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-------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- NORSK INSTITUTT FOR REGIONKONTOR NORSK SKOG OG LANDSKAP NORD-NORGE GENRESSURSSENTER -------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- adr.: Pb 115 adr.: Skogbrukets hus adr.: Pb 115 NO-1431 Ås NO-9325 Bardufoss NO-1431 Ås -------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- tlf.: +47 64 94 80 00 -------------------------------------- faks: +47 64 94 80 01 REGIONKONTOR Viten fra Skog og landskap -------------------------------------- MIDT-NORGE nett: www.skogoglandskap.no -------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- adr.: Statens hus Pb 2609 NO-7734 Steinkjer MAPPING AND MONITORING -------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- REGIONKONTOR OF NORDIC VEGETATION AND VEST-NORGE -------------------------------------- adr.: Fanaflaten 4 LANDSCAPES NO-5244 Fana -------------------------------------- Conference proceeding Eds. Anders Bryn, Wenche Dramstad & Wendy Fjellstad Oms-Viten-1-2010.indd 1 08.12.2010 09:22:29 Viten fra Skog og landskap – 1/10 MAPPING AND MONITORING OF NORDIC VEGETATION AND LANDSCAPES Conference proceedings Eds. Anders Bryn, Wenche Dramstad & Wendy Fjellstad Norsk institutt for skog og landskap, Pb 115, NO-1431 Ås, Norway 7 Viten_omslag.indd 7 08.12.2010 09:26:59 FOREWORD The conference «Mapping and Monitoring of Nordic Vegetation and Landscapes» took place in Hveragerði, Iceland from the 16th to the 18th of September 2009. The 105 participants from 15 countries contributed with 50 oral presentations and 19 posters. This special edition of «Viten», published by the Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute, presents the conference proceedings, containing 32 articles and 13 posters. We wish to thank the participants for their contributions to both the conference and this report! The Icelandic Minister of the Environment, Svandis Svavarsdottir, formally opened the conference. The Minister emphasised the importance of information on the environment, enabling politicians and manage- ment authorities to make well-informed choices to ensure that future development is sustainable. In that sense, she gave a short introduction to the three goals of the conference. Firstly, to share experience and knowledge about Nordic vegetation and landscape mapping and monitoring: methods, study design, con- tent, implementation, analysis and the latest tools for processing map data. Secondly, to present scientific findings relevant for the private and public sector, the agricultural sector and nature management. Thirdly, to develop networks between different countries’ scientific mapping communities. In particular, four topics were in focus: • mapping of vegetation and landscapes, • monitoring of vegetation and landscapes, • cultural landscapes and management, • landscape structure, processes and change. Abstracts of all oral and poster presentations have previously been published by The Nordic Association of Agricultural Scientists (http: //www.njf.nu/site/seminarRedirect.asp?intSeminarID=424&p=1004). The keynote speakers, Professor Donald A. Walker (University of Alaska, USA), Professor Helene Wagner (University of Toronto, Canada), Dr. Maria Luisa Paracchini (Joint Research Centre of the European Com- mission, Italy) and Senior Specialist Andrew Baker (Natural England, United Kingdom) gave four fascinating insights into issues of vegetation and landscape mapping and monitoring. We are grateful for their contribu- tions to the conference. 2 During the conference, an initiative was taken to create a Nordic Working Group for vegetation and lands- cape mapping and monitoring within the International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE) . This wor- king group has been named NordScape and was established shortly after the seminar in agreement with IALE. The working group is in the process of establishing a new web-page which will keep us all updated on Nordic news regarding vegetation and landscape mapping and monitoring (see http: //www.iale.se/). The initiative for the seminar was taken in 2006 in Stockholm during a Swedish seminar on vegetation map- ping. Soon after a seminar committee was established, including members from all of the Nordic countries. Anders Bryn, Wenche Dramstad and Wendy Fjellstad (Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute) repre- sented Norway. Guðmundur Guðjónsson (Icelandic Institute of Natural History) and Guðrún Gísladóttir (Uni- versity of Iceland) represented Iceland. Lars Andersson (Lantmäteriet), Anna Allard (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) and Margareta Ihse (Stockholm University) represented Sweden. Reija Hietala and Niina Käyhkö (University of Turku) represented Finland. Ole Hjorth Caspersen (Forest & Landscape) and Geoff B. Groom (The National Environmental Research Institute) represented Denmark. On behalf of the committee, we would like to thank the respective institutes for giving us the opportunity to arrange this con- ference. A special thanks goes to the Icelandic Institute of Natural History and the Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute, who took care of most of the practical challenges of arranging the conference. We are very grateful to the Nordic Council of Ministers, for financial support for the Conference and to The Nordic Association of Agricultural Scientists for administering the seminar registration, economy and home-page. We would also like to express our gratitude to The Soil Conservation Service (SCS) at Gunnars- holt, Iceland. SCS contributed to a splendid excursion and introduced us to the problems of erosion and re- vegetation efforts in Iceland. The editors, Ås, Norway, 8th June 2010 Anders Bryn Wenche Dramstad Wendy Fjellstad [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 3 INNHOLD Monitoring landscape and vegetation in the Swedish NILS-Program ....................................................... 5 Geographical vegetation data of Lantmäteriet in Sweden ........................................................................ 9 Biodiversity – Mapping and use of data................................................................................................. 13 Analysis of CORINE land cover results in Iceland with regard to elevation and bedrock geology............. 17 CLC classes and the Norwegian vegetation zones..................................................................................21 Forest limit changes in southern Norway: ways of giving casual explanations for spatiotemporal changes detected from vegetation maps................................................................... 25 Methods for landscape monitoring compared........................................................................................ 29 Mapping resources, livelihood and cultural heritage in coastal Sami fjord landscapes in Finnmark......... 33 Large scale mapping of the Sestroretskoe mire, NW Russia................................................................... 37 Mapping and density analyses of drainage ditches in Iceland ................................................................ 43 Pine revegetation of sandy shores at Tersky coast of the White Sea, Kola Peninsula ............................... 47 Large-Scale Vegetation Mapping in Iceland ........................................................................................... 51 The Icelandic geographic Land Use database (IGLUD).......................................................................... 55 Classification of vegetation in red deer habitats in Norway .....................................................................59 Feral sheep in coastal heaths – mapping the quality of all year pastures ................................................ 63 Abolition of set-aside schemes and its impact on habitat structure in Denmark from 2007 - 2008 ......... 67 Interpretation of High Resolution Digital Aerial Photography in a Digital 3D Environment to Map Vegetation Communities from aPre-existing Classification .......................................................... 71 Large-scale mapping of actual vegetation in heterogenic landscape conditions (NW Ladoga region, Russia................................................................................................................... 75 Planning changes – or changing the plans?........................................................................................... 81 A European wide indicator for the state and diversity of the rural-agrarian landscape ............................. 85 Monitoring of coastal landscape of Estonia ............................................................................................ 89 Mapping of vegetation in Norway .......................................................................................................... 93 Integrated ecoforest mapping of the northern portion of the Boreal Zone, Québec, Canada.................... 97 Large-scale vegetation mapping in Estonia .......................................................................................... 101 Rented or owned land – implications for land abandonment................................................................ 105 Modelling landscape regions on a regular grid using binary logistic regression ..................................... 109 The Norwegian area frame survey of land resources: AR18×18..........................................................