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    • Short- and long-term plant and microbial uptake of 15N-labelled urea in a mesic tundra heath, West Greenland 

      Barthelemy, Helene Sophie Agnes; Nobel, Liv Alexa; Stark, Sari; Väisänen, Maria; Olofsson, Johan; Michelsen, Anders (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      Terrestrial animals are key elements in the cycling of elements in the Arctic where nutrient availability is low. Waste production by herbivores, in particular urine deposition, has a crucial role for nitrogen (N) recycling, ...

    • Long-term trajectories of non-native vegetation on islands globally 

      Walentowitz, Anna; Lenzner, Bernd; Essl, Franz; Strandberg, Nichola; Castilla-Beltrán, Alvaro; Fernández-Palacios, José María; Björck, Svante; Connor, Simon; Haberle, Simon G.; Ljung, Karl; Prebble, Matiu; Wilmshurst, Janet M.; Froyd, Cynthia A.; de Boer, Erik J.; de Nascimento, Lea; Edwards, Mary E.; Stevenson, Janelle; Beierkuhnlein, Carl; Steinbauer, Manuel; Nogué, Sandra (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Human-mediated changes in island vegetation are, among others, largely caused by the introduction and establishment of non-native species. However, data on past changes in non-native plant species abundance that predate ...

    • Hidden in the fog: Morphological and molecular characterisation of Derogenes varicus sensu stricto (Trematoda, Derogenidae) from Sweden and Norway, and redescription of two poorly known Derogenes species 

      Bouguerche, Chahinez; Huston, Daniel C.; Cribb, Thomas H.; Karlsbakk, Egil Erlingsson; Ahmed, Mohammed; Holovachov, Oleksandr (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Derogenes varicus (Müller, 1784) is widely reported as a trematode with exceptionally low host specificity and a wide, bipolar distribution. However, several recent studies have suggested that D. varicus represents a species ...

    • Greenland and Canadian Arctic ice temperature profiles database 

      Løkkegaard, Anja; Mankoff, Kenneth D.; Zdanowicz, Christian; Clow, Gary D.; Lüthi, Martin P.; Doyle, Samuel H.; Thomsen, Henrik H.; Fisher, David; Harper, Joel; Aschwanden, Andy; Vinther, Bo M.; Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe; Zekollari, Harry; Meierbachtol, Toby; McDowell, Ian; Humphrey, Neil; Solgaard, Anne; Karlsson, Nanna B.; Khan, Shfaqat A.; Hills, Benjamin; Law, Robert; Hubbard, Bryn; Christoffersen, Poul; Jacquemart, Mylène; Seguinot, Julien Philippe Joseph; Fausto, Robert S.; Colgan, William T. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Here, we present a compilation of 95 ice temperature profiles from 85 boreholes from the Greenland ice sheet and peripheral ice caps, as well as local ice caps in the Canadian Arctic. Profiles from only 31 boreholes (36 %) ...

    • Emergence of games from ecological trade-offs: longevity changes strategies for extra-pair mating in birds 

      Ruminska, Agnieszka; Eliassen, Sigrunn; Jørgensen, Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Each member of a breeding pair benefits if the other does more of the parental investment, so there is scope for behaviours that can be interpreted as both cooperative and competitive games between males and females. ...

    • Aquaporin splice variation differentially modulates channel function during marine teleost egg hydration 

      Ferré, Alba; Chauvigné, Francois; Zapater, Cinta; Finn, Roderick Nigel; Cerdà, Joan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Aquaporin-mediated oocyte hydration is a developmentally regulated adaptive mechanism that co-occurs with meiosis resumption in marine teleosts. It provides the early embryos with vital water until osmoregulatory systems ...

    • Temporal changes in boreal vegetation under 70 years of conservation 

      Maliniemi, Tuija; Huusko, Karoliina; Muurinen, Lauralotta; Grytnes, John Arvid; Tukiainen, Helena; Virtanen, Risto; Alahuhta, Janne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Biodiversity conservation through protected areas (PAs) is often based on the idea that biodiversity is relatively static. This assumption is increasingly being challenged as species and communities shift their distributions ...

    • Brain asymmetry is globally different in males and females: exploring cortical volume, area, thickness, and mean curvature 

      Dumitru, Magda L. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Brain asymmetry is a cornerstone in the development of higher-level cognition, but it is unclear whether and how it differs in males and females. Asymmetry has been investigated using the laterality index, which compares ...

    • IDEAcology: An interface to streamline and facilitate efficient, rigorous expert elicitation in ecology 

      Courtney Jones, Stephanie K.; Geange, Sonya Rita; Hanea, Anca; Camac, James; Hemming, Victoria; Doobov, Ben; Leigh, Andrea; Nicotra, Adrienne B. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Here, we demonstrate how IDEAcology aids in preparing for and implementing a structured expert elicitation using the IDEA protocol, an iterative quantitative expert elicitation framework. Expert judgement is used to inform ...

    • Belowground niche partitioning is maintained under extreme drought 

      Weides, Sophie E.; Hájek, Tomáš; Liancourt, Pierre; Herberich, Maximiliane M.; Kramp, Rosa E.; Tomiolo, Sara; Riano, Laura Camila Pacheco; Tielbörger, Katja; Májeková, Maria (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      Belowground niche partitioning presents a key mechanism for maintaining species coexistence and diversity. Its importance is currently reinforced by climate change that alters soil hydrological conditions. However, ...

