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  • The importance of migratory drop-off for island colonization in birds 

    Dufour, Paul; Sayol, Ferran; Cooke, Rob; Blackburn, Tim M.; Gallien, Laure; Griesser, Michael; Steinbauer, Manuel; Faurby, Søren (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Seasonal migration is an underappreciated driver of animal diversification. Changes in migratory behaviour may favour the establishment of sedentary founder populations and promote speciation if there is sufficient ...
  • Too much diversity—Multiple definitions of geodiversity hinder its potential in biodiversity research 

    Maliniemi, Tuija; Tukiainen, Helena; Hjort, Jan; Toivanen, Maija; Vernham, Grant; Bailey, Joseph J.; Baines, Oliver; Benniston, Lucy; Brilha, José; Field, Richard; Fox, Nathan; Gray, Murray; Grytnes, John Arvid; Huusko, Karoliina; Kemppinen, Julia; Pereira, Paulo; Salminen, Henriikka; Schrodt, Franziska; Turner, Laura; Alahuhta, Janne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Geodiversity—the diversity of abiotic features and processes of the Earth's surface and subsurface—is an increasingly used concept in ecological research. A growing body of scientific literature has provided evidence of ...
  • Evidence- based policymaking: Exploring the effectiveness of salmon aquaculture management in Norway 

    Larsen, Mari Lie (Doctoral thesis, 2025-03-21)
    Norge er verdens største produsent av atlantisk laks (Salmo salar). For å sikre en miljømessig bærekraftig næring innførte Norge i 2017 det såkalte Trafikklyssystemet. Videre vekst i næringen skulle vurderes gjennom ...
  • The protistan parasite Marteilia pararefringens (Paramyxida) in bivalves and its distribution along the Norwegian coast 

    Bøgwald, Mats (Doctoral thesis, 2025-03-25)
    I Norge har man overvåket for parasittsykdommen marteiliose, forårsaket av Marteilia refringens, siden 1995 i flatøsters Ostrea edulis og 2010 i blåskjell Mytilus spp. Veterinærinstituttet hadde ansvaret for overvåkningsprogrammet ...
  • At what cost? The impact of bacteriophage resistance on the growth kinetics and protein synthesis of Escherichia coli 

    Landor, Lotta Anni Ingeborg; Tjendra, Jesslyn; Erstad, Karen; Krabberød, Anders Kristian; Töpper, Joachim Paul; Våge, Selina (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Cost of bacteriophage resistance (COR) is important in explaining processes of diversification and coexistence in microbial communities. COR can be expressed in different traits, and the lack of universally applicable ...
  • A slow-fast trait continuum at the whole community level in relation to land-use intensification 

    Neyret, Margot; Le Provost, Gaëtane; Boesing, Andrea Larissa; Schneider, Florian D.; Baulechner, Dennis; Bergmann, Joana; de Vries, Franciska T.; Fiore-Donno, Anna Maria; Geisen, Stefan; Goldmann, Kezia; Merges, Anna; Saifutdinov, Ruslan A.; Simons, Nadja K.; Tobias, Joseph A.; Zaitsev, Andrey S.; Gossner, Martin M.; Jung, Kirsten; Kandeler, Ellen; Krauss, Jochen; Penone, Caterina; Schloter, Michael; Schulz, Stefanie; Staab, Michael; Wolters, Volkmar; Apostolakis, Antonios; Birkhofer, Klaus; Boch, Steffen; Boeddinghaus, Runa S.; Bolliger, Ralph; Bonkowski, Michael; Buscot, François; Dumack, Kenneth; Fischer, Markus; Gan, Huei Ying; Heinze, Johannes; Hölzel, Norbert; John, Katharina; Klaus, Valentin H.; Kleinebecker, Till; Marhan, Sven; Müller, Jörg; Renner, Swen C.; Rillig, Matthias C.; Schenk, Noëlle V; Schöning, Ingo; Schrumpf, Marion; Seibold, Sebastian; Socher, Stephanie A.; Solly, Emily F.; Teuscher, Miriam; van Kleunen, Mark; Wubet, Tesfaye; Manning, Peter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Organismal functional strategies form a continuum from slow- to fast-growing organisms, in response to common drivers such as resource availability and disturbance. However, whether there is synchronisation of these ...
  • Weak phylogenetic effect on specialist plant assemblages and their persistence on habitat islands 

