Renewable Reindeer

Norway hosts the last populations of wild mountain reindeer, and has international responsibility to preserve them. However, in those same mountain areas Norway also hosts a large number of hydroelectric plants that - along with roads and other infrastructures - often represent barriers to reindeer migrations. Most licenses for the hydropower stations are currently being revised, with the aim to reduce their environmental impact. RenewableReindeer brings together ecologists, mathematicians, computer scientists, social scientists, technicians and local communities and stakeholders to finding ways to mitigate the impact of the network of infrastructures associated to the renewable energy systems while preserving reindeer habitat. Read extended summary.

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Project publications

Peer reviewed

2023 Dorber, M., Panzacchi, M., Strand, O. et al. New indicator of habitat functionality reveals high risk of underestimating trade-offs among sustainable development goals: The case of wild reindeer and hydropower. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-022-01824-x

2022 Eckert, N., Rusch, G., Lyytimäki, J. Lepenies R, Giacona F, Panzacchi M, Mosoni C, Pedersen AB, Mustajoki A, Mille R, Richard D, Jax K (2022) Sustainable Development Goals and risks: The Yin and the Yang of the paths towards sustainability. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-022-01800-5

2022 Broekman M. J.E., Hilbers J.P., Huijbregts M. A.J., Mueller T., … Panzacchi M., … Tucker M.. Evaluating expert-based habitat suitability information of terrestrial mammals with GPS-tracking data. (2022). Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31, 1526– 1541. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13523

2022 Van Moorter B, Kivimäki I, Noack A, Devooght R, Panzacchi M, Hall KR, Leleux P, Saerens M. Accelerating advances in landscape connectivity modeling with the ConScape library. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13850
Caribou and reindeer migrations in the changing Arctic. Kyle Joly, Anne Gunn, Steeve D. Côté, Manuela Panzacchi, Jan Adamczewski, Michael J. Suitor, Eliezer Gurarie. Animal Migration. 2021; 8:156–167
Defining and Quantifying Effective Connectivity of Landscapes. van Moorter B, Kivimäki I, Panzacchi M, Særens M. Ecography, 2021, 44,1-15.
The challenges and opportunities of coexisting with wild ungulates in the human-dominated landscapes of Europe's Anthropocene. John D.C. Linnell; Benjamin Cretois; Erlend B. Nilsen; Christer M. Rolandsen; Erling J. Solberg; Vebjørn Veiberg; Petra Kaczensky; Bram Van Moorter; Manuela Panzacchi; Geir R. Rauset; Bjørn Kaltenborn. Biological Conservation, 2020, Volume 244
Consequences of barriers and changing seasonality on population dynamics and harvest of migratory ungulates. Theoretical Ecology, 2020 Van Moorter, B., Engen, S., Fryxell, J.M., Panzacchi, M., Nilsen, E.B., Mysterud, A.
Maximum likelihood estimation for randomized shortest paths with trajectory data. Kivimäki I, van Moorter B, Panzacchi M, Jari Saramäki, Marco Saerens. Journal of Complex Networks, 2020.
Large-scale segregation of tourists and wild reindeer in three Norwegian national parks: Management implications. Tourism Management 2019, 75. p. 22-33 2019 Gundersen, Vegard; Vistad, Odd Inge; Panzacchi, Manuela; Strand, Olav; Van Moorter, Bram
Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements. Tucker M, Böhning-Gaese K, Fagan F, Fryxell J, Bram Van Moorter et al. 2018, Science. 359(6374): 466-469
Wild Reindeer and hydropower: Can regional planning processes make a difference? Ruud A., Kaltenborn B. P. Kart og Plan, Vol. 77, pp. 360–377, POB 5003, NO-1432 Ås, ISSN 0047-3278
Predicting the continuum between corridors and barriers to animal movements using Step Selection Functions and Randomized Shortest Paths. Panzacchi M, Bram Van Moorter, Olav Strand, Marco Saerens, Ilkka Kivimäki, Colleen C. St Clair, Ivar Herfindal, and Luigi Boitani. Journal of Animal Ecology, Special Issue, 85, 1 (2016): 32-42.
‘You shall not pass!’: quantifying barrier permeability and proximity avoidance by animals (pages 43–53) Hawthorne L. Beyer, Eliezer Gurarie, Luca Börger, Manuela Panzacchi, Mathieu Basille, Ivar Herfindal, Bram Van Moorter, Subhash R. Lele and Jason Matthiopoulos, Journal of Animal Ecology, Special Issue, 85, 1 (2016)
How many routes lead to migration? Comparison of methods to assess and characterize migratory movements (pages 54–68) Francesca Cagnacci, Stefano Focardi, Anne Ghisla, Bram van Moorter, Evelyn H. Merrill, Eliezer Gurarie, Marco Heurich, Atle Mysterud, John Linnell, Manuela Panzacchi, Roel May, Torgeir Nygård, Christer Rolandsen and Mark Hebblewhite, Journal of Animal Ecology, Special Issue, 85, 1 (2016)

