Our Team
Feel free to further explore the variety of exciting projects undertaken by the group members.
Principal Investigator
Post-docs
Dr Jacob Socolar
Impacts of tropical agriculture on biodiversity across spatial scales
Dr João Campos-Silva
Community-managed fisheries in the Jurua river, Brazil
Dr Joseph Hawes
Tree species composition, biomass and carbon stocks in undisturbed Amazonian forests.
Dr Matthias Dehling
Amazonian fruit-frugivore networks
PhD students
Tree species composition, aboveground biomass and carbon stocks in Amazonian várzea floodplain forest
Jørgen Sand Sæbø
Carbon and biodiversity co-benefits in Colombia: Implications for conservation planning and implementation of REDD+
Thomas Luypaert
Soundscape analysis for biodiversity monitoring in tropical rainforests
MSc students
Astrid Kisen
Activity patterns among domestic cats in Norway
Sven Emil Hinderaker
Habitat selection and use by turtles in western Amazonia, Brazil
Anne-Marie Austad
Birds on camera: assessing the diversity of bird detections by camera traps in Amazonia
Ole-Andreas Stigsrud
Using children as citizen scientists: experiences, suitability and pitfalls
Carmen Skjelvik
Amazonian small mammals
Ingrid Johanne Müller Tangvik
Effect of season and habitat on bat species composition in an Amazonian forest landscape
ALUMNI
Post-docs
Alexander Anderson – Functional diversity of birds in the Colombian Andes
James Gilroy – Effects of land-use change on biodiversity in the Colombian Chocó-Andes and Llanos
PhD students
Whaldener Endo – Game vertebrate responses to rural populations in Neotropical protected areas
Rafael Leandro de Assis – Tree species diversity, distribution and habitat specificity on Amazonian floodplains
MSc students
Fan Wu - When does the cat roam: Temporal patterns of pet cat (Felis catus) roaming in Norway
Gina Sande Leikanger - Wildlife use of private gardens in south-eastern Norway
Malin Sahlin Aannestad - Biomass and carbon loss from selective logging and associated collateral damage in eastern Amazonia, Brazil
Filip Sarfi - Utilization of habitat edges and linear features during movement in free-ranging domestic cats in Norway
Bettina Bachmann - Home ranges of domestic cats (Felis catus) in south-eastern Norway
Joe Partyka - Parasites and People: Crocodile parasite interactions in human impacted areas of Belize
Linda Zsemberovszky - Vocal behaviour and intraspecific call variations of Kempholey Night Frog (Nyctibatrachus kempholeyensis) in the Western Ghats, India
Guillermo Alba – Assessing the effect of environmental variables on microhabitat selection and distribution for seven amphibian species in Colombia using in-situ and MaxEnt approaches
Nina Storm – An evaluation of the efficiency of survey methods to monitor large mammals in Cusuco National Park, Honduras
Liss Mortveit – Primate assemblage structure and habitat associations in the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve, Peru
Margarita Lopez Garcia – Recovery of butterfly assemblages in secondary Andean cloud forests, Colombia
Gabriella Krivek – Fruit choice and habitat use of the Greater Mascarene Flying Fox (Pteropus niger) on Mauritius
Rudy Badia – Exploring the environmental factors determining forest bird composition and distribution on the island of Ta'u, American Samoa
Jørgen Sand Sæbø – Spatial and temporal distributions and interactions in a neotropical ground-dwelling animal community
Martin Austad – Nest site selection and nesting success by terns and skimmers in Manu National Park, Peru
Ramón Soto Madrid – The effect of selective logging on the community of chewing lice and feather mites associated with forest birds in Sabah, Malaysia
Marte Sofie Søreide – Effect of tree-fall gaps on fruit-feeding nymphalid butterfly assemblages and vertical stratification in Manu National Park, Peru
Petter Lilleengen – Assemblage structure of fruit-feeding nymphalids (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) in floodplain and upland forest at Cocha Cashu, Peru
Pauline Kajl – Effects of alien plant species removal on biodiversity and species interactions in two native forest areas on Mauritius
Marte Fandrem – Bird-parasite dynamics in a Bornean rainforest: the effects of selective logging and host characteristics
Silvana Gallegos – Effect of forest conversion on the aquatic macro-invertebrate fauna in the Ecuadorian Andes
Fernanda de Almeida Meirelles – Conservação de roedores caviomorfos em uma reserva de desenvolvimento sustentável na Amazônia: efeitos da estrutura do habitat e atividades extrativistas (co-supervisor)
Ajaya Nagarkoti – A comparative study of abundance of tiger prey base in Bardia-Katarniaghat (Khata) corridor and south-west corner of Bardia National Park, Nepal
Molly Maria Greger – Traditional healers as a foundation pillar of medicinal plant conservation in Uganda
Tahir Mahmood – Assessing snow leopard (Unica unica) by sign surveys and camera trapping in northern Pakistan (co-supervisor)
Janak Raj Khatiwada – Amphibian species richness and composition along an elevational gradient in Chitwan, Nepal
Joaquin Urrutia – Physical factors influencing macro-invertebrate assemblages in epiphytic bromeliads in the rainforest of Belize
Maarten van der Eyden – Effects of fire history on species richness and carbon stocks in a Peruvian puna grassland, and development of allometric equations for biomass estimation of common puna species
Karl Rickard Persson – Seed dispersal of the Brazil nut tree (Bertholletia excelsa) by scatter-hoarding rodents in central Amazonian secondary forest
Jorunn Ospedal Vallestad – Bird species composition in primary and secondary forests of the lower Caquetá region, Colombia
Laura Maira – Status and ecology of the Wattled Curassow (Crax globulosa Spix, 1825) in the lower Caquetá river, Colombia
Daniel Thorsell – Ecology of the Malay Civet (Viverra tangalunga) in Lambusango forest on Buton Island, Sulawesi