Blar i NTNU Open på tidsskrift "Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution"

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    • Accounting for Uncertainties in Biodiversity Estimations: A New Methodology and Its Application to the Mesopelagic Sound Scattering Layer of the High Arctic 

      Herrmann, Bent; Cerbule, Kristine; Brčić, Jure; Grimaldo Vela, Eduardo Enrique; Geoffroy, Maxime; Daase, Malin; Berge, Jørgen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Measures of biological diversity (biodiversity) are important for monitoring the state of ecosystems. Several indices and methods are used to describe biodiversity from field observations. Marine faunal biodiversity is ...

    • Anthropogenic flank attack on polar bears: interacting consequences of climate warming and pollutant exposure 

      Jenssen, Bjørn Munro; Villanger, Gro Dehli; Gabrielsen, Kristin Møller; Bytingsvik, Jenny; Bechshoft, Thea; Ciesielski, Tomasz Maciej; Sonne, Christian; Dietz, Rune (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are subjected to several anthropogenic threats, climate warming and exposure to pollutants being two of these. For polar bears, one of the main effects of climate warming is limited access to ...

    • Applied Uses of Ancient DNA 

      Rawlence, Nicolas J.; Knapp, Michael; Martin, Michael David; Wales, Nathan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

    • Biomorphogenic Feedbacks and the Spatial Organization of a Dominant Grass Steer Dune Development 

      Bonte, Dries; Batsleer, Femke; Provoost, Sam; Reijers, Valérie; Vandegehuchte, Martijn L.; Van de Walle, Ruben; Dan, Sebastian; Matheve, Hans; Rauwoens, Pieter; Strypsteen, Glenn; Suzuki, Tomohiro; Verwaest, Toon; Hillaert, Jasmijn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Nature-based solutions to mitigate the impact of future climate change depend on restoring biological diversity and natural processes. Coastal foredunes represent the most important natural flood barriers along coastlines ...

    • Breathing in the Cold: Seasonal Changes in the Ventilatory Pattern in a Small Boreal Passerine Bird 

      Bech, Claus; Mariussen, Carita (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Small passerine birds in the north need to take advantage of several behavioral and physiological mechanisms to maintain energy balance during the winter characterized by low food supply, low ambient temperatures, and short ...

    • Circadian rhythms of urinary cortisol levels vary between individuals in wild male chimpanzees: A reaction norm approach 

      Sonnweber, Ruth; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Behringer, Verena; Deschner, Tobias; Tkaczynski, Patrick; Fedurek, Pawel; Preis, Anna; Samuni, Liran; Zommers, Zinta; Gomes, Cristina; Zuberbühler, Klaus; Wittig, Roman M.; Crockford, Catherine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Investigating the repeatability of trait variation between individuals, that is the amount of individual variation in relation to overall phenotypic variation, indicates an upper level of heritability and reveals whether ...

    • Climate change and the increasing impact of polar bears on bird populations 

      Prop, Jouke; Aars, Jon; Bårdsen, Bård-Jørgen; Hanssen, Sveinn Are; Bech, Claus; Bourgeon, Sophie; Fouw, Jimmy de; Gabrielsen, Geir W.; Lang, Johannes; Noreen, Elin; Oudman, Thomas; Sittler, Benoit; stempniewicz, Lech; Tombre, Ingunn; Wolters, Eva; Moe, Børge (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-03-25)
      The Arctic is becoming warmer at a high rate, and contractions in the extent of sea ice are currently changing the habitats of marine top-predators dependent on ice. Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) depend on sea ice for ...

    • Contrasting Effects of Chronic Anthropogenic Disturbance on Activity and Species Richness of Insectivorous Bats in Neotropical Dry Forest 

      Meramo, Katarina; Ovaskainen, Otso; Bernard, Enrico; Silva, Carina Rodrigues; Laine, Veronika N.; Lilley, Thomas M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      For prioritizing conservation actions, it is vital to understand how ecologically diverse species respond to environmental change caused by human activity. This is particularly necessary considering that chronic human ...

