• Multi-decadal improvements in the ecological quality of European rivers are not consistently reflected in biodiversity metrics 

  Sinclair, James S.; Welti, Ellen A. R.; Altermatt, Florian; Álvarez-Cabria, Mario; Aroviita, Jukka; Baker, Nathan J.; Barešová, Libuše; Barquín, José; Bonacina, Luca; Bonada, Núria; Cañedo-Argüelles, Miguel; Csabai, Zoltán; de Eyto, Elvira; Dohet, Alain; Dörflinger, Gerald; Eriksen, Tor Erik; Evtimova, Vesela; Feio, Maria J.; Ferréol, Martial; Floury, Mathieu; Forio, Marie Anne Eurie; Fornaroli, Riccardo; Goethals, Peter L. M.; Heino, Jani; Hering, Daniel; Huttunen, Kaisa-Leena; Jähnig, Sonja C.; Johnson, Richard K.; Kuglerová, Lenka; Kupilas, Benjamin; L’Hoste, Lionel; Larrañaga, Aitor; Leitner, Patrick; Lorenz, Armin W.; McKie, Brendan G.; Muotka, Timo; Osadčaja, Diana; Paavola, Riku; Palinauskas, Vaidas; Pařil, Petr; Pilotto, Francesca; Polášek, Marek; Rasmussen, Jes Jessen; Schäfer, Ralf B.; Schmidt-Kloiber, Astrid; Scotti, Alberto; Skuja, Agnija; Straka, Michal; Stubbington, Rachel; Timm, Henn; Tyufekchieva, Violeta; Tziortzis, Iakovos; Vannevel, Rudy; Várbíró, Gábor; Velle, Gaute; Verdonschot, Ralf C. M.; Vray, Sarah; Haase, Peter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Humans impact terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecosystems, yet many broad-scale studies have found no systematic, negative biodiversity changes (for example, decreasing abundance or taxon richness). Here we show that ...

• Fisken i Haldenvassdraget undersøkt med bruk av miljøDNA 

  Vøllestad, Leif Asbjørn; Lynch, Tyra; Fossøy, Frode; ørjasæter, Håkon; Spikkeland, Ingvar; Selbakk, Lars Kristian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

• Ice-inhabiting species of Bdelloidea Rotifera reveal a pre-Quaternary ancestry in the Arctic cryosphere 

  Shain, Daniel H.; Rogozhina, Irina; Fontaneto, Diego; Nesje, Atle; Saglam, Naim; Bartlett, Jesamine; Zawierucha, Krzysztof; Kielland, Øystein Nordeide; Dunshea, Glenn John; Arnason, Einar; Rosvold, Jørgen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Historical climate data indicate that the Earth has passed through multiple geological periods with much warmer-than-present climates, including epochs of the Miocene (23–5.3 mya BP) with temperatures 3–4°C above present, ...

• Detecting Environmental DNA From Crested and Smooth Newts—Not as Straight Forward as Filtering a Drop of Water 

  Taugbøl, Annette; Fossøy, Frode; Dervo, Børre Kind (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  Environmental DNA methodologies are constantly being developed and optimized for specific purposes. This paper summarizes 3 years of water-sampling and filtering method development, with the aim to reliably detect and ...

• Sum of freshwater habitat degradation as a major driver for collapsing seatrout (Salmo trutta L.) stocks in regions of Norway? – A case-study from Central Norway 

  Bergan, Morten André; Nøst, Terje Henrik; Sandlund, Odd Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Habitatdegradering av små vassdrag som drivkraft for kollaps i sjøørretbestander i Norge? – Eksempelstudie fra midt-norske sjøørretvassdrag. Bestander av sjøørret i Norge viser langvarig nedgang, og det observeres mer eller ...

• Temporal and spatial variability in availability bias has consequences for marine bird abundance estimates during the non-breeding season 

  Dunn, Ruth E.; Duckworth, James; O'Brien, Susan; Furness, Robert W.; Buckingham, Lila; Daunt, Francis; Bogdanova, Maria; Green, Jonathan A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  To effectively monitor how marine ecosystems are being reshaped by anthropogenic pressures, we require understanding of species abundances and distributions. Due to their socio-economic and ecological value, predatory ...

• Large disagreements in estimates of urban land across scales and their implications 

  Chakraborty, T.C.; Venter, Zander; Demuzere, Matthias; Zhan, Wenfeng; Gao, Jing; Zhao, Lei; Qian, Yun (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Improvements in high-resolution satellite remote sensing and computational advancements have sped up the development of global datasets that delineate urban land, crucial for understanding climate risks in our increasingly ...

• Requienella populi sp. nov. (Requienellaceae, Xylariales) from the bark of living aspen trees in Western Norway 

  Andreasen, Mathias; Jordal, John Bjarne; Nordén, Björn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  The new species Requienella populi in the Requienellaceae is described from Western Norway. Multigene analysis of the four molecular markers ITS, LSU, RPB2 and TUB revealed it as a strongly supported sister clade within ...

• Effects of stand structural attributes on oak recruitment in mixed temperate forests 

  Pohl, Nora S.; Hedwall, Per-Ola; Aldea, Jorge; Felton, Annika M.; Gardiner, Emile S.; Muraro, Luca; Nordén, Björn; Löf, Magnus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  Oak-dominated forests worldwide support high levels of biodiversity and provide many important ecosystem services. However, oak forest sustainability is challenged by unsuccessful recruitment of oaks into the overstory. ...

