornrommet
17:00 – 18:00Poster sessionHovedkvarteret and Kornrommet
18:00 – 19:00NØF general AssemblyAuditoriet
19:30 –Conference dinnerHovedkvarteret
Parallel sessions (Tuesday)

Venue: Vitenparken

Forest ecology

Chair: Ruben Roos

Time: 10:15-12:00

Place: Hovedkvarteret

TimeSpeakerTitle
10:15 – 10:27Rannveig M. JacobsenSecondary metabolites and nutrients explain fungal community composition in aspen wood  
10:27 – 10:39Tone BirkemoeBeetles disperse viable spores of a keystone wood decay fungus  
10:39 – 10:44Lea-Rebekka TonjerCondensed tannins mediate the effect of fertilization on soil nematodes in a boreal spruce forest  
10:44 – 10:56Ane Christensen TangeReviewing 30 years of research on measures to preserve biodiversity in boreal forest ecosystems. Making room for the specialist or broadening the way for generalist?   
10:56 – 11:01Danielle CreekCurrent and future vulnerability of Norwegian forests to drought and heatwaves- insights from a tree dendrometer network  
11:01 – 11:15Break   
11:15 – 11:20Douglas SheilCommunity structure explains large-scale variation in forest productivity  
11:20 – 11:32Eivind HandegardOld boreal trees as biodiversity hotspots  
11:32 – 11:37Aida Cuni-SanchezThermophilization of African mountain forests  
11:37 – 11:49Brunon MalickiUnearthing the diversity of soil microeukaryots  

Land use change

Chair: Anders Gunnar Helle

Time: 10:15-12:00

Place: Kornrommet

TimeSpeakerTitle
10:15 – 10:20Beatrice Maria Trascau  To use or not to use: lessons from biodiversity responses to 30 years of land-use changes across Norway                
10:20 – 10:32Linda Aune-Lundberg Where to build next? - Potential effects on biodiversity from continued urban growth
10:32 – 10:44Gabriel Brownell Gomez  Calluna heathland management dynamics in Trøndelag  
10:44 –10:56Stefanie ReinhardtBlack beaches - too hot to emerge? Sand temperatures at nesting grounds of Olive Ridley Sea turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) on the Pacific coast of Guatemala  
10:56 – 11:01Rebekka Sundøy Haldorsen  Effects of urbanization and Apis mellifera husbandry practices on wild pollinator communities
11:01 – 11:15Break   
11:15 – 11:27Ménalie SpedenerDoes moderate cattle grazing increase the species richness of flowering plants in young spruce plantations in productive boreal forest?
11:27 – 11:39Lene Sigsgaard  Floral resources for predators and pollinators in apple orchards  
11:39 – 11:51Linn Vassvik Pollination and potential pollen deficits in Norwegian apple orchards  

Wildlife ecology

Chair: Liv Monica Trondrud

Time: 14:00-15:30

Place: Hovedkvarteret

TimeSpeakerTitle
14:00 – 14:12Asuncion Semper-Pascual Are mammals from tropical protected areas save from anthropogenic processes and impacts?  
14:12 – 14:17Andrea F. Vallejo-Vargas  Morning and evening rush hour: a pantropical pattern in forest mammal communities  
14:17 – 14:29Simon D. Schowanek  The extinction risk of tropical forest mammals at different scales  
14:29 – 14:41Ehsan Mohammadi Moqanaki  Time flies: Factors influencing DNA amplification success and genotyping errors in field-collected carnivore scats
14:41-14:48Break
14:48 - 15:00Thor Harald Ringsby  Artificial selection on body size in House sparrow populations; effects on early-life telomere dynamics  
15:00 – 15:05Tirza MoermanParasitic nematode dynamics on Svalbard reindeer  
15:05 – 15:17Stefaniya Kamenova  Long-term management history affects seasonal diet composition of semi-domesticated reindeer  
15:17 – 15:29Samantha P. H. Dwinnell  Carryover effects of a large herbivore exploiting resource pulses in a time of food scarcity  

