Research Abstract

In my empirical research, I use unique study sites that function as natural experimental sites, such (i) extensive elevation ranges, (ii) mountainous oceanic islands, and (iii) glacier-foreland.

1. Large mountains and their gradients in bioclimate are used to elucidate the mechanism that influences the richness of species. For instance, the Himalayan range has a tropical bioclimate in the lowland and glaciers at the top that mimics the latitudinal gradient from equatorial tropical to the arctic zone. I apply these large-scale temperature elevation gradients as in situ experimental sites because they are superior natural, non-manipulative, or observational experiments in which dramatic changes in climatic characteristics occur over relatively short geographic distances.
2. The experimental situation is even more ideal on discrete sample sites such as isolated oceanic islands with mountains, such as Tenerife and La Palma in the Canary Islands archipelago.
3. Glacier foreland formed during the Little Ice Age (1300-1850) sites is another natural experiment where time since exposed to air is directly linked to distance from the glacier. Here, my study focuses on primary succession and soil development to elucidate what drives the change in vegetation and the landscapes after the glacier has retreated due to climate change.

Projects: Currently, I am working on a project in Nepal that aims to identify the most effective connectivity between existing Protected areas, through Other Effective area-based Conservation Management (OECM), to support biodiversity persistence under a changing climate and in harmony with the local land use system

Another project is in a glacier foreland (Nordfjord, Norway), where we aim to elucidate the effect that certain nitrogen-fixing plants have on the overall succession and soil development —a phenomenon known as facilitation.  Two master students are part of this project.

Distribution of Cotoneaster bullatus Bois Along the Hardangerfjord, Norway. 

Recent papers:
Vetaas et al. 2025: Testing of Drivers for Plant Species Diversity Along Elevational Gradients on Seven Mountainous Islands in the Subtropics, Journal of Vegetation Science. 36 (4), e70053

Gatti, …. Vetaas & Chiarucci 2023: Analysing the distribution of strictly protected areas toward the EU2030 target. Biodiv & Conservation, 35:3157-3174 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-023-02644-5

