More information about our reindeer research

Our goal is to develop knowledge that strengthens the long-term sustainability of reindeer husbandry and helps it cope with external stresses. Climate change, other land use and predators are examples of factors that affect reindeer husbandry. We conduct research and education with a focus on the production conditions of reindeer herding and interactions with the surrounding world.

Key areas:

• Reindeer habitat selection, activity patterns and health/production related to disturbances and other land use (including wind power and mining)

• Reindeer management's conditions for using the natural pastures related to climate change and other land use

• Effects of predators on reindeer and the impact of predation on reindeer production, as well as preventive measures and possible side effects of measures (health, animal welfare, production)

• Reindeer health, condition and production related to the reindeer's use of the natural pastures and winter feeding

• Animal health and welfare and in reindeer husbandry (collaboration with Gård- och Djurhälsan, SVA, the Swedish Sami National Federation, the Norwegian Veterinary Institute and the reindeer health service)

• Editorship of the scientific journal Rangifer as well as research mediation for reindeer husbandry via the Sami Parliament (linked to Rangifer).

Research group:

Doctoral student

My Strömgren
my.stromgren@slu.se
073-374 63 57

Doctoral student

Léonie Julia Blandine Duris
leonie.duris@slu.se
018 - 67 16 75
CV

Doctoral student

Heidi Rautiainen
heidi.rautiainen@slu.se
018 - 67 15 62
CV

Professor

Anna Skarin
anna.skarin@slu.se
018 - 67 19 54
CV

Professor emeritus

Birgitta Åhman
birgitta.ahman@slu.se
018 - 67 23 08
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Birgitta Åhman, professor of reindeer husbandry at the Swedish University of Agriculture (SLU) 2010–2021, has had a long and eventful career in the field of reindeer husbandry. That was celebrated with a seminar day on October 25. Some of the lectures were given in English and some in Swedish.