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I hold a PhD in Plant Ecology from the Department of Biology, University of Bergen (2009). I am currently professor in applied ecology at the Department of Biological Sciences. In 2017 I was appointed

My research focuses on the dynamics in coupled human and natural systems, including sustainable development, natural resource management, agro-biodiversity, sustainable land use, ecosystem services, agroecology, and food security. I work with colleagues across the social and natural sciences to elucidate links between anthropogenic activities and the environment, in Europe, as well as in Asia, North-America and Africa. I seek to gain multifaceted knowledge within ecology and associated disciplines to investigate social-ecological complexities. In addition to a PhD in ecology I have completed a minor in Social Anthropology, and the cross-disciplinary courses Ecology and Development and Resource Management and Environmental Conservation.

As the UNESCO Chair at ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´, I'm working with several projects focusing on UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere  (MAB) programme. This includes following the establishment of Norway's very first Biosphere Area - .

I work mostly in cross- and trans-disciplinary projects, and have taken part in several collaborative research and education activities:

• Co-founder and deputy leader of - Centre for Sustainable Area Management
• Member of Norway's
• Member of the
• Member of the  (VKM) (2015 - p.d.)
• on Sustainable Heritage and Environmental Management - Nature and Culture, appointed 2017
• Scientific coordinator of Bergen Summer Research School 2013 () – organizing PhD courses on Food as a Global Development Challenge for 70 students, ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´ Global
• Lecturer and supervisor on the NOMA (NOrad MAster) Programme 2010-2014, Regional Master Program in Biodiversity and Environmental Management, lectured three cohorts and supervised 6 Master students
• Scientific coordinator for the Nile Basin Research Programme 2009 () - working group on Biodiversity and Land Use Change, Uni Research

