Pollen analysis; Quantitative reconstructions; Pollen deposition - vegetation relationships; Cultural landscape development; Agricultural history; Use of plants through time

I teach in the following courses:

BIO 250 Palaeoecology

BIO260 Nordic cultural landscapes

ARK101/102/103/104 Archaeology courses - Introductory lectures about botany and archaeology

Interview

• Måren, Inger Elisabeth; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2024). En tapt sak? Uerstattelige kultur- og naturverdier står i fare for ødeleggelse. (external link)
• Måren, Inger Elisabeth; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2024). En tapt sak? Uerstattelige kultur- og naturverdier står i fare for ødeleggelse. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Lødøen, Trond; Nilsson, Björn (2024). Skal fremtidige generasjoner få oppleve «Naturens kolossalmuseum for helleristninger» slik vi gjør i dag?. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2018). Fimbulvinteren er ikke en myte. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2008). Blikk inn i en fremmed mikroverden. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2008). Enorme pollen. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2008). Blomstens mannegener. (external link)
• Svendsen, Njord V.; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2007). Pasjon for pollen. (external link)

Lecture

• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2024). Museum + UH-sektor = ?. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2023). Pollenanalysen for 75 år siden og pollenanalysen i dag. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2019). Pollenanalyse - en spesialistdisiplin innen arkeologi, men også et eget fagfelt med sin egen spesialisering . (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Overland, Anette (2019). Innmark og utmark på Ørlandet I jernalder og middelalder.. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2017). Forskning knyttet til agrarnettverket (og utmarksnettverket) – paleobotanikk UM/UiB.. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2016). Pollen analysis and cultural landscape development in western Norway. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2015). Tverrvitenskap og Nyset-Steggje. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2014). Palaeobotany and archaeology - examples on interdisciplinary (research) projects . (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2014). Pollen analysis and archaeology - is there a potential for interdisciplinary research? . (external link)

Popular scientific lecture

• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2024). Framveksten av dei matproduserande systema i Noreg . (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Mehl, Ingvild Kristine; Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve (2023). Mat, utvikling av jordbruket og planterester vi finner på arkeologiske utgravinger.. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2019). Pollen forteller - om vegetasjonshistorie og honning. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2017). Mat i middelalderen - hva vet vi fra botaniske undersøkelser?. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Stene, Kathrine (2016). Pollen forteller. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2014). Menneskenes endring av vegetasjon og landskap gjennom tid – pollen forteller historie. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2012). Middelalderens Veisan (dagens Koengen) – en kilde til byens eldste historie. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Andersen, Gidske L.; Sugita, Shinya (2009). Pollen productivity estimates from western Norway based on surface samples from lakes. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2009). Pollen - så lite - så stort. Utstilling ved De naturhistoriske samlinger, Bergen Museum, UiB. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2004). Pollenanalyse og arkeologi. (external link)

