• Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity 

  Partel, Meelis; Tamme, Riin; Carmona, Carlos P.; Riibak, Kersti; Moora, Mari; Bennett, Jonathan A.; Chiarucci, Alessandro; Chytrý, Milan; de Bello, Francesco; Eriksson, Ove; Harrison, Susan; Lewis, Robert John; Moles, Angela T.; Öpik, Maarja; Price, Jodi N.; Amputu, Vistorina; Askarizadeh, Diana; Atashgahi, Zohreh; Aubin, Isabelle; Azcárate, Francisco M.; Barrett, Matthew D.; Bashirzadeh, Maral; Bátori, Zoltán; Beenaerts, Natalie; Bergholz, Kolja; Birkeli, Kristine; Biurrun, Idoia; Blanco-Moreno, José M.; Bloodworth, Kathryn J.; Boisvert-Marsh, Laura; Boldgiv, Bazartseren; Brancalion, Pedro H. S.; Brearley, Francis Q.; Brown, Charlotte; Bueno, C. Guillermo; Buffa, Gabriella; Cahill, James F.; Campos, Juan A.; Cangelmi, Giacomo; Carbognani, Michele; Carcaillet, Christopher; Cerabolini, Bruno E. L.; Chevalier, Richard; Clavel, Jan S.; Costa, José M.; Cousins, Sara A. O.; Čuda, Jan; Dairel, Mariana; Fratte, Michele Dalle; Danilova, Alena; Davison, John; Roos, Ruben Erik; Thormodsæter, Ruben Schelbred; Vandvik, Vigdis (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  Anthropogenic biodiversity decline threatens the functioning of ecosystems and the many benefits they provide to humanity1. As well as causing species losses in directly affected locations, human influence might also reduce ...

• Elephant megacarcasses increase local nutrient pools in African savanna soils and plants 

  Reed, Courtney G.; Budny, Michelle L.; du Toit, Johan T.; Helcoski, Ryan; Schimel, Joshua P.; Smit, Izak P.J.; Strydom, Tercia; Tallian, Aimee Grace; Thompson, Dave I.; van Coller, Helga; Lemoine, Nathan P.; Burkepile, Deron E. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  African elephants (Loxodonta africana) are the largest extant terrestrial mammals, with bodies containing enormous quantities of nutrients. Yet, we know little about how these nutrients move through the ecosystem after an ...

• Towards a holistic climate service: Addressing all four climate risk determinants 

  Rød, Jan Ketil; Aall, Carlo; Selseng, Torbjørn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  This article presents a newly developed climate service designed to monitor climate risk in Norwegian municipalities using a variety of indicators. The service is accessible through a publicly available multimedia platform. ...

• Geographical Gradient of Fungal Decay Type in Norway Spruce Logs in Europe and Its Impact onSeedling Establishment 

  Fukasawa, Yu; Orman, Olga; Pouska, Václav; Bace, Radek; Panayotov, Momchil; Tsvetanov, Nickolay; Zíbarova, Lucie; Nordén, Jenni; Kawasaki, Yuki; Mikoláš, Martin; Polemis, Elias; Král, Kamil; Přívětivý, Tomáš; Svoboda, Miroslav (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  Aim: Norway spruce (Picea abies) is a dominant tree species across Eurasia, and is known to regenerate on decaying logs.Understanding its regeneration dynamics is crucial for predicting forest sustainability under climate ...

• What does coexistence mean? Insight from place-based trajectories of pastoralists and bears encounters in the Pyrenees 

  Ouvrier, Alice; Culos, Manon; Guillerme, Sylvie; Doré, Antoine; Figari, Helene; Linnell, John Durrus; Quenette, Pierre-Yves; Vimal, Ruppert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  1. The recovery of large carnivores in Europe raises issues related to sharing landscape with humans. Beyond technical solutions, it is widely recognized that social factors also contribute to shaping coexistence. In this ...

• Winter Tracking Data Suggest that Migratory Seabirds Transport Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances to Their Arctic Nesting Site 

  Leandri-Breton, Don-Jean; Jouanneau, William; Legagneux, Pierre; Tarroux, Arnaud; Moe, Børge; Angelier, Frédéric; Blévin, Pierre; Bråthen, Vegard Sandøy; Fauchald, Per; Gabrielsen, Geir Wing; Herzke, Dorte; Nikiforov, Vladimir; Elliott, Kyle H.; Chastel, Olivier (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Seabirds are often considered sentinel species of marine ecosystems, and their blood and eggs utilized to monitor local environmental contaminations. Most seabirds breeding in the Arctic are migratory and thus are exposed ...

• Are sub-alpine species' seedling emergence and establishmentin the alpine limited by climate or biotic interactions? 

  Dahle, Ingrid J.; Gya, Ragnhild; Töpper, Joachim P.; Vandvik, VIgdis (Peer reviewed, 2024)

  One of the ways in which plants are responding to climate change is by shifting their ranges to higher elevations. Early life- history stages are major bottlenecks for species' range shifts, and variation in seedling ...

