University Museum of Bergen: Recent submissions
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Diet of three sympatric species of granivorous songbirds in a Norwegian high mountain area during the early breeding season
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Stomach samples of Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus, Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis, and Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris were collected at Hardangervidda in an early phase of the breeding season (during egg-laying ... -
The distribution of lichens and mosses at Edward VII Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This is the first detailed study of the distribution of mosses and lichens at Alexandra Mountains and Rockefeller Mountains, Edward VII Peninsula, Antarctica. A total of 418 samples was collected on 21 nunataks in the ... -
Two thousand years of Landscape—Human interactions at a coastal peninsula in Norway revealed through pollen analysis, shoreline reconstruction, and radiocarbon dates from archaeological sites
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Human impact on long-term vegetation and biodiversity changes is often discussed on a general level, connecting palynological data to archaeological time periods. In the present paper we present environmental change during ... -
Spatio-temporal patterns in the woodiness of flowering plants
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Aim Woody and herbaceous habits represent one of the most distinct contrasts among angiosperms, and the proportion of woody species in floras (i.e., “woodiness” hereafter) represents a fundamental structural element of ... -
The Soursop Genome (Annona muricata L., Annonaceae)
(Chapter, 2022)The Annonaceae family contains important tropical crops, but the number of species used commercially is limited, and development of other promising species for cultivation is hindered by a lack of genomic resources to ... -
Walruses on the Dnieper: new evidence for the intercontinental trade of Greenlandic ivory in the Middle Ages
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Mediaeval walrus hunting in Iceland and Greenland—driven by Western European demand for ivory and walrus hide ropes—has been identified as an important pre-modern example of ecological globalization. By contrast, the main ... -
The great auk in Norway: From common to locally extinct
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)A total of 477 bones of the great auk (Pinguinus impennis) from 53 localities and 55 periods in Norway are studied. All but two, are archaeological sites from the Holocene, mainly from 6000–2000 cal years bp. The two ... -
A molecular phylogeny of the European nesticid spiders (Nesticidae, Araneae): Implications for their systematics and biogeography
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Nesticidae is a small family of spiders with a worldwide distribution that includes 15 genera and 272 described species. Seven genera and 56 species are known from Europe, distributed from the Iberian Peninsula to the ... -
Ancient DNA sequence quality is independent of fish bone weight
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The field of ancient DNA (aDNA) typically uses between 50 and 200 mg of minimum input weight of bone material for the extraction of DNA from archaeological remains. While laboratory and analysis techniques have focused on ... -
An integrative geochronological framework for the Pleistocene So'a basin (Flores, Indonesia), and its implications for faunal turnover and hominin arrival
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Flores represents a unique insular environment with an extensive record of Pleistocene fossil remains and stone artefacts. In the So'a Basin of central Flores these include endemic Stegodon, Komodo dragons, giant tortoises, ... -
Why did the chicken cross the Wallace Line? Archaeological evidence suggests human-mediated dispersal of Gallus to Flores first occurred at least ~2.25 ka cal. BP
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Domesticated chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) are a dominant part of the global human diet. Although the early domestication history of this species remains disputed, Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) is assumed to have ... -
More bones of Leptoptilos robustus from Flores reveal new insights into giant marabou stork paleobiology and biogeography
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia) has yielded remains of a faunal community that included small-bodied and small-brained hominins, dwarf proboscideans, Komodo dragons, vultures and giant marabou storks (Leptoptilos robustus). ... -
First Molecular Phylogeny of Lumbrineridae (Annelida)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-25)Lumbrineridae is a family of marine annelids with simple external morphology but complex and diverse jaw apparatuses consisting of paired maxillae and mandibles. Here we present the first phylogeny of lumbrinerids based ... -
Directed endozoochorous dispersal by scavengers facilitate sexual reproduction in otherwise clonal plants at cadaver sites
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The regeneration niche of many plant species involves spatially and temporally unpredictable disturbances, called recruitment windows of opportunity. However, even species with clear dispersal adaptations such as fleshy ... -
Ancient DNA reveals a southern presence of the Northeast Arctic cod during the Holocene
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Climate change has been implicated in an increased number of distributional shifts of marine species during the last century. Nonetheless, it is unclear whether earlier climatic fluctuations had similar impacts. We use ... -
Global raster dataset on historical coastline positions and shelf sea extents since the Last Glacial Maximum
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Motivation: Historical changes in sea level caused shifting coastlines that affected the distribution and evolution of marine and terrestrial biota. At the onset of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) 26 ka, sea levels were ... -
New species of the genus Chimarra Stephens from Africa (Trichoptera, Philopotamidae) and characterization of the African groups and subgroups of the genus
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This paper is primarily based on collections in Tanzania and Ghana in 1990–1991 and 1991–1994, respectively. In all, 46 species of Chimarra were collected, 31 of them new species. All these species are illustrated or ... -
Numbers of Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris are increasing at high alpine and arctic breeding sites in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Strong declines in number of breeding Horned Larks Eremophila alpestris were reported from several Fennoscandian breeding grounds in the 1960s and 1970s. Counts from the species’ high alpine breeding grounds at Hardangervidda, ... -
Benthic invertebrates in Svalbard fjords—when metabarcoding does not outperform traditional biodiversity assessment
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)To protect and restore ecosystems and biodiversity is one of the 10 challenges identified by the United Nations’s Decade of the Ocean Science. In this study we used eDNA from sediments collected in two fjords of the Svalbard ... -
Infaunal and epifaunal secondary production in the Barents Sea, with focus on snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) prey resources and consumption
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Since the first observation of snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) in the Barents Sea in 1996, the population has increased significantly, supporting a commercial fishery on the Norwegian shelf since 2012. To investigate whether ...