• Future of DNA-based insect monitoring 

  Chua, Physilia Y. S.; Bourlat, Sarah J; Ferguson, Cameron; Korlevic, Petra; Zhao, Leia; Ekrem, Torbjørn; Meier, Rudolf; Lawniczak, Mara K.N. (Journal article, 2023)

  Insects are crucial for ecosystem health but climate change and pesticide use are driving massive insect decline. To mitigate this loss, we need new and effective monitoring techniques. Over the past decade there has been ...

• Marine migration, thermal habitat use and feeding habits of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus (L. 1758)) in SW Greenland 

  Davidsen, Jan Grimsrud; Eldøy, Sindre Håvarstein; Piper, Adam; Moccetti, Coralie; Brodersen, Jakob; Whoriskey, Frederick G.; Power, Michael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Climate change is altering northern coastal aquatic habitats, especially in fjords. Data on current ecosystem structure and biodiversity in many northern fjord and coastal ecosystems, especially for Greenland, are lacking. ...

• Cryptic species diversity and eDNA metabarcoding in marine ecosystem monitoring 

  Hektoen, Martin Mejdell (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2024:343, Doctoral thesis, 2024)

  English summary Marine sediments constitute the largest ecosystem on Earth, yet they remain poorly studied. With increasing human activities in the coastal zone, these understudied environments face unprecedented pressures ...

• Environmental drivers of food webs in charr and trout-dominated cold-water lakes 

  Kangosjärvi, Henna; Amundsen, Per-Arne; Byström, Pär; Finstad, Anders Gravbrøt; Power, Michael John; Sánchez-Hernández, Javier; Eloranta, Antti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

• Climate change vulnerability of Arctic char across Scandinavia 

  Muhlfeld, Clint C.; Cline, Timothy J.; Finstad, Anders Gravbrøt; Hessen, Dag Olav; Perrin, Sam; Thaulow, Jens; Whited, Diane; Vøllestad, Leif Asbjørn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Climate change is anticipated to cause species to shift their ranges upward and poleward, yet space for tracking suitable habitat conditions may be limited for range-restricted species at the highest elevations and latitudes ...

• Effects of cattle and cervids on plants and flower-visiting insects in young spruce plantations 

  Valaker, Jenny; Helbert, Juliette; Schubert, Veronika; Mathisen, Karen Marie; Henriksen, Marie Vestergaard; Nielsen, Anders; Austrheim, Gunnar; Zimmermann, Barbara (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

• Linked Selection and Gene Density Shape Genome-Wide Patterns of Diversification in Peatmosses 

  Meleshko, Olena; Martin, Michael David; Flatberg, Kjell Ivar; Stenøien, Hans Kristen; Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand; Szövényi, Péter; Hassel, Kristian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Genome evolution under speciation is poorly understood in nonmodel and nonvascular plants, such as bryophytes—the largest group of nonvascular land plants. Their genomes are structurally different from angiosperms and ...

• Genomic context determines the effect of DNA methylation on gene expression in the gut epithelium of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) 

  Katirtzoglou, Aikaterini; Hansen, Søren B.; Sveier, Harald; Martin, Michael David; Brealey, Jaelle C.; Limborg, Morten T. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  The canonical view of DNA methylation, a pivotal epigenetic regulation mechanism in eukaryotes, dictates its role as a suppressor of gene activity, particularly within promoter regions. However, this view is being challenged ...

• Social and genetic connectivity despite ecological variation in a killer whale network 

  Jourdain, Eve Marie; Karoliussen, Richard; Fordyce Martin, Sarah L.; Langangen, Øystein Ole Gahr; Robeck, Todd; Borgå, Katrine; Ruus, Anders; Foote, Andrew David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Philopatric kin-based societies encourage a narrow breadth of conservative behaviours owing to individuals primarily learning from close kin, promoting behavioural homogeneity. However, weaker social ties beyond kin, and ...

• The oral microbiota of wild bears in Sweden reflects the history of antibiotic use by humans 

  Brealey, Jaelle; Leitão, Henrique; Hofstede, Thijs; Kalthoff, Daniela C.; Guschanski, Katerina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Following the advent of industrial-scale antibiotic production in the 1940s,1 antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been on the rise and now poses a major global health threat in terms of mortality, morbidity, and economic ...