Academic article

• Carl Beirkuhnlein; Manuel Nogales; Richard Field et al. (2023). Volcanic ash deposition as a selection mechanism towards woodiness. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas (1992). Micro-site Effects of Trees and Schrubs in Dry Savannas. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas (1990). Landscape Ecology in a European Tradition. (external link)
• Tor Halfdan Aase; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2007). Risk management by communal decision in trans-Himalayan farming: Manang valley in central Nepal. (external link)
• Michele Di Musciano; Piero Zannini; Chiara Ferrara et al. (2021). Investigating elevational gradients of species richness in a Mediterranean plant hotspot using a published flora. (external link)
• J.W. Ferry Slik; Janet Franklin; Victor Arroyo-Rodríguez et al. (2018). Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests. (external link)
• Frank Weiser; Anna Sauer; Daria Gettueva et al. (2021). Impacts of forest fire on understory species diversity in canary pine ecosystems on the island of la palma. (external link)
• Chitra Bahadur Baniya; Torstein Solhøy; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2009). Temporal changes in species diversity and composition in abandoned fields in a trans-Himalayan landscape, Nepal. (external link)
• Lila Nath Sharma; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2015). Does agroforestry conserve trees? A comparison of tree species diversity between farmland and forest in mid-hills of central Himalaya. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas; D Ferrar-Castán (2008). Patterns of woody plant species richness in the Iberian Peninsula: environmental range and spatial scale. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas (1996). En Sammenligning av det biologiske og det antropologiske nisje begrep, med utgangspunkt i Barths studier. (external link)
• Khem Raj Bhattarai; Ole Reidar Vetaas; John-Arvid Grytnes (2004). Relationship between plant species richness and biomass in an arid sub-alpine grassland of the Central Himalayas, Nepal. (external link)
• Shanti Shrestha; Bhaskar Singh Karky; Anup Gurung et al. (2012). Asessment of carbon balance in community forest in Dolakha, Nepal. (external link)
• Manuel J. Steinbauer; Richard Field; John-Arvid Grytnes et al. (2016). Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation. (external link)
• Hong Qian; Brody Sandel; Tao Deng et al. (2019). Geophysical, evolutionary and ecological processes interact to drive phylogenetic dispersion in angiosperm assemblages along the longest elevational gradient in the world. (external link)
• Kuber Prasad Bhatta; Benjamin Aubrey Robson; Madan Krishna Suwal et al. (2021). A pan-Himalayan test of predictions on plant species richness based on primary production and water-energy dynamics. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas (1992). Gradients in Field-Layer Vegetation on an Arid Misty Mountain Plateau in the Sudan. (external link)
• Tone Marie Ektvedt; Ole Reidar Vetaas; Anders Lundberg (2012). Land-cover changes during the past 50 years in the semi-arid tropical forest region of northern Peru. (external link)
• Pratikshya Kandel; Prem Sagar Chapagain; Lila Nath Sharma et al. (2016). Consumption patterns of fuelwood in rural households of Dolakha District, Nepal: reflections from community forest user groups. (external link)
• Kamal Prasad Acharya; Ole Reidar Vetaas; Harry John Betteley Birks (2011). Orchid species richness along Himalayan elevational gradients. (external link)
• Kuber Prasad Bhatta; John-Arvid Grytnes; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2018). Downhill shift of alpine plant assemblages under contemporary climate and land-use changes. (external link)
• Kuber Prasad Bhatta; Ram Prasad Chaudhary; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2012). A comparison of systematic versus stratified-random sampling design for gradient analyses: a case study in subalpine Himalaya, Nepal. (external link)
• Shishir Paudel; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2014). Effects of topography and land use on woody plant species composition and beta diversity in an arid Trans-Himalayan landscape, Nepal. (external link)
• Madan Krishna Suwal; Krishna Babu Shrestha; Laba Guragain et al. (2016). Land-use change under a warming climate facilitated upslope expansion of Himalayan silver fir (Abies spectabilis (D. Don) Spach). (external link)
• Inger Elisabeth Måren; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2007). Does Regulated Land Use Allow Regeneration of Keystone Forest Species in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Central Himalaya?. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas; Krishna Babu Shrestha; Lila Nath Sharma (2020). Changes in plant species richness after cessation of forest disturbance. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas (1997). The effect of canopy disturbance on species richness in a central Himalayan oak forest. (external link)
• Frank Weiser; Anna Walentowitz; Esther Baumann et al. (2023). Combining in-situ monitoring and remote sensing to detect spatial patterns of volcanic sulphur impact on pine needles. (external link)
• Ram Sharan Devkota; Richard Field; Ole Reidar Vetaas et al. (2020). Assessing the Potential Replacement of Laurel Forest by a Novel Ecosystem in the Steep Terrain of an Oceanic Island. (external link)
• Vincent Wilkens; Christopher Shatto; Anna Walentowitz et al. (2025). Volcanic eruption and wildfires as compounding drivers of first-year seedling establishment in Canary pine. (external link)