    Klimes, Adam; Molina-Venegas, Rafael; Carta, Angelino; Chytrý, Milan; Conti, Luisa; Götzenberger, Lars; Hájek, Michal; Horsák, Michal; Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja; Klimešová, Jitka; Méndez-Castro, Francisco E.; Zelený, David; Ottaviani, Gianluigi (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Aim The influence of species phylogenetic relatedness on the formation of insular assemblages remains understudied in functional island biogeography, especially for terrestrial habitat islands (i.e. distinct habitat ...
  • Multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecium strains enter the Norwegian marine environment through treated sewage 

    Radisic, Vera; Grevskott, Didrik Hjertaker; Junghardt, Nadja; Øvreås, Lise; Marathe, Nachiket Prakash (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    This study aimed to understand the antibiotic resistance prevalence among Enterococcus spp. from raw and treated sewage in Bergen city, Norway. In total, 517 Enterococcus spp. isolates were obtained from raw and treated ...
  • Scrutinizing the current management units of the greater argentine in the light of genetic structure 

    Quintela, Maria; Seljestad, Gaute Wilhelmsen; Dahle, Geir; Hallfredsson, Elvar Halldor; Enberg, Katja Susanna; Langbehn, Tom; Jansson, Eeva; Glover, Kevin Alan; Westgaard, Jon-Ivar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    The greater argentine is a benthopelagic fish with a northern amphi-Atlantic and southern Arctic distribution. Landings of this species have been steadily increasing since the early 2000s, mainly for ultra-processed fish ...
  • A new method for regionalization of the vertebral column in salmonids based on radiographic hallmarks 

    Murugesan, Sankar; Kryvi, Harald; Fraser, Thomas; Philip, Antony Jesu Prabhu; Remø, Sofie C.; Hansen, Tom Johnny; Witten, Paul Eckhard; Fjelldal, Per Gunnar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Current procedures to establish vertebral column regionalization (e.g., histology) in fish are time consuming and difficult to apply. The aim of this study was to develop a more rapid and accurate radiology-based method ...
  • Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally 

