NBS-nytt
12.09.2016
Norway's forest industry accounts yearly for production equivalent to more than 50 billion NOK. Researchers at NIBIO at Ås are using molecular technologies to characterize current and ancient populations of Norway spruce (1), the most important forest species in Norway.
For years, plant ecologists assumed that Norway was devoid of vegetation during the last Ice Age and that pine and Norway spruce trees established themselves here from eastern regions 9000 and 3000 years ago, respectively. The Swedish forest researcher Leif Kullman had earlier reported on 11,000 year old remains of Norway spruce near Kongsvinger, Norway but his findings (2) were considered as inconclusive evidence for the existence of Norway spruce in Scandinavia during the last Ice Age.
The study reported in the Science artic
Gå til medietThe study reported in the Science artic