Department of Natural History
Recent Submissions
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A Spanish dancer? No! A troupe of dancers: a review of the family Hexabranchidae Bergh, 1891 (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia, Nudibranchia): A troupe of Spanish dancer
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Color ontogeny and variations associated with discrete morphological differences may generate taxonomical challenges, which requires multiple data types and in-depth historical review. The nudibranch known as the Spanish ... -
Odd family reunion: DNA barcoding reveals unexpected relationship between three hydrozoan species
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-04-10)Knowledge of life histories is crucial for understanding ecological and evolutionary processes, but for many hydrozoan species only incomplete life cycles have been described due to challenges in linking hydromedusae with ... -
Selection of territorial habitat in a declining population of Lapland Longspurs Calcarius lapponicus
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The population of Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus has declined drastically in the Scandinavian mountains over the last decades. One hypothesis is that the population decline has been caused by a change in vegetation ... -
Tor Tønsberg at seventy-five
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FUN Azores: a FUNctional trait database for the meio-, macro-, and megafauna from the Azores Marine Park (Mid-Atlantic Ridge)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Trait-based approaches that complement taxonomy-based studies have increased in popularity among the scientific community over the last decades. The collection of biological and ecological characteristics of species (i.e., ... -
Cuisine in transition? Organic residue analysis of domestic containers from 9th-14th century Sicily
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)From the 9th to 14th centuries AD, Sicily experienced a series of rapid and quite radical changes in political regime, but the impact of these regime changes on the lives of the people that experienced them remains largely ... -
An updated floristic map of the world
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Floristic regions reflect the geographic organization of floras and provide essential tools for biological studies. Previous global floristic regions are generally based on floristic endemism, lacking a phylogenetic ... -
Description of Alitta yarae sp. nov. (Annelida, Nereididae): a new oligo/mesohaline species from southern Brazil
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)A new species of annelid, Alitta yarae sp. nov., is described from material collected in southern Brazil. This species was collected mostly from fishing buoys but also in muddy substrates of the following estuaries: Paraná ... -
Additions to the lichen flora of the Gaupne area – a species hot-spot in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Three lichen species, Fuscopannaria praetermissa, Lepraria borealis and Xanthomendoza fulva, are reported as additions to the biodiversity of the Gaupne area, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. The fungal universal barcode DNA ... -
Fire, frost, and drought constrain the structural diversity of wood within southern African Erica (Ericaceae)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Erica comprises ~860 species of evergreen shrubs and trees ranged from Europe to southern Africa and Madagascar. Wood structure of the around 20 European species is well studied, but despite its relevance to adaptation ... -
Diversification of flowering plants in space and time
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The rapid diversification and high species richness of flowering plants is regarded as ‘Darwin’s second abominable mystery’. Today the global spatiotemporal pattern of plant diversification remains elusive. Using a newly ... -
Incubation behaviour of the Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula at different latitudes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In biparental Charadriinae plovers, male and female incubation duties often resemble daily routines, with males typically incubating at night and females incubating during the day. By analysing incubation behaviour in three ... -
A new species Zachvatkinibates svanhovdi sp. nov. (Acari: Oribatida: Punctoribatidae) from Norway with comments on Punctoribatidae in Fennoscandia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The adults of the new species Zachvatkinibates svanhovdi A. Seniczak & S. Seniczak sp. nov. are described and illustrated from Norway, and this is the first finding of Zachvatkinibates Shaldybina, 1973 in Fennoscandia. ... -
Morphological Ontogeny, Ecology, and Biogeography of Fuscozetes fuscipes (Acari, Oribatida, Ceratozetidae)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The systematic status of Fuscozetes Sellnick, 1928, is not clear in the literature. Therefore, the morphological ontogeny of F. fuscipes (C.L. Koch, 1844), the type species of this genus, was investigated and compared with ... -
Personene i planteslektnavnene: IIIb. Botanikere og samlere S-W, og noen norske fra eksotiske områder
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Personene i planteslektsnavnene: IV. Tillegg og rettelser
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Personene i plante-slektsnavnene: IIIa. Botanikere og samlere, A–P
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Compendium of the Lichens and Associated Fungi of Alaska
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How complex is the Naineris setosa species complex? First integrative study of a presumed cosmopolitan and invasive annelid (Sedentaria: Orbiniidae)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)We performed a comparative study of the specimens from the Naineris setosa complex from the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans and re-described the syntype of N. setosa, including the selection of the lectotype. Molecular ... -
Two sympatric lineages of Australian Cnestus solidus share Ambrosiella symbionts but not Wolbachia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Sympatric lineages of inbreeding species provide an excellent opportunity to investigate species divergence patterns and processes. Many ambrosia beetle lineages (Curculionidae: Scolytinae) reproduce by predominant inbreeding ...