    Smith, Melinda D.; Wilkins, Kate D.; Holdrege, Martin C.; Wilfahrt, Peter; Collins, Scott L.; Knapp, Alan K.; Sala, Osvaldo E.; Dukes, Jeffrey S.; Phillips, Richard P.; Yahdjian, Laura; Gherardi, Laureano A.; Ohlert, Timothy; Beier, Claus; Fraser, Lauchlan H.; Jentsch, Anke; Loik, Michael E.; Maestre, Fernando T.; Power, Sally A.; Yu, Qiang; Felton, Andrew J.; Munson, Seth M.; Luo, Yiqi; Abdoli, Hamed; Abedi, Mehdi; Alados, Concepción L.; Alberti, Juan; Alon, Moshe; An, Hui; Anacker, Brian; Anderson, Maggie; Auge, Harald; Bachle, Seton; Bahalkeh, Khadijeh; Bahn, Michael; Batbaatar, Amgaa; Bauerle, Taryn; Beard, Karen H.; Behn, Kai; Beil, Ilka; Biancari, Lucio; Blindow, Irmgard; Bondaruk, Viviana Florencia; Borer, Elizabeth T.; Bork, Edward W.; Bruschetti, Carlos Martin; Byrne, Kerry M.; Cahill, James F.; Calvo, Dianela A.; Carbognani, Michele; Cardoni, Augusto; Carlyle, Cameron N.; Castillo-Garcia, Miguel; Chang, Scott X.; Chieppa, Jeff; Cianciaruso, Marcus V.; Cohen, Ofer; Cordeiro, Amanda L.; Cusack, Daniela F.; Dahlke, Sven; Daleo, Pedro; D'Antonio, Carla M.; Dietterich, Lee H.; Doherty, Tim S.; Dubbert, Maren; Ebeling, Anne; Eisenhauer, Nico; Fischer, Felícia M.; Forte, Tai G.W.; Gebauer, Tobias; Gozalo, Beatriz; Greenville, Aaron C.; Guidoni-Martins, Karlo G.; Hannusch, Heather J.; Haugum, Siri Vatsø; Hautier, Yann; Hefting, Mariet; Henry, Hugh A.L.; Hoss, Daniela; Iribarne, Oscar; Isbell, Forest; Johnson, Yari; Jordan, Samuel; Kelly, Eugene F.; Kimmel, Kaitlin; Kreyling, Juergen; Kröel-Dulay, György; Ingrisch, Johannes; Kröpfl, Alicia; Kübert, Angelika; Kulmatiski, Andrew; Lamb, Eric G.; Larsen, Klaus Steenberg; Larson, Julie; Leder, Cintia V.; Linstädter, Anja; Liu, Jielin; Liu, Shirong; Lodge, Alexandra G.; Longo, Grisel; Loydi, Alejandro; Luan, Junwei; Lawson, Jason; Lubbe, Frederick Curtis; Macfarlane, Craig; Mackie-Haas, Kathleen; Malyshev, Andrey V.; Maturano-Ruiz, Adrián; Merchant, Thomas; Metcalfe, Daniel B.; Mori, Akira S.; Mudongo, Edwin; Newman, Gregory S.; Nielsen, Uffe N.; Nimmo, Dale; Niu, Yujie; Nobre, Paola; O'Connor, Rory C.; Ogaya, Romà; Oñatibia, Gastón R.; Orbán, Ildikó; Osborne, Brooke; Otfinowski, Rafael; Pärtel, Meelis; Penuelas, Josep; Peri, Pablo L.; Peter, Guadalupe; Petraglia, Alessandro; Picon-Cochard, Catherine; Pillar, Valério D.; Piñeiro-Guerra, Juan Manuel; Ploughe, Laura W.; Plowes, Robert M.; Portales-Reyes, Cristy; Prober, Suzanne M.; Pueyo, Yolanda; Reed, Sasha C.; Ritchie, Euan G.; Rodríguez, Dana Aylén; Rogers, William E.; Roscher, Christiane; Sánchez, Ana M.; Santos, Bráulio A.; Scarfó, María Cecilia; Seabloom, Eric W.; Shi, Baoku; Souza, Lara; Stampfli, Andreas; Standish, Rachel J.; Sternberg, Marcelo; Sun, Wei; Sünnemann, Marie; Tedder, Michelle; Thorvaldsen, Pål; Tian, Dashuan; Tielbörger, Katja; Valdecantos, Alejandro; van den Brink, Liesbeth; Vandvik, Vigdis; Vankoughnett, Mathew R.; Velle, Liv Guri; Wang, Changhui; Wang, Yi; Wardle, Glenda M.; Werner, Christiane; Wei, Cunzheng; Wiehl, Georg; Williams, Jennifer L.; Wolf, Amelia A.; Zeiter, Michaela; Zhang, Fawei; Zhu, Juntao; Zong, Ning; Zuo, Xiaoan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of short-term (~1 y) drought events—the most common duration of drought—globally. Yet the impact of this intensification of drought on ecosystem functioning remains ...
  • Ecological genomics in the Northern krill uncovers loci for local adaptation across ocean basins 

    Unneberg, Per; Larsson, Mårten; Olsson, Anna; Wallerman, Ola; Petri, Anna; Bunikis, Ignas; Vinnere Pettersson, Olga; Papetti, Chiara; Gislason, Astthor; Glenner, Henrik; Cartes, Joan E.; Blanco-Bercial, Leocadio; Eriksen, Elena; Meyer, Bettina; Wallberg, Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Krill are vital as food for many marine animals but also impacted by global warming. To learn how they and other zooplankton may adapt to a warmer world we studied local adaptation in the widespread Northern krill ...
  • Emergence and dissemination of epidemic-causing OXA-244 carbapenemase-producing Escherichia coli ST38 through hospital sewage in Norway, 2020–2022 

