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New hit for COAT's lesser white-fronted goose forecast

New hit for COAT's lesser white-fronted goose forecast

3. November 2025 COAT Finnmark and Birdlife Norway have had a fruitful research collaboration for several years on the factors that control the population development of the critically endangered lesser white-fronted goose in Finnmark. Since 2024, we have used new knowledge about the close connection between the small rodent population cycle and the goose's reproductive success to make model-based...

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Successful meeting on collaboration between COAT and GEM in Roskilde

Successful meeting on collaboration between COAT and GEM in Roskilde

22. October 2025 From October 8–10, a delegation from COAT met with colleagues at the Department of Ecoscience (ECOS), Aarhus University (Campus Roskilde), to discuss opportunities for a formalized collaboration between COAT and Greenland Ecological Monitoring (GEM). The meeting identified several highly relevant topics and shared challenges that COAT and GEM/Zackenberg should collaborate on—both...

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What is the relationship between remote-sensed imagery of tundra vegetation and field-based vascular plant biomass and goose disturbance?

What is the relationship between remote-sensed imagery of tundra vegetation and field-based vascular plant biomass and goose disturbance?

5. May 2025 Tundra vegetation in Svalbard is monitored by field measurements and drone and satellite-based remote sensing imagery. In this study, COAT researchers investigated how the remote-sensed vegetation index, NDVI, relates to field-based plant biomass and goose grubbing disturbances. The researchers found differences in the relationships between vegetation index and field-based biomass between...

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COAT aims to give robust documentation and predictions on climate change impacts on biodiversity, natural resources and ecosystem processes in the Norwegian Arctic, as a basis for management interventions and adaptations.