• Seasonal variation in migration routes of Common Whitethroat Curruca communis 

  Briedis, Martins; Wong, Joanna B.; Adamík, Peter; Lislevand, Terje; Funts, Kaspars; Hromádka, Miloslav; Hromádka, Kamil; Porkert, Jiří; Hahn, Steffen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)

  Although geolocator tracking of small passerines has become commonplace in the last two decades, this tool is still underutilized for gathering natural history data of migration in many species. Common Whitethroat (Curruca ...

• Late Holocene Vegetation Development in Vinjeøra and the Valsøyfjord Region 

  Overland, Anette; Hjelle, Kari Loe (Chapter, 2024)

• 'Unmaking' the Deer in Medieval Europe: Historical and Archaeological Evidence 

  Albarella, Umberto; Aniceti, Veronica (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Deer hunting was heavily ritualized in medieval Europe, as indicated by historical and archaeological evidence; it also emphasized social differentiation. The butchery of a deer carcass (‘unmaking’) was integral to the ...

• Unexpected diversity and novel lineages in the cosmopolitan genus Nanomia (Cnidaria: Siphonophorae: Physonectae) 

  Hosia, Aino Laila Johanna; Martell Hernandez, Luis Felipe; Mańko, Maciej K.; Haddock, Steven H. D.; Haberlin, Damien; Mapstone, Gillian M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Integrated use of molecular and morphological methods reveals unexpected diversity in the cosmopolitan siphonophore genus Nanomia. Species delimitation analyses based on COI and 16S sequences suggest up to three distinct ...

• Curating an online checklist for Erica L. (Ericaceae): contributing to and supporting global conservation through the World Flora Online 

  Elliott, Alan C.; Bester, Stoffel P.; Klopper, Ronell R.; Nelson, E. Charles; Pirie, Michael David (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  To support the work of the Global Conservation Consortium for Erica and update the Erica checklist in the World Flora Online (WFO), we have curated the taxonomic backbone in the WFO by expanding it to include updated ...

• Identifying plant fibres in cultural heritage with optical and electron microscopy: how to present results and avoid pitfalls 

  Lukesova, Hana; Holst, Bodil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Identification of archaeological and historical textile fibres is important because it gives insight into resource management in former times. The arrival of new tools such as table-top scanning electron microscopes, have ...

• Arenicolidae (Annelida) in Norwegian waters: Species occurrence, bathymetric distribution and identification of juvenile specimens 

  Dille, Marthe Ree; Kongsrud, Jon Anders; Hektoen, Martin Mejdell; Bakken, Torkild (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  The two species of Arenicolidae, Arenicola marina and Arenicolides ecaudata, are common along the Norwegian coast. Juveniles and anterior fragments are often encountered when grab sampling, making traditional morphological ...

• Diversity of Orbiniella (Orbiniidae, Annelida) in the North Atlantic and the Arctic 

  Meca Jimenez, Miguel Angel; Kongsrud, Jon Anders; Kongshavn, Katrine; Alvestad, Tom; Meißner, Karin; Budaeva, Nataliya (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  In this work, the diversity of the genus Orbiniella in the Nordic Seas and the North Atlantic waters south of Iceland is studied based on the analyses of molecular markers (mitochondrial COI, 16S rDNA and nuclear ITS2) and ...

• Pollen morphology of Norwegian hybrids of Sorbus 

  Andersen, Heidi Lie; Dhakal, Nirmala; Houshiar Parsian, Hoda; Salvesen, Per Harald; Bjune, Anne Elisabeth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  The genus Sorbus s.l. consists of small to medium-sized trees primarily found in coastal areas, with three European hotspots of diversification: Fennoscandia, south-east Europe and the British Isles. Taxonomic classification ...

• Community composition and distribution of epi- and suprabenthic macrofauna in the bathyal, abyssal, and hadal zones of the northern North Pacific 

  Brandt, Angelika; Jazdzewska, Anna Maria; Kaiser, Stephanie; Blazewicz, Magdalena; Gerken, Sarah; Gluchowska, Kamila; Kelch, Andreas; Preikschardt, Mathis; Knauber, Henry; Kohlenbach, Katharina; Saeedi, Hanieh; Tandberg, Anne Helene Solberg; Di Franco, Davide (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)

  The deep sea, Earth’s largest biome, harbors numerous unknown species. Prior to the AleutBio (Aleutian Trench Biodiversity Studies) expedition from July to September 2022, the Northeast (NE) Pacific at abyssal and hadal ...