    Grevskott, Didrik Hjertaker; Radisic, Vera; Salvà-Serra, Franscisco; Moore, Edward R. B.; Akervold, Kristine; Victor, Manish; Marathe, Nachiket (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Background Population-based sewage surveillance has emerged as a promising approach for studying the prevalence of antibiotic resistance in pathogens. Aim To determine the temporal prevalence of cefotaxime-resistant ...
  • Effects of different feeding regimes on growth, cataract development, welfare, and histopathology of lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus L.) 

    Imsland, Albert; Reynolds, Patrick; Boissonnot, Lauris Jeannine Ernestine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    To develop specific recommendations on the feeding strategies for farmed lumpfish, four duplicate groups (n = 70; N = 280) of lumpfish with a mean ± SD start weight of 30.4 ± 5.3 g were distributed among eight sea cages ...
  • A quantitative framework for identifying the role of individual species in Nature's Contributions to People 

    Bianco, Giovanni; Manning, Peter; Schleuning, Matthias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    It is widely acknowledged that biodiversity change is affecting human well-being by altering the supply of Nature's Contributions to People (NCP). Nevertheless, the role of individual species in this relationship remains ...
  • Autonomy need satisfaction and frustration during a learning session affect perceived value, interest, and vitality among higher education students 

    Johansen, Marius Ole; Eliassen, Sigrunn; Jeno, Lucas Matias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    In the current study, using self-determination theory as a theoretical framework, we used multiple real-time assessments to investigate the dichotomous relationship between autonomy need satisfaction and frustration, and ...
  • High tree host diversity buffers the effect of Fraxinus excelsior dieback on epiphytic bryophytes composition in the Białowieża Primeval Forest 

    Wierzcholska, Sylwia; Czortek, Patryk; Eycott, Amy Elizabeth; Schei, Fride Høistad; Grytnes, John-Arvid; Jaroszewicz, Bogdan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Invasions are one of main drivers transforming the functions of forest ecosystems. The inva­sion of alien fungus Hymenoscyphus fraxineus is still reducing the abundance of Fraxinus excelsior throughout temperate Europe. ...
  • Creating better internships by understanding mentor challenges: findings from a series of focus groups 

    Schneider, Joel R.; Aaby, Truls; Boessenkool, Sanne; Eriksen, Emma Falkeid; Holtermann, Kristin; Martens, Iver; Soule, Jonathan; Steele, Ariel; Zazzera, Susanne; van der Meeren, Gro Ingleid; Velle, Gaute; Cotner, Sehoya Harris; Lane, A. Kelly (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Background: Despite demands to make higher education more relevant beyond academia, and a growing body of work testifying to the benefits of work-relevance programs (e.g., work-placements, or internships) for both students ...
  • A new maximum age observed within the family Labridae, ballan wrasse Labrus bergylta 

    Pritchard, Calum J.; Stendal, Marthe Marie Ruud; Treasurer, Jim; Halvorsen, Kim Aleksander Tallaksen; Skiftesvik, Anne Berit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Ballan wrasse Labrus bergylta is the largest species of wrasse inhabiting European waters and one of the longest-living species within the family Labridae. A large specimen was caught off the coast of Skjerjehamn, western ...
  • Vgll3 regulates the timing of puberty in farmed Atlantic salmon, but it does not explain family discordance in male maturation following different smolt production regimes 

    Fraser, Thomas; Tjølsen, Aslak; Madaro, Angelico; Hansen, Tom Johnny; Fjelldal, Per Gunnar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) farming is moving towards extended periods of land-based production to minimise the time at sea, but this increases the risk of unwanted male sexual maturation. As the timing of puberty is ...

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