• Distribution and time budgets limit occupancy of breeding sites in the nonbreeding season in a colonial seabird 

  Bennett, Sophie; Daunt, Francis; Searle, Kate R.; Harris, Mike P.; Buckingham, Lila; Duckworth, James; Dunn, Ruth E.; Wanless, Sarah; Newell, Mark A.; Green, Jonathan A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  To acquire or retain a higher quality breeding site, individuals may occupy sites outside the breeding season, with those investing more time and energy in this benefiting from improved breeding success. However, despite ...

• Uncertainty quantification for probabilistic machine learning in earth observation using conformal prediction 

  Singh, Geethen; Moncrieff, Glenn; Venter, Zander; Cawse-Nicholson, Kerry; Slingsby, Jasper; Robinson, Tamara B. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Machine learning is increasingly applied to Earth Observation (EO) data to obtain datasets that contribute towards international accords. However, these datasets contain inherent uncertainty that needs to be quantified ...

• Naturrekneskap i fin skala gjer det mogleg å sjå klima- og naturpåverknad frå utbygging i samanheng 

  Simensen, Trond; Lyngstad, Anders; Kyrkjeeide, Magni Olsen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Naturrekneskap er eit rammeverk utvikla av FN for å gi standardiserte data om tilstand og utvikling i naturen. Kartfesta data ligg til grunn for rekneskapane. Sjølv om metoden har vore mest brukt i relativt grov skala, kan ...

• A social network analysis of the European science–policy–society interface on biodiversity 

  D’Amato, Dalia; Rantala, Salla; Korhonen-Kurki, Kaisa; Locher-Krause, Karla E.; Stoffers, Twan; Falco, Enzo; Włodarczyk-Marciniak, Renata; Adamescu, Mihai; Krauze, Kinga; Orta-Ortiz, M. Susana; Dianoux, Robin; Grainger, Matthew; Young, Juliette (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  Despite the wealth of evidence on biodiversity status, trends, and policy options in Europe, knowledge often fails to inform policy makers and decision makers effectively. Implementing the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 ...

• The Implications of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar L.) Fatty Acid Profiles for Their Thiamine Status 

  Todisco, Vittoria; Hauber, Marc M.; Brett, Michael T.; Axén, Charlotte; Hindar, Kjetil; Tibblin, Petter; Hylander, Samuel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Thiamine deficiency is an ongoing issue across the Northern Hemisphere, causing reproductive failure in multiple salmonid populations. In the Baltic Sea, a large brackish water system in northern Europe, previous research ...

• Behavioural responses of a trans-hemispheric migrant to climate oscillation 

  Siddiqi-Davies, Katrina; Wynn, Joe; Padget, Oliver; Lewin, Patrick; Gillies, Natasha; Morford, Joe; Fisher-Reeves, Lewis; Jaggers, Paris; Morgan, Greg; Danielsen, Jóhannis; Kirk, Holly; Fayet, Annette; Shoji, Akiko; Bond, Sarah; Syposz, Martyna; Maurice, Lou; Freeman, Robin; Dean, Ben; Boyle, David; Guilford, Tim (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Large-scale climatic fluctuations, such as the El Niño–Southern Oscillation, can have dramatic effects on ocean ecosystem productivity. Many mobile species breeding in temperate or higher latitudes escape the extremes of ...

• Knowledge transmission, culture and the consequences of social disruption in wild elephants 

  Bates, Lucy; Fishlock, Victoria Louise; Plotnik, Joshua; de Silva, Shermin; Shannon, Graeme William (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  Cultural knowledge is widely presumed to be important for elephants. In all three elephant species, individuals tend to congregate around older conspecifics, creating opportunities for social transmission. However, direct ...

• Detection of Non-Native Pink Salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) in Swedish Rivers Using eDNA 

  Staveley, Thomas A. B.; Hellström, Micaela; Birgersson, Viktor; Hernvall, Patrick; Schibli, Hans; Axelsson, Erika; Larliander, Linus; Molander, Lars; Thorstad, Eva Bonsak; Berntsen, Henrik H.; Bergendahl, Ida Ahlbeck (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  Biological invasions are increasing on a worldwide scale and can have severe ecological and economic consequences. Pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) have a native range in the Pacific Ocean but have been introduced and ...

• Children’s and Adolescents’ Use of Nature During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Very Green Country 

  Gundersen, Vegard; Venter, Zander; Wold, Line Camilla; Junker-Köhler, Berit; Selvaag, Sofie Kjendlie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Play, physical activity, and social interaction with other children in nature are important for healthy and social development in childhood and adolescence. The extent to which lockdown policies during the COVID-19 pandemic ...

• Stay or go? Changing breeding conditions affect sexual difference in colony attendance strategies of Atlantic puffins Fratercula arctica 

  Anker-Nilssen, Tycho; Kadin, Martina; Hilde, Christoffer Høyvik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Male and female birds have different roles in reproduction and, thereby in their reproductive investment, which in turn may increase negative effects of poorer breeding conditions caused by e.g., climate change or ecosystem ...

• Night flight facilitates late breeding catch-up in a long-distance migratory seabird 

  Siddiqi-Davies, Katrina; Wynn, Joe; Padget, Oliver; Bond, Sarah; Danielsen, Jóhannis; Fayet, Annette; Fisher-Reeves, Lewis; Freeman, Robin; Gillies, Natasha; Kirk, Holly; Maurice, Lou; Morgan, Greg; Syposz, Martyna; Shoji, Akiko; Guilford, Tim (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Long-distance migrants must optimise their timing of breeding to capitalise on resources at both breeding and over-wintering sites. In species with protracted breeding seasons, departing earlier on migration might be ...

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