Bo Normander

NaturTanken ("NatureTank")

Close to 60 per cent of the Danish land area is used for arable farming. EU regulations as well as public preferences create increasing pressures for changing agricultural land use in a more environmentally sustainable direction incorporating the multiple ecosystem services affected by agriculture. In this paper we present a spatially explicit mult...

We live in interesting times. Human impacts have led to uncertainties in the climate, resource, and social spheres. Globalization has amplified the risks alongside the opportunities, meaning that in a resource-scarce, crowded planet, business as usual is dead, and in its place we must build a Living Economy. This is more than simply being green. P...

The loss of biodiversity has not received the same amount of attention as other environmental problems such as climate change, in part because there is less scientific knowledge and consensus on the subject, but not because it is a less urgent threat to life on Earth.

In 2002, world leaders made a commitment through the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), to achieve a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. At the Conference of the Parties of the CBD in Nagoya, Japan in 2010, the target was renewed for 2020. We have developed a Biodiversity Change Index (BCI) to help measure progres...

In 2002, world leaders made a commitment through the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), to achieve a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. At the Conference of the Parties of the CBD in Nagoya, Japan in 2010, the target was renewed for 2020. We have developed a Biodiversity Change Index (BCI) to help measure progres...

At the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, world leaders made a collective commitment to preserve Earth’s biological resources by agreeing to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Since then, however, most politicians have failed to protect nature and the world has witnessed—with but a few positive examples—a dramatic and continual loss of biodiversi...

The economic crisis in Europe shares with the environmental crisis and societal concerns the same root cause, namely a narrow pre-occupation with short-term gain at the expense of long-term sustainability. With this report, Worldwatch Institute Europe wishes to highlight a path to tackle our multiple crises, suggesting different ways on how to buil...

With billions of dollars being spent each year to encourage a consumer lifestyle from babyhood onwards, does it come as any surprise that children quickly become “empowered” consumers, demanding more toys, more junk food, more, more, more? And as all parents know, they can demand rather persistently. The challenge is how do we transform this cultu...

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Normander B., Levin G., Auvinen A-P, Bratli H, Stabbetorp O, Hedblom M, Glimskär AO, Gudmundsson GA. 2009. State of biodiversity in the Nordic countries vol. TemaNord 2009:509. ISBN 978-92-893-1825-9 The aim of the NordBio2010 project is to evaluate the 2010 biodiversity target by developing indicators that can describe changes in biodiversity o...

The lifestyle of people living in urban areas has profound direct and indirect impacts on biodiversity. However, the role of urban lifestyle as a driving force of biodiversity change is not very well understood. This is partly because there is a gap between a social science approach focusing on lifestyle and a natural science approach focusing on b...

This article presents the development and results of Ozone Web--near-real-time approach to communicate environmental information to policy makers, researchers, and the general public. In Ozone Web, ground-level ozone information from 750 air quality measurement stations across Europe is collected on an hourly basis, filtered, interpolated, and pres...

A single-cell approach for studying the growth potential and the establishment of bacteria in the barley phytosphere is presented, using Pseudomonas fluorescens strain with the capability for biological control. The incidence of growth of one to four bacterial cells dispersed to the young rhizosphere approximated to 100%, and specific growth rate a...

An understanding of the factors influencing colonization of the rhizosphere is essential for improved establishment of biocontrol agents. The aim of this study was to determine the origin and composition of bacterial communities in the developing barley (Hordeum vulgare) phytosphere, using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) analysis of...

In the years to come, the use of microorganisms, in particular bacteria, is expected to play an important role for environmental purposes. Hence, microbial biocontrol and biofertiliser agents may substitute environmentally unacceptable chemical pesticides and mineral fertilisers, and microorganisms may degrade pollutants of contaminated soil (biore...

The gfp-tagged Pseudomonas fluorescens biocontrol strain DR54-BN14 was introduced into the barley rhizosphere. Confocal laser scanning microscopy revealed that the rhizoplane populations of DR54-BN14 on 3- to 14-day-old roots were able to form microcolonies closely associated with the indigenous bacteria and that a majority of DR54-BN14 cells appea...

Conjugal plasmid transfer was examined on the phylloplane of bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) and related to the spatial distribution pattern and metabolic activity of the bacteria. The donor (Pseudomonas putida KT2442) harbored a derivative of the TOL plasmid, which conferred kanamycin resistance and had the gfp gene inserted downstream of a lac promoter...