• Christian Einar Mong; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2006). Establishment of Pinus wallichiana on a Himalayan Glacier Foreland: Stochastic Distribution or Safe Sites?. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas (1992). Gradients in field-layer vegetation on an arid misty mountain plateau in the Sudan. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas (1994). Primary succession of plant assemblages on a glacier foreland - Bødalsbreen, southern Norway. (external link)
• Hong Qian; Michael Kessler; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2022). Pteridophyte species richness in the central Himalaya is limited by cold climate extremes at high elevations and rainfall seasonality at low elevations. (external link)
• Prakash Bhattarai; Ole Reidar Vetaas; Guang Zhao (2025). Do water–energy dynamics drive plant species richness patterns on the high alpine Tibetan plateau?. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas (1993). Spatial and temporal vegatation changes along a moisture gradient in north-eastern Sudan. (external link)
• Madan Krishna Suwal; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2017). Climatic variables determining Rhododendron sister taxa distri-butions and distributional overlaps in the Himalayas. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas; Elsir A Salih; Gerald Jurasinski (2012). Vegetation Changes in the Red Sea Hills: from mist oasis to arid shrub. (external link)
• Heidi Iren Saure; Ole Reidar Vetaas; Kristian Hassel et al. (2023). Restoring heathlands after afforestation on two islands in western Norway. (external link)
• Madan Krishna Suwal; Falk Huettmann; Ganga Ram Regmi et al. (2018). Parapatric subspecies of Macaca assamensis show a marginal overlap in their predicted potential distribution: Some elaborations for modern conservation management. (external link)
• Khem Raj Bhattarai; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2006). Can Rapoport's rule explain tree species richness along the Himalayan elevation gradient, Nepal?. (external link)
• Sailendra Dewan; Bhoj Kumar Acharya; Ole Reidar Vetaas et al. (2021). Do sub-groups of butterflies display different elevational distribution patterns in the Eastern Himalaya, India?. (external link)
• Dolores Ferrer-Castán; Jennifer Morales-Barbero; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2016). Water-energy dynamics, habitat heterogeneity, history, and broad-scale patterns of mammal diversity. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas; Keshav Prasad Paudel; Morten Christensen (2019). Principal factors controlling biodiversity along an elevation gradient: Water, energy and their interaction. (external link)
• Samuel Hoffmann; Thomas M Schmitt; Alessandro Chiarucci et al. (2018). Remote sensing of ?-diversity: Evidence from plant communities in a semi-natural system. (external link)
• Kuber Prasad Bhatta; Ram Prasad Chaudhary; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2012). A comparison of systematic versus stratified-random sampling design for gradient analyses: a case study in subalpine Himalaya, Nepal. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas (1996). En sammenligning av det biologiske og det antropologiske nisjebegrep, med utgangspunkt i Barths studier. (external link)
• Heidi Iren Saure; Vigdis Vandvik; Kristian Hassel et al. (2014). Do vascular plants and bryophytes respond differently to coniferous invasion of coastal heathlands?. (external link)
• Kuber Prasad Bhatta; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2016). Does tree canopy closure moderate the effect of climate warming on plant species composition of temperate Himalayan oak forest?. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas (1991). Micro- and Meso-Gradients in Field-Layer Vegetation on Arid Misty Mountain, Erkowit, North-Eastern Sudan. (external link)
• Idoia Biurrun; Sabina Burrascano; Iwona Dembicz et al. (2019). GrassPlot v. 2.00 – first update on the database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands. (external link)
• Tessa Bargmann; Edward Wheatcroft; Simona Imperio et al. (2019). Effects of weather and hunting on wild reindeer population dynamics in Hardangervidda National Park. (external link)
• Heidi Iren Saure; Vigdis Vandvik; Kristian Hassel et al. (2013). Effects of invasion by introduced versus native conifers on coastal heathland vegetation. (external link)
• Krishna Babu Shrestha; Inger Elisabeth Måren; Ellen Arneberg et al. (2013). Effect of anthropogenic disturbance on plant species diversity in oak forest in Nepal, central Himalaya. (external link)
• Prakash Bhattarai; Kuber Prasad Bhatta; Yang-jian Zhang et al. (2020). Microtopography driven plant species composition in alpine region: a fine-scale study from Southern Norway. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas; John-Arvid Grytnes; Kuber Prasad Bhatta et al. (2017). An intercontinental comparison of niche conservatism along a temperature gradient. (external link)
• Kuber Prasad Bhatta; Ondrej Mottl; Vivian Astrup Felde et al. (2024). Latitudinal gradients in the phylogenetic assembly of angiosperms in Asia during the Holocene. (external link)
• Lila Nath Sharma; John-Arvid Grytnes; Inger Elisabeth Måren et al. (2016). Do composition and richness of woody plants vary between gaps and closed canopy patches in subtropical forests?. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas (1997). Relationships between floristic gradients in a primary succession. (external link)
• Kuber Prasad Bhatta; Harry John Betteley Birks; John-Arvid Grytnes et al. (2018). Weighted average regression and environmental calibration as a tool for quantifying climate-driven changes in vegetation. (external link)
• Marco Cervellini; Ole Reidar Vetaas; Richard Field et al. (2020). A grid-based map for the Biogeographical Regions of Europe. (external link)