Academic lecture

• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2024). Vegetation changes in western Norway – related to climate, agricultural adaption or other human activity? . (external link)
• Mehl, Ingvild Kristine; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2022). Linpollen - ei historie om lindyrking. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Stene, Kathrine (2019). Utilization of mountainous areas in Flåm, Western Norway, in the Iron Age. (external link)
• Bergsvik, Knut Andreas; Darmark, Kim; Aksdal, Jostein et al. (2019). Neolithic transformations in western Norway. (external link)
• Bergsvik, Knut Andreas; Hjelle, Kari Loe; Zinsli, Camilla et al. (2019). Småskala jordbruk i Neolittisk tid på Vestlandet - en arkeologisk og botanisk analyse. (external link)
• Nesset, Therese; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2019). Subsistence strategies in western Norway. Examples from two deserted medieval farms. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2018). Medieval Bergen: consumption based on local resources and foreign trade . (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2018). Land-cover reconstructions: new possibilities for quantificaton of big pollen data and identification of pre-agricultural vegetation disturbances . (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Stene, Kathrine (2018). Utilization of mountainous areas in the Iron Age – the potential of land-cover reconstructions . (external link)
• Jørgensen, Christian; Goksøyr, Anders; Hjelle, Kari Loe et al. (2017). Exams as learning arena: A criterion-based system for justified marking, student feedback, and enhanced constructive alignment. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2017). The introduction of agriculture in western Norway – cultivation prior to the Late Neolithic?. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2017). Variasjoner i tredekke de siste 6000 år - fra Lista til Hordaland.. (external link)
• Bergsvik, Knut Andreas; Olsen, Asle Bruen; Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve et al. (2017). The slow neolithization: a case-study from Western Norway. (external link)
• Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2016). Agriculture and husbandry in western Norway - the potential found in different deposits. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2016). Land cover reconstructions in Norway – and some other results showing the application of pollen analysis in relation to archaeology and conservation issues. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2016). Vegetation history at Ørlandet. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Prøsch-Danielsen, Lisbeth; Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve et al. (2016). New insights into development of agriculture along the coast of Norway based on past land cover changes. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2016). Pollen-based reconstruction of past vegetation cover; Small scale spatial and temporal vegetation patterns caused by human activity. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2016). Pollen analysis and archaeology - status and challenges. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Lødøen, Trond; Mehl, Ingvild Kristine et al. (2016). Human induced land-cover changes in western Norway. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2015). From forest to open landscape - human impact on nature at the coast of western Norway. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2015). Human impact on vegetation through time - pollen analysis, landscape changes and exploitation of outfield resources. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Mehl, Ingvild Kristine; Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve (2015). Landscape transformations through time and Space; the influence of human Activity in western Norway. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2015). Validering av LRA (Landscape Reconstruction ALgorithm) i Vest-Norge. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2015). 'Joint Research' at the Norwegian University Museums – Landscape exploitation and the potential of pollen analysis. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2014). Cultural landscapes in mountains; vegetation types developed through and dependent on human activity. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2014). Erdalen – nye undersøkelser 30 år etter Breheimenundersøkelsene . (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2014). Iron Age landscapes of Western Norway - the potential in combining archaeology, pollen analysis, numerical methods and modelling approaches for identification of landscape patterns on different spatial scales. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2013). The rock shelters in relation to the surrounding landscape through time – potential in using the "Landscape Reconstruction Algorithm”. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2013). Introduksjon til workshop. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2013). Ecology and long-term land-use, palaeoecology and archaeology - the usefulness of interdisciplinary studies for knowledge-based conservation and management of cultural landscapes. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2013). Paleoøkologi, økologi og vern av landskap i endring. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2013). Landscape-scale palaeoecology: archaeological sites and pollen data. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Koff, Tiiu (2013). Helianthemum pollen representation in moss samples from calcareous meadows in Estonia. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Mehl, Ingvild Kristine (2013). Quantitative vegetation reconstructions in a topographic varied landscape of western Norway - ongoing validation of the REVEALS and LOVE models. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2013). The archaeology of western Norway: new insights from palaeoecology. (external link)
• Mehl, Ingvild Kristine; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2013). Reconstruction of past vegetation cover in the village Herand by the Hardangerfjord in western Norway. (external link)
• Mehl, Ingvild Kristine; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2013). Rekonstruksjon av vegetasjonen i ulike periodar i fjordbygda Herand i Hardanger. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2012). Sammenheng skog – åpent landskap og bruk av utmarksressurser gjennom tid. Metodiske aspekt og potensiale ved pollenanalyse. (external link)
