• Size variation in mid-Holocene North Atlantic Puffins indicates a dynamic response to climate change 

  Walker, Samuel James; Meijer, Hanneke (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-24)

  Seabirds are one of the most at-risk groups, with many species in decline. In Scandinavia, seabirds are at a heightened risk of extinction due to accelerated global warming. Norway is home to significant portion of the ...

• The lower bathyal and abyssal seafloor fauna of eastern Australia 

  O'Hara, Timothy D.; Williams, Alan; Ahyong, Shane T.; Alderslade, P.; Alvestad, Tom; Bray, D.; Burghardt, Ingo; Budaeva, Nataliya; Criscione, F.; Crowther, A.L.; Ekins, M.; Eléaume, M.; Farrelly, C.A.; Finn, J.K.; Georgieva, Magdalena N.; Graham, A.; Gomon, M.; Gowlett-Holmes, K.; Gunton, L.M.; Hallan, A.; Hosie, A.M.; Hutchings, Pat; Kise, H.; Köhler, F.; Kongsrud, Jon Anders; Kupriyanova, Elena; Lu, C.C.; Mackenzie, M.; Mah, C.; MacIntosh, H.; Merrin, Kelly L.; Miskelly, A.; Mitchell, M.L.; Moore, K.; Murray, Anna; O'loughlin, P.M.; Paxton, Hannelore; Pogonoski, J.J.; Staples, D.; Watson, J.E.; Wilson, Robin S.; Zhang, J.; Bax, N.J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Background Our knowledge of the benthic fauna at lower bathyal to abyssal (LBA, > 2000 m) depths off Eastern Australia was very limited with only a few samples having been collected from these habitats over the last ...

• Comment to “Neoproterozoic magmatic arc systems of the central Ribeira belt, SE-Brazil, in the context of the West-Gondwana pre-collisional history: A review” 

  Fossen, Haakon; Meira, Vinicius T.; Cavalcante, Carolina; Konopásek, Jiří; Janoušek, Vojtěch (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

• Temporal and structural genetic variation in reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) associated with the pastoral transition in Northwestern Siberia 

  Røed, Knut; Kvie, Kjersti; Losey, Robert J.; Kosintsev, Pavel A; Hufthammer, Anne Karin; Dwyer, Mark J.; Goncharov, Vasiliy; Klokov, Konstantin B; Arzyutov, Dmitry V.; Plekhanov, Andrei; Anderson, David G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Just as the domestication of livestock is often cited as a key element in the Neolithic transition to settled, the emergence of large‐scaled reindeer husbandry was a fundamental social transformation for the indigenous ...

• Cultural taxonomies in the Paleolithic—Old questions, novel perspectives 

  Riede, Felix; Araujo, Astolfo G.M.; Barton, Michael C.; Bergsvik, Knut Andreas; Fernandez-Lopez de Pablo, Javier; Groucutt, How S.; Maier, Andreas; Marwick, Ben; Pyne, Lydia; Ranhorn, Kathryn; Reynholds, Natasha; Riel-Salvatore, Julien; Sauer, Florian; Serwatka, Kamil; Zander, Annabell; Hussain, Shumon T. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

• Converging on the orb: denser taxon sampling elucidates spider phylogeny and new analytical methods support repeated evolution of the orb web 

  Kallal, Robert J.; Kulkarni, Siddharth S; Dimitrov, Dimitar; Benavides, Ligia R.; Arnedo, Miquel A.; Giribet, Gonzalo; Hormiga, Gustavo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  High throughput sequencing and phylogenomic analyses focusing on relationships among spiders have both reinforced and upturned long‐standing hypotheses. Likewise, the evolution of spider webs—perhaps their most emblematic ...

• Dimensions of amphibian alpha diversity in the New World 

  Ochoa-Ochoa, Leticia M.; Mejía-Domínguez, Nancy R.; Velasco, Julián A.; Dimitrov, Dimitar; Marske, Katharine A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Aim The links between taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity and how these vary geographically are key to understanding how historical and contemporary processes have shaped communities at regional and local ...

• Gas flaring activity and black carbon emissions in 2017 derived from the Sentinel-3A Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer 

  Caseiro, Alexandre; Gehrke, Berit; Rücker, Gernot; Leimbach, David; Kaiser, Johannes W. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Gas flares are a regionally and globally significant source of atmospheric pollutants. They can be detected by satellite remote sensing. We calculate the global flared gas volume and black carbon emissions in 2017 by ...

• Lena Liepe, A Case for the Middle Ages: The Public Display of Medieval Church Art in Sweden, 1847–1943. (Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien Handlingar: Antikvariska Serien 55.) Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, 2018. Pp. 258. 230 kr. ISBN: 978-9-1740-2461-6. 

