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Composition and Drivers of Gut Microbial Communities in Arctic-Breeding Shorebirds
(Peer reviewed, 2019)Gut microbiota can have important effects on host health, but explanatory factors and pathways that determine gut microbial composition can differ among host lineages. In mammals, host phylogeny is one of the main drivers ... -
Tilbakegang for flueblom Ophrys insectifera i Røsskleiva naturreservat i perioden 1984–2017
(Peer reviewed, 2019)The red-listed orchid Ophrys insectifera is in decline despite years of protection. One of the species’ most important habitats is seasonally moist calcareous pine forest. This characteristic and species-rich forest type ... -
Movement and heart rate in the Scandinavian brown bear (Ursus arctos)
(Journal article, 2019)Background: Understanding animal movement facilitates better management and conservation. The link between movement and physiology holds clues to the basic drivers of animal behaviours. In bears, heart rate increases with ... -
When context matters: Spatial prediction models of environmental conditions can identify target areas for wild bee habitat management interventions
(Peer reviewed, 2019)Prioritizing where to implement management interventions is critical because managers have limited Budgets and the effect of habitat enhancement depends on site-specific environmental conditions. Field experiments can ... -
A Century of Conservation: The Ongoing Recovery of Svalbard Reindeer
(Peer reviewed, 2019)Several caribou and reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) populations have experienced recent population declines, often attributed to anthropogenic stressors such as harvesting, landscape fragmentation, and climate change. Svalbard ... -
The cost of anadromy: marine and freshwater mortality rates in anadromous Arctic char and brown trout in the Arctic region of Norway
(Peer reviewed, 2019)It is hypothesized that in diadromous fish, migrations may occur because of differences in the availability of food in marine and freshwater habitats. The benefits of migration to sea may be increased growth opportunities ... -
Relationships between isotopic ratios, body condition and breeding success in a High Arctic seabird community
(Peer reviewed, 2019)Predators such as seabirds are often used as bio-indicators of the marine environment. This is based on the assumption that changes in seabird populations are driven by changes in their prey. We tested this assumption in ... -
Servicescape of the Greater Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem: Visualizing the linkages between land use, biodiversity and the delivery of wildlife-related ecosystem services
(Journal article, 2019)Understanding how anthropogenic activities and management actions influence the delivery of ecosystem services is complicated by the interrelated nature of diverse factors. We present a Bayesian Belief Network to highlight ... -
Resource utilization by the Kori bustard in the Serengeti ecosystem
(Peer reviewed, 2019)This study aimed to understand the movement behaviour and utilization distributions of Kori bustards in space and time in the Serengeti ecosystem. A total of 14 individuals were tracked with the aid of GPS (Geographical ... -
‘Do you care about the river?’ A critical discourse analysis and lessons for management of social conflict over Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) conservation in the case of voluntary stocking in Wales
(Peer reviewed, 2019)1. Stakeholders with shared interests in fish conservation often disagree about which specific conservation measures are appropriate, leading to conflicts with sometimes long‐lasting and disruptive social and political ... -
High inter‐ and intraspecific niche overlap among three sympatrically breeding, closely related seabird species: Generalist foraging as an adaptation to a highly variable environment?
(Peer reviewed, 2019)1. Ecological niche theory predicts sympatric species to show segregation in their spatio‐temporal habitat utilization or diet as a strategy to avoid competition. Similarly, within species individuals may specialize on ... -
Salmon lice sampled from wild Atlantic salmon and sea trout throughout Norway display high frequencies of the genotype Associated with pyrethroid resistance
(Journal article, 2019)Atlantic salmon Salmo salar aquaculture is based on the use of open-pen sea cages, with the consequence that farmed fish are both recipients and sources of pathogens from surrounding waters. Currently, the parasitic salmon ... -
OpenStreetMap history for intrinsic quality assessment: Is OSM up-to-date?
(Peer reviewed, 2019)OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a well-known crowdsourcing project which aims to create a geospatial database of the whole world. Intrinsic approaches based on the analysis of the history of data, i.e. its evolution over time, have ... -
Diverging phenological responses of Arctic seabirds to an earlier spring
(Peer reviewed, 2019)The timing of annual events such as reproduction is a critical component of how free‐living organisms respond to ongoing climate change. This may be especially true in the Arctic, which is disproportionally impacted by ... -
Importance of spatial configuration of deadwood habitats in species conservation
(Peer reviewed, 2019)Komonen and Müller (2018) aimed to inform connectivity conservation of saproxylic (deadwood-dependent) organisms. Out of the many different definitions of connectivity, they focus on structural connectivity and relate it ... -
Northward range expansion in spring‐staging barnacle geese is a response to climate change and population growth, mediated by individual experience
(Peer reviewed, 2019)All long‐distance migrants must cope with changing environments, but species differ greatly in how they do so. In some species, individuals might be able to adjust by learning from individual experiences and by copying ... -
Strategic conservation for lesser prairie-chickens among landscapes of varying anthropogenic influence
(Journal article, 2019)For millennia grasslands have provided a myriad of ecosystem services and have been coupled with human resource use. The loss of 46% of grasslands worldwide necessitates the need for conservation that is spatially, temporally, ... -
Effects of patch-burn grazing on breeding density and territory size of Dickcissels
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Ongoing habitat loss and intensification of management of remaining grasslands have led to large population declines of grassland songbirds in North America. As an alternative to intensive and homogeneous use of rangelands, ... -
Tundra greenness
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One Hundred Pressing Questions on the Future of Global Fish Migration Science, Conservation, and Policy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Migration is a widespread but highly diverse component of many animal life histories. Fish migrate throughout the world’s oceans, within lakes and rivers, and between the two realms, transporting matter, energy, and other ...
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