Conference lectures and popular publications

Vannkraft: samlet belastning på villrein og scenario analyse for å identifisere avbøtende tiltak. Panzacchi M. «Fornybardagen» i NINA; 2018-04-18
Norwegian wild reindeer: understanding impacts in a busy landscape. Strand. O; Panzacchi M; Van Moorter, B; Gundersen V; Romtveit L; Mossing, A; Nilsen E. CARMA 9; 2018-03
Renrein "Renewable Reindeer". Panzacchi, M 2017. Web article i villrein.no.
RenewableReindeer. Panzacchi, M; Strand, O; Ruud, A; Thomassen, J; Kaltenborn, BJ Petter; Van Moorter, B; Næss, C; L'Abee-Lund, Jan Henning; Grimsby, Per Øyvind; BJeraas, K; Jaren, V; Lund, Erik; Paulsen, Kåre; Bøthun, Siri; Mossing, A; Singsaas, Marianne; Romtveit, L. Villreinen 2017 s. 66-69
Measuring simultaneously habitat loss and fragmentation due to infrastructures: a novel habitat functionality metric. Van Moorter, B. Interview. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/ 2017-02-20
HABITAT FUNCTIONALITY METRIC: Quantifying the total impact of habitat loss & fragmentation on mobile species, in large continuous landscapes. Van Moorter, B; Kivimäki, I; Devooght, R; Panzacchi, M; Saerens, M. JRC European Joint Research Centre; 2017-12-07
How to quantify the total impact of human land use by habitat loss & fragmentation? HABITAT FUNCTIONALITY. Van Moorter, B; Kivimäki, I; Devooght, R; Panzacchi, M; Saerens, M. NTNU Sustainability Science Conference 2017.10.18-20
Stress:does it matter? A review of mechanisms and fitness consequences of stress in large herbivores. C. M. Stølhaug. Hedmark University College 2016 50 s
RENREIN - ET VIKTIG PROSJEKT. Panzacchi, M; Mossing, A. 2016. Web article in villrein.no.
Fornybar villrein - arealplanlegging og utbygging i villreinområder.Panzacchi, M; Næss, C. 2016. NINA
Villrein og rødlister. NINA.no [Internett] 2016-11-25. Panzacchi, M; Næss, C; Strand, O. NINA
Villrein og rødlister. Hjortevilt.no [Internett] 2016-11-25.Panzacchi, M; Strand, O; Næss, C. NINA
You shall pass! A mechanistic evaluation of mitigation efforts in road ecology. IENE 2016 - 5th International Conference on Ecology and Transportation; 2016-08-30 - 2016-09-02 Rolandsen, C Moe; Van Moorter, B; Panzacchi, M; Solberg, Erling Johan; Roer, Ole
Quantifying the total impact of linear infrastructures on wildlife: a new Habitat Functionality metric to quantify simultaneously Habitat Loss & Habitat Fragmentation. Van Moorter, B; Kivimäki, I; Devooght, R; Panzacchi, M; Saerens, M. 5th IENE International Conference on Ecology and Transportation; 2016-08-30/2
Fremtidens forskning på bærekraftig arealbruk slik at villreinstammen Ietas på lang sikt. Van Moorter, B; Panzacchi, M. Villreinrådets årlige fagdag; 2016-06-01/2
Green is good for the planet, but it’s no go for reindeer. Hanlon, Michael; Panzacchi, M; Strand, O. The Observer [Tidsskrift] 2015-12-06
Green is good for the planet, but it’s no go for reindeer. The Observer / The Guardian, London, UK. Michael Hanlon, Web article based on interview to M. Panzacchi and O. Strand. 6 Dec 2015
RenewableReindeer. Kivimäki, I; Saramäki, Jari; Panzacchi, M; Van Moorter, B. webpage at the ComplexSystems website at Aalto University, Finland
ENERGIX: NYTT PROSJEKT FRA NINA MED STØTTE FRA NORSK FORSKINGSRÅD. Panzacchi, M. Fagdag og Landsmøte Villrein 2015; 2015-06-03 - 2015-06-04
How a Special Feature can help wildlife “Stuck in Motion”. Panzacchi, M. Journal of Animal Ecology 2015
RenewableReindeer. Revising and re-structuring the renewable energy system in Norway while preserving wild reindeer habitat functionality. Panzacchi, M. CEDREN – status og resultater; 2015-04-15
The secret life of wild reindeer. Animal Ecology in Focus: News and thought-provoking discussion provided by the Journal of Animal Ecology. Panzacchi, M. Journal of Animal Ecology 2015
Wild reindeer in the anthropocene. Panzacchi, M. NINAdagan; 2015-10-20 - 2015-10-21
Datasimulator skal redde norsk villrein. Panzacchi, M; Jakobsen, Marianne. Nettartikkel NRK Sørlandet. NRK Sørlandet [Internett] 2015-03-08
RenewableReindeer. Panzacchi, M; Van Moorter, B. project website
Wild reindeer in the anthropocene: Is it possible to reconcile conservation with human development?. Panzacchi, M; Van Moorter, B; Strand, O; Jordhøy, Per; Gundersen, V. 14th Arctic Ungulate Conference; 2015-08-16 - 2015-08-21

