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Enrichment promotes learning in fish
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-08-18)Captive birds and mammals reared in enriched rearing environments have been shown to behave more flexibly compared to animals reared in impoverished or plain environments. Recent evidence has shown that this is also true ... -
Entry into puberty is reflected in changes in hormone production but not in testicular receptor expression in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-06-21)Background Puberty in male Atlantic salmon in aquaculture can start as early as after the first winter in seawater, stunts growth and entails welfare problems due to the maturation-associated loss of osmoregulation capacity ... -
Environmental and biological requirements of post-smolt Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) in closed-containment aquaculture systems
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-06-22)Production of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.), exceeds 2 million tonnes globally, and accounts for 90% of the salmon on the market. Presently, the predominant production of post-smolt Atlantic salmon occurs in open sea ... -
Environmental change and atmospheric contamination on Svalbard: sediment chronology
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2004)Sediment cores collected from eight lakes along the western coast of Svalbard as part of a project investigating atmospheric pollution and environmental change in Arctic regions were dated radiometrically using natural ... -
Environmental Change at Deep-Sea Sponge Habitats Over the Last Half Century: A Model Hindcast Study for the Age of Anthropogenic Climate Change
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-24)Deep-sea sponges inhabit multiple areas of the deep North Atlantic at depths below 250 m. Living in the deep ocean, where environmental properties below the permanent thermocline generally change slowly, they may not easily ... -
Environmental contaminants activate human and polar bear (Ursus maritimus) pregnane X receptors (PXR, NR1I2) differently
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-04-01)Background Many persistent organic pollutants (POPs) accumulate readily in polar bears because of their position as apex predators in Arctic food webs. The pregnane X receptor (PXR, formally NR1I2, here proposed to be named ... -
Environmental contaminants modulate the transcriptional activity of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) and human peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARA)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-06)Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alfa (PPARA/NR1C1) is a ligand activated nuclear receptor that is a key regulator of lipid metabolism in tissues with high fatty acid catabolism such as the liver. Here, we cloned ... -
Environmental drivers of herring growth and how the perception shifts with time series length
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Growth is a key component of population dynamics and, thus, fisheries management, yet drivers of its variations are often poorly understood. Using individual data collected over 80 years, we explored how environmental ... -
Environmental effects of offshore produced water discharges: A review focused on the Norwegian continental shelf
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Produced water (PW), a large byproduct of offshore oil and gas extraction, is reinjected to formations or discharged to the sea after treatment. The discharges contain dispersed crude oil, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons ... -
The environmental impact of the Minoan eruption of Santorini (Thera): statistical analysis of palaeoecological data from Golbisar, southwest Turkey
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2002)A tephra layer originating from the mid-second millennium BC (3300 14C yr BP) ‘Minoan’ eruption of Santorini (or Thera) in the Aegean has been found in lake sediments at G6lhisar in southwest Turkey. Microstratigraphic ... -
Environmental impact on host-parasite interactions. A study on the adaptive value of host castration and gigantism when hosts can regain reproduction
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-12-20)The aim of this thesis was to investigate how altering the external environment affects life history strategies of hosts and their parasites, and to gain a better understanding of evolutionary theories on castration and ... -
Environmental manipulation of land-based farmed Arctic charr; effects on growth, feeding and maturation
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-05-08)Farming of Arctic charr takes mainly place in land-based farms applying intensive rearing methods with relatively high production costs. Depending on local conditions at each site, it is possible to regulate important ... -
Environmental responses to the 9.7 and 8.2 cold events at two ecotonal sites in the Dovre mountains, mid-Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)We found strong signals of two cooling events around 9700 and 8200 cal yrs. BP in lakes Store Finnsjøen and Flåfattjønna at Dovre, mid-Norway. Analyses included pollen in both lakes, and C/N-ratio, biomarkers (e.g. alkanes ... -
Environmental stressors may cause unpredicted, notably lagged life-history responses in adults of the planktivorous Atlantic herring
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Here we challenge traditional views on the direction of change in teleost body condition and reproductive traits in response to abiotic and biotic factors by studying the data-rich, planktivorous Norwegian spring-spawning ... -
Environmental variability in the early rearing environment generates behaviourally flexible cod: implications for rehabilitating wild populations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2005-06-02)The release of hatchery-reared fishes for restoring threatened and endangered populations is one of the most controversial issues in applied ecology. A central issue has been to determine whether releases cause extinction ... -
Enzymatic and Chemical Syntheses of Vacor Analogs of Nicotinamide Riboside, NMN and NAD
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)It has recently been demonstrated that the rat poison vacor interferes with mammalian NAD metabolism, because it acts as a nicotinamide analog and is converted by enzymes of the NAD salvage pathway. Thereby, vacor is ... -
Epibenthic megafauna associated with sponge grounds formed by the unique glass sponge Vazella pourtalesii in Emerald Basin, Nova Scotia, Canada
(Master thesis, 2018-06-28)Large, dense aggregations of sponges or “sponge grounds” have seen a surge of scientific interest in recent years. The pivotal ecological functions of sponges may warrant conservation measures that have been neglected in ... -
Epistatic regulation of growth in Atlantic salmon revealed: a QTL study performed on the domesticated-wild interface
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background Quantitative traits are typically considered to be under additive genetic control. Although there are indications that non-additive factors have the potential to contribute to trait variation, experimental ... -
Escape mortality of cod, sithe and haddock in a Barents Sea trawl fishery
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2006)Experiments are described to investigate the survival of gadoid sh in the Barents Sea escaping from a demersal trawl, with and without a sorting grid, at high and low levels of shing intensity. The mortality for cod (Gadus ... -
Escape- and diet-history among farmed Atlantic Salmon caught in Norwegian rivers and coast in the period 2011-2021
(Master thesis, 2022-06-01)Every year thousands of farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) escape from net pens in Norway, and introgression has been documented in two-thirds of the more than 200 wild populations investigated thus far. Farmed salmon ...