Marking the landscape: Thesis dissertation Morgane Kerdoncuf
We are very happy to congratulate Morgane Alizee Kerdoncuff with the successful defense of her doctoral thesis on 23 January 2026, titled: ‘Marking the landscape’ – Ecological assessment of small-scale grazing systems in the fjord region of the Nordhordland UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
By: Dagmar Egelkraut
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Morgane’s thesis work is part of the TradMod project and falls under the UNESCO-chair group, as well as CeSAM. It explores how the fjord environment and different types of management affect plant and beetle communities and their associated ecosystem services in semi-natural grasslands and heathlands, using observational studies of how the fjord environment and different types of management affect plant and beetle communities and their associated ecosystem services in semi-natural grasslands and heathlands.Â
The trial lecture took place on Thursday 22 January and took us on a journey discussing five cultural landscape types and their implications for biodiversity and ecosystem services around the world.Â
Morgane was supervised by Prof. Inger Elisabeth MÃ¥ren (ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´) and Ass. Prof. Amy Elisabeth Eycott (Nord University). The defense committee consisted of the opponents Prof. Dr. James Speed (NTNU) and Prof. Dr. Isabel C Barrio (Agricultural University of Iceland), as well as Prof. Dr Anne Bjune and Ass. Prof. Richard Telford from ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´.Â
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