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1998
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Åshild Ergon Sonja Klemsdal Anne Marte TronsmoAbstract
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Trond Møretrø Beate Furuto Hagen Lars AxelssonAbstract
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Change in crown density for Norway spruce (Picea abies) from 1988 to 1993 in three independent forest monitoring projects in southern Norway were compared. An increase in crown density was found in a countywide systematic random sample, whie measurements taken in old-growth forests reported a decline. These contradictory results may be due to: (1) high sensitivity of high-elevation forests to various kinds of environmental impact; (2) differences in stand age and management practice; and (3) different sensitivity to long distance airborne pollutants. The systematic random sample encompassed stans of several age classes from two counties, while the two other studies were restricted to old-growth forest in two smaller are as. A possibe explanation of the differences is thus that the three studies refer to differet popuations as a resut of different sampling strategies.
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Sondre Skatter Olav Albert Høibø Peder GjerdrumAbstract
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Sondre Skatter Olav Albert HøibøAbstract
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Bernt Olav Hoel Knut Asbjørn SolhaugAbstract
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Peter Botterveg Rodney Leek Eirik Romstad Arild VatnAbstract
It is generally accepted that changes in agricultural management during the last decades have had negative effects in the forms of increased erosion and nutrient losses. In our analysis farmers are assumed to maximize expected profits. Economic incentives or direct regulations of agronomic practices may be used to change the farmers' management into a direction that will reduce the losses of nutrients and erosion. In an interdisciplinary research project with economists and ecologists, the effect of different policy measureson erosion and nutrient losses has been analysed. Policy measures analysed were, among others, catch crop requirements and subsidies for spring ploughing instead of autumn ploughing. First, an economic decision making model was ran for farms for a period of 20 years. The model decides the agronomic practice for each year on the different fields for a set of model farms. With the newly developed erosion model, the European soil erosion model (EUROSEM), the effect of the different agricultural practices were analysednot only at the level of single model farms, but also at the landscape level by use of a terrain model. The paper discusses