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Warming, drought, and disturbances lead to shifts in functional composition: A millennial-scale analysis for Amazonian and Andean sites
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Tropical forests are changing in composition and productivity, probably in response to changes in climate and disturbances. The responses to these multiple environmental drivers, and the mechanisms underlying the changes, ... -
Water Flow Requirements of Post-smolt Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar L.) Reared in Intensive Seawater Flow-through Systems: A Physiological Perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Environmental challenges related to open sea cage production of Atlantic salmon have sparked interest in developing commercial-scale semi-closed sea systems for post-smolt Atlantic salmon (100–1000 g). Determining the ... -
Water level fluctuations and the ecosystem functioning of lakes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-08-28)Hydrological regimes are key drivers of productivity and structure in freshwater ecosystems but are increasingly impacted by human activity. Using 17 published food web models of 13 African lakes as a case study, we explored ... -
Water masses constrain the distribution of deep-sea sponges in the North Atlantic Ocean and Nordic Seas
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Water masses are bodies of water with distinctive physical and biogeochemical properties. They impart vertical structure to the deep ocean, participate in circulation, and can be traced over great distances, potentially ... -
Water temperature and dietary histidine affect cataract formation in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) diploid and triploid yearling smolt
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-09)The aim of the present study was to investigate cataract development in diploid (2N) and triploid (3N) Atlantic salmon smolts and post-smolts at two water temperatures (10 and 16 °C) given diets with different histidine ... -
WEBnm@: a web application for normal mode analyses of proteins
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2005-12-30)Background: Normal mode analysis (NMA) has become the method of choice to investigate the slowest motions in macromolecular systems. NMA is especially useful for large biomolecular assemblies, such as transmembrane channels ... -
Weichselian vegetation and palaeoenvironment in western Norway and northern Russia. Evidence from pollen analytical investigations
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-06-14)This thesis focuses on the vegetation history and environmental changes in western Norway and northern Russia during the last glacial period (the Weichselian). Pollen grains deposited in lakes and bogs are used as the main ... -
What can selection experiments teach us about fisheries-induced evolution?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-03)There is evidence that fisheries are altering the phenotypic composition of fish populations, often in ways that may reduce the value of fish stocks for the exploiters. Despite the increasing number of theoretical and field ... -
What Is Gill Health and What Is Its Role in Marine Finfish Aquaculture in the Face of a Changing Climate?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)It is hard to find a definition of gill health in the literature although there is a lot of information on changes to gill structure as a result of infectious and non-infectious challenge. How these changes relate to overall ... -
What is natural? The importance of a long-term perspective in biodiversity conservation and management
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2006)Ecosystems change in response to factors such as climate variability, invasions, and wildfires. Most records used to assess such change are based on short-term ecological data or satellite imagery spanning only a few ... -
What is the observed relationship between species richness and productivity? Comment
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What we do in the dark: Prevalence of omnivorous feeding activity in Arctic zooplankton during polar night
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)During the productive polar day, zooplankton and sea-ice amphipods fulfill a critical role in energy transfer from primary producers to higher trophic-level species in Arctic marine ecosystems. Recent polar night studies ... -
When to reproduce? A new answer to an old question
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-04)We present a life-history model based on the assumptions that juvenile survival follows a negative exponential function and that fecundity gain increases linearly with time to maturity. This model predicts that the optimal ... -
Whole genome resequencing reveals diagnostic markers for investigating global migration and hybridization between minke whale species
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-01-13)Background: In the marine environment, where there are few absolute physical barriers, contemporary contact between previously isolated species can occur across great distances, and in some cases, may be inter-oceanic. An ... -
“Why is this relevant for me?”: increasing content relevance enhances student motivation and vitality
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The notion that motivation is imperative for students’ psychological well-being and academic functioning is central to Self-Determination Theory (SDT). According to SDT, different types of motivations can co-occur to a ... -
Wild and farmed salmon (Salmo salar) as reservoirs for infectious salmon anaemia virus, and the importance of horizontal- and vertical transmission
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-04-16)The infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV) is an important pathogen on farmed salmon in Europe. The virus occurs as low- and high virulent variants where the former seem to be a continuous source of new high virulent ISAV. ... -
Will they be back? A framework to guide rare macrophyte conservation decisions in lakes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Shallow lake restoration typically focusses on the re-establishment of macrophytes. The likelihood of a species returning to a site is contingent on dispersal, proximity to propagule sources, and the on-site propagule-bank ... -
Willow canopies and plant community structure along an alpine environmental gradient
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2005)We examined the impact of Salix lapponum canopies on plantcommunity structure in five sites along a climatic gradient in aglacier foreland in alpine south Norway. Species richness is lowerinside canopies compared to outside ... -
Wind to insect pollination ratios and floral traits in five alpine Salix species
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 1999)This study examines the ratio of wind to insect pollination of five alpine-arctic Salix species and possible correlations between plant traits and this ratio. The field work was done in an alpine area in southwest Norway, ... -
Winds of change : A multi-proxy approach to constrain Holocene climate and wind dynamics in the sub-Antarctic
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-09-05)Kunnskap om tidligere tiders naturlige klimavariasjoner er hovednøkkelen for å forstå vår nåværende klimatilstand. Det er også viktig for å kunne vurdere omfanget og retningen til fremtidige klimaendringer som forventes ...