Carbon Dynamics

Chair: Rieke Lo Madsen

Time: 14:00-15:30

Place: Kornrommet

TimeSpeakerTitle
14:00 – 14:12Vilde Haukenes Spatial variation in amount of carbon in boreal forest surface soil – the role of historical fires, hydro-topography, and contemporary vegetation  
14:12 – 14:24Claire Devos Soil carbon stocks are unaffected by forest expansion into tundra  
14:24 – 14:36David OldcornThe impacts of increased rainfall and nutrient availability on the C balance of High Arctic dry ecosystems  
14:36 – 14:48Junbin ZhaoClimate friendly management of boreal peatlands – an example from a cultivated peatland in northern Norway
14:48 – 15:00Break 
15:00 – 15:12Marte FandremA calculator for peatland volume and carbon stock to support area planners and decision makers  
15:12 – 15:17Milda Norkute Forestry effects on greenhouse emissions in dead wood  
15:17 – 15:22Morgane DemeauxPlant functional groups mediate climate effects on mesofauna abundance and community composition  

Wildlife management and monitoring

Chair: Simon Schowanek

Time: 16:00-17:00

Place: Hovedkvarteret

TimeSpeakerTitle
16:00 – 16:12Dafna GiladHow the Norwegian grid affects biodiversity: quantifying collision and electrocution life cycle impacts on birds in Norway  
16:12 – 16:17Mathilde Klokkersveeen Tholme  Relationships between short- range echolocating bats and insects in boreal forests  
16:17 – 16:29Reed April McKay  Monitoring bats, birds, and bugs in boreal forests  
16:29 – 16:41Stein Joar Hegland  The effects of ungulate herbivory on forest plants and insects: two decades of research on the island Svanøy          
16:41 – 16:46Gunjari Chatterjee Survival and growth of farmed, hybrid, and wild salmon during migration in the North Atlantic Ocean  
16:46-16:58Louise ChavarieThe benefits of merging passive and active tracking approaches: new insights into riverine migration by salmonid smolts

Arctic and alpine ecology

Chair: Linn Vassvik

Time: 16:00-17:00

Place: Kornrommet

TimeSpeakerTitle
16:00 – 16:12Ruben RoosA year without summer: how mid-summer cold affects flowering phenology of Dryas octopetala  
16:12 – 16:24Maria Elise PierfedericiThe structure and ecological patterns of seeds microbial community in the arctic-alpine plant Silene acaulis along a latitudinal gradient in Europe  
16:24 – 16:36Ragnhild GyaYou have been warmed: novel interactions cancel out positive effects of warming in alpine plants  
16:36 – 16:48Aud HalbritterCan grazing mitigate negative impacts of global change on biodiversity?  
16:48 - 16:53Siri Lie Olsen Three decades of environmental change studies at alpine Finse, Norway: responses across ecological scales  
Wednesday 15: Conference day 2

Venue: Vitenparken

TimeEventPlace
09:00 – 09:45Keynote:
Docent Ingemar Näslund Restoration of inland waters – strategies, objectives and implementation
  Hovedkvarteret
09:45 – 10:00Coffee break 
10:00 – 12:00Parallel sessions:  
Restoration ecologyHovedkvarteret
 Spatial ecology
Functional ecology
Kornrommet
12:00 – 13:00Lunch 
13:00 – 13:30Keynote: Senior scientist Eszter Kelemen Can economists serve the cause of nature? Some lessons from the IPBES Values AssessmentOnline/
Hovedkvarteret
13:30 – 15:00Parallel sessions:  
Ecosystem servicesHovedkvarteret
 Ecology under a changing climateKornrommet
15:00 – 15:10Break 
15:10 – 15:30Executive Director of NSO Johan Nilsson
What is new in the publishing world?
Hovedkvarteret
15:30 – 15:40Break 
15:40 – 16:30Panel debate (in Norwegian): Klimakrise vs. naturkrise  Hovedkvarteret


Parallel sessions (Wednesday)

