• Anthropogenic pressure on large carnivores and their prey in the highly threatened forests of Tanintharyi, southern Myanmar 

      Shwe, Nay Myo; Grainger, Matthew; Ngoprasert, Dusit; Aung, Saw Soe; Grindley, Mark; Savini, Tommaso (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The Tanintharyi Region in southern Myanmar is rich in biodiversity yet is facing threats from varying degrees of anthropogenic pressure. In this research we examine how anthropogenic pressures are influencing large carnivores ...
    • Anti-parasite treatment and blood biochemistry in raptor nestlings 

      Hanssen, Sveinn Are; Sonne, Christian; Bustnes, Jan Ove; Schnug, Lisbeth; Bourgeon, Sophie; Ballesteros, Manuel; Eulaers, Igor; Moum, Truls Borg; Johnsen, Trond Vidar; Kjelgaard-Hansen, Mads; Herzke, Dorte; Jaspers, Veerle; Covaci, Adrian; Eens, Marcel; Halley, Duncan John; Erikstad, Kjell Einar; Ims, Rolf Anker (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      We investigated the effects of parasite removal on various blood clinical–chemical variables (BCCVs). BCCVs are indicators of health, reflecting, e.g., homeostasis of liver, kidney function, and bone metabolism. The study ...
    • The application gap: Genomics for biodiversity and ecosystem service management 

      Heuertz, Myriam; Carvalho, Silvia B.; Galindo, Juan; Rinkevich, Baruch; Robakowski, Piotr; Aavik, Tsipe; Altinok, Ilhan; Barth, Julia M.I.; Cotrim, Helena; Goessen, Roos; González-Martínez, Santiago C.; Grebenc, Tine; Hoban, Sean; Kopatz, Alexander; McMahon, Barry J.; Porth, Ilga M.; Raeymaekers, Joost A. M.; Trãger, Sabrina; Valdecantos, Alejandro; Vella, Adriana; Vernesi, Cristiano; Garnier-Géré, Pauline (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The conservation of biodiversity from the genetic to the community levels is fundamental for the continual provision of ecosystem services (ES), the benefits that ecosystems provide to people. Genetic and genomic diversity ...
    • Arctic browning: extreme events and trends reversing arctic greening 

      Phoenix, G. K.; Bjerke, Jarle W. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
    • Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) re-established in a formerly acidified and highly dilute mountain lake under declining acidic deposition 

      Hesthagen, Trygve H.; Saksgård, Randi J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Arctic charr in Rondvatn, a formerly highly acidified mountain lake in southern Norway, was re-established through stocking. The population became extinct during the early 1980s when the lake had an annual mean pH of ...
    • Arctic greening from warming promotes declines in caribou populations 

      Fauchald, Per; Park, Taejin; Tømmervik, Hans; Myneni, Ranga B.; Hausner, Vera Helene (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Themigratory tundra caribou herds in North America follow decadal population cycles, and browsing from abundant caribou could be expected to counteract the current climate-driven expansion of shrubs in the circumpolar ...
    • Arthropod distribution in a tropical rainforest: tackling a four dimensional puzzle 

      Basset, Yves; Cizek, Lukas; Cuénoud, Philippe; Didham, Raphael K.; Novotny, Vojtech; Ødegaard, Frode; Roslin, Tomas; Tishechkin, Alexey K.; Schmidl, Jürgen; Winchester, Neville N.; Roubik, David W.; Aberlenc, Henri-Pierre; Bail, Johannes; Barrios, Héctor; Bridle, Jonathan R.; Castano-Meneses, Gabriela; Corbara, Bruno; Curletti, Gianfranco; da Rocha, Wesley Duarte; de Bakker, Domir; Medianero, Enrique; de Oliveira, Evandro Gama; Orivel, Jérôme; Marc, Pollet; Rapp, Mathieu; Ribeiro, Sérvio P.; Roisin, Yves; Schmidt, Jesper B.; Sørensen, Line; Lewinsohn, Thomas M.; Leponce, Maurice; Kitching, Roger L. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Quantifying the spatio-temporal distribution of arthropods in tropical rainforests represents a first step towards scrutinizing the global distribution of biodiversity on Earth. To date moststudies have focused on narrow ...
    • An artificial intelligence approach to remotely assess pale lichen biomass 