• Mehl, Ingvild Kristine; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2012). Quantitative reconstructions of past vegetation cover; development of the cultural landscape by the Hardangerfjord of western Norway. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2011). Fra skog til åpent landskap – bruk av utmarksressurser og potensial for vegetasjonshistoriske data i utmarksnettverket. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Sugita, Shinya (2011). How does lake size variation affect relative pollen productivity estimates? Results from simulations and empirical data from Norway. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2011). Erdalen - connection between biodiversity, archaeology, history and palaeobiology - summary from the Bergen group. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Solem, Thyra Lise; Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve (2011). Environmental reconstructions and human/environment interactions based on pollen data from multiple archaeological sites and peat bogs. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2011). Naturvitenskapelig dokumentasjon av det eldste jordbruk/beite i Vest-Norge. (external link)
• Lødøen, Trond; Hjelle, Kari Loe; Kvamme, Mons et al. (2011). Pastures in Erdalen, Jostedalsbreen National Park - vegetation and biodiversity developed through two thousand years of management. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Larsen, Jorunn (2010). From traditional land-use to modern landscapes - evidence from pollen and diatoms in sediment samples. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Sugita, Shinya (2010). Pollen productivity estimates and relevant source area of pollen based on lake sediments - the effect of choosing different radii in ERV analysis for quantitative reconstructions. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2010). De vegetasjonshistoriske undersøkelsene i Herand - hva ønsker vi å gjøre?. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2010). Pollen productivity estimates based on lakes sediments. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2009). Lyngheier, beitemarker, kornåkrer og slåttenger - perspektiver på ressursutnyttelsen i ulike vestlandsregioner gjennom tid. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2009). Perspektiver paa botanikk og arkeologi i det 21. aarhundre. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2009). Development of agriculture in western Norway – constraints and opportunities in the developer-funded research. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2009). Overflateprøver fra vann - kan de hjelpe oss i forståelsen av forhistoriske landskap?. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2009). Datasets from Norway; palaeoecology-archaeology. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2008). Pollen - så lite - så stort. Velkommen og innledning til seminaret. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2008). Cultural landscape development in western Norway revealed by analysis of plant macro remains and pollen from archaeological sites. (external link)
• Heinzel, Chad; Kolb, Mchael; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2008). Holocene environmental variability, the rise, and fall of an Elymian Polity (Western Sicily). (external link)
• Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2008). NPP,s in prehistoric contexts of Western Norway. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve; Andersen, Gidske Leknæs (2008). Landscape and agricultural development in Sogndal, Western Norway, revealed through pollen and macrofossil analysis, modern analogues and modelling approaches. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve (2007). Relationships between human culture and environment along the coast of western Norway through time. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2007). Agricultural establishment and development of heathlands: A history of west Norwegian management. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2007). Fra skog til åpent kulturlandskap –pollenanalytiske undersøkelser i Ormen Lange prosjektet. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2006). Planterester i jord, metoder og erfaringer. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2006). Regionalisering og ressursutnyttelse. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2006). Cultural landscapes of western Norway - quantitative reconstructions using modern surface samples and modelling/simulations. (external link)
• Caseldine, Chris; Fyfe, Ralph; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2006). Virtualisation/Visualisation: the Role of the Modelling Approach. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2006). Reconstruction of cultural landscapes of western Norway: possibilities today and work in progress. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2005). The introduction of agriculture to western Norway. (external link)
• Caseldine, Chris; Hjelle, Kari Loe; Fyfe, Ralph (2005). Pollen modelling, palaeoecology and archaeology - virtualisation and/or visualisation of the past?. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2005). Introduction and early development of agriculture in western Norway. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Hufthammer, Anne Karin; Bergsvik, Knut Andreas (2004). Hesitating hunters: the introduction of agriculture in western Norway. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2004). Menneskets endring av vegetasjon og landskap i Hardanger - pollenanalysens potensial for rekonstruksjon av fortidens landskap. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2004). Quantitative reconstruction of past vegetation by the earlier monastery of Selja, western Norway. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2003). The Hansa-network project and plant material from Norway. (external link)
• Gaillard, Marie-José; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2003). Methodological aspects of landscape reconstructions inferred from fossil pollen data. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2003). Pollen productivity estimates (PPE) from western Norway, relevant source area of pollen (RSAP) and landscape reconstructions - work in progress and plans for the future. (external link)
• Broström, Anna; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2003). Pollen productivity estimates (PPE) from Norway and Sweden - extended comparison of existing data. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2002). Pollenanalyse - arkeologiens hjelpevitenskap - eller omvendt?. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2002). Vegetation and settlement development in Western Norway from the Mesolithic traced by pollen analysis from bogs and occupation sites. (external link)
• Bjune, Anne Elisabeth; Hjelle, Kari Loe; Overland, Anette (2002). "Simulation of the vegetation in relation to prehistoric occupation sites". (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2002). Modern pollen assemblages in moss polsters from mown and grazed vegetation in Western Norway. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2001). Var Bergen et tettsted i vikingtid? Resultat fra senere års pollenanalytiske undersøkelser. (external link)
• Moe, Dagfinn; Hjelle, Kari Loe (1999). Mesolithic human adaption to changing alpine/subalpine vegetation in the Central and Eastern Alps, based on a vegetation historical study from Val Febbraro, Spluga Valley (Italy). (external link)
• Bergsvik, Knut Andreas; Hjelle, Kari Loe (1961). Coastal demography in stone age western Norway. A cross-disciplinary approach. (external link)

