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Ecological and Environmental Change Research Group

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Landscape at Rondane with a sampling plot marked out and a person looking through binoculars

Multidisciplinary research with a long time-scale perspective

Our research seeks to understand drivers of change in terrestrial (and freshwater) ecosystems.

We aim to generate fundamental scientific insights that also contribute to scientifically informed and evidence-based decision-making in society. As part of this, we seek to provide a knowledge base relating to the causes and consequences of current global change in terrestrial (and freshwater) ecosystems. We also seek to predict the effects of global change on terrestrial ecosystems, and to identify ways of mitigating the impacts. We collaborate in several large international ecological projects, including distributed experiments, knowledge-sharing platforms, and large research consortia. Reproducibility and open science are embedded in our approaches. We involve stakeholders in our science locally, nationally, and internationally. We are inclusive with regards to background, gender, and career stage. Further, we communicate our science across a broad spectrum of channels, from high-profile publications to the science-policy interface and popular science. This ensures that we reach the appropriate audiences and have impact within science and across society.

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A cultural landscape with inset images of cormorant, tardigarde, sampling quadrat, red fungus, blue gentian, admiral butterfly, Grimmia moss, and puffin

Biodiversity-related research

One of the fundamental goals of ecology is to uncover the processes controlling the patterns of diversity and abundance that we observe in nature. How does diversity emerge, and how is it maintained? The EECRG seeks to develop empirical approaches that test and quantify the relative importance of...

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View of the Gongga Mountains and glacier

Climate-related research

Humans are putting increasing pressures on the world's ecosystems. We are already seeing strong impacts of habitat loss and changes in nutrient cycling whereas climate change is likely to have increasingly strong impacts during the next century. These current trends can only be understood with...

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Two students surveying heathland vegetation next to a fjord

Masters Studies with EECRG

We have a number of interesting projects for Masters students to get involved with and provide good support and academic and social meetings to participate in.