    • DNA Sequencing Historical Lichen Specimens 

      Kistenich, Sonja; Halvorsen, Rune; Schrøder-Nielsen, Audun; Thorbek, Birgitte Lisbeth Graae; Timdal, Einar; Bendiksby, Mika (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Biological specimens in natural history collections worldwide are increasingly being used in biogeographical, environmental, and taxonomic studies. For their meaningful use, correct species identification is crucial. For ...

    • DNA-Based Arthropod Diversity Assessment in Amazonian Iron Mine Lands Show Ecological Succession Towards Undisturbed Reference Sites 

      Lynggaard, Christina; Yu, Douglas W.; Oliveira, Guilherme; Caldeira, Cecilio F.; Ramos, Silvio J.; Ellegaard, Martin; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Gastauer, Markus; Bohmann, Kristine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Human activities change natural landscapes, and in doing so endanger biodiversity and associated ecosystem services. To reduce the net impacts of these activities, such as mining, disturbed areas are rehabilitated and ...

    • Editorial: Herbarium Collection-Based Plant Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics 

      Bakker, Freek T.; Bieker, Vanessa Carina; Martin, Michael David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Over the past centuries and especially the last decades, herbarium collections world-wide have amassed an estimated 350 million specimens of plants and fungi, deposited in 3,400 herbaria world-wide (Soltis, 2017). Many of ...

    • The Ghost of the Hawk: Top Predator Shaping Bird Communities in Space and Time 

      Burgas, Daniel; Ovaskainen, Otso; Blanchet, F. Guillaume; Byholm, Patrik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Despite the wide recognition that strongly interacting species can influence distributions of other species, species interactions are often disregarded when assessing or projecting biodiversity distributions. In particular, ...

    • Historical demographic processes dominate genetic variation in ancient Atlantic cod mitogenomes 

      Martinez Garcia, Lourdes; Ferrari, Giada; Oosting, Tom; Ballantyne, Rachel; van der Jagt, Inge; Ystgaard, Ingrid; Harland, Jennifer; Nicholson, Rebecca; Hamilton-Dyer, Sheila; Baalsrud, Helle Tessand; Brieuc, Marine Servane Ono; Atmore, Lane; Burns, Finlay; Schmölcke, Ulrich; Jakobsen, Kjetill Sigurd; Jentoft, Sissel; Orton, David; Hufthammer, Anne Karin; Barrett, James; Star, Bastiaan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Ancient DNA (aDNA) approaches have been successfully used to infer the long-term impacts of climate change, domestication, and human exploitation in a range of terrestrial species. Nonetheless, studies investigating such ...

    • Hydrogen cyanide, a key plant defense, as a potential driver of root-associated nematode communities along urbanization gradients 

      Qu, Jiao; Bonte, Dries; Vandegehuchte, Martijn Lodewijk (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Introduction: Plant chemical defenses can influence the distribution, community composition, and abundance of soil biota. Urbanization plays a key role in shaping soil biotic communities either directly through changes in ...

    • Individual repeatability in marine migratory behaviour: A multi-population assessment of anadromous brown trout tracked through consecutive feeding migrations 

      Eldøy, Sindre Håvarstein; Bordeleau, Xavier; Crossin, Glenn T; Davidsen, Jan Grimsrud (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Despite that the study of individual repeatability is a common topic in behavioral ecology, virtually nothing is known about inter-annual variability in the marine migratory behavior of iteroparous salmonids that can ...

    • Location is everything, but climate gets a share: analyzing small-scale environmental influences on breeding success in the white-throated dipper 

      Nilsson, Anna L.K.; Reitan, Trond; Skaugen, Thomas; L'Abee-Lund, Jan Henning; Gamelon, Marlène; Jerstad, Kurt; Røstad, Ole Wiggo; Slagsvold, Tore; Stenseth, Nils Christian; Vøllestad, L. Asbjørn; Walseng, Bjørn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Ecological and evolutionary effects of environmental variation on wild populations are of particular interest in a changing world. Large-scale environmental indices are classically used as environmental explanatory variables ...