    • Increasing plant species richness by seeding has marginal effects on ecosystem functioning in agricultural grasslands 

      Freitag, Martin; Hölzel, Norbert; Neuenkamp, Lena; van der Plas, Fons; Manning, Peter; Abrahão, Anna; Bergmann, Joana; Boeddinghaus, Runa; Bolliger, Ralph; Hamer, Ute; Kandeler, Ellen; Kleinebecker, Till; Knorr, Klaus-Holger; Marhan, Sven; Neyret, Margot; Prati, Daniel; Le Provost, Gaëtane; Saiz, Hugo; van Kleunen, Mark; Schäfer, Deborah; Klaus, Valentin H. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Experimental evidence shows that grassland plant diversity enhances ecosystem functioning. Yet, the transfer of results from controlled biodiversity experiments to naturally assembled ‘real world’ ecosystems remains ...

    • Global knowledge–action networks at the frontlines of sustainability: Insights from five decades of science for action in UNESCO's World Network of biosphere reserves 

      Donnellan Barraclough, Alicia May; Reed, Maureen G.; Coetzer, Kaera; Price, Martin F.; Schultz, Lisen; Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés; Måren, Inger Elisabeth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Generating actionable knowledge to meet current sustainability challenges requires unprecedented collaboration across scales, geographies, cultures and knowledges. Intergovernmental programmes and place-based knowledge–action ...

    • Taxonomy and morphology of Calciopappus curvus sp. nov. (Syracosphaeraceae, Prymnesiophyceae), a novel appendage-bearing coccolithophore 

      Archontikis, Odysseas A.; Millán, Josué G.; Andruleit, Harald; Cros, Lluïsa; Kleijne, Annelies; Heldal, Mikal; Doan-Nhu, Hai; Winter, Amos; Blanco-Bercial, Leocadio; Young, Jeremy R. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Based on scanning electron microscopy observations, a new species of the coccolithophore genus Calciopappus (Syracosphaeraceae, Prymnesiophyceae) is described from the surface waters off Bergen and from the lower photic ...

    • Insect frass as a fertilizer for the cultivation of protein-rich Chlorella vulgaris 

      Steinrücken, Pia; Müller, Oliver; Böpple, Hanna; Kleinegris, Dorinde Mechtilde Meike (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      Replacing the large amounts of chemical fertilizer with nutrients from waste or residual streams is an important factor to make microalgal production more sustainable, cost-effective, and part of a circular bioeconomy. ...

    • Overcoming Ostrea edulis seed production limitations to meet ecosystem restoration demands in the UN decade on restoration 

      Ermgassen, Philine S.E. Zu; Strand, Åsa; Bakker, Nienke; Blanco, Ainhoa; Bonačić, Kruno; Boudry, Pierre; Brundu, Gianni; Cameron, Tom C.; Connellan, Iarfhlaith; Da Costa, Fiz; Debney, Alison; Fabra, Monica; Frankic, Anamarija; Gamble, Celine; Gray, Mathew W.; Helmer, Luke; Holbrook, Zoë; Hugh-Jones, Tristan; Kamermans, Pauline; Magnesen, Thorolf; Nielsen, Pernille; Preston, Joanne; Ranger, Christopher J.; Saurel, Camille; Smyth, David; Stechele, Brecht; Theodorou, John A.; Colsoul, Bérenger (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The European flat oyster, Ostrea edulis, is a habitat-forming bivalve which was historically widespread throughout Europe. Following its decline due to overfishing, pollution, sedimentation, invasive species, and disease, ...

    • The effect of monitoring complexity on stakeholder acceptance of CO2 geological storage projects in the US gulf coast region 

      Atkinson, Lucy; Dankel, Dorothy Jane; Romanak, Katherine D. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Environmental monitoring at geologic CO2 storage sites is required by regulations for the purposes of environmental protection and emissions accounting in the case of leakage to surface. However, another very important ...

    • Will they be back? A framework to guide rare macrophyte conservation decisions in lakes 

      Bennion, Helen; Sayer, Carl; Baker, Ambroise; Bishop, Isabel; Glover, Azra; Jones, Vivienne J.; Law, Alan; Madgwick, Genevieve; Peglar, Sylvia Margaret; Roberts, Carole; Rose, Neil; Turner, Simon; Willby, Nigel; Yang, Handong (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 ...

    • Effect of climate, anther morphology and pollination syndrome on pollen availability in Penstemon 

      Pena, Rosa Aurora Rodriguez; Wolfe, Andrea D. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Traditionally, pollen presentation is thought to be a function of pollinator type and visitation frequency. However, despite the repeated observation that pollen presentation is influenced by flower morphology and abiotic ...

    • The appendicularian Oikopleura dioica can enhance carbon export in a high CO<inf>2</inf> ocean 

      Taucher, Jan; Lechtenbörger, Anna Katharina; Bouquet, Jean-Marie; Spisla, Carsten; Boxhammer, Tim; Minutolo, Fabrizio; Bach, Lennart Thomas; Lohbeck, Kai T.; Sswat, Michael; Dörner, Isabel; Ismar-Rebitz, Stefanie M. H.; Thompson, Eric Malcolm; Riebesell, Ulf (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      Gelatinous zooplankton are increasingly recognized to play a key role in the ocean's biological carbon pump. Appendicularians, a class of pelagic tunicates, are among the most abundant gelatinous plankton in the ocean, but ...

    • Nephrocalcinosis and Physiological Perturbations in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.). 

      Barstad, Kamilla (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)
      This master's thesis extends the PREVENTIVE project, funded by CtrlAqua (Center for Research-Based Innovation in Closed-Containment Aquaculture), by focusing on the pathology and physiological disturbances associated with ...