• Cardiac adaptation in hibernating, free-ranging Scandinavian Brown Bears (Ursus arctos 

      Jørgensen, Peter Godsk; Evans, Alina; Kindberg, Jonas; Olsen, Lisbeth Høier; Galatius, Søren; Fröbert, Ole (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      During six months of annual hibernation, the brown bear undergoes unique physiological changes to adapt to decreased metabolic rate. We compared cardiac structural and functional measures of hibernating and active bears ...
    • Caribou and reindeer migrations in the changing Arctic 

      Joly, Kyle; Gunn, Anne; Côté, Steeve D.; Panzacchi, Manuela; Adamczewski, Jan; Suitor, Michael J.; Gurarie, Eliezer (Journal article, 2021)
      Caribou and reindeer, Rangifer tarandus, are the most numerous and socio-ecologically important terrestrial species in the Arctic. Their migrations are directly and indirectly affected by the seasonal nature of the ...
    • Carry-Over or Compensation? The Impact of Winter Harshness and Post-Winter Body Condition on Spring-Fattening in a Migratory Goose Species 

      Clausen, Kevin K.; Madsen, Jesper; Tombre, Ingunn (Journal article, 2015)
      Environmental conditions at one point of the annual cycle of migratory species may lead to cross-seasonal effects affecting fitness in subsequent seasons. Based on a long-term mark-resighting dataset and scoring of body ...
    • Caught in the mesh: roads and their network-scale impediment to animal movement 

      Bischof, Richard; Steyaert, Sam; Kindberg, Jonas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Roads have a pervasive multi-faceted influence on ecosystems, including pronounced impacts on wildlife movements. In recognition of the scale-transcending impacts of transportation infrastructure, ecologists have been ...
    • Caught in the mesh: roads and their network-scale impediment to animal movement 

      Bischof, Richard; Steyaert, Sam; Kindberg, Jonas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Roads have a pervasive multi-faceted influence on ecosystems, including pronounced impacts on wildlife movements. In recognition of the scale-transcending impacts of transportation infrastructure, ecologists have been ...
    • Census of potentially invasive Rhododendron in West Norway and the implications for management 

      Halley, Duncan J. (NINA Rapport;1561, Research report, 2018)
      Halley, D.J. 2018. Census of potentially invasive Rhododendron in West Norway and the implications for management. NINA Report 1561. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research. Rhododendron hybrids based on R. ponticum ...
    • The challenges and opportunities of coexisting with wild ungulates in the human-dominated landscapes of Europe's Anthropocene 

      Linnell, John Durrus; Cretois, Benjamin; Nilsen, Erlend Birkeland; Rolandsen, Christer Moe; Solberg, Erling Johan; Veiberg, Vebjørn; Kaczensky, Petra; Van Moorter, Bram; Panzacchi, Manuela; Rauset, Geir Rune; Kaltenborn, Bjørn Petter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The cumulative impact of human activities has driven many species into severe declines across the globe. However, the recent focus on conservation optimism has begun to highlight case studies that go against this trend. ...
    • Challenges and science-based implications for modern management and conservation of European ungulate populations 

      Apollonio, Marco; Belkin, Vladimir V.; Borkowski, Jakub; Borodin, Oleg I.; Borowik, Tomasz; Cagnacci, Francesca; Danilkin, Aleksey A.; Danilov, Peter I.; Faybich, Andrey; Ferretti, Francesco; Gaillard, Jean Michel; Hayward, Matt; Heshtaut, Pavel; Heurich, Marco; Hurynovich, Aliaxandr Hurynovich; Kashtalyan, Alexander; Kerley, Graham I. H.; Kjellander, Petter; Kowalczyk, Rafał; Kozorez, Alexander; Matveytchuk, Sergey; Milner, Jos M.; Mysterud, Atle; Ozoliņš, Jānis; Panchenko, Danila V.; Peters, Wibke; Podgórski, Tomasz; Pokorny, Boštjan; Rolandsen, Christer Moe; Ruusila, Vesa; Schmidt, Krzysztof; Sipko, Taras P.; Veeroja, Rauno; Velihurau, Pavel; Yanuta, Gregoriy (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Wildlife management systems face growing challenges to cope with increasingly complex interactions between wildlife populations, the environment and human activities. In this position statement, we address the most important ...
    • Challenges for transboundary management of a European 

      Reljic, Slaven; Jerina, Klemen; Nilsen, Erlend B.; Huber, Djuro; Kusak, Josip; Jonozovic, Marko; Linnell, John D.C. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)
      Pan-European legislation stimulates international cooperation to overarching challenges of large carnivore management across jurisdictions. We present an analysis for current transboundary brown bear (Ursus arctos) ...
    • Challenges of managing a European brown bear population; lessons from Sweden, 1943–2013 

