Revising and re-structuring the Renewable Energy system in Norway while preserving long-term wild reindeer habitat functionality. 2015-20

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:

• 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. Johnson, 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)