• Seasonal variation in urban pollen resource use by north temperate European honeybees 

      Davey, Marie Louise; Blaalid, Rakel; Dahle, Sondre; Stange, Erik; Barton, David Nicholas; Rusch, Graciela Monica (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Urban green infrastructure can provide important habitats for pollinators and support urban ecosystem services. Therefore, these areas must be managed to maximize biodiversity and density of pollinating insects. We used ...
    • New species and records of Pseudochironomini Sæther, 1977 (Diptera, Chironomidae) from the Dominican Republic 

      Andersen, Trond; Höcherl, Amelie; Hübner, Jeremy; Chimeno, Caroline; Lin, Xiaolong; Baranov, Viktor A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Background: Pseudochironomini is a relatively small and poorly-studied tribe of subfamily Chironominae (Diptera, Chironomidae). New information: Pseudochironomus ruthae Andersen & Baranov sp. nov. is described and ...
    • Phylogeographic structure of two sympatric species of Mediimorda Méquignon, 1946 (Mordellidae, Coleoptera) 

      Sanz-laParra, Annui Malla; García-París, Mario; López-Estrada, Estefany Karen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Sympatric distribution and syntopy are not common in closely related species since sporadic crosses may lead to the formation of hybrid zones disrupting the differentiation of sympatric incipient species. In Central Spain ...
    • Head anatomy of a lantern shark wet-collection specimen (Chondrichthyes: Etmopteridae) 

      Staggl, Manuel Andreas; Ruthensteiner, Bernhard; Straube, Nicolas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      In this study, we apply a two-step (untreated and soft tissue stained) diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced micro-computed tomography array to a wet-collection Lantern Shark specimen of Etmopterus lucifer. The focus ...
    • The impact of farming on prehistoric culinary practices throughout Northern Europe 

      Lucquin, Alexandre; Robson, Harry K.; Oras, Ester; Lundy, Jasmine; Moretti, Giulia; González Carretero, Lara; Dekker, Joannes; Demirci, Özge; Dolbunova, Ekaterina; McLaughlin, T. Rowan; Piezonka, Henny; Talbot, Helen M.; Adamczak, Kamil; Czekaj-Zastawny, Agnieszka; Groß, Daniel; Gumiński, Witold; Hartz, Sönke; Kabaciński, Jacek; Koivisto, Satu; Linge, Trond Eilev; Meyer, Ann-Katrin; Mökkönen, Teemu; Philippsen, Bente; Piličiauskas, Gytis; Visocka, Vanda; Kriiska, Aivar; Raemaekers, Daan; Meadows, John; Heron, Carl; Craig, Oliver E. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      To investigate changes in culinary practices associated with the arrival of farming, we analysed the organic residues of over 1,000 pottery vessels from hunter-gatherer-fisher and early agricultural sites across Northern ...
    • Mimes of the past: Eocene midges of the tribe Pseudochironomini (Chironomidae, Diptera) reveal their peculiarities 

      Zakrzewska, Marta; Andersen, Trond; Gilka, Wojciech (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      This is the first study focused on Eocene dipterans of the tribe Pseudochironomini (subfamily Chironominae, family Chironomidae), based on unique materials from Baltic amber. Two new genera and three new species: Eomicromimus ...
    • The typification of Variolaria discoidea Pers. 

      Jørgensen, Per Magnus; Schmitt, Imke (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The type species of the lichen genus Variolaria is V. discoidea. The name is solely based on a Hoffmann (1784) illustration. To stabilize the nomenclature, we have designated a lectotype and an epitype from Germany, for ...
    • A long-term study of size variation in Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis across Scandinavia, with a focus on Norway 

      Walker, Samuel James; Lislevand, Terje; Meijer, Hanneke Johanna Maria (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Changing climate and growing human impacts are resulting in globally rising temperatures and the widespread loss of habitats. How species will adapt to these changes is not well understood. The Northern Goshawk (Accipiter ...
    • Phylogeography of Ramalina farinacea (Lichenized Fungi, Ascomycota) in the Mediterranean Basin, Europe, and Macaronesia 

      Moya, Patricia; Garrido-Benavent, Isaac; Chiva, Salvador; Pérez-Ortega, Sergio; Blázquez, Miguel; Pazos, Tamara; Hamel, Tarek; Myllys, Leena; Tønsberg, Tor; Esseen, Per-Anders; Carrasco, Pedro; Barreno, Eva (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Ramalina farinacea is an epiphytic lichen-forming fungus with a broad geographic distribution, especially in the Northern Hemisphere. In the eighties of the last century, it was hypothesized that R. farinacea had originated ...
    • First Molecular Phylogeny of Lumbrineridae (Annelida) 

      Borisova, Polina; Budaeva, Nataliya (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-25)
      Lumbrineridae is a family of marine annelids with simple external morphology but complex and diverse jaw apparatuses consisting of paired maxillae and mandibles. Here we present the first phylogeny of lumbrinerids based ...
    • Marine bio-erosion cavities in metamorphic limestone, weathering rates, and the post glacial land rise in Salten, North Norway. 