• A satellite-derived baseline of photosynthetic life across Antarctica 

  Walshaw, Charlotte V.; Gray, Andrew; Fretwell, Peter T.; Convey, Peter; Davey, Matthew P.; Johnson, Joanne S.; Colesie, Claudia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Terrestrial vegetation communities across Antarctica are characteristically sparse, presenting a challenge for mapping their occurrence using remote sensing at the continent scale. At present there is no continent-wide ...

• Adjustable wind selectivity in shearwaters implies knowledge of the foraging landscape 

  Harris, Stephanie M.; Bishop, Charles M.; Bond, Sarah; Fernandes, Paul G.; Guilford, Tim; Lewin, Patrick J.; Padget, Oliver; Robins, Peter; Schneider, Will T.; Waggit, James J.; Wilmes, Sophie B.; Cordes, Line (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  Understanding the movements of highly mobile animals is challenging because of the many factors they must consider in their decision-making. Many seabirds, for example, are adapted to use winds to travel long distances at ...

• Predicting fine-scale downstream migratory movement of Atlantic salmon smolt (Salmo salar) in front of a hydropower plant 

  Bærum, Kim Magnus; Silva, Ana T.; Baktoft, Henrik; Gjelland, Karl Øystein; Økland, Finn; Forseth, Torbjørn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  The Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) is an iconic species of significant ecological and economic importance. Their downstream migration as smolts represents a critical life-history stage that exposes them to numerous challenges, ...

• Intraspecific epigenomics divergence in brown bears (Ursus arctos): insights from genome-wide DNA methylation patterns 

  Colangelo, Paolo; Bonapace, Ian Marc; Gramolini, Laura; Solano, Emanuela; Desiato, Elisa; Franchini, Paolo; Gentile, Leonardo; Guadagnini, Roberto; Kleven, Oddmund; Kindberg, Jonas; Kopatz, Alexander; Ciucci, Paolo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Epigenetic mechanisms such as methylation can influence gene expression and play a crucial role in the adaptation to local environmental conditions, thereby introducing non-genetic variability within species. Here, using ...

• Survival of Eurasian lynx in the human-dominated landscape of Europe 

  Premier, Joseph; Bastianelli, Matteo Luca; Oeser, Julian; Anders, Ole; Andren, Henrik; Aronsson, Malin; Bagrade, Guna; Belotti, Elisa; Breitenmoser-Würsten, Christine; Bufka, Luděk; Černe, Rok; Červený, Jaroslav; Drouet-Hoguet, Nolwenn; Duľa, Martin; Fuxjäger, Christian; Herdtfelder, Micha; Hočevar, Lan; Jedrzejewski, Wlodzimierz; Kont, R.; Koubek, P.; Kowalczyk, Rafał; Krofel, Miha; Krojerová-Prokešová, Jarmila; Kubala, Jakub; Kusak, Josip; Kutal, Miroslav; Linnell, John Durrus; Mattisson, Jenny; Middelhoff, Tomma Lilli; Melovski, Dime; Molinari-Jobin, Anja; Odden, John; Okarma, Henryk; Ornicāns, Aivars; Pagon, Nives; Persson, Jens; Schmidt, Krzysztof; Sindicic, Magda; Slijepcevic, V.; Tám, Branislav; Zimmermann, Fridolin; Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie A.; Heurich, Marco (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  Survival and cause-specific mortality rates are vital for evidence-based population forecasting and conservation, particularly for large carnivores, whose populations are often vulnerable to human-caused mortalities. It ...

• Modelling heterogeneity in the classification process in multi-species distribution models can improve predictive performance 

  Adjei, Kwaku Peprah; Finstad, Anders Gravbrøt; Koch, Wouter; O'Hara, Robert Brian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Species distribution models and maps from large-scale biodiversity data are necessary for conservation management. One current issue is that biodiversity data are prone to taxonomic misclassifications. Methods to account ...

• Dealing With the Complexity of Effective Population Size in Conservation Practice 

  Fedorca, Ancuta; Mergeay, Joachim; Akinyele, Adejoke O.; Albayrak, Tamer; Biebach, Iris; Brambilla, Alice; Burger, Pamela A.; Buzan, Elena; Curik, Ino; Gargiulo, Roberta; Godoy, José A.; González-Martínez, Santiago C.; Grossen, Christine; Heuertz, Myriam; Hoban, Sean; Howard-McCombe, Jo; Kachamakova, Maria; Klinga, Peter; Köppä, Viktoria; Neugebauer, Elenora; Paz-Vinas, Ivan; Pearman, Peter B.; Pérez-Sorribes, Laia; Rinkevich, Baruch; Russo, Isa-Rita M.; Theraroz, Adélaïde; Thomas, Nia E.; Westergren, Marjana; Winter, Sven; Laikre, Linda; Kopatz, Alexander (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Effective population size (Ne) is one of the most important parameters in evolutionary biology, as it is linked to the long-term survival capability of species. Therefore, Ne greatly interests conservation geneticists, but ...

• Evaluating environmental impacts of micro, mini and small hydropower plants in Norway 

  Hedger, Richard David; Kenawi, Mahmoud S.; Sundt-Hansen, Line Elisabeth Breivik; Bakken, Tor Haakon; Sandercock, Brett Kevin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Small-scale hydropower plants with an installed capacity <10 MW are an important part of Norway’s local and regional development. Small-scale facilities have been viewed as a relatively environmentally friendly form of ...