      Erlandsson, Rasmus Ingel; Bjerke, Jarle W.; Finne, Eirik Aasmo; Myneni, Ranga B.; Piao, Shilong; Wang, Xuhui; Virtanen, Tarmo; Räsänen, Aleksi; Kumpula, Timo; Kolari, Tiina H.M.; Tahvanainen, Teemu; Tømmervik, Hans (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Although generally given little attention in vegetation studies, ground-dwelling (terricolous) lichens are major contributors to overall carbon and nitrogen cycling, albedo, biodiversity and biomass in many high-latitude ...
    • AS WE SEE IT Reared fish, farmed escapees and wild fish stocks-a triangle of pathogen transmission of concern to Mediterranean aquaculture management 

      Arechavala-Lopez, P.; Sanchez-Jerez, P.; Bayle-Sempere, J.T.; Uglem, Ingebrigt; Mladineo, I. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)
      Although aquaculture in the Mediterranean is a relatively young industry, finfish dis eases have been reported to cause considerable problems and mortalities among the farmed stocks. In general, the farming activity and ...
    • Assessing climatic and spatial variables influencing zooplankton richness for space-for-time predictions 

      Heuschele, Jan David; Andersen, Tom; Walseng, Bjørn; Hessen, Dag Olav (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      1. The macroecological drivers of freshwater diversity are accredited geographical, spatial and climatic variables, but also to productivity, ecosystem age and landscape history. Locally diversity is also influenced ...
    • Assessing incidental bycatch of seabirds in Norwegian coastal commercial fisheries: Empirical and methodological lessons 

      Fangel, Kirstin; Aas, Øystein; Vølstad, Jon Helge; Bærum, Kim Magnus; Christensen-Dalsgaard, Signe; Nedreaas, Kjell Harald; Overvik, Modolf; Wold, Line Camilla; Anker-Nilssen, Tycho (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)
      With diminishing seabird populations and little knowledge on incidental bycatch in fisheries in the Northeast Atlantic, this study aimed to screen seabird bycatch in Norwegian coastal fisheries in 2009. The purpose was ...
    • Assessing sea floor functional biodiversity and vulnerability 

      Beauchard, Olivier; Thompson, Murray S. A.; Ellingsen, Kari; Piet, Gerjan J.; Laffargue, Pascal; Soetaert, Karline (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The marine benthos has been largely studied through the use of response traits that characterise species vulnerability to disturbance. More limited has been the specific use of effect traits that represent other species ...
    • Assessing the effect of mitigation efforts to improve vegetation recovery inpowerline construction sites across Norway 

      Hagen, Dagmar; Mehlhoop, Anne Catriona; Torsæter, E.; Kyrkjeeide, Magni Olsen; Grainger, Matthew; Evju, Marianne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Land-use related to technical infrastructure puts great pressure on nature and landscapes globally. We used a screening approach to evaluate vegetation development in 295 construction sites related to upkeeping of the ...
    • Assessing the effect of sample bias correction in species distribution models 

      Dubos, Nicolas; Préau, Clémentine; Lenormand, Maxime; Papuga, Guillaume; Monsarrat, Sophie; Denelle, Pierre; Louarn, Marine Le; Heremans, Stien; May, Roelof Frans; Roche, Philip; Luque, Sandra (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      1. Open-source biodiversity databases contain a large number of species occurrence records but are often spatially biased; which affects the reliability of species distribution models based on these records. Sample bias ...
    • Assessing the effects of climate on host-parasite interactions: a comparative study of European birds and their parasites 