Other relevant publications

REVIEW: Can habitat selection predict abundance? (pages 11–20) Mark S. Boyce, Chris J. Johnso n, Evelyn H. Merrill, Scott E. Nielsen, Erling J. Solberg and Bram van Moorter
EDITORIAL: Stuck in motion? Reconnecting questions and tools in movement ecology (pages 5–10)
Searching for the fundamental niche using individual-based habitat selection modelling across populations. Panzacchi M. & Van Moorter B (shared first authorship), Strand O, Loe LE, Reimers E, Ecography, 38 (7): 659-669
Developments in the theory of randomized shortest paths with a comparison of graph node distances. Ilkka Kivimäki, Masashi Shimbo, and Marco Saerens. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 393 (2014): 600-616.
Learning from the past to predict the future: Modelling archaeological findings and GPS data to quantify reindeer sensitivity to anthropogenic disturbance in Norway. Panzacchi M., Van Moorter B., Strand, O. Landscape Ecology, Special Issue (2013) 28:847–859
A road in the middle of one of the last wild reindeer migrations routes in Norway: crossing behaviour and threats to conservation. Panzacchi M., Van Moorter B., Strand, O. Rangifer, Special Issue (2013) 21: 15-26
Movement is the glue connecting home ranges and habitat selection (pages 21–31) Bram Van Moorter, Christer M. Rolandsen, Mathieu Basille and Jean-Michel Gaillard. Journal of Animal Ecology, Special Issue, 85, 1 (2016)