• Endonymiprinsippet og flerspråklige stedsnavn i Europa 

  Sandvik, Hanno (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  The endonymic principle and plurilingual toponyms in Europe

• Large carnivore distribution maps and population updates 2017 – 2022/23. Report to the European Comission under contract N° 09.0201/2023/907799/SER/ENV.D.3 “Support for Coexistence with Large Carnivores”, “B.4 Update of the distribution maps”. 

  Kaczensky, Petra; Ranc, Nathan; Hatlauf, Jennifer; Payne, John C.; Acosta-Pankov, I.; Álvares, F.; Andrén, Henrik; Andri, P.; Aragno, P.; Avanzinelli, E.; Bagrade, G.; Balys, V.; Barroso, I.; Bartol, M.; Bassano, B.; Bauduin, S.; Bautista, C.; Bedő, P.; Belotti, E.; Berezowska-Cnota, T.; Bernicchi, L.; Bijl, H.; Bionda, R.; Bišćan, A.; Blanco, J.C.; Bliem, K.; Böcker, F.; Bogdanović, N.; Boiani, V.; Bojda, M.; Boljte, B.; Bragalanti, N.; Breitenmoser, U.; Brøseth, Henrik; Bučko, J.; Budinski, I.; Bufka, L.; Černe, R.; Cherepanyn, R.; Chiriac, S.; Ćirović, D.; Csányi, S.; De Angelis, D.; de Gabriel Hernando, M.; DeAngelis, D.; Diószegi-Jelinek, L.; Done, G.; Drouet-Hoguet, N.; Duľa, M.; Dutsov, A.; Engleder, T.; Fenchuk, Viktar; Ferloni, M.; Ferri, Mauro; Kindberg, Jonas; Linnell, John Durrus (Research report, 2024)

  Large carnivores have made a remarkable comeback in Europe during the last half century, and recovery is still ongoing in large parts of the continent (Andrén 2018; Boitani 2018; Boitani et al. 2022; Chapron et al. 2014; ...

• One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction 

  Sayer, Catherine A.; Fernando, Eresha; Jiménez, Randall R.; Macfarlane, Nicholas B. W.; Rapacciuolo, Giovanni; Böhm, Monika; Brooks, Thomas M.; Contreras-MacBeath, Topiltzin; Cox, Neil A.; Harrison, Ian; Hoffmann, Michael; Jenkins, Richard; Smith, Kevin G.; Vié, Jean-Christophe; Abbott, John C.; Allen, David J.; Allen, Gerald R.; Barrios, Violeta; Boudot, Jean-Pierre; Carrizo, Savrina F.; Clausnitzer, Viola; Congiu, Leonardo; Charvet, Patricia; Crandall, Keith A.; Cumberlidge, Neil; Cuttelod, Annabelle; Dalton, James; Daniels, Adam G.; De Grave, Sammy; De Knijf, Geert; Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B.; Dow, Rory A.; Freyhof, Jörg; García, Nieves; Gessner, Joern; Getahun, Abebe; Gibson, Claudine; Gollock, Matthew J.; Grant, Michael I.; Groom, Alice E. R.; Hammer, Michael P.; Hammerson, Geoffrey A.; Hilton-Taylor, Craig; Hodgkinson, Laurel; Holland, Robert A.; Jabado, Rima W.; Bignoli, Diego Juffe; Kalkman, Vincent J.; Karimov, Bakhtiyor K.; Kipping, Jens; Thorstad, Eva Bonsak (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  Freshwater ecosystems are highly biodiverse1 and important for livelihoods and economic development2, but are under substantial stress3. To date, comprehensive global assessments of extinction risk have not included any ...

• Macroecological patterns of rodent population dynamics shaped by bioclimatic gradients 

  Soininen, Eeva M; Magnusson, Magnus; Jepsen, Jane Uhd; Eide, Nina Elisabeth; Yoccoz, Nigel Gilles; Angerbjörn, Anders; Breisjøberget, Jo Inge; Ecke, Frauke; Ehrich, Dorothee; Framstad, Erik; Henttonen, Heikki; Hörnfeldt, Birger; Killengreen, Siw Turid; Olofsson, Johan; Oksanen, Lauri; Oksanen, Tarja Maarit; Tveito, Ole Einar Ellingbø; Ims, Rolf A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Long-term studies of cyclic rodent populations have contributed fundamentally to the development of population ecology. Pioneering rodent studies have shown macroecological patterns of population dynamics in relation to ...

• Unveiling cryptic macroinvertebrate sentinels to enhance biomonitoring in tropical rivers: Bridging traditional approaches with DNA barcoding in the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot 

  Eriksen, Tor Erik; Brittain, John Edward; Sandin, Leonard; Friberg, Nikolai (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)

  Human activities present significant threats to tropical freshwater ecosystems, notably in many global biodi versity hotspots, threats that are further increased by inadequate taxonomic knowledge and the lack of appropriate ...

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