Botany, Zoology and Ecology-related Diciplines Panel 1 Evaluation Division for Science Molecular Biology Botany, Zoology Panel 3 and Ecology-related Diciplines Panel 1 Public Health and Clinical Research Health-related Panel 4B Research Panel 5 Clinical Research Physiology-related Panel 4A Disciplines Panel 2 Psychology and Psychiatry Panel 6 Evaluation of biology, medicine and health research in Norway (2011) Botany, Zoology and Ecology-related disciplines – Panel 1 Evolutionary biology, ethology, marine biology, limnology, plant physiology, systematics and agricultural sciences Evaluation of biology, medicine and health research in Norway (2011) © The Research Council of Norway 2011 The Research Council of Norway P.O.Box 2700 St. Hanshaugen N–0131 OSLO Telephone: +47 22 03 70 00 Telefax: +47 22 03 70 01 [email protected] www.rcn.no/english The report can be ordered at: www.forskningsradet.no/publikasjoner or green number telefax: +47 800 83 001 Design: Agendum as Printing: 07 Gruppen AS Number of copies: 500 Oslo, November 2011 ISBN 978-82-12- 02987-3 (print) ISBN 978-82-12- 02988-0 (pdf) Evaluation of biology, medicine and health research in Norway (2011) Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................................................. 1 PREFACE FROM THE RESEARCH COUNCIL OF NORWAY ............................................................................. 5 STATEMENT FROM THE PANEL.................................................................................................................. 6 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY WITH GENERAL CONCLUSIONS ............................................................................. 7 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE FIELD .................................................................................................................... 7 GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS........................................................................................................................... 8 A NOTE FROM THE PANEL ON GRADES OF ASSESSMENT ........................................................................ 12 NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES (UMB) ................................................................................ 14 DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL & AQUACULTURAL SCIENCES ........................................................................................ 14 EVALUATION OF INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH UNITS ...................................................................................................... 14 Ethology & Animal Environment .......................................................................................................... 14 NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES (UMB) ................................................................................ 16 DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY & NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ........................................................................ 16 EVALUATION OF INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH UNITS ...................................................................................................... 17 Ecology ................................................................................................................................................. 17 Forest Resources .................................................................................................................................. 17 NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES (UMB) ................................................................................ 19 DEPARTMENT OF PLANT & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES ......................................................................................... 19 EVALUATION OF INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH UNITS ...................................................................................................... 20 Genetics, Plant Biology & Plant Production ......................................................................................... 20 UMB Nitrogen Group ........................................................................................................................... 20 NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (NTNU) ............................................................. 22 DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY ..................................................................................................................... 22 EVALUATION OF INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH UNITS ...................................................................................................... 23 Centre of Conservation Biology ............................................................................................................ 23 Behaviour, Evolution & Life History ...................................................................................................... 23 Marine Science ..................................................................................................................................... 24 Plant Ecology & Physiology .................................................................................................................. 25 NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (NTNU) ......................................................... 26 MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY, SECTION OF NATURAL HISTORY ............................. 26 EVALUATION OF INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH UNITS ...................................................................................................... 27 Systematics & Evolution ....................................................................................................................... 27 Conservation Biology ........................................................................................................................... 27 UNIVERSITY OF AGDER ........................................................................................................................... 29 DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCES..................................................................................................... 29 EVALUATION OF INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH UNITS ...................................................................................................... 29 Functional Ecology ............................................................................................................................... 29 UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN .......................................................................................................................... 31 DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY .................................................................................................................... 31 EVALUATION OF INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH UNITS ...................................................................................................... 32 Ecological & Environmental Change .................................................................................................... 32 1 Evaluation of biology, medicine and health research in Norway (2011) Behavioural & Evolutionary Ecology .................................................................................................... 32 Microbiology ........................................................................................................................................ 33 Fisheries Ecology & Aquaculture .......................................................................................................... 34 Modelling & Evolutionary Fisheries ...................................................................................................... 35 Marine Biodiversity .............................................................................................................................. 36 UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN.......................................................................................................................... 37 BERGEN MUSEUM NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS ............................................................................................ 37 EVALUATION OF INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH UNITS ...................................................................................................... 38 Biosystematic Research Group (BRG) ................................................................................................... 38 Phylogenetics, Systematics & Evolution (FSE) ...................................................................................... 38 Palaeoenvironmental Research Group (PALAE) ................................................................................... 39 UNIVERSITY OF NORDLAND .................................................................................................................... 40 FACULTY OF BIOSCIENCES & AQUACULTURE ........................................................................................................ 40 EVALUATION OF INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH UNITS ...................................................................................................... 41 Aquatic Animal Health ......................................................................................................................... 41 Reproduction Biology Group ................................................................................................................ 42 Marine Genomics Group ...................................................................................................................... 42 Marine Ecology..................................................................................................................................... 43 Seafood Quality ...................................................................................................................................