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

• Overland, Anette; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2024). Late Holocene Vegetation Development in Vinjeøra and the Valsøyfjord Region. (external link)
• Nesset, Therese; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2022). Settlement and subsistence strategies in western Norway: examples from two deserted medieval farms. (external link)
• Bergsvik, Knut Andreas; Hjelle, Kari Loe; Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve et al. (2020). Low-level agriculture in Neolithic western Norway. (external link)
• Overland, Anette; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2019). Vegetation development at Ørland, and in the region, from 260 BC to the present. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Kvamme, Mons (2018). Environmental Management with Livestock. (external link)
• Prøsch-Danielsen, Lisbeth; Hjelle, Kari Loe; Soltvedt, Eli-Christine (2016). Potensial and recommendations: Agrarian botanical data, western Norway. (external link)
• Austrheim, Gunnar; Hjelle, Kari Loe; Sjøgren, Per Johan E et al. (2015). Forvaltning av et mangfoldig fjellandskap i stadig endring. (external link)
• Austrheim, Gunnar; Hjelle, Kari Loe; Sjøgren, Per Johan E et al. (2015). Arealbruk og landskapsendringer i fjellet - en introduksjon til bokas formål. (external link)
• Austrheim, Gunnar; Kirchhefer, Andreas; Hjelle, Kari Loe et al. (2015). Hvordan studere arealbruk og landskapsendringer? Presentasjon av studieområder og arbeidsmetoder. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2015). Open landscapes and the use of outfield Resources through time - methodological aspects and potential of pollen analysis. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Lødøen, Trond; Natlandsmyr, Brith et al. (2015). Erdalen og Sunndalen – bruk av utmarksressurser gjennom mer enn to tusen år. (external link)
• Sjøgren, Per Johan E; Austrheim, Gunnar; Stene, Kathrine et al. (2015). Fjellets kulturlandskapshistorie. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2012). Naturvitenskapelig dokumentasjon av det eldste jordbruk/beite i Vest-Norge. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Lødøen, Trond (2010). Activity, settlement and vegetation in prehistoric times. (external link)
• Bjelland, Torbjørg; Hjelle, Kari Loe; Skaar, Endre et al. (2010). Degradation and remedial measures. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2009). Havraa - eine traditionelle landliche Siedlung im Fjordgebiet Westnorwegens. (external link)
• Gaillard, Marie-José; Dutoit, Terry; Hjelle, Kari Loe et al. (2009). Kulturlandschaften Europas: Ursprung und Entwicklung. (external link)
• Moe, Dagfinn; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2009). Alpine Wege und Weiden in der Hardangerwidda im mittleren Sudnorwegen. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Solem, Thyra (2008). Botaniske undersøkelser Ormen Lange Nyhamna. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2008). Frå skog til ope kulturlandskap. Pollenanalyse fortel vegetasjonshistorie. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2008). Pollen - vår viktigaste kjelde til vegetasjonen i fortida. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Solem, Thyra Lise (2008). Botaniske undersøkelser Ormen Lange Nyhamna. (external link)
• Overland, Anette; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2007). Agrare kulturminner i utmark - pollenanalyse i tilknytning til rydningsrøysfelt. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve (2007). Relationships between human culture and environment along the coast of western Norway through time. (external link)
• Fyfe, Ralph; Caseldine, Chris; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2007). Modelling 'landscapes' from pollen data: opportunities and limitations. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2007). Pollenanalyser av jordprofiler fra Indre Matre, Kvinnherad. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2007). Agricultural establishment and development of heathlands: A history of west Norwegian management. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2007). Foreign trade and local production - plant remains from medieval times in Norway. (external link)
• Karg, Sabine; Alsleben, Almuth; Badura, Monika et al. (2007). Synthesis and a mission for the future. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Solem, Thyra (2007). Fra skog til åpent kulturlandskap på Nyhamna. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2006). Ferdsel langs slepene i forhistorisk tid. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2005). Pollenanalyse - en nødvendig metode for å forstå jernalderens jordbrukslandskap. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Overland, Anette (2005). Vegetasjonshistoriske undersøkelser i forbindelse med Ormen Lange prosjektet - Helland og Baraldsnes i Haram kommune, Møre og Romsdal. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Overland, Anette (2005). Naturvitenskapelige undersøkelser i forbindelse med Ormen Lange prosjektet - Stavneset i Averøy kommune, Møre og Romsdal. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Bjune, Anne Elisabeth; Overland, Anette (2005). Vegetasjonshistoriske undersøkelser i forbindelse med Ormen Lange-prosjektet, Gossen, Aukra kommune, Møre og Romsdal. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2004). Pollen analytical investigations in the Scandinavian-Sicilian Archaeological Project (SSAP) 1999-2000. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2004). The Scandinavian-Sicilian Archaeological Project (SSAP): Palynological investigations 1998. (external link)
• Overland, Anette; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2004). Agrare kultuminner i utmark - pollenanalyse i tilknytning til rydningsrøysfelt. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2001). Eksisterte det et tettsted i Bergen i vikingtiden? Bosetningsutvikling basert på botanisk materiale. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (1994). Pollenanalyse. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (1992). Pollenanalytiske undersøkelser innenfor boplassen i Kotedalen. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Hufthammer, Anne Karin; Kaland, Peter Emil et al. (1992). Utnytting av naturressursene i Kotedalen - et tverrvitenskapelig sammendrag. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (1992). Pollenanalytiske undersøkelser. (external link)

