Research topic

Population estimation

Vebjørn Veiberg

  • Population ecology of cervids (especially red deer and Svalbard reindeer), particularly in relation to management topics.
  • Ungulate population monitoring.
  • Investigation of ungulate life-history strategies in relation to tooth wear.
  • Ecological consequences of climate change
  • Wildlife responses to human disturbance

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Torbjørn Forseth

Salmonid ecology and management (leader of Scientific Advisory Committee for Atlantic Salmon Management in Norway), regulated rivers, life history, evolutionary biology (thermal adaptation, character displacement) and functional biodiversity, bioenergetics, climate change, environmental pollution (radioactivity, acid rain), and research administration (two years as Research Director, two years as Assisting Research Director and one year as Research Coordinator)


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Erlend Birkeland Nilsen

• Population dynamics • Demography • Life history theory • Trophic interactions • Predation • Harvesting • Ungulates • Carnivores • Small game • Small rodents • Statistical modeling • Biodiversity informatics


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Erling Johan Solberg

Major research experience includes: Research in population ecology of cervids (moose, roe deer, red deer and reindeer), particularly related to management topics. Research in population dynamics of fragmented populations of house sparrows, in relation to current conservation biological problems.


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Peder Fiske

Behavioural Ecology, Sexual selection, Statistical analysis, Salmon biology


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Ola Håvard Diserud

Applied statistical modelling, multivariate analysis, interactions between aquaculture and wild salmonids, biodiversity, population and community dynamics.


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Christer Moe Rolandsen


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John Odden

Spatial and behavioural ecology, predator-prey interactions, human-wildlife conflicts, monitoring of wildlife, conservation biology.

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Ole-Gunnar Støen


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Inger Maren Rivrud


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Brett K. Sandercock

Arctic, demography, harvest, invasive species, migratory birds, population ecology, ptarmigan, sensitive species, shorebirds, and wildlife management.




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Thomas Kvalnes

  • Ornitology, birds
  • Species determination birds
  • Ecology
  • Evolutionary biology
  • Conservation biology
  • Life history theory
  • Demography
  • Eco-evolutionary dynamics
  • Population dynamics
  • Population ecology
  • Population genetics
  • Quantitative genetics
  • Statistical modeling
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)


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Line Cordes

Animal movement ecology, animal population ecology, (long-term) individual-based studies, mark-recapture modelling (incl. special cases dealing with unknown sex, uncertainty in breeding state, time-varying individual covs etc), movement modelling (kernelUD, brownian bridge, T-LoCoH, HMMs, step selection), population modelling (PBR, iPCoD, matrix modelling etc).

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Population estimation

Vebjørn Veiberg

  • Population ecology of cervids (especially red deer and Svalbard reindeer), particularly in relation to management topics.
  • Ungulate population monitoring.
  • Investigation of ungulate life-history strategies in relation to tooth wear.
  • Ecological consequences of climate change
  • Wildlife responses to human disturbance

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Torbjørn Forseth

Salmonid ecology and management (leader of Scientific Advisory Committee for Atlantic Salmon Management in Norway), regulated rivers, life history, evolutionary biology (thermal adaptation, character displacement) and functional biodiversity, bioenergetics, climate change, environmental pollution (radioactivity, acid rain), and research administration (two years as Research Director, two years as Assisting Research Director and one year as Research Coordinator)


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Erlend Birkeland Nilsen

• Population dynamics • Demography • Life history theory • Trophic interactions • Predation • Harvesting • Ungulates • Carnivores • Small game • Small rodents • Statistical modeling • Biodiversity informatics


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Erling Johan Solberg

Major research experience includes: Research in population ecology of cervids (moose, roe deer, red deer and reindeer), particularly related to management topics. Research in population dynamics of fragmented populations of house sparrows, in relation to current conservation biological problems.


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Peder Fiske

Behavioural Ecology, Sexual selection, Statistical analysis, Salmon biology


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Ola Håvard Diserud

Applied statistical modelling, multivariate analysis, interactions between aquaculture and wild salmonids, biodiversity, population and community dynamics.


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Christer Moe Rolandsen


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John Odden

Spatial and behavioural ecology, predator-prey interactions, human-wildlife conflicts, monitoring of wildlife, conservation biology.

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Ole-Gunnar Støen


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Inger Maren Rivrud


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Brett K. Sandercock

Arctic, demography, harvest, invasive species, migratory birds, population ecology, ptarmigan, sensitive species, shorebirds, and wildlife management.




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Thomas Kvalnes

  • Ornitology, birds
  • Species determination birds
  • Ecology
  • Evolutionary biology
  • Conservation biology
  • Life history theory
  • Demography
  • Eco-evolutionary dynamics
  • Population dynamics
  • Population ecology
  • Population genetics
  • Quantitative genetics
  • Statistical modeling
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)


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Line Cordes

Animal movement ecology, animal population ecology, (long-term) individual-based studies, mark-recapture modelling (incl. special cases dealing with unknown sex, uncertainty in breeding state, time-varying individual covs etc), movement modelling (kernelUD, brownian bridge, T-LoCoH, HMMs, step selection), population modelling (PBR, iPCoD, matrix modelling etc).

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