Marking the landscape: Thesis dissertation Morgane Kerdoncuff
We are very happy to congratulate Morgane Alizee Kerdoncuff with the successful defense of her doctoral thesis on 23 January 2026, titled: ‘Marking the landscape’ – Ecological assessment of small-scale grazing systems in the fjord region of the Nordhordland UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
By: Dagmar Egelkraut
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Morgane’s thesis work is part of the TradMod project and falls under the UNESCO-chair group, as well as CeSAM. It explores how the fjord environment and different types of management affect plant and beetle communities and their associated ecosystem services in semi-natural grasslands and heathlands, using observational studies of how the fjord environment and different types of management affect plant and beetle communities and their associated ecosystem services in semi-natural grasslands and heathlands.
The trial lecture took place on Thursday 22 January and took us on a journey discussing five cultural landscape types and their implications for biodiversity and ecosystem services around the world.
Morgane was supervised by Prof. Inger Elisabeth Måren (UiB) and Ass. Prof. Amy Elisabeth Eycott (Nord University). The defense committee consisted of the opponents Prof. Dr. James Speed (NTNU) and Prof. Dr. Isabel C Barrio (Agricultural University of Iceland), as well as Prof. Dr Anne Bjune and Ass. Prof. Richard Telford from UiB.