      Swenson, Jon; Schneider, Michael; Zedrosser, Andreas; Söderberg, Arne; Franzén, Robert; Kindberg, Jonas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Adaptive management’, which has been defined as the repeated iteration between management action, scientific assessment and revised management action, leading to a strengthened foundation for management, is required by ...
    • Challenges to ecosystem service valuation for wealth accounting 

      Grimsrud, Kristine; Lindhjem, Henrik; Barton, David Nicholas; Navrud, Ståle (Chapter, 2018)
    • Changes in greening in the High Arctic - insights from a 30-year AVHRR max NDVI dataset for Svalbard 

      Vickers, Hannah; Høgda, Kjell Arild; Solbø, Stian; Karlsen, Stein Rune; Tømmervik, Hans; Aanes, Ronny; Hansen, Brage Bremset (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Satellite-aided studies of vegetation cover, biomass and productivity are becoming increasingly important formonitoring the effects of a changing climate on the biosphere. With their large spatial coverage and good temporal ...
    • Changes in growing season duration and productivity of northern vegetation inferred from long-term remote sensing data 

      Park, Taejin; Ganguly, Sangram; Tømmervik, Hans; Euskirchen, Eugénie S.; Høgda, Kjell Arild; Karlsen, Stein Rune; Brovkin, Victor; Nemani, Ramakrishna R.; Myneni, Ranga B. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Monitoring and understanding climate-induced changes in the boreal and arctic vegetation is critical to aid in prognosticating their future.Weused a 33 year (1982–2014) long record of satellite observations to robustly ...
    • Changes in timing of seasonal peak photosynthetic activity in northern ecosystems 

      Park, Taejin; Chen, Chi; Macias-Fauria, Marc; Tømmervik, Hans; Choi, Sungho; Winkler, Alexander; Bhatt, Uma S.; Walker, Donald A.; Piao, Shilong; Brovkin, Victor; Nemani, Ramakrishna R.; Myneni, Ranga B. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Seasonality in photosynthetic activity is a critical component of seasonal carbon, water and energy cycles in the Earth system. This characteristic is a consequence of plant’s adaptive evolutionary processes to a given set ...
    • Changes in trophic state and aquatic communities in high Arctic ponds in response to increasing goose populations 

      Jensen, Thomas Correll; Walseng, Bjørn; Hessen, Dag Olav; Dimante-Deimantovica, Inta; Novichkova, Anna; Chertoprud, Elena S.; Chertoprud, Mikhail V.; Sakharova, Ekaterina G.; Krylov, Aleksandr V.; Frisch, Dagmar; Christoffersen, Kirsten Seestern (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      1. The high Arctic, including the Svalbard archipelago in the North Atlantic, has been exposed to direct and indirect drivers of climatic change such as rising temperatures and associated changes in hydrology and nutrient ...
    • Changes in wetland habitat use by waterbirds wintering in Czechia are related to diet and distribution changes 

      Musilová, Zuzana; Musil, Petr; Zouhar, Jan; Šenkýřová, Adéla; Pavòn-Jordàn, Diego; Nummi, Petri (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      1. Understanding species habitat use and factors affecting changes in their distribu-tions are necessary to promote the conservation of any biological community. We evaluated the changes in wetland use of the non- breeding ...
    • Changes in winter warming events in the Nordic Arctic Region 

      Vikhamar-Schuler, Dagrun; Isaksen, Ketil; Haugen, Jan Erik; Tømmervik, Hans; Luks, Bartlomiej; Schuler, Thomas Vikhamar; Bjerke, Jarle W. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      In recent years extreme winter warming events have been reported in arctic areas. These events are characterized as extraordinarily warm weather episodes, occasionally combined with intense rainfall, causing ecological ...
    • Changing Arctic snow cover: A review of recent developments and assessment of future needs for observations, modelling, and impacts 

      Bokhorst, Stef; Pedersen, Stine Højlund; Brucker, Ludovic; Anisimov, Oleg; Bjerke, Jarle W.; Brown, Ross D.; Ehrich, Dorothee (Journal article, 2016)
      Snow is a critically important and rapidly changing feature of the Arctic. However, snow-cover and snowpack conditions change through time pose challenges for measuring and prediction of snow. Plausible scenarios of ...
    • Changing contributions of stochastic and deterministic processes in community assembly over a successional gradient 

      Måren, Inger Elisabeth; Kapfer, Jutta; Aarrestad, Per Arild; Grytnes, John-Arvid; Vandvik, Vigdis (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Successional dynamics in plant community assembly may result from both deterministic and stochastic ecological processes. The relative importance of different ecological processes is expected to vary over the successional ...
    • Characterisation and mapping of landscape types, a case study from Norway 

      Erikstad, Lars; Uttakleiv, Lars Andre; Halvorsen, Rune (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      The European Landscape Convention emphasises the human perception of landscapes in its definition of the landscape, and promotes citizen participation in landscape management processes. On the other hand, landscape ...