Department of Natural History
Recent Submissions
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Global analysis of Poales diversification – parallel evolution in space and time into open and closed habitats
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Poales are one of the most species-rich, ecologically and economically important orders of plants and often characterise open habitats, enabled by unique suites of traits. We test six hypotheses regarding the evolution and ... -
Extensional Faulting Around Kolumbo Volcano, Aegean Sea—Relationships Between Local Stress Fields, Fault Relay Ramps, and Volcanism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The Christiana-Santorini-Kolumbo (CSK) volcanic field has hosted more than 100 explosive eruptions in the past 250,000 years, including the 1650 CE eruption of Kolumbo Volcano. Previous studies have established a link ... -
The evolution of female-biased genital diversity in bedbugs (Cimicidae)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Rapid genitalia evolution is believed to be mainly driven by sexual selection. Recently, noncopulatory genital functions have been suggested to exert stronger selection pressure on female genitalia than copulatory functions. ... -
Global distribution and evolutionary transitions of floral symmetry in angiosperms
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Floral symmetry plays an important role in plant-pollinator interactions and may have remarkable impacts on angiosperm diversification. However, spatiotemporal patterns in floral symmetry and drivers of these patterns ... -
Clarification of the taxonomic status of Acanthochitona discrepans (Brown, 1827) with new data for the North-East Atlantic Acanthochitona (Polyplacophora, Acanthochitonidae)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background The genus Acanthochitona can be easily distinguished from other chitons by having eighteen tufts of bristles on the dorsal side of the densely spiculose girdle. In the North-East Atlantic, five species of ... -
First in situ documentation of a fossil tooth of the megatooth shark Otodus (Megaselachus) megalodon from the deep sea in the Pacific Ocean
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In this short communication, we describe the first reported case of an in-situ observation and subsequent sampling of a fossil Otodus megalodon tooth from a deep-sea locality in the Pacific Ocean (14.11332°N, 167.39357°W; ... -
Arrhenia schistidicola (Hygrophoraceae, Agaricales) – a new species on the moss Schistidium crassipilum from western Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The new species Arrhenia schistidicola Øvstedal & L.Lindblom is described from Western Norway, growing on the moss Schistidium crassipilum on vertical mortar walls. Arrhenia schistidicola is characterized by the lack of a ... -
Exploitation shifted trophic ecology and habitat preferences of Mediterranean and Black Sea bluefin tuna over centuries
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)During recent decades, the health of ocean ecosystems and fish populations has been threatened by overexploitation, pollution and anthropogenic-driven climate change. Due to a lack of long-term ecological data, we have a ... -
New records of fossil deep-sea shark teeth from the Lillebælt Clay (Early–Middle Eocene) of Denmark
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This study describes for the first time a number of distinct fossil teeth documenting several deep-sea shark species from the Eocene, which were previously not recorded from the North Sea Basin, including Apristurus sp., ... -
Vertebrae reveal industrial-era increases in Atlantic bluefin tuna catch-at-size and juvenile growth
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Climate change and size-selective overexploitation can alter fish size and growth, yet our understanding of how and to what extent is limited due to a lack of long-term biological data from wild populations. This precludes ... -
Amazing Diversity of Nothria (Annelida, Onuphidae) in the Australian Deep Sea
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The epibenthic onuphid genus Nothria Malmgren, 1867 presently comprises 21 accepted species. We are reporting here on specimens collected during six deep-sea expeditions of the RV Investigator from 2015–2018 to the Great ... -
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 ...
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