In his PhD, Benjamin Allen has tested the utility of remotely sensed data for detecting root, butt and stem rot in Norway spruce. His results yielded moderate accuracies, and more work needs to be done before it can be implemented in operational forestry.
Elildo Alves Ribeiro de Carvalho Jr’s doctorate shows that both legal and illegal harvesting impacts on animals in the Amazon, but that these impacts are generally moderate.
NMBU’s researchers are tracking local foxes. Last weekend, one of the tagged foxes made quite the run in the local neighborhood. See a timelapse of its movements here.
The Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA) is the university's competence centre on nature and the environment, sustainable use of natural resources, biological and geological processes.