• Shumei Xiao; Jonathan M. Adams; Shufeng Li et al. (2025). Analogous environments across the tropics have similar levels of tree species alpha diversity. (external link)
• L. Mauricio Bini; Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho; Thiago F. L. V. B. Rangel et al. (2009). Coefficient shifts in geographical ecology: an empirical evaluation of spatial and non-spatial regression. (external link)
• Pia M. Eibes; Judith Eisenbacher; Carl Beierkuhnlein et al. (2021). Co-occurrence frequency in vegetation patches decreases towards the harsh edge along an arid volcanic elevational gradient^a. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas (1992). Micro-site effects of trees and shrubs in dry savanna. (external link)
• G. Alstad; Ole Reidar Vetaas (1994). The influence of Acacia tortilis stands on soilproperties in arid north-eastern Sudan. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas; Jan Håkon Vikane; Heidi Iren Saure et al. (2014). North Atlantic Islands with native and alien trees: are there differences in diversity and species-area relationships?. (external link)
• Marco Cervellini; Michele Di Musciano; Piero Zannini et al. (2021). Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas (1993). Primary succession of plant assemblages on a glacier foreland - Dødalsbreen, Southern Norway. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas (1993). Effect of spatial arrangement of environmental variables on ordination results from a disturbed humidity gradient in north-eastern Sudan. (external link)
• Krishna Babu Shrestha; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2009). The forest ecotone effect on species richness in an arid trans-Himalayan landscape of Nepal. (external link)
• Lila Nath Sharma; Lila Nath Sharma; Ole Reidar Vetaas et al. (2014). Pastoral abandonment, shrub proliferation and landscape changes: a case study from Gorkha, Nepal. (external link)
• Kamal Prasad Acharya; Ram Prasad Chaudhary; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2009). Medicinal plants of Nepal: Distribution pattern along an elevational gradient and effectiveness of existing protected areas for their conservation. (external link)
• Jan Håkon Vikane; Vigdis Vandvik; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2013). Invasion of Calluna heath by native and non-native conifers: the role of succession, disturbance and allelopathy. (external link)
• Khem Raj Bhattarai; Ole Reidar Vetaas; John-Arvid Grytnes (2004). Fern species richness along a central Himalayan elevational gradient, Nepal. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas; A. Knudsen (2004). Fragile mountain - Fragile people? Understanding the fragility in the Himalayas. (external link)
• David Kienle; Anna Walentowitz; Leyla Sungur et al. (2022). Geodiversity and biodiversity on a volcanic island: The role of scattered phonolites for plant diversity and performance. (external link)
• Kuber Prasad Bhatta; John-Arvid Grytnes; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2018). Scale sensitivity of the relationship between alpha and gamma diversity along an alpine elevation gradient in central Nepal. (external link)
• Heidi Iren Saure; Ole Reidar Vetaas; Arvid Odland et al. (2013). Restoration potential of native forests after removal of Picea abies plantations. (external link)
• Roberto Cazzolla Gatti; Piero Zannini; Gianluca Piovesan et al. (2023). Analysing the distribution of strictly protected areas toward the EU2030 target. (external link)
• D Ferrar-Castán; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2005). Pteridophyte richness, climate and topography in the Iberian Peninsula: comparing spatial and nonspatial models of richness patterns. (external link)
• Lila Nath Sharma; Ole Reidar Vetaas; Ram Prasad Chaudhary et al. (2014). Ecological consequences of land use change: Forest structure and regeneration across the forest-grassland ecotone in mountain pastures in Nepal. (external link)
• Tor Halfdan Aase; Ram P. Chaudhary; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2010). Farming flexibility and food security under climatic uncertainty: Manang, Nepal Himalaya. (external link)
• Dagmar Martina Hanz; Mirela Beloiu; Raja Wipfler et al. (2022). High species turnover and low intraspecific trait variation in endemic and non-endemic plant species assemblages on an oceanic island. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Leif Ole Manger; Hassan Abd el Ati; Ole Reidar Vetaas (1996). Vegetation Dynamics in the Red Sea Hills - Continuities and Changes. (external link)
• Leif Ole Manger; Knut Krzywinski; Ole Reidar Vetaas (1996). The Natural Environment of the Red Sea Hills - Lessons in Variability. (external link)
• Kamal P. Acharya; Hari D. Lekhak; Ram P. Chaudhary et al. (2007). Species compostion and regeneration of coniferous forest in Manang. (external link)
• Knut Krzywinski; Ole Reidar Vetaas; Leif Ole Manger (1996). Vegetation dynamics in the Red Sea Hills - Continuties and changes. (external link)
• Ram P. Chaudhary; Tor Halfdan Aase; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2007). Globalisation and peoples' livelihood: Assessment and prediction for Manang, trans-himalayas, Nepal. (external link)
• Kamal Prasad Acharya; Subash Khadka; Hari Datta Lekhak et al. (2007). Species composition and regeneration of coniferous forest in Manang. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas (2007). Global changes and its effect on glacier and culture landscapes: historical and future considerations. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas (1997). Tautologier - et problem eller ikke-problem i biologiske vitenskaper?. (external link)
• [Mangler fornavn] Hassan A. A.; Ole Reidar Vetaas; Leif Ole Manger (1996). The natural environment of the Red Sea Hills - lessons in variability. (external link)