Venue: Vitenparken

Restoration ecology

Chair: Jonathan Edward Colman

Time: 10:00-12:00

Place: Hovedkvarteret

TimeSpeakerTitle
10:00 – 10:12Natchiyar Balasubramanian Land-use and Biodiversity: How can companies assess and mitigate their impacts  
10:12 – 10:24Knut Rydgren Time to say goodbye to seeding in alpine restoration?  
10:24 – 10:36Marianne Evju Removal of roads in an alpine landscape: effects of restoration treatments on time to recovery  
10:36 – 10:48Astrid Skrindo Identification of plant indicators for high pollinator diversity when prioritizing roadside restoration  
10:48 – 11:00Break 
11:00 – 11:12Jørn Olav Løkken Evaluation of restoration success in an urban restoration project: calcareous semi-natural grasslands in Oslo, Norway  
11:12 – 11:24Sondre Røragen Homing and straying dynamics of sea trout in the Verdal-River, and how it could be important in a metapopulation dynamic  
11:24 - 11:36Markus SydenhamPollinator habitat suitability models predict where sown flower strips have the greatest effect on bee diversity

Spatial ecology

Chair: Bjørn Arild Hatteland

Time: 10:00-11:10

Place: Kornrommet

TimeSpeakerTitle
10:00 – 10:12Ida Marielle Mienna  Predicting current and future habitat suitability for alien vascular plants in Norway  
10:12 – 10:17Aishwarya Rajlaxmi  Assessment of spatial and temporal distribution of Taxus wallichiana zucc. in the Indian Himalayan region  
10:17 – 10:29Isak Lerum Will spatial random effects remove niche shifts in distribution models of invasive species?  
10:29 - 10:41James Speed Horizon scanning of potential invasive plant species and their distribution in Norway under a changing climate  
10:41 – 10:53Adam Klimes  Statistical estimation of components of ecosystem resilience using spatial datasets  
10:53 – 10:05Eva Lieungh  Mechanistic ecosystem modelling made easy: the NorESM Land Sites Platform  

Functional ecology

Chair: Bjørn Arild Hatteland

Time: 11:20-12:00

Place: Kornrommet

TimeSpeakerTitle
11:20 – 11:25Brijesh Singh YadavTranscriptional responses in three-spined stickleback populations from high and low mercury environments
11:25 – 11:30Kristel van ZuijlenHow do traits and bioclimate affect extinction risk in European bryophytes?
11:30 – 11:42George FureyChemical traits describe the axes of plant biodiversity that underpin ecosystem functioning
11:42 – 11:54Jolanta RiekstaDwarf birch volatile emissions and plant functional traits in Greenlandic tundra

Ecosystem services

Chair: Graciela Rusch

Time: 13:30-15:00

Place: Hovedkvarteret

TimeSpeakerTitle
13:30 – 13:35Graciela Rush, Jan Vermaat, Bart Immerzeel, David BartonIntroduction to session        
13:35 – 13:45Erik StangeImproving pollinator habitat suitability modelling for mapping and assessing ecosystem services for land use planning and ecosystem accounting  
13:45 – 13:55Ana LeiteRural communities’ views on woodland benefits in Guinea-Bissau: the importance of wild edible plants  
13:55 – 14:05Erik FramstadForest ecosystem services in Norway: trends, condition, and drivers of change (1950–2020)  
14:05 – 14:10Sigrid EngenCo-creating coastal sustainability goals and indicators
14:10 – 14:20Jan Vermaat  Effects of managing nuisance aquatic plants on a suite of ecosystem services  
14:20 – 14:30Roel MayParticipatory approaches to mapping ecosystem services landscape-special session ecosystem services?  
14:30 – 14:40Bart ImmerzeelThe value of change: a scenario assessment of the effects of bioeconomy driven land use change on ecosystem service provision  
14:40 – 15:00 Questions/Discussion  

Ecology and evolution under a changing climate

Chair: Danielle Creek

Time: 13:30-15:00

Place: Kornrommet

TimeSpeakerTitle
13:30 – 13:42Laura Bartra CabréVegetation community under climatic perturbations  
13:42 – 13:54Dilip NaiduShort- and long-range fluctuations in vegetation production under climate change  
13:54 – 14:06Inger AuestadLocal environmental factors, as well as climatic variation, explain variation in bilberry performance along an elevational gradient  
14:06 – 14:18Alistair W.R. SeddonQuantitative estimates of past UV-B irradiance from fossil pollen  
14:18 – 14:30Myranda MurraySystematic review: The effect of social interactions on population persistence under environmental change  
14:03 – 14:42Agnes HolstadEvolvability predicts evolutionary divergence in extant and extinct species 
14:42 – 14:54Thomas HaalandEco-evolutionary dynamics in partially migratory metapopulations  
Keynote speakers

Richard Bischof

professor, NMBU

Richard is a wildlife ecologist, working at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

He and his team work on both applied and fundamental questions in ecology, with a special focus on developing methods that help us measure and understand processes that are difficult to observe directly. These include the spatial distribution and dynamics of elusive species such as large carnivores.

