• Are trampling effects by wild tundra reindeer understudied? 

      Heggenes, Jan; Odland, Arvid; Bjerketvedt, Dag (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Grazing and trampling by the wide-ranging wild tundra reindeer may have major top down landscape effects by causing vegetation changes. Grazing, as the collective effect of eating, trampling, defecation, and urination, has ...
    • Estimation of lichen biomass with emphasis on reindeer winter pastures at Hardangervidda, S Norway 

      Odland, Arvid; Sandvik, Sylvi M.; Bjerketvedt, Dag; Myrvold, Linn L. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Quantification of lichen abundance is important for management of reindeer populations. We measured dry lichen biomass in 876 micro plots (16.5 cm - 16.5 cm) systematically sampled within 219 vegetation plots (2 m - 2 m) ...
    • Sex-biased dispersal in a northern ungulate population 

      Haanes, Hallvard; Røed, Knut H.; Rosef, Olav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      In most mammals dispersal is male-biased and in many polygynous ungulates female philopatry and matrilineal grouping involve small-scale genetic structure. We have through sex-related differences in microsatellite allele ...
    • The Hardangervidda wild reindeer herd: a problematic management history 

      Bjerketvedt, Dag; Reimers, Eigil; Parker, Howard; Borgstrøm, Reidar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      The unique and internationally important wild reindeer Rangifer tarandus herd on the Hardangervidda plateau of southern Norway has shown frequent and extreme fluctuations in harvest numbers for the past 60 years, despite ...