The team

Team and partners

Financing Partners

Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, NVE
Norwegian Environment Agency - Miljodirektoratet
Sira Kvina Kraftselskap
Villreinprosjektet i Setesdalsheiene v/ Statkraft

Academic Partners

Prof. Subhash R. Lele, Univ. of Alberta, Canada
Prof. John Fryxell, Univ. of Guelp, Canada
Prof. Marco Saerens,Univ. Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Prof. Ferdinando Villa, Basque Centre for Climate Change, Bilbao, Spain

Belgian and Finnish Academic partners, Brussels, Oct 2015

Dissemination

Documents, slides, videos

Project results - Caribou Conference NACW 2021

Konferansepresentasjon - EnergiNorge 2021 Grimsby, Sira Kvina & Panzacchi, NINA

ProjectsPreliminaryResults
NEW Report: Modelling Habitat Connectivity
Doc: Project description
SustainableDevelopment_Reindeer
Slides: Summary: Engl - Norsk
Video: Project overview (Eng)

Video: Project overview (Norsk)

Media

Events

Time	Event	Location
01/08/2015	PhD student - Habitat Functionality
28/09/2015 09:00	Workshop "Quantifying habitat functionality"	Brussels
30/11/2015 09:00	Meeting Setesdal Ryfylke	Skinnarbu
01/03/2016 09:00	Meeting Nordfjella	Flåm Aurland
03/03/2016 09:00	Meeting Snøhetta
01/06/2016 08:00	Villrein Fagdag - Villreinrådet	Skinnarbu
01/09/2016 12:00	New PhD student	Univ. Guelph, Canada
03/10/2016 12:00	Workshop Norway - Canada	NINA Trondheim
16/11/2016	Collaboration with PhD student - Univ Stirling, UK	Rondane
16/02/2017 09:00	Annual meeting	NINA Trondheim
07/12/2017	Invited presentation of Habitat Functionality at the EU Joint Research Centre	Rondane
18/01/2018	Workshop Habitat Functionality	Brussels
07/02/2018 09:00	RenewableReindeer meeting - Work package leaders	NINA Trondheim
15/06/2018 08:00	Last fieldwork season
26/09/2018	Ilkka PhD defence
03/06/2019 10:00	RenRein annual meeting	NINA Trondheim
03/06/2019 10:00	RenRein annual meeting	NINA Trondheim
06/07/2019 09:00	International Workshop: connectivity modelling	Milan

Documents, slides, videos

Events

Time	Event	Location
01/08/2015	PhD student - Habitat Functionality
28/09/2015 09:00	Workshop "Quantifying habitat functionality"	Brussels
30/11/2015 09:00	Meeting Setesdal Ryfylke	Skinnarbu
01/03/2016 09:00	Meeting Nordfjella	Flåm Aurland
03/03/2016 09:00	Meeting Snøhetta
01/06/2016 08:00	Villrein Fagdag - Villreinrådet	Skinnarbu
01/09/2016 12:00	New PhD student	Univ. Guelph, Canada
03/10/2016 12:00	Workshop Norway - Canada	NINA Trondheim
16/11/2016	Collaboration with PhD student - Univ Stirling, UK	Rondane
16/02/2017 09:00	Annual meeting	NINA Trondheim
07/12/2017	Invited presentation of Habitat Functionality at the EU Joint Research Centre	Rondane
18/01/2018	Workshop Habitat Functionality	Brussels
07/02/2018 09:00	RenewableReindeer meeting - Work package leaders	NINA Trondheim
15/06/2018 08:00	Last fieldwork season
26/09/2018	Ilkka PhD defence
03/06/2019 10:00	RenRein annual meeting	NINA Trondheim
03/06/2019 10:00	RenRein annual meeting	NINA Trondheim
06/07/2019 09:00	International Workshop: connectivity modelling	Milan

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