Richard is particularly interested in reconciling individual movements and fates with population-level phenomena.

Lena Gustafsson

professor emerita, SLU

Lena is a plant ecologist at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

Lena’s research is directed towards biodiversity and conservation in forests, especially in evaluating and developing of knowledge on effects and efficiency of conservation actions, and how such can be combined with forest management.

She is interested in processes and structures that drive species dynamics in natural as well as managed forests, and how such insights can be used in conservation strategies.

Ingemar Näslund

Water management strategist at the County administration of Jämtlands län

Fish biologist educated at the university of Umeå. Research within the field of fish migration, fish life history and fish habitat management. PhD 1991 at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Umeå.

Since 1999 at the County administration been dealing with most issues connected to water management; habitat restoration, fishery management, the Water framework directive, mitigation of hydropower effects on aquatic ecosystems, environmental monitoring and environmental objectives. Since 2013 responsible for applications for funding of restoration projects (LIFE, national funding, etc).

Eszter Kelemen

Eszter Kelemen

senior scientist, ESSRG

Eszter has a background in ecological economics and works at the Environmental Social Science Research Group, an independent nonprofit research organization based in Hungary.
Her main research focus is the socio-cultural and deliberative valuation of ecosystem services, which bridges across different disciplines, knowledge systems, as well as across science, policy and society. She was a coordinating lead author of the IPBES Values Assessment
She is especially interested in how the current social and institutional structures, which drive the environmental crisis, can be transformed for a more just and sustainable future.

General information

Scientific commitee
Johan Asplund
professor, NMBU
Katrine Eldegard
professor, NMBU
Thrond Haugen
professor, NMBU
Kari Klanderud
professor, NMBU
Siri Lie Olsen
associate professor, NMBU
Rieke Lo Madsen
PhD candidate, NMBU
Reed April McKay
PhD candidate, NMBU
Anders Nielsen
Head of Research, NIBIO
Linn Vassvik
PhD candidate, NMBU/NIBIO
Registration, contact, and abstract submission

Please register here: www.deltager.no/event/oikos_norway_2023

Registration deadline: 15 December, 2022.

We welcome a variety of contributions (orally or poster) to embrace the diversity of ecological research in Norway.

All queries, workshop suggestions and abstracts can be sent to: oikos2023@nmbu.no.

NB! Please indicate in your e-mail whether you want a 15 minutes oral presentation, a 5 minutes oral presentation or a poster.

Location and accommodation

Location: The conference will take place at Vitenparken at NMBU's Campus (see map below).

Campus map: Check out campus locations in Mazemap (link)

Mazemap is a great way to get an overview over NMBU campus, you can find all the locations and room numbers for both the workshops and conference. If you are arriving by car you can park at Eika, but remember to register and pay in the Apcoa app/webpage. 

Accommodation: We recommend either Ski, Drøbak or Oslo as place of accommodation.

Presenter information

Oral presentations: You will get your assigned 5 or 12 min. to present. The allotted time includes questions afterwards. Therefore, we suggest aiming for 4 min. and 10 min. presentations respectively to leave some room for questions.  

You also need to send us your presentation, no later than Monday 13.02. The file name needs to be: Day_Room_StartTime_PresentersName. Send it to: geir@inspiretoaction.no

Posters: We do not have strict size requirements, but portrait format is preferred and please avoid printing your poster larger than size A0. When you sign up Tuesday morning you will be assigned a spot, as well as something to hang it with. 

If you want a paper version, please print it yourself prior to the conference. Abstracts for all presentations will be available on the  webpage before the conference. 

Quiz Monday

On Monday evening (18-22) there will be a social gathering including a quiz at Ås Stasjon Cafe, where you are all welcome to join. It will be possible to buy food and drinks here.     

Nature scavenger hunt

There will be a series of ecological “treasures” to discover in and around NMBU’s campus. Conference attendees can go on walks to look for these throughout the conference if they like.

Click on the map below. You can also use the QR code below:

QR-code to the scavenger hunt.