• Vandvik V. & MÃ¥ren I.E. 2021. Den endelege kloden. Bjerknessenteret PODCAST.
• Vandvik V. & MÃ¥ren I.E. 2021. Stykkevis og delt – bevaring og restaurering av natur. Debattinnlegg i SPIRE: 
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2021. Sustainability and Nature. Digital sofa conversation with Forum for natur og friluftsliv Troms  03.03.2021.
• Vandvik V. & MÃ¥ren I.E. 2020. Sett Marka-grense over alt, ikke bare rundt Oslo. Op-ed in Dagens Næringsliv (newspaper) 28^th Dec.  
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2020. Why seeds are important and why we should care. Speaker. UPOP lecture, the Student Organization at ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´, Bergen.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2020. 2⁰C Innsikt: Hva er agroøkologi? Energi & Klima, Norsk Klimastiftelse,
• Vandvik V., Barraclough A. & MÃ¥ren I.E. 2020. If we work together, 2020 can be a true super year for biodiversity. Opinion. ENSIA:
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2020. Yrkesintervju; botaniker. Utdanning.no
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2020. Biomangfold og mat: EU vil sette global standard for bærekraft. Kommentar. Energi & Klima, Norsk Klimastiftelse,
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2020. EU vil sette global standard for bærekraft, men tar de munnen for full? Kronikk. Forskning.no.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2019. Expert interview on film; Nature-based Solutions in Nordhordland UNESCO Biosphere. Energy Observer – Sustainable Solutions. Nordhordland.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2019. Expert interview on film; a documentary on food systems. Insider FEM - Veganer. Mastiff Production. Oslo.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2019. Debate on climate change and the environment. Panel participant. Organised by the Student Organization at ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´, Bergen.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2019. Expert interview; Eight climate solutions for agriculture and food systems. , Norsk Klimastiftelse, 13^th Aug.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2019. Op-ed: Vil gjøre fremtidens Nordhordland bærekraftig, in BT Newspaper 21st Jul. 
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2019. Panel participant in a public debate on veganism – effects on climate, environment and health. Organised by BT News Paper – Bergen Media City.
• Bjune A.E. & MÃ¥ren I.E. 2019. Det korte og det lange karbonkretsløpet. Pan. Harvest magazine.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2018. FNs STI (Science, Technology and Innovation) Forum 2018, New York  
• UNIOs I Front: Agenda 2030 og FNs bærekraftsmÃ¥l - hva er egentlig det?  
• ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´ nett: Forskeropphold i utlandet.  
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2015. Fra fjord og jord til bord. Kronikk BT:  
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2015. BT Innsikt:  BærekrafsmÃ¥lene. 
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2015. BT Innsikt: Matsystemer. 
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2015. BT Innsikt: Bærekraftig utvikling. 
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2015. BT Innsikt: Skog.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2015. BT Innsikt: Hva er naturlig? 
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2015. BT Innsikt:  Den tredje pol. 
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2015. Kronikk Klassekampen: REDD. 
• International Film Festival) Undervisningsopplegg til skoleprogrammet SKOGEN. Sep.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. & Høistad Schei F. 2012. Samspillet mellom natur og kultur i Sør-Korea. Norsk Botanisk Forening, Bergen. SCIENTIFIC TALK.
• Pandey H., MÃ¥ren I.E. & Dutta I.C. 2012. REDD+ in Community Forestry, Western Nepal. A case from Gorkha District, Central Himalaya. Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany. 60 pp.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2011. Skog og folk ved foten av Himalaya. Ã…°ù°ù¾±²Ô²µ±ð²Ô. 15, 61-76.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2011. Bergen i verden og verden i Bergen – Som man roper i skogen fÃ¥r man svar. Foredrag pÃ¥ Forskningsdagene 24.10.2011 i Bergen.
• Sylte G.U., MÃ¥ren I.E. 2011. Ã… bevare Himalayas bratte skogar. Hubro, 2, 8-13.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2011. Rhododendronskog ved foten av Annapurnafjellene i Nepal. Lapprosen, 2, 6-10.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2010. Plants and people of Nepal. From east to west and from the subtropics to the alpine. Norsk Botanisk Forening, Bergen. SCIENTIFIC TALK.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2010. Redder REDD skogen? OP-ED or ’Kronikk’ in Klassekampen News Paper, 26.07.2010.
• Nilsen L.S., MÃ¥ren I.E. & Pedersen O. 2009. Fargen er purpur – kystlyngheivegetasjon i Norge. Naturen, 133, 86-93.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2008. Frøbank og vegetasjon i vestnorsk lynghei. Ã…°ù°ù¾±²Ô²µ±ð²Ô, 12, 61-70.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. & Vetaas O.R. 2008. Kulturlandskap i nord og sør – betraktninger i rom. Naturen, 132, 175-183.
• Vetaas O.R. & MÃ¥ren I.E. 2008. Kulturlandskap i drastisk endring – betraktninger i tid. Naturen, 132, 184-193.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. & Nilsen L.S. 2008. Kystlyngheier i Midt- og Nord-Norge. Blyttia: Norsk botanisk forenings tidsskrift, 66 11-22.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2008. Ukens forsker. Interview in Bergens Tidene, 26.05.08
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2007. Kronikk Aftenposten: Kysten endrer seg dramatisk.  16.06.07.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2007. Fra prestegÃ¥rdshage til arboret: Lunde Arboret i Balestrand. Ã…°ù°ù¾±²Ô²µ±ð²Ô, 11, 73-88.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2007. Lunde Arboretum, Balestrand. Information Brochure. Balestrand kommune, Norge.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2007. Arboretet pÃ¥ Lunde. Hageselskapet, 16-17.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2007. PÃ¥ smale stiar under ruvande trekjemper. Interview in Sogn Avis, 26.05.07.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2007. Krattskog kveler Lofotlandskap. Intreview in Lofotposten, 16.06.07.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. 2007. Utdeling av pris for vakraste uteanlegg 2006. Hageselskapet, [Internett].
• MÃ¥ren I.E. & Ekelund K. 2006. Einstape, et problem i kulturlandskapet. Ã…°ù°ù¾±²Ô²µ±ð²Ô, 10, 35-42.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. & Ekelund K. 2006. The heathland. The flora. Information Brochure. Heathland Centre at Lygra, Hordaland.
• MÃ¥ren I.E., Ekelund K. & Vandvik V. 2005. Einstape i det vestnorske kystlandskapet, problem eller bagatell? Naturen, 129, 67-76.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. & Ekelund K. 2005. Einstape - hvordan bekjempe den i kulturlandskapet. Blyttia: Norsk botanisk forenings tidsskrift, 63, 147-155.
• MÃ¥ren I.E. & Ekelund K. 2003. Bekjemping av einstape pÃ¥ Lygra og Lurekalven. Forslag til skjøtselstiltak. LindÃ¥s kommune: Heathland Centre at Lygra, Hordaland. 12 s.