Master’s thesis

• Harry John Betteley Birks; Ole Reidar Vetaas; Krishna B. Shrestha (2006). Species richness across the forest-line ecotone in an arid trans-Himalayan landscape of Nepal. (external link)
• Jon Morten Risberg; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2013). Regeneration of pine on the aeolian sand dunes in Starmoen nature reserve, south-east Norway. (external link)
• Chitra Bahadur Baniya; Ole Reidar Vetaas; Per Harald Salvesen (2004). Succession and diversity in abandoned crop fields at high elevations in the Central Himalayas. (external link)
• Kristin Madsen Klokkeide; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2013). Regeneration of Shorea robusta and Schima wallichii under Community Forest Management in Ludikhola watershed, Gorkha district, Nepal. (external link)

Editorial/Leader article

• Ole Reidar Vetaas (2006). Biological relativity to water-energy dynamics: a potential unifying theory?. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas (2021). Mountain biodiversity and elevational gradients. (external link)

Lecture

• Kamal Prasad Acharya; Ram Prasad Chaudhary; Hari Datta Lekhak et al. (2005). Population Structure and Regeneration Status of Dominant Tree Species in Trans-himalayan Region, Nepal. (external link)
• Kamal Prasad Acharya; Ram Prasad Chaudhary; Hari Datta Lekhak et al. (2005). Population Structure and Regeneration Status of Dominant Tree Species in Trans-himalayan Region, Nepal. (external link)

Media interview

• Ole Reidar Vetaas (2007). Amerikanske trær innvaderer Fløyen. (external link)

Book anthology

• Ram P. Chaudary; Tor Halfdan Aase; Ole Reidar Vetaas et al. (2007). Local Effects of Global Changes in the Himalayas: Manang, Nepal. (external link)

Conference poster

• Tessa Bargmann; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2017). Spatial ecology and summer grazing areas of wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in Hardangervidda, Norway. (external link)
• Tessa Bargmann; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2016). Hardangervidda National Park (HNP), Norway. (external link)

Research report

• Trond Arnesen; Tor Bjørgen; Lisbeth Gederaas Denstad et al. (1985). Den gotlandske reisen. 1987. Hovedfagsekskursjon, rapport.Under ledelse av prof. Olav Gjærevoll og Thyra Solem. B 205 Regional plantegeografi. (external link)
• Leif Ole Manger; Hassan Abd el Ati; Sherif Harir et al. (1994). Survival on Meagre Resources: Hadendowa pastoralism in the Red Sea Hills. Final report The Red Sea Area Programme. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas (1991). Changes in Abundance of Perennial Species in Erkowit, North Eastern Sudan. (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Kuber Prasad Bhatta; Ole Reidar Vetaas; John-Arvid Grytnes (2018). Spatiotemporal dynamics of plant assemblages under changing climate and land-use regimes in central Nepal Himalaya. (external link)
• Madan Krishna Suwal; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2018). Spatial dynamics of species distributions in an anthropogenic landscape in the context of climate change. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas (1992). The interaction between biotic and abiotic factors controlling temporal and spatial dynamics of arid vegetation in Erkowit, north-eastern Sudan. (external link)
• Jan Håkon Vikane; Vigdis Vandvik; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2019). Predicting decline of threatened species, invasiveness of alien species, and invasibility of seminatural habitats: A case study from threatened coastal heathlands and semi-natural grasslands in western Norway. (external link)
• Lila Nath Sharma; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2016). The disturbance-diversity relationship: integrating biodiversity conservation and resource management in anthropogenic landscapes. (external link)

Non-fiction monograph

• Leif Ole Manger; Hassan Abd el Ati; Sharif Harir et al. (1996). Survival on Meagre Resources: Hadendowa Pastoralism in the Red Sea Hills. (external link)
• Leif Ole Manger; Hassan Abd el Ati; Sharif Harir et al. (1996). "Survival on Meagre Resources". (external link)
• Ram P. Chaudhary; Tor Halfdan Aase; Ole Reidar Vetaas et al. (2007). Local Effects of Global Changes in the Himalayas: Manang, Nepal. (external link)
• Leif Ole Manger; Hassan Abd el Ati; Sharif Harir et al. (1996). "Survival on Meagre Resources". (external link)

Conference lecture

• Ole Reidar Vetaas (2005). Vetaas, O.R. Shrestha, K. B. & Panthi, M.P. 2005 Is gamma diversity able to predict variation in alpha diversity along an elevation range? IAVS symp. 2005 Lisboa. (external link)
• Kamal Prasad Acharya; Ram Prasad Chaudhary; Hari Datta Lekhak et al. (2005). Post Fire Natural Regeneration of Pinus wallichiana A.B. Jackson in Pisang, Manang, Nepal. (external link)
• Heidi Iren Saure; Ole Reidar Vetaas; Kristian Hassel et al. (2022). Restoring coastal heathlands after afforestation- on two islands in Western Norway.. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas (2007). Why are cultural landscapes rich in species and why do they have different conservation values in rich and poor countries?. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas (2005). Globalisation processes in Himalayan mountain communities: more development than marginalisation. (external link)