      Møller, Anders Pape; Merino, Santiago; Soler, Juan José; Antonov, Anton; Badás, Elisa P.; Calero-Torralbo, Miguel A.; de Lope, Florentino; Eeva, Tapio; Figuerola, Jordi; Flensted-Jensen, Einar; Garamszegi, László Zsolt; González-Braojos, Sonia; Gwinner, Helga; Hanssen, Sveinn Are; Heylen, Dieter; Ilmone, Petteri; Klarborg, Kurt; Korpimäki, Erkki; Martínez, Javier; Martínez-de la Puente, Josue; Marzal, Alfonso; Matthysen, Erik; Matyjasiak, Piotr; Molina-Morales, Mercedes; Moreno, Juan; Mousseau, Timothy A.; Nielsen, Jan Tøttrup; Pap, Peter László; Rivero-de Aguilar, Juan; Shurulinkov, Peter; Slagsvold, Tore; Szép, Tibor; Szöllösi, Eszter; Török, Janos; Vaclav, Radovan; Valera, Fransisco; Ziane, Nadia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Background: Climate change potentially has important effects on distribution, abundance, transmission and virulence of parasites in wild populations of animals. Methodology/Principal Finding: Here we analyzed paired ...
    • Assessing the resilient provision of ecosystem services by social-ecological systems: introduction and theory 

      Sarkki, Simo; Ficko, Andrej; Wielgolaski, Frans Emil; Abraham, Eleni M.; Bratanova-Doncheva, Svetla; Grunewald, Karsten; Hofgaard, Annika; Holtmeier, Friedrich-Karl; Kyriazopoulos, Apostolos P.; Broll, Gabriele; Nijnik, Maria; Sutinen, Marja-Liisa (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    • Assessing the Use of Artificial Hibernacula by the Great Crested Newt (Triturus cristatus) and Smooth Newt (Lissotriton vulgaris) in Cold Climate in Southeast Norway 

      Dervo, Børre Kind; Museth, Jon; Skurdal, Jostein (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Construction of artificial overwintering habitats, hibernacula, or newt hotels, is an important mitigation measure for newt populations in urban and agricultural areas. We have monitored the use of four artificial hotels ...
    • Assessing the usefulness of citizen science data for habitat suitability modelling: Opportunistic reporting versus sampling based on a systematic protocol 

      Henckel, Laura; Bradter, Ute; Jönsson, Mari; Isaac, Nick J.B.; Snäll, Tord (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Aim: To evaluate the potential of models based on opportunistic reporting (OR) compared to models based on data from a systematic protocol (SP) for modelling species distributions. We compared model performance for eight ...
    • An assessment of relative habitat use as a metric for species’ habitat association and degree of specialization 

      O'Reilly, Enya; Gregory, Richard D.; Aunins, Ainars; Brotons, Llúis; Chodkiewicz, Tomasz; Escandell, Virginia; Foppen, Ruud P. B.; Gamero, Anna; Herrando, Sergi; Jiguet, Frédéric; Kålås, John Atle; Kamp, Johannes; Klvanova, Alena; Lehikoinen, Aleksi; Lindström, Åke; Massimino, Dario; Øien, Ingar Jostein; Reif, Jiri; Šilarová, Eva; Teufelbauer, Norbert; Trautmann, Sven; van Turnhout, Chris; Vikstrøm, Thomas; Vorisek, Petr; Butler, Simon J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      In order to understand species’ sensitivity to habitat change, we must correctly determine if a species is associated with a habitat or not, and if it is associated, its degree of specialization for that habitat. However, ...
    • An assessment of silvopastoral systems condition and their capacity to generate ecosystem services in the Colombian Amazon 

      Álvarez, Faver; Casanoves, Fernando; Suarez, Juan Carlos; Rusch, Graciela Monica; Bieng, Marie Ange Ngo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Livestock production in the Colombian Amazonia is typically dual-purpose (meat and milk) based on silvopastoral systems. We aimed to assess how the ecological condition of these systems correspond to the ecosystem services ...