• Typification of Jungermannia pinguis L. (Marchantiophyta, Aneuraceae) 

  Long, David; Forrest, Laura L.; Hassel, Kristian; Séneca, Ana; Söderström, Lars (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

• National records of 3000 European bee and hoverfly species: A contribution to pollinator conservation 

  Reverté, Sara; Miličić, Marija; Ačanski, Jelena; Andrić, Andrijana; Aracil, Andrea; Aubert, Matthieu; Balzan, Mario Victor; Bartomeus, Ignasi; Bogusch, Petr; Bosch, Jordi; Budrys, Eduardas; Cantú-Salazar, Lisette; Castro, Sílvia; Cornalba, Maurizio; Demeter, Imre; Devalez, Jelle; Dorchin, Achik; Dufrêne, Eric; Đorđević, Aleksandra; Fisler, Lisa; Fitzpatrick, Úna; Flaminio, Simone; Földesi, Rita; Gaspar, Hugo; Genoud, David; Geslin, Benoît; Ghisbain, Guillaume; Gilbert, Francis; Gogala, Andrej; Grković, Ana; Heimburg, Helge; Herrera-Mesías, Fernanda; Jacobs, Maarten; Janković Milosavljević, Marina; Janssen, Kobe; Jensen, Jens-Kjeld; Ješovnik, Ana; Józan, Zsolt; Karlis, Giorgos; Kasparek, Max; Kovács-Hostyánszki, Anikó; Kuhlmann, Michael; Le Divelec, Romain; Leclercq, Nicolas; Likov, Laura; Litman, Jessica; Ljubomirov, Toshko; Madsen, Henning Bang; Marshall, Leon; Mazánek, Libor; Milić, Dubravka; Mignot, Maud; Mudri-Stojnić, Sonja; Müller, Andreas; Nedeljković, Zorica; Nikolić, Petar; Ødegaard, Frode; Patiny, Sebastien; Paukkunen, Juho; Pennards, Gerard; Pérez-Bañón, Celeste; Perrard, Adrien; Petanidou, Theodora; Pettersson, Lars B.; Popov, Grigory; Popov, Snežana; Praz, Christophe; Prokhorov, Alex; Quaranta, Marino; Radchenko, Vladimir G.; Radenković, Snežana; Rasmont, Pierre; Rasmussen, Claus; Reemer, Menno; Ricarte, Antonio; Risch, Stephan; Roberts, Stuart P. M.; Rojo, Santos; Ropars, Lise; Rosa, Paolo; Ruiz, Carlos; Sentil, Ahlam; Shparyk, Viktor; Smit, Jan; Sommaggio, Daniele; Soon, Villu; Ssymank, Axel; Ståhls, Gunilla; Stavrinides, Menelaos; Straka, Jakub; Tarlap, Peeter; Terzo, Michael; Tomozii, Bogdan; Tot, Tamara; van der Ent, Leendert-Jan; van Steenis, Jeroen; van Steenis, Wouter; Varnava, Androulla I.; Vereecken, Nicolas J.; Veselić, Sanja; Vesnić, Adi; Weigand, Alexander; Wisniowski, Bogdan; Wood, Thomas J.; Zimmermann, Dominique; Michez, Denis; Vujić, Ante (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  1. Pollinators play a crucial role in ecosystems globally, ensuring the seed production of most flowering plants. They are threatened by global changes and knowledge of their distribution at the national and continental ...

• Genomic analyses show extremely perilous conservation status of African and Asiatic cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) 

  Prost, Stefan; Machado, Ana Paula; Zumbroich, Julia; Preier, Lisa; Mahtani-Williams, Sarita; Meissner, Rene; Guschanski, Katerina; Brealey, Jaelle; Rodríguez Fernandes, Carlos; Vercammen, Paul; Hunter, Luke T. B.; Abramov, Alexei V.; Plasil, Martin; Horin, Petr; Godsall-Bottriell, Lena; Bottriell, Paul; Dalton, Desire Lee; Kotze, Antoinette; Burger, Pamela Anna (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  We live in a world characterized by biodiversity loss and global environmental change. The extinction of large carnivores can have ramifying effects on ecosystems like an uncontrolled increase in wild herbivores, which in ...