Popular science article

• Ole Reidar Vetaas (1992). Fraktaler - en ny måte å se naturen på. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas (1998). Klimagrenser for Rhododendron i arboreter og Himalaya (Nepal). (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas; Inger Elisabeth Måren (2008). Kulturlandskap i drastisk endring - betraktninger i tid. (external link)
• Inger Elisabeth Måren; Ole Reidar Vetaas (2008). Kulturlandskap i nord og sør - betraktninger i rom. (external link)
• Ole Reidar Vetaas; Jeppe Kolding (1991). Environmental Variability in the Sahel and its Constraints on Animal Husbandry. (external link)

Journal review

• Ole Reidar Vetaas; Helene H. Wagner (2017). Aune-Lundberg, Linda. 2016. Estimation Methods and Uncertainty in Area Frame Surveys of Land Cover. Thesis for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD). Series of dissertations submitted to the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo No. 1780 Oslo: Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. 181 pp. ISSN 1501-7710. (external link)

Working paper

• Leif Ole Manger; Hassan Abd el Ati; Harir Sharif et al. (1995). Survival on Meagre Resources - Hadendowa Pastoralism in the Red Sea Hills. Final Report on The Red Sea Programme. (external link)

Journal corrigendum

• Roberto Cazzolla Gatti; Piero Zannini; Gianluca Piovesan et al. (2023). Correction to: Analysing the distribution of strictly protected areas toward the EU2030 target (Biodiversity and Conservation, (2023), 32, 10, (3157-3174), 10.1007/s10531-023-02644-5). (external link)

Academic literature review

• Carsten Hobohm; Monika Janišová; Manuel Steinbauer et al. (2019). Global endemics-area relationships of vascular plants. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Vetaas, O.R., Shrestha, K.B.& Sharma, L.N. 2020. Changes in plant species richness after cessation of forest disturbance. Applied Vegetation Science, DOI: 10.1111/avsc.12545.

Vetaas, O.R., K.P. Paudel, & Christensen, M. 2019. Principal factors controlling biodiversity along an elevation gradient: water, energy and their interaction. Journal of Biogeography, 46: 1652-1663.  special issue -  von Humboldt anniversary.

Qian, H, Sandel, B., Deng, T & Vetaas, O.R. 2019, Geophysical, evolutionary and ecological processes interact to drive phylogenetic dispersion in angiosperm assemblages along the longest elevational gradient in the world, Botanical Journal of the Linnaean Society, 190, 333–344.

Vetaas, O.R., Grytnes, J.A., Bhatta, K & B.A. Hawkins 2018. An intercontinental comparison of niche conservatism along a temperature gradient. Journal of Biogeography, 45: 1104-1113.

Slik, JWF, Franklin, J…. Vetaas, O.R. et al. 2018.Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 115:1837-1842.

Steinbauer, M. J., Field, R., …Vetaas, O.R. & Beierkuhnlein, C. 2016. Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a globally consistent pattern of endemism. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25: 1097-1107

Vetaas, O.R., Vikane, J.H., Saure, H. I  & Vandvik, V. 2014. North Atlantic islands with native and alien trees: are there differences in diversity and species─area relationships? Journal of Vegetation Science, 25: 213–225.

Vetaas OR & Ferrer-Castan D 2008. Patterns of woody plant species richness in the Iberian Peninsula: environmental range and spatial scale. Journal of Biogeography, 35:1863-1878.

Grytnes, J.A. & Vetaas, O.R. 2002. Species richness and altitude: a comparison between simulation models and interpolated plant species richness along the Himalayan gradient, Nepal. American Naturalist, 159: 294-204.

Vetaas, O.R. & Grytnes, J.A. 2002. Distribution of vascular plant species richness and endemic richness along the Himalayan elevation gradient in Nepal. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 11: 291-301.

 

University of Bergen (NO) Jawhal Nehru University (IN) / Joint Indo-Norwegian research and education on water-related changes in Himalaya / Coordinator / DIKU (.3 mill NOK)

Biodiversity: a function of water and thermodynamics.  project  awaiting  NRC-funding