• MNF 115 - Natural Science Perspectives on Sustainable Development (10 SP)
• MNF 110 - Climate, Environment and Human History (10 SP)
• BIOLOGY BIO 347 - Global Change Ecology (5 SP)
• GEOGRAPHY GEO 100 – Examen facultatum - Introduksjon til geografi: Globale utfordringer og lokale svar (10 SP)
• GEOGRAPHY GEO 131 – Ressursforvaltning og utvikling i Den tredje verden (10 SP) GEOGRAPHY GEO 212 – Terrestriske klima- og miljøendringer (10 SP)
• GEOGRAPHY GEO 281 – Miljøforvaltning og planlegging (10 SP)
• GEOGRAPHY GEO 282 – Kulturlandskap (10 SP)
• GEOGRAPHY GEO 292 – Regionalgeografi, feltkurs (10 SP)
• GEOGRAPHY GEO 326 – Geographic perspectives on food (10 SP)
• FOREST ECOLOGY (5 SP) 
• BOTANY BIO 112 (10 SP)
• FOREST ECOLOGY AND REDD+ (5 SP)
• ECOLOGY B 300 (15 SP)
• BOTANY B 100 (15 SP)

 

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MÃ¥ren I.E. & Sharma L.N. Managing biodiversity: Impacts of Legal Protection in Mountain Forests of the Himalayas. In press. Forests.

Sharma L.N. & MÃ¥ren I.E. 2018. Tree regeneration in gap-understorey mosaics in a subtropical Shorea robusta (Sal) forest. In press. Journal of Forestry Research.

DiCarlo J. Epstein K., Marsh R. & MÃ¥ren I.E. 2018. Post-disaster agricultural transitions in Nepal. AMBIO.

Romm J., Conrad E. & Måren I.E. 2018. Resilient governance of water regimes in variable climates: Lessons from California’s hydro-ecological zones. Water, 10, 196, doi: 10.3390/w10020196.

Epstein K., DiCarlo J., Marsh R., Adhikari B., Paudel D., Ray I. & MÃ¥ren I.E. 2018. Adaptation and recovery after the 2015 Nepal earthquakes: a smallholder household perspective. Ecology & Society.

MÃ¥ren I.E., Kapfer J., Grytnes J.A., Vandvik V. & Aarrestad P.A. 2018. Changing species co-occurrences over a post-fire succession. Ecology. 99(1):148-157. doi: 10.1002/ecy.2052

Epstein K., DiCarlo J., Marsh R., Ray I. & Måren I.E. 2017. Coping Strategies of Smallholder Farming Communities after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake: Insights into Post-Disaster Resilience and Social–Ecological Change. Case Studies in the Environment, University of California Press. doi: 10.1525/cse.2017.000612

Adhikari B., Pendry C.A., MÃ¥ren I.E., Bhattarai K.R. & Chaudhary R.C. 2017. Distribution and preliminary conservation assessments of commonly used forest species in the Nepalese Himalayas. Banko Janakari - Journal for Forestry Information of Nepal. 27(1): 43-54.

Lundberg A., Kapfer J. & MÃ¥ren I.E.* 2017. Reintroduced mowing can counteract biodiversity loss in abandoned meadows. Erdkunde 71(2): 127-142. doi: 10.3112/erdkunde.2017.02.03

Hudson L.N. et al. 2016. The database of the PREDICTS 1 (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) Project. Ecology & Evolution. 7(11): 145-188. doi: 10.1002/ece3.2579

Sharma L.N., Grytnes J.A., MÃ¥ren I.E. & Vetaas O.R. 2016. Does canopy disturbance matter for diversity in a subtropical forest? Comparing woody species composition and richness in gaps and intact canopy. Journal of Vegetation Science. 27: 1129-1139. doi: 10.1111/jvs.12445

Behera R.N., Nayak D.K, Andersen H.P. & MÃ¥ren I.E.* 2016. From jhum to broom: Agricultural land use change and food security implications on the Meghalaya Plateau, India. AMBIO. 45(1): 63-77. doi: 10.1007/s13280-015-0691-3

Vandvik V., Klanderud K., Meineri E.P.F., Måren I.E., Töpper J.P. 2016. Seed banks are biodiversity reservoirs: species–area relationships above versus below ground. OIKOS. 125: 218-228. doi: 10.1111/oik.02022

MÃ¥ren I.E., Karki S., Prajapati C., Shrestha B.B. & Yadav R.K. 2015. In semiarid environments, does slope aspect matter to woody species composition, carbon stocks and soil properties? An example from a trans-Himalayan valley. Journal of Arid Environments. 121: 12-123. doi: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2015.06.004

Suwal A.L., Bhuju D. & MÃ¥ren I.E.* 2015. Assessment of forest carbon stocks in the Himalayas: Does legal protection matter? Small-scale Forestry. 14(1): 103-120. doi: 10.1007/s11842-014-9276-4