• What is Potentilla? A phylogeny-based taxonomy for Potentillinae (Rosaceae) 

  Eriksson, Lars Torsten; Persson, Nannie Linnéa; Smedmark, Jenny E. E. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  Classification of Potentilla L. has varied considerably through time. Some authors have collapsed all of the Potentilleae tribe into a single genus, while others have divided it into more than 20 genera. All those ...

• The identity of Psilochironomus Sublette, 1966 (Chironomidae, Chironominae, Pseudochironomini) 

  Andersen, Trond; Sanz La Parra, Annui Malla; Gilka, Wojciech (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Chironomus fumeus Walley in Curran, 1934 was described based on a single male from British Guyana. When reviewing the type specimens of Chironomidae (Diptera) in the American Museum of Natural History, Sublette erected the ...

• Primicimex cavernis Barber 1941 (Heteroptera: Cimicidae): A rare parasite on a very abundant host 

  Roth, Steffen; Calva, O.; Kennedy, J.; Reinhardt, K. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Species richness and abundance of hosts and parasites are often not perfectly correlated. This may be caused by higher parasite than host extinction rates or population declines, but lower parasite discovery effort has ...

• Description of a new species of Stenula Barnard, 1962 (Amphipoda: Stenothoidae) from British Columbia, Canada associated with Bouillonia sp. (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Tubulariidae), with a key to the world species of Stenula 

  Tandberg, Anne Helene Solberg; Vader, Wim (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  A new species of the amphipod family Stenothoidae found living in association with tubulariid hydroids in British Columbia, Canada is described. Stenula traudlae sp. nov., which has a rounded naked telson, a rounded ...

• Poxyaibamberus Andersen & Dantas, gen. nov. (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae) from Brazil 

  Andersen, Trond; Dantas, Galileu P. S.; Baranov, Viktor; Sanz La Parra, Annui Malla; Mendes, Humberto F; Hamada, Neusa (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Poxyaibamberus Andersen & Dantas, gen. nov. is erected based on the males of two species, P. jamanximensis Andersen & Dantas, sp. nov. from Jamanxim National Park, Pará State, Brazil, and P. ubajarensis Andersen & Dantas, ...

• When standard DNA barcodes do not work for species identifcation: intermixed mitochondrial haplotypes in the Jaera albifrons complex(Crustacea: Isopoda) 

  Nymoen, August Rustad; Kongsrud, Jon Anders; Willassen, Endre; Bakken, Torkild (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Here, we characterise the standard “Folmer region” of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (CO1) marker and a fragment of nuclear 28S marker in four species of the Jaera albifrons complex. Jaera albifrons (Leach, ...

• Geographic patterns in range sizes and their drivers of endemic angiosperms in China 

  Wang, Yunyun; Lyu, Tong; Luo, Ao; Dimitrov, Dimitar; Wang, Zhiheng (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  Geographic range size of endemic species is the most important indicator of species' vulnerability to extinction and conservation prioritization, yet variation in range size among species and across space has been relatively ...

• A new, darkwinged species of Pseudochironomus Malloch, 1915 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Mexico and Costa Rica 

  Andersen, Trond (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  A new species of Pseudochironomus Malloch, Citation1915 is described and figured as adult male and female based on material from Chiapas (Mexico) and Heredia (Costa Rica). Pseudochironomus seipi sp. n. can be distinguished ...

• Global distribution and evolutionary transitions of floral symmetry in angiosperms 

  Wang, Yunyun; Luo, Ao; Lyu, Tong; Dimitrov, Dimitar; Liu, Yunpeng; Li, Yichao; Xu, Xiaoting; Freckleton, Robert P.; Hao, Zhanqing; Wang, Zhiheng (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 ...

• First in situ documentation of a fossil tooth of the megatooth shark Otodus (Megaselachus) megalodon from the deep sea in the Pacific Ocean 

  Pollerspöck, Jürgen; Cares, Danielle; Ebert, David A.; Kelley, Katherine A.; Pockalny, Robert; Robinson, Rebecca S.; Wagner, Daniel; Straube, Nicolas (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; ...

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