  Kroesen, Justin Ernest Alexander (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

• Genetic and taxonomic assessment of the widespread Afrotropical ambrosia beetle Xyleborus principalis (Coleoptera, Scolytinae) 

  Jordal, Bjarte Henry; Tischer, Marta (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  The taxonomy of the widespread Afrotropical ambrosia beetle Xyleborus principalis Eichhoff, 1878 is reviewed based on morphological and molecular data. The species is both morphologically and genetically variable but without ...

• DNA from resin-embedded organisms: Past, present and future 

  Peris, David; Janssen, Kathrin; Barthel, H. Jonas; Bierbaum, Gabriele; Delclòs, Xavier; Peñalver, Enrique; Solórzano-Kraemer, Mónica M.; Jordal, Bjarte Henry; Rust, Jes (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Past claims have been made for fossil DNA recovery from various organisms (bacteria, plants, insects and mammals, including humans) dating back in time from thousands to several million years BP. However, many of these ...

• En glemt skat: Miranda Bødtkers tegninger af arkæologiske tekstiler 

  Moe, Dagfinn; Jørgensen, Lise Bender (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Over many years, illustrator Miranda Bødtker (1896–1996) carried out drawings for botanists, zoologists and archaeologists at Bergen Museum, the University of Bergen. After her death, thousands of drawings were discovered ...

• Burkhard Kunkel, Die Kunst der lutherischen Kirchen im 16. Jahrhundert. Medien, Mitteldinge, Monumente – eine Geschichte der materiellen Kultur, Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2020 

  Kroesen, Justin Ernest Alexander (Journal article, 2020)

  In 2017, Alexandra Walsham rightly observed a ‘lingering fallacy that the Reformation was inherently antagonistic to Christian materiality’ («Recycling the Sacred: Material Culture and Cultural Memory after the English ...

• New insights into the morphology and evolution of the ventral pharynx and jaws in Histriobdellidae (Eunicida, Annelida) 

  Tzetlin, Alexander; Budaeva, Nataliya; Vortsepneva, Elena; Helm, Conrad (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-19)

  The jaw apparatus in several annelid families represents a powerful tool for systematic approaches and evolutionary investigations. Nevertheless, for several taxa, this character complex has scarcely been investigated, and ...

• The Essential Role of Taxonomic Expertise in the Creation of DNA Databases for the Identification and Delimitation of Southeast Asian Ambrosia Beetle Species (Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborini) 

  Cognato, Anthony Ignacio; Sari, G; Smith, Sarah M.; Beaver, Roger A.; Li, Yousheng; Hulcr, Jiri; Jordal, Bjarte Henry; Kajimura, Hisashi; Lin, C-S; Pham, T; Singh, S; Sittichaya, Wisut (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  DNA holds great potential for species identification and efforts to create a DNA database of all animals and plants currently contains >7.5 million sequences representing ~300,000 species. This promise of a universally ...

• Geographical patterns in phylogenetic diversity of Chinese woody plants and its application for conservation planning 

  Cai, Hongyu; Lyu, Lisha; Shrestha, Nawal; Tang, Zhiyao; Su, Xiangyan; Xu, Xiaoting; Dimitrov, Dimitar; Wang, Zhiheng (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Aim Biodiversity hotspots are widely used as conservation priorities to preserve the tree of life. However, many conservation practices identify biodiversity hotspots without considering phylogenetic diversity (PD), which ...

• Two new deep-water species of Ampharetidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the eastern Australian continental margin 

  Gunton, Laetitia M; Kupriyanova, Elena K.; Alvestad, Tom (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-12)

  Two new species, Melinnopsis gardelli sp. nov. and Melinnopsis chadwicki sp. nov. (Annelida, Ampharetidae, Melinninae), are described from deep waters off the east coast of Australia. One hundred and 11 specimens were ...

• Amphipods and sea anemones, an update 

  Vader, Wim; Tandberg, Anne Helene Solberg (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  We present an updated survey of the Amphipoda that live in association with sea anemones. These amphipods can be divided into four groups: 1) symbiotic amphipods using sea anemones mainly for protection, but feeding largely ...

• Phylogenetic conservatism and biogeographic affinity influence woody plant species richness–climate relationships in eastern Eurasia 

  Su, Xiangyan; Shrestha, Nawal; Xu, Xiaoting; Sandanov, Denis; Wang, Qinggang; Wang, Siyang; Dimitrov, Dimitar; Wang, Zhiheng (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Mechanisms underlying species richness patterns remain a central yet controversial issue in biology. Climate has been regarded as a major determinant of species richness. However, the relative influences of different ...

• Interrogating genomic-scale data to resolve recalcitrant nodes in the Spider Tree of Life 

  Kulkarni, Siddharth; Kallal, Robert J.; Wood, Hannah; Dimitrov, Dimitar; Giribet, Gonzalo; Hormiga, Gustavo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Genome-scale data sets are converging on robust, stable phylogenetic hypotheses for many lineages; however, some nodes have shown disagreement across classes of data. We use spiders (Araneae) as a system to identify the ...

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