News archive for UNESCO Chair: Sustainable heritage and environmental management

Field of open heathland, with recently burned patches. Green grass poking up in between. Blue skies and fjord in the background.

Beetles in Traditionally Burned Heathlands (10.08.2023)

Morgane Kerdoncuff has investigated the effect of prescribed burning on beetle diversity in coastal heathlands by comparing active beetle assemblages between newly burned patches and patches of mature stands. The study was recently published in Biodiversity and Conservation, and is part of Morgane's PhD thesis on the TradMod-project.

Illustration of Bombus muscorum (bumblebee)

Bumblebees in the Coastal Heathlands of Nordhordland UNESCO BR (08.08.2023)

This June MSc student Susanne Zazzera completed her thesis titled "Bumblebee communities in open and overgrown heathlands in Nordhordland UNESCO Biosphere, Vestland, Norway", which was supervised by UNESCO Chair Inger Måren, NIBIO researcher Bjørn Arild Hatteland, and PhD student Ieva Rozite-Arina. Susanne spent the summer of 2022 in Nordhordland's beautiful coastal heathlands collecting... Read more