    • Monitoring Fungal Communities With the Global Spore Sampling Project 

      Ovaskainen, Otso; Abrego, Nerea; Somervuo, Panu; Palorinne, Isabella; Hardwick, Bess; Pitkänen, Juha-Matti; Andrew, Nigel R.; Niklaus, Pascal A.; Schmidt, Niels Martin; Seibold, Sebastian; Vogt, Juliane; Zakharov, Evgeny V.; Hebert, Paul D. N.; Roslin, Tomas; Ivanova, Natalia V. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The kingdom Fungi is a megadiverse group represented in all ecosystem types. The global diversity and distribution of fungal taxa are poorly known, in part due to the limitations related to traditional fruit-body survey ...

    • One Hundred Pressing Questions on the Future of Global Fish Migration Science, Conservation, and Policy 

      Lennox, Robert J.; Paukert, Craig P.; Aarestrup, Kim; Auger-Méthé, Marie; Baumgartner, Lee; Birnie-Gauvin, Kim; Bøe, Kristin; Brink, Kerry; Brownscombe, Jacob W.; Chen, Yushun; Davidsen, Jan Grimsrud; Eliason, Erika J.; Filous, Alexander; Gillanders, Bronwyn M.; Helland, Ingeborg Palm; Horodysky, Andrij Z.; Januchowski-Hartley, Stephanie R.; Lowerre-Barbieri, Susan K.; Lucas, Martyn C.; Martins, Eduardo G.; Murchie, Karen J.; Pompeu, Paulo S.; Power, Michael; Raghavan, Rajeev; Rahel, Frank J.; Secor, David; Thiem, Jason D.; Thorstad, Eva Bonsak; Ueda, Hiroshi; Whoriskey, Frederick G.; Cooke, Steven J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Migration is a widespread but highly diverse component of many animal life histories. Fish migrate throughout the world’s oceans, within lakes and rivers, and between the two realms, transporting matter, energy, and other ...

    • Price Elasticity of Bushmeat Demand in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem: Insights for Managing the Bushmeat Trade 

      Walelign, Solomon Zena; Nielsen, Martin Reinhardt; Jacobsen, Jette Bredhal (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Rural households across the tropics rely on bushmeat hunting to fulfill their subsistence and cash income needs. As human populations grow, and urban market demand drives commercial trade, hunting is often unsustainable, ...

    • Regional Patterns of Late Medieval and Early Modern European Building Activity Revealed by Felling Dates 

      Ljungqvist, Fredrik Charpentier; Seim, Andrea; Tegel, Willy; Krusic, Paul J.; Baittinger, Claudia; Belingard, Christelle; Bernabei, Mauro; Bonde, Niels; Borghaerts, Paul; Couturier, Yann; Crone, Anne; van Daalen, Sjoerd; Daly, Aoife; Doeve, Petra; Domínguez-Delmás, Marta; Edouard, Jean-Louis; Frank, Thomas; Ginzler, Christian; Grabner, Michael; Gschwind, Friederike M.; Haneca, Kristof; Hansson, Anton; Herzig, Franz; Heussner, Karl-Uwe; Hofmann, Jutta; Houbrechts, David; Kaczka, Ryszard J.; Kolář, Tomáš; Kontic, Raymond; Kyncl, Tomáš; Labbas, Vincent; Lagerås, Per; Le Digol, Yannick; Le Roy, Melaine; Leuschner, Hanns Hubert; Linderson, Hans; Ludlow, Francis; Marais, Axel; Mills, Coralie M.; Neyses-Eiden, Mechthild; Nicolussi, Kurt; Perrault, Christophe; Pfeifer, Klaus; Rybníček, Michal; Rzepecki, Andreas; Schmidhalter, Martin; Seifert, Mathias; Shindo, Lisa; Spyt, Barbara; Susperregi, Josué; Svarva, Helene Løvstrand; Thun, Terje; Walder, Felix; Ważny, Tomasz; Werthe, Elise; Westphal, Thorsten; Wilson, Rob; Büntgen, Ulf (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Although variations in building activity are a useful indicator of societal well-being and demographic development, historical datasets for larger regions and longer periods are still rare. Here, we present 54,045 annually ...