Metabolic biomass of Norwegian large herbivores and carnivores in time and space

Numbers of individuals and metabolic biomass of large herbivores and carnivores in Norway. Large herbivore data is from 1907 to 2015, roughly every 10 years, and at the kommune level. Carnivore data is from 1859 to 2015 and is at the county level. Counties and kommuner boundaries as of 2007 are used. Demographic models are used to estimate metabolic biomass from hunting (carnivores and wild herbivores) and agricultural (livestock) statistics. Full methods for herbivore data are published by Austrheim et al 2011 and Speed et al. 2015. Carnivore data by Sobocinski 2022.Austrheim, G., Solberg, E. J., & Mysterud, A. (2011). Spatio‐temporal variation in large herbivore pressure in Norway during 1949‐1999: has decreased grazing by livestock been countered by increased browsing by cervids?. Wildlife Biology, 17(3), 286-298.Sobocinski, A. (2022). Mapping large carnivores in Norway across 175 years of changing policy (Master's thesis, NTNU). https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3047580 Speed, J. D. M., Austrheim, G., Kolstad, A. L., & Solberg, E. J. (2019). Long-term changes in northern large-herbivore communities reveal differential rewilding rates in space and time. PLoS One, 14(5), e0217166.