Academic article

• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2023). The medieval landscapes of Bergen. Enhanced knowledge through vegetation reconstructions and pollen data from multiple sites. (external link)
• Serge, M.A.; Mazier, F.; Fyfe, R. et al. (2023). Testing the Effect of Relative Pollen Productivity on the REVEALS Model: A Validated Reconstruction of Europe-Wide Holocene Vegetation. (external link)
• Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve; Mørkved, Pål Tore; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2023). Were prehistoric cereal fields in western Norway manured? Evidence from stable isotope values (δ¹⁵N) of charred modern and fossil cereals. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Overland, Anette; Gran, Magnar Mojaren et al. (2022). Two thousand years of Landscape—Human interactions at a coastal peninsula in Norway revealed through pollen analysis, shoreline reconstruction, and radiocarbon dates from archaeological sites. (external link)
• Bergsvik, Knut Andreas; Darmark, Kim; Hjelle, Kari Loe et al. (2021). Demographic developments in Stone Age coastal western Norway by proxy of radiocarbon dates, stray finds and palynological data. (external link)
• Davis, B.A.S.; Chevalier, M.; Sommer, P. et al. (2020). The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2. (external link)
• Bondevik, Stein; Lødøen, Trond; Tøssebro, Christine et al. (2019). Between winter storm surges - Human occupation on a growing Mid-Holocene transgression maximum (Tapes) beach ridge at Longva, Western Norway. (external link)
• Fjordheim, Kristine; Moen, Asbjørn; Hjelle, Kari Loe et al. (2018). Modern pollen–vegetation relationships in traditionally mown and unmanaged boreal rich-fen communities in central Norway. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve; Prøsch-Danielsen, Lisbeth et al. (2018). Long-term changes in regional vegetation cover along the west coast of southern Norway: The importance of human impact. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Lødøen, Trond (2017). Dating of rock art and the effect of human activity on vegetation: The complementary use of archaeological and scientific methods. (external link)
• Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2017). Prehistoric agriculture in western Norway – Evidence for shifting and permanent cultivation based on botanical investigations from archaeological sites. (external link)
• Natlandsmyr, Brith; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2016). Long-term vegetation dynamics and land-use history: Providing a baseline for conservation strategies in protected Alnus glutinosa swamp woodlands. (external link)
• Mehl, Ingvild Kristine; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2016). From deciduous forest to open landscape: application of new approaches to help understand cultural landscape development in western Norway. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Mehl, Ingvild Kristine; Sugita, Shinya et al. (2015). From pollen percentage to vegetation cover – evaluation of the Landscape Reconstruction Algorithm in western Norway. (external link)
• Mehl, Ingvild Kristine; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2015). From pollen percentage to regional vegetation cover - A new insight into cultural landscape development in western Norway. (external link)
• Mehl, Ingvild Kristine; Overland, Anette; Berge, Jan et al. (2015). Cultural landscape development on a west-east gradient in western Norway - potential of the Landscape Reconstruction Algorithm (LRA). (external link)
• Overland, Anette; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2013). Pollen analysis in the context of clearance cairns from boreal forests - a reflection of past cultivation and pastoral farming. (external link)
• Bunting, M. Jane; Farrell, Michelle; Broström, Anna et al. (2013). Palynological perspectives on vegetation survey: a critical step for model-based reconstruction of Quaternary land cover. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Solem, Thyra Lise; Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve et al. (2012). Human impact and landscape utilization from the Mesolithic to medieval time traced by high spatial resolution pollen analysis and numerical methods. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Sugita, Shinya (2012). Estimating pollen productivity and relevant source area of pollen using lake sediments in Norway: How does lake size variation affect the estimates?. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Kaland, Sigrid Hillern H; Kvamme, Mons et al. (2012). Ecology and long-term land-use, palaeoecology and archaeology - the usefulness of interdisciplinary studies for knowledge-based conservation and management of cultural landscapes. (external link)
• Gaillard, Marie-José; Sugita, Shinya; Mazier, Florence et al. (2010). Holocene land-cover reconstructions for studies on land cover-climate feedbacks. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve; Overland, Anette (2010). Heathland development and relationship between humans and environment along the coast of western Norway through time. (external link)
• Bunting, M. Jane; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2010). Effect of vegetation data collection strategies on estimates of relevant source area of pollen (RSAP) and relative pollen productivity estimates (relative PPE) for non-arboreal taxa. (external link)
• Stančikaitė , Miglė ; Daugnora, Linas; Hjelle, Kari Loe et al. (2009). The environment of the Neolithic archaeological sites in Šventoji, Western Lithuania. (external link)
• Overland, Anette; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2009). From forest to open pastures and fields: cultural landscape development in western Norway inferred from two pollen records representing different spatial scales of vegetation. (external link)
• Casseldine, C.; Fyfe, Ralph; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2008). Pollen modelling, palaeoecology and archaeology: virtualisation and/or visualisation of the past?. (external link)
• Gaillard, Marie-José; Sugita, Shinya; Bunting, M. Jane et al. (2008). The use of modelling and simulation approach in reconstructing past landscapes from fossil pollen data: a review and results from the POLLANDCAL network. (external link)
• Broström, Anna; Nielsen, Anne Birgitte; Gaillard, Marie-José et al. (2008). Pollen productivity estimates of key European plant taxa for quantitative reconstruction of past vegetation: a review. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Hufthammer, Anne Karin; Bergsvik, Knut Andreas (2006). Hesitant hunters: a review of the introduction of agriculture in western Norway. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Moe, Dagfinn (2003). Pollen analysis used as a technic in interdisciplinary projects. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2002). Palaeobotanical investigations in Bergen, Norway - development of an urban settlement and the use of plants in the medieval town. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (1999). Modern pollen assemblages from mown and grazed vegetation types in western Norway. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (1999). Use of modern pollen samples and estimated pollen representation factors as aids in the interpretation of cultural activity in local pollen diagrams. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (1999). Kan vi påvise tidligere tiders slåtte- og beitevegetasjon i pollendiagram?. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (1999). Kan vi påvise tidligere tiders slåtte- og beitevegetasjon i pollendiagram?. (external link)
• Moe, Dagfinn; Hjelle, Kari Loe (1999). Mesolithic human adaption to changing alpine/subalpine vegetation in the central and eastern Alps, based on a vegetational historical study from Val Febbraro, Spluga Valley (Italy). (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (1998). The use of on-site pollen analysis, local pollen diagrams and modern pollen samples in investigations of cultural activity. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (1998). Herb pollen representation in surface moss samples from mown meadows and pastures in western Norway. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (1998). Herb pollen representation in surface moss sample from mown meadows and pastures in western Norway. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (1997). Relationships between pollen and plants in human-influenced vegetation types using presence-absence data in western Norway. (external link)
• Moe, D.; Engan, A.; Hjelle, Kari Loe et al. (1995). Richerche paleoamientali in alta valle Splugo: rapporto Bergen 1995. I Preistoria e paleoambienti della Valchieavenna: richercha 1995. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Kaland, Peter Emil (1994). Forhistoriske og historiske kulturlandskap i tilknytning til vernet bygningsmiljø på Havrå, Osterøy. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Kaland, Peter Emil (1992). Pollenanalytiske undersøkelser i Kotedalen. (external link)