Vandvik V., MÃ¥ren I.E., Ndangalasi H.J., Talpin J. & Lovett J.C. 2014. Back to Africa: Post hydropower-project mitigation effects on wetland vegetation in relation to the conservation of an endemic amphibian. Ecosphere. 5(8): 95. doi: 10.1890/ES14-00093.1

Sharma L.N., Vetaas O.R., Chaudhary R.P. & MÃ¥ren I.E. 2014. Ecological consequences of land use change: forest structure and regeneration across the forest-grassland ecotone in mountain pastures in Nepal. Journal of Mountain Science, 11(4): 838-849. doi: 10.1007/s11629-013-2849-4

Bargmann T.B., MÃ¥ren I.E. & Vandvik V. 2014. Life after fire: smoke and ash as germination cues in ericads, herbs and graminoids of northern heathlands. Applied Vegetation Science, 17(4): 670-679. doi: 10.1111/avsc.12106

Bhattarai K.R., MÃ¥ren I.E. & Subedi S.C. 2014. Biodiversity and invasibility: distribution patterns of invasive alien plant species in the Himalayas, Nepal. Journal of Mountain Science 11(3): 688-696.

Vandvik V., Spindelböck J.P., Cook Z., Daws M.I., Heegaard E., Måren I.E. & Velle L.G. 2014. Management-driven evolution in a domesticated ecosystem. Biology Letters 10: 20131082, doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.1082

Sharma L.N., Vetaas O.R., Chaudhary R.P. & MÃ¥ren I.E. 2014. Pastoral abandonment, shrub proliferation and landscape changes: a case study from Gorkha, Nepal. Landscape Research 39(1): 53-69.

MÃ¥ren I.E., Bhattarai K.R. & Chaudhary R.P. 2013. Forest ecosystem services and biodiversity in contrasting Himalayan forest management systems. Environmental Conservation 41: 73-83.

Spindelböck J.P., Cook Z., Daws M.I., Heegaard E., Måren I. E. & Vandvik V. 2013. Conditional cold avoidance drives between-population variation in germination behaviour of Calluna vulgaris. Annals of Botany 112: 801-810. Doi: 10.1093/aob/mct142

Shrestha K.B., Måren I.E., Arneberg E., Sah J.P. & Vetaas O.R. 2013. Effect of anthropogenic disturbance on plant species diversity in oak forests in Nepal, Central Himalaya. International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management 2: 21–29. Doi: 10.1080/21513732.2012.749303

Bhattarai K.R., MÃ¥ren I.E. & Chaudhary R.P. 2011. Medicinal plant knowledge of the Panchase region in the Middle Hills of the Nepalese Himalayas Banko Janakari - Journal for Forestry Information of Nepal 21: 31-39. Doi: 10.3126/banko.v21i2.9127

Måren I.E., Janovský Z., Spindelbock J., Daws M.I., Kaland P.E. & Vandvik V. 2010. Prescribed burning of northern heathlands: Calluna vulgaris germination cues and seed-bank dynamics. Plant Ecology 207: 245-256. Doi: 10.1007/s11258-009-9669-1

MÃ¥ren I.E. & Vandvik V. 2009. Fire and regeneration: the role of seed banks in the dynamics of northern heathlands. Journal of Vegetation Science 20: 871-888. Doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2009.01091.x

MÃ¥ren I.E. & Vandvik V. 2009. Prescribed burning and the role of seed banks in post-fire succession of northern heathlands, Lygra and Lurekalven islands, Hordaland, Norway. Conservation Evidence 6: 48-56.

MÃ¥ren I.E., Vandvik V. & Ekelund K. 2008. Restoration of bracken-invaded Calluna vulgaris heathlands: Effects on vegetation dynamics and non-target species. Biological Conservation 141: 1034-1044. Doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.01.012

MÃ¥ren I.E., Vandvik V. & Ekelund K. 2008. Effectiveness of chemical and mechanical bracken Pteridium aquilinum control treatments in northern coastal heathlands on the island of Lygra, Hordaland, Norway. Conservation Evidence 5: 12-17.

MÃ¥ren I.E. & Vetaas O.R. 2007. Does regulated land use allow regeneration of keystone forest species in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Central Himalaya? Mountain Research and Development Journal 27: 345-351. Doi: 10.1659/mrd.0893

Vandvik V., Heegaard E., MÃ¥ren I.E. & Aarrestad P.A. 2005. Managing heterogeneity: the importance of grazing and environmental variation on post-fire succession in heathlands. Journal of Applied Ecology 42:139-149. Doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2005.00982.x