The department has a broad and varied field of research. INA shall undertake both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research, as well as discipline orientated research.
Scientific disciplines INA undertakes research activities in the following areas: - Behavioural ecology - Biodiversity, evolutionary genetics and conservation biology - Botany and zoology - Sustainable forest, game and fish management - Renewable energy - Consequences of land use and habitat changes - Market and resource economy and planning - Nature based tourism - Population ecology - Resource mapping - Wood technology - Ecophysiology - Ecotoxicology
Research groups The aim of the research groups is mainly to contribute to the associates research identity and development. It is also a place for idea development and creation of new research projects. At the department there are six research groups: - Biodiversity, systematics and evolution - Wildlife management and ecology - Plant-animal interactions - Resource economics, markets and society - Forest and wood - Environmental change biology