Karen Marie Mathisen / Staff/ Ansatte / Campus Evenstad / English / hihm

Post doc

E-mail: karen.mathisen@hihm.no

Phone: +47 624 30 893

Fax: +47 624 30 851

Mailing address:

Hedmark University College

Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management

Campus Evenstad

NO-2480 Koppang

Norway

Research interests:

Ecosystem ecology, community ecology, trophic cascades, herbivory-plant interactions, biodiversity, indirect interactions,

I have a Cand. Scient degree (Norwegian equivalent to MSc) in wildlife ecology / tropical ecology from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. I have also studied one year of population biology in Université de Bourgogne, France. I have earlier worked with research projects on effects of forest fires in lowland dipterocarp rainforest in Indonesian Borneo, on termites, ants and sun bears ( Ursus malayanus ). I have also studied the relationship between reproductive investment and antioxidant blood levels in great tits ( Parus major ) in France.

In april 2011 i completed my PhD thesis on effects of moose ( Alces alces ) browsing on several trophic levels: field layer vegetation, flower-visiting insects and birds, and how these effects are modified by productivity and supplementary feeding of moose. Read more about my PhD project: Indirect effects of moose on the birds and the bees .

Currently I am working on a project on forestry and moose , how to increase natural winter forage for moose and reduce browsing damage to forestry, through changing forestry practices.

Teaching:

Ecology

Statistics

Rural Traditional Heritage (RUTH)

Nordic Nature Management (Iceland)

Selected publications:

Mathisen, Karen Marie; Pedersen, Simen; Nilsen, Erlend Birkeland; Skarpe, Christina. 2011. Contrasting responses of two passerine bird species to moose browsing. European Journal of Wildlife Research 2011. DOI: 10.1007/s10344-011-0601-3

Mathisen, Karen Marie (2011) Indirect effects of moose on the birds and the bees . Doctoral diss. Dept. of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies, SLU. Acta Universitatis agriculturae Sueciae vol. 2011:13.

Mathisen, K. M. and C. Skarpe 2011. Cascading effects of moose management on birds. Ecologcial Research. 26 (3), 563-574

Mathisen, K. M. , F. Buhtz, K. Danell, R. Bergström, C. Skarpe, O. Suominen, I. L. Persson.2010. Moose density and habitat productivity affects reproduction, growth and species composition in field-layer vegetation. Journal of Vegetation Science . 21 (4), 705-716.

Van Beest, F. M., Gundersen, H., Mathisen, K. M., Milner, J. M. and Skarpe, C. 2010. Long-term browsing impact around diversionary feeding stations for moose in Southern Norway. Forest Ecology and Management, 259, 10, 1900-1911.


Post doc E-mail: karen.mathisen@hihm.no Phone: +47 624 30 893 Fax: +47 624 30 851 Mailing address: Hedmark University College Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management Campus Evenstad NO-2480 Koppang Norway

Research interests: Ecosystem ecology, community ecology, trophic cascades, herbivory-plant interactions, biodiversity, indirect interactions, I have a Cand. Scient degree (Norwegian equivalent to MSc) in wildlife ecology / tropical ecology from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. I have also studied one year of population biology in Université de Bourgogne, France. I have earlier worked with research projects on effects of forest fires in lowland dipterocarp rainforest in Indonesian Borneo, on termites, ants and sun bears ( Ursus malayanus ). I have also studied the relationship between reproductive investment and antioxidant blood levels in great tits ( Parus major ) in France. In april 2011 i completed my PhD thesis on effects of moose ( Alces alces ) browsing on several trophic levels: field layer vegetation, flower-visiting insects and birds, and how these effects are modified by productivity and supplementary feeding of moose. Read more about my PhD project: Indirect effects of moose on the birds and the bees . Currently I am working on a project on forestry and moose , how to increase natural winter forage for moose and reduce browsing damage to forestry, through changing forestry practices.

Teaching: Ecology Statistics Rural Traditional Heritage (RUTH) Nordic Nature Management (Iceland)

Selected publications: Mathisen, Karen Marie; Pedersen, Simen; Nilsen, Erlend Birkeland; Skarpe, Christina. 2011. Contrasting responses of two passerine bird species to moose browsing. European Journal of Wildlife Research 2011. DOI: 10.1007/s10344-011-0601-3 Mathisen, Karen Marie (2011) Indirect effects of moose on the birds and the bees . Doctoral diss. Dept. of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies, SLU. Acta Universitatis agriculturae Sueciae vol. 2011:13. Mathisen, K. M. and C. Skarpe 2011. Cascading effects of moose management on birds. Ecologcial Research. 26 (3), 563-574 Mathisen, K. M. , F. Buhtz, K. Danell, R. Bergström, C. Skarpe, O. Suominen, I. L. Persson.2010. Moose density and habitat productivity affects reproduction, growth and species composition in field-layer vegetation. Journal of Vegetation Science . 21 (4), 705-716. Van Beest, F. M., Gundersen, H., Mathisen, K. M., Milner, J. M. and Skarpe, C. 2010. Long-term browsing impact around diversionary feeding stations for moose in Southern Norway. Forest Ecology and Management, 259, 10, 1900-1911.