      Moe, Dagfinn; Salvesen, Per Harald (Journal article, 2022)
      Marine mollusk activity initiate erosion cavities in marble and dolomite in the Saltsraumen littoral zone. Such cavities are gradually exposed above sea water by the still on-going eustatic rebound since the last Ice age. ...
    • Post-Tridentine Mass Attendance as Devotion to the Suffering Christ 

      Achen, Henrik von (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Continuing the long tradition of the allegorical interpretation of the Mass, the seventeenth- and eighteenth century ideal of proper mass attendance was devotion to the suffering Christ, inextricably linked to each step ...
    • Preventing species extinctions: A global conservation consortium for Erica 

      Pirie, Michael David; Blackhall-Miles, Robbie; Bourke, Greg; Crowley, Dan; Ebrahim, Ismail; Forest, Félix; Knaack, Michael; Koopman, Rupert; Lansdowne, Alex; Nürk, Nicolai M.; Osborne, Jo; Pearce, Timothy R.; Rohrauer, Daniel; Smit, Martin; Wilman, Victoria (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Societal Impact Statement Human-caused habitat destruction and transformation is resulting in a cascade of impacts to biological diversity, of which arguably the most fundamental is species extinctions. The Global ...
    • Revision of the Cretaceous shark Protoxynotus (Chondrichthyes, Squaliformes) and early evolution of somniosid sharks 

      Feichtinger, I.; Guinot, G.; Straube, Nicolas; Harzhauser, M.; Auer, G.; Ćorić, S.; Kranner, M.; Schellhorn, S.; Ladwig, J.; Thies, D.; Pollerspöck, J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Due to the peculiar combination of dental features characteristic for different squaliform families, the position of the Late Cretaceous genera Protoxynotus and Paraphorosoides within Squaliformes has long been controversial. ...
    • Relationships Between Soil Microbial Diversities Across an Aridity Gradient in Temperate Grasslands: Soil Microbial Diversity Relationships 

      Liu, Nana; Hu, Huifeng; Ma, Wenhong; Deng, Ye; Dimitrov, Dimitar; Wang, Qinggang; Shrestha, Nawal; Su, Xiangyan; Feng, Kai; Liu, Yuqing; Hao, Baihui; Zhang, Xinying; Feng, Xiaojuan; Wang, Zhiheng (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Soil microbes assemble in highly complex and diverse microbial communities, and microbial diversity patterns and their drivers have been studied extensively. However, diversity correlations and co-occurrence patterns between ...
    • Benthic invertebrates in Svalbard fjords—when metabarcoding does not outperform traditional biodiversity assessment 

      Willassen, Endre; Westgaard, Jon-Ivar; Kongsrud, Jon Anders; Hanebrekke, Tanja Lexau; Buhl-Mortensen, Pål; Holte, Børge (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      To protect and restore ecosystems and biodiversity is one of the 10 challenges identified by the United Nations’s Decade of the Ocean Science. In this study we used eDNA from sediments collected in two fjords of the Svalbard ...
    • Infaunal and epifaunal secondary production in the Barents Sea, with focus on snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) prey resources and consumption 

      Holte, Børge; Fuhrmann, Mona Maria; Tandberg, Anne Helene S.; Hvingel, Carsten; Hjelset, Ann Merete (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Since the first observation of snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) in the Barents Sea in 1996, the population has increased significantly, supporting a commercial fishery on the Norwegian shelf since 2012. To investigate whether ...
    • New species of the genus Chimarra Stephens from Africa (Trichoptera, Philopotamidae) and characterization of the African groups and subgroups of the genus 

      Blahnik, Roger; Andersen, Trond (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      This paper is primarily based on collections in Tanzania and Ghana in 1990–1991 and 1991–1994, respectively. In all, 46 species of Chimarra were collected, 31 of them new species. All these species are illustrated or ...
    • The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics 

      Formenti, Giulio; Theissinger, Kathrin; Fernandes, Carlos; Bista, Iliana; Bombarely, Aureliano; Bleidorn, Christoph; Ciofi, Claudio; Crottini, Angelica; Godoy, José A.; Höglund, Jacob; Malukiewicz, Joanna; Mouton, Alice; Oomen, Rebekah Alice; Paez, Sadye; Palsbøll, Per J.; Pampoulie, Christophe; Ruiz-López, María J.; Svardal, Hannes; Theofanopoulou, Constantina; de Vries, Jantina; Waldvogel, Ann-Marie; Zhang, Guojie; Mazzoni, Camila J.; Jarvis, Erich D.; Bálint, Miklós; Čiampor, Fedor; Aghayan, Sargis A.; Alioto, Tyler S.; Almudí, Isabel; Alvarez, Nadir; Alves, Paulo C.; Amorim, Isabel R.; Antunes, Agostinho; Arribas, Paula; Baldrian, Petr; Berg, Paul Ragnar; Bertorelle, Giorgio; Böhne, Astrid; Bonisoli-Alquati, Andrea; Boštjančić, Ljudevit L.; Boussau, Bastien; Breton, Catherine M.; Buzan, Elena; Campos, Paula F.; Carreras, Carlos; Castro, L. Filipe; Chueca, Luis J.; Conti, Elena; Cook-Deegan, Robert; Croll, Daniel; Cunha, Mónica V.; Delsuc, Frédéric; Dennis, Alice B.; Dimitrov, Dimitar; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Heintzman, Peter D.; Jakobsen, Kjetill Sigurd; Jentoft, Sissel; Matschiner, Michael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Progress in genome sequencing now enables the large-scale generation of reference genomes. Various international initiatives aim to generate reference genomes representing global biodiversity. These genomes provide unique ...
    • Molecular identification and first demographic insights of sharks based on artisanal fisheries bycatch in the Pacific Coast of Colombia: implications for conservation 

      Villate-Moreno, Melany; Cubillos-M, Juan Camilo; Stibor, Herwig; Crawford, Andrew J.; Straube, Nicolas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The Pacific coast of Colombia is characterized by mangrove ecosystems which play a crucial role as possible nurseries for juvenile sharks. However, trophic food webs from coastal ecosystems are heavily disturbed by increased ...