Report

• Mehl, Ingvild Kristine; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2023). Paleobotaniske analyser fra Longva, fv. 659 Nordøyvegen. Longva, Haram kommune, Møre og Romsdal. Rapportnr. 1 - 2023 fra avdeling for naturhistorie, Universitetsmuseet, UiB.. (external link)
• Mehl, Ingvild Kristine; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2022). Paleobotaniske analyser fra Austnes lok. 19, fv. 659, Nordøyvegen. Austnes på Haramsøya, Haram kommune, Møre og Romsdal. Rapportnr. 29 - 2022 fra avdeling for naturhistorie, Universitetsmuseet, UiB.. (external link)
• Overland, Anette; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2017). Pollenanalyser i tilknytning til de arkeologiske undersøkelsene ved Ørland kampflybase, Vik 70/1, Ørland kommune, Sør-Trøndelag. Paleobotanisk rapport 9-2017. Avdeling for naturhistorie, Universitetsmuseet, Universitetet i Bergen . (external link)
• Overland, Anette; Mehl, Ingvild Kristine; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2016). Paleobotaniske analyser fra dyrkingsprofiler og ardspor på Henjum, Leikanger kommune, Sogn og Fjordane. Paleobotanisk rapport 7-2016. Avdeling for naturhistorie, Universitetsmuseet, Universitetet i Bergen. (external link)
• Overland, Anette; Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2014). Vegetasjonshistorie ved E 16 Filefjell, Lærdal kommune, Sogn og Fjordane. Paleobotanisk rapport 16-2014.. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve (2014). Pollenanalyse fra lok. 1, Eggesbønes gbnr. 38/1, Herøy kommune, Møre og Romsdal . (external link)
• Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2013). Makrofossilanalyser av prøver fra dyrkingslag, Osnes gnr. 7, bnr. 775/776, Ulstein kommune, Møre og Romsdal . (external link)
• Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2011). Botaniske analyser fra dyrkningsprofil ved Giske kirke. Giske kommune, Møre og Romsdal. . (external link)
• Overland, Anette; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2008). Fremre Øygarden (gbnr. 49/2, Lærdal – analyser av pollenprøver fra dyrkningsprofiler. Paleobotanisk rapport 1-2008.. (external link)
• Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2008). E16 gjennom Lærdal, Sogn og Fjordane – samlerapport botaniske undersøkelser 2000-2005 . (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve (2007). Vegetasjonshistoriske undersøkelser ved Indre Henden, Hennebygda, Eid, Sogn og Fjordane. . (external link)
• Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2007). Pollenanalytiske undersøkelser av jordprofiler fra Flatebø, Kvinnherad, Hordaland . (external link)
• Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2006). Åse i Ålesund kommune - analyser av makrofossilprøver fra stolpehull og dyrkingslag . (external link)
• Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2006). Paleobotanisk rapport. Oppsal, gnr.34, Fusa kommune, Hordaland. . (external link)
• Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2005). Botaniske analyser av prøver fra Austrheim, gbnr.69/5, Gloppen kommune, Sogn og Fjordane . (external link)
• Overland, Anette; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2003). Vegetasjonshistoriske undersøkelser på Sørheimsmoen, gnr. 36/10, Etne Kommune; fra skog til åpent kulturlandskap. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (1995). Boplassavsetninger og pollenanalyse, et eksempel fra Kotedalen i Hordaland. (external link)

Programme participation

• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Anfinset, Nils (2023). Stengingen av Universitets­museet var helt nødvendig. (external link)