• The effect of surveillance fishing on migration distance of Atlantic Salmon during the spawning period 

  Munkeby, Johan; Davidsen, Jan Grimsrud; Havn, Torgeir Børresen; Ulvan, Eva Marita; Næsje, Tor; Karlsen, Dag H.; Solem, Øyvind; Lennox, Robert J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Objective Surveillance fishing surveys can be performed to estimate the proportion of farmed salmon represented in the spawning stock of native Atlantic Salmon Salmo salar populations. These surveys take place after the ...

• Modern Siberian dog ancestry was shaped by several thousand years of Eurasian-wide trade and human dispersal 

  Feuerborn, Tatiana R.; Carmagnini, Alberto; Losey, Robert J.; Nomokonova, Tatiana; Askeyev, Arthur; Askeyev, Igor; Askeyev, Oleg; Antipina, Ekaterina E.; Appelt, Martin; Bachura, Olga P.; Beglane, Fiona; Bradley, Daniel G.; Daly, Kevin G.; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Gregersen, Kristian Murphy; Guo, Chunxue; Gusev, Andrei V.; Jones, Carleton; Kosintsev, Pavel A.; Kuzmin, Yaroslav V.; Mattiangeli, Valeria; Perri, Angela R.; Plekhanov, Andrei; Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmín; Schmidt, Anne Lisbeth; Shaymuratova, Dilyara; Smith, Oliver; Yavorskaya, Lilia V.; Zhang, Guojie; Willerslev, Eske; Meldgaard, Morten; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Larson, Greger; Dalén, Love; Hansen, Anders J.; Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S.; Frantz, Laurent (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Dogs have been essential to life in the Siberian Arctic for over 9,500 y, and this tight link between people and dogs continues in Siberian communities. Although Arctic Siberian groups such as the Nenets received limited ...

• Lecanora caledonica - a new species in the Lecanora intumescens group (Lecanoraceae) from north-western Europe 

  Arup, Ulf; Holien, Håkon; Coppins, Brian J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  Lecanora caledonica is described as new to science. Molecular analyses show that it belongs to the L. intumescens group. It is also rather similar in appearance to L. intumescens, but differs mainly chemically in containing ...

• Genomics of adaptive evolution in the woolly mammoth 

  Díez-del-Molino, David; Dehasque, Marianne; Chacón-Duque, J. Camilo; Pečnerová, Patrícia; Tikhonov, Alexei; Protopopov, Albert; Plotnikov, Valeri; Kanellidou, Foteini; Nikolskiy, Pavel; Mortensen, Peter; Danilov, Gleb K.; Vartanyan, Sergey; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Lister, Adrian M.; Heintzman, Peter D.; van der Valk, Tom; Dalén, Love (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  Ancient genomes provide a tool to investigate the genetic basis of adaptations in extinct organisms. However, the identification of species-specific fixed genetic variants requires the analysis of genomes from multiple ...

• The evolution of extra-pair paternity and paternal care in birds 

  Søraker, Jørgen Skavdal; Wright, Jonathan; Hanslin, Fredrik Øglænd; Pepke, Michael Le (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  Extra-pair paternity (EPP) influences the relatedness between social parents and offspring. Therefore, one might expect the level of EPP to influence levels of paternal investment. Here, we investigated the effect of ...

• Studies on Aneura (Aneuraceae): The Aneura maxima complex 

  Söderström, Lars; Forrest, Laura L.; Hassel, Kristian; Long, David G.; Séneca, Ana; Inoue, Yuya (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  Based on molecular data we show that there are at least five taxa involved among the morphological complex of large Aneura species with wide, thin thalli. We also typify the previously described large Aneura species and ...

• Innovating Interdisciplinarity in Higher Education: Exploring the Impact of a Grassroots Community of Practice 

  Gutierrez Gonzalez, Maria Azucena; Mandeville, Caitlin Marie; Edwards, Ferne Leigh; Rice, Paula Maria (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Skills in interdisciplinary collaboration are required to address many complex problems facing society. As such, interdisciplinarity is a critical competency for students to develop. However, teachers’ effectiveness in ...

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