Popular scientific article

• Bergsvik, Knut Andreas; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2020). Uventede funn med konsekvenser - småskalajordbruk i yngre steinalder på Vestlandet. (external link)
• Mehl, Ingvild Kristine; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2020). Linpollen - ei historie om lindyrking. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2019). Vegetasjonshistorie, tverrvitskap og naturmangfald. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2018). Hva forteller plantemateriale i byens middelalderlag?. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2011). Gamle lyngheier og lite skog aust på Vigra. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2010). Vegetasjonen og landskapet på Vigra i tidligere tider. Starten på en pollenanalytisk undersøkelse. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2009). Pollen - så lite - så stort. (external link)
• Berge, Jan; Hjelle, Kari Loe; Hjelmtveit, Solfrid et al. (2004). Kreta - ei reise i det mediterrane kulturlandskapet. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Hommedal, Alf Tore (2002). Holmen og Veisan - ei kjelde til Bergen si tidlege historie. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Berge, Jan (2002). Pollen - et mangfold av former og mønster. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2002). Pollenanalytiske undersøkelser fra lok. 17 Havnen og lok. 1 Hakedal, Skatestraumen. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2000). Eksisterte det et tettsted i Bergen i vikingetiden? Bosetningsutvikling basert på botaniskk materiale. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2000). Eksisterte det et tettsted i Bergen i vikingetiden? Bosetningsutvikling basert på botaniskk materiale. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Schjølberg, Ellen (1999). Planterester fra Vågsbunnen i Bergen. (external link)
• Bjørgo, Tore; Hjelle, Kari Loe (1996). En forhistorisk ødegård i Selje. (external link)

Reader opinion piece

• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Krzywinski, Knut (2020). Bergen kunne ha feiret sine 1000 år for lenge siden. (external link)

Popular scientific book

• Høyer, Jo; Tandberg, Anne Helene Solberg; Hjelle, Kari Loe et al. (2020). Årbok for Universitetsmuseet 2020. (external link)

Museum exhibition

• Hufthammer, Anne Karin; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2019). Pollen og bein. Pollen and Bones. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2019). Pollen og bein /Pollen and Bones. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2010). Pollen - så lite - så stort. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2008). Pollen - så lite - så stort Pollen - so small - so great. (external link)

Poster

• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Koff, Tiiu (2018). Small scale studies of pollen Productivity based on moss samples from calcareous Meadows in Estonia - special attention to Helianthemum. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Hufthammer, Anne Karin (2015). Trade and Food - Animals and Plants. (external link)
• Mehl, Ingvild Kristine; Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve; Overland, Anette et al. (2015). Resource Exploitation and Landscape Changes Pollen-based land cover reconstructions reflect environment and land-use in time and space. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2015). Marine deposits – the key to understand the development of the medieval town Bergen, western Norway. (external link)
• Mehl, Ingvild Kristine; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2010). Development of cultural landscapes in Hardangerfjorden, western Norway. (external link)
• Bunting, M. Jane; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2005). Effect of vegetation data collection strategies on estimates of RSAP and RPP for non-arboreal taxa. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Natlandsmyr, Brith (2005). Cultural landscape reconstructions - surface samples from lakes and reconstruction of an Alnus glutinosa woodland. (external link)
• Bunting, M.J.; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2004). Effect of different vegetation data collection strategies on estimates of RSAP adn RPP for non-arboreal taxa. (external link)

Abstract

• Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2016). Agriculture and husbandry in western Norway - the potential found in different deposits. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Lødøen, Trond; Mehl, Ingvild Kristine et al. (2016). Human induced land-cover changes in western Norway. (external link)
• Sasaki, Naoko; Takahara, Hikaru; Hayashi, Ryoma et al. (2016). REVEALS-based reconstruction of the past regional vegetation in Tango peninsula, Japan: Use of pollen Productivity estmates independent of dispersal models. (external link)
• Takahara, Hikaru; Wada, Shu; Miyake, Yuhei et al. (2016). Pollen Productivity estimates in Japan: use of flower traps for major Pinaceae trees and Direct harvesting of flowers for several herbaceous plants. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Prøsch-Danielsen, Lisbeth; Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve et al. (2016). New insights into development of agriculture along the coast of Norway based on past land cover changes. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Mehl, Ingvild Kristine (2012). Regional vegetation cover reconstructions using the REVEALS model; a comparison of estimates using pollen records from one large and several small lakes. (external link)
• Mehl, Ingvild Kristine; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2012). Quantitative reconstructions of past vegetation cover; development of the cultural landscape by the Hardangerfjord of western Norway. (external link)
• Broström, Anna; Nielsen, Anne-Birgitte; Gaillard, Marie-José et al. (2008). Pollen productivity estimates of key European plant taxa for quantitative reconstruction of past vegetation - a review. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Halvorsen, Lene Synnøve; Andersen, Gidske Leknæs (2008). Landscape and agricultural development in Sogndal, Western Norway, revealed through pollen and macrofossil analysis, modern analogues and modelling approaches. (external link)

Non-fiction book

• Indrelid, Svein; Hjelle, Kari Loe; Stene, Kathrine et al. (2015). Exploitation of outfield resources - Joint Research at the University Museums of Norway. (external link)
• Komber, J.; Dunlop, A. R.; Sigurdsson, J. V. et al. (1994). Inberetningen om utgravningene i BRM 245 Domkirkegaten 6, 1 987. (external link)
• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Fasteland, Arthur; Hufthammer, Anne Karin et al. (1992). Kotedalen-en boplass gjennom 5000 år. (external link)

Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

• Austrheim, Gunnar; Hjelle, Kari Loe; Sjøgren, Per Johan E et al. (2015). Fjellets kulturlandskap. Arealbruk og landskap gjennom flere tusen år. (external link)

Popular scientific chapter/article

• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Larsen, Jorunn (2013). Moderne gårdsdrift betyr gjødsling av åker og eng, dyrking av monokulturer, ugrasbekjemping og maskinell høsting. Dette gir andre plantesamfunn enn blomsterengene og åkrene i det tradisjonelle jordbruket. (external link)
• Larsen, Jorunn; Hjelle, Kari Loe (2013). Moderne gårdsdrift betyr gjødsling av åker og eng, dyrking av monokulturer, ugrasbekjemping og maskinell høsting. Hjelle K. og Larsen L. i Nord, S., Solhøy, T. & Helland-Hansen, W. Ei halvøy i Hardanger. Natur- og kulturforteljingar frå Neshalvøya. Nord 4, Kvinnherad 2013. (external link)

Article in business/trade/industry journal

• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2013). Pollen i arkeologi. (external link)

Encyclopedia article

• Hjelle, Kari Loe; Sugita, Shinya (2011). How does lake size variation affect relative pollen productivity estimates? Results from simulations and empirical data from Norway. (external link)

Other

• Hjelle, Kari Loe (2002). Pollenanalytiske undersøkelser fra lok. 17 Havnen og lok. 1 Haukedal, Skatestraumen. (external link)

Doctoral dissertation

• Hjelle, Kari Loe (1998). Relationships between modern pollen deposition and the vegetation in mown and grazed communities in western Norway and their application to the interpretation of past cultural activity. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Three recent publications:

Hjelle, K.L., Overland, A., Gran, M.M., Romundset, A., Ystgaard, I., 2022. Two thousand years of landscape - human interactions at a coastal peninsula in Norway revealed through pollen analysis, shoreling reconstruction, and radiocarbon dates from archaeological sites. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. DOI 10.3389/feco.2022.911780

Bergsvik, K.A., Darmark, K.-K., Hjelle, K.L., Aksdal, J., Aastveit, L.I., 2021. Demographic developments in Stone Age coastal western Norway by proxy of radiocarbon dates, stray finds and palynological data. Quaternary Science Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106898

Hjelle, K.L., Halvorsen, L.S., Prøsch-Danielsen, L., Sugita, S., Paus, A., Kaland, P.E., Mehl, I.K., Overland, A., Danielsen, R., Høeg, H.I. & Midtbø, I. 2018. Long-term changes in regional vegetation cover along the west coast of southern Norway: the importance of human impact. Journal of Vegetation Science 29, 404–415. http://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12626

 

Publications from my PhD and MSc students:

Halvorsen, L.S., Mørkved, P.T. & Hjelle, K.L. 2023. Were prehistoric cereal fields in western Norway manured? Evidence from stable isotope values (δ¹⁵N) of charred modern and fossil cereals. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 32(6), 583–596. DOI:10.1007/s00334-023-00923-3

Fjordheim, K., Moen, A., Hjelle, K.L., Bjune, A.E. & Birks, H. 2018. Modern pollen-vegetation relationships in traditionally mown and unmanaged boreal rich-fen communities in central Norway. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 251, 14–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2018.01.001

Halvorsen, L.S. & Hjelle, K.L. 2017. Prehistoric agriculture in western Norway – evidence for shifting and permanent cultivation based on botanical investigations from archaeological sites. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 13, 682–696. doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.05.011

Mehl, I.K. & Hjelle, K.L. 2016. From deciduous forest to open landscape – application of new approaches to understand cultural landscape development in western Norway. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 25(2), 153–176. doi:10.1007/s00334-015-0539-6

Natlandsmyr, B. & Hjelle, K.L. 2016. Long-term vegetation dynamics and land-use history: Providing a baseline for conservation strategies in protected Alnus glutinosa swamp woodlands. Forest Ecology and Management 372, 78–92. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2016.03.049

Overland, A. & Hjelle, K.L. 2009. From forest to open pastures and fields: cultural landscape development in western Norway inferred from two pollen records representing different spatial scales of vegetation. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 18, 459–476. doi:10.1007/s00334-009-0225-7

HACIER: Human, Agricultural, and Climatic impact on Ecological Rules: macroecological analysis of paleo-biological datasets (2014-2017). Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2009-2014 and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports under Project Contract no. MSMT-28477/2014, 7F14208-HACIER

DYLAN: How to manage dynamic landscapes? Management and conservation of upland Landscape Conservation Areas (LCA) in Norway (2009-2011). Reseach Council of Norway, Miljø 2015.