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    • Galerucella (Neogalerucella) anserina Ødegaard & Hanssen, sp. nov., a new species of Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae) from Norway 

      Ødegaard, Frode; Hanssen, Oddvar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      A new chrysomelid beetle, Galerucella anserina Ødegaard & Hanssen, sp. nov., belonging to the Galerucella tenellagroup (subgenus Neogalerucella) is described, illustrated and distinguished from similar species within the ...

    • Gastropod grazing may prevent reintroduction of declining N-fixing epiphytic lichens in broadleaved deciduous forests 

      Gauslaa, Yngvar; Johlander, Stina; Nordén, Björn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      We studied the potential to use reintroduction of two declining N-fixing flagship lichens to identify factors affecting failure or success in SW Swedish sites that had experienced substantially reduced acidification. After ...

    • Gene flow from domesticated escapes alters thelife history of wild Atlantic salmon 

      Bolstad, Geir Hysing; Hindar, Kjetil; Robertsen, Grethe; Jonsson, Bror; Sægrov, Harald; Diserud, Ola Håvard; Fiske, Peder; Jensen, Arne Johan; Urdal, Kurt; Næsje, Tor; Barlaup, Bjørn Torgeir; Florø-Larsen, Bjørn; Lo, Håvard; Niemela, Eero; Karlsson, Sten (Journal article, 2017)
      Interbreeding between domesticated and wild animals occurs in several species. This gene flow has long been anticipated to induce genetic changes in life-history traits of wild populations, thereby influencing population ...

    • Generic genetic differences between farmed and wild Atlantic Salmon identified from a 7K SNP-chip 

      Karlsson, Sten; Moen, Thomas; Lien, Sigbjørn; Glover, Kevin A.; Hindar, Kjetil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011)
      Genetic interactions between farmed and wild conspecifics are of special concern in fisheries where large numbers of domesticated individuals are released into the wild. In the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), selective ...

    • Genes suggest ancestral colour polymorphisms are shared across morphologically cryptic species in Arctic Bumblebees 

      Williams, Paul H.; Byvaltsev, Alexandr M.; Cederberg, Björn; Berezin, Mikhail V.; Ødegaard, Frode; Rasmussen, Claus Nygaard; Richardson, Leif L.; Huang, Jiaxing; Sheffield, Cory S.; Williams, Suzanne T. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Our grasp of biodiversity is fine-tuned through the process of revisionary taxonomy. If species do exist in nature and can be discovered with available techniques, then we expect these revisions to converge on broadly ...

    • Genetic and demographic history define a conservation strategy for earth’s most endangered pinniped, the Mediterranean monk seal Monachus monachus 

      Karamanlidis, Alexandros A.; Skrbinsek, Tomaz; Amato, George; Dendrinos, Panagiotis; Gaughran, Stephen; Kasapidis, Panagiotis; Kopatz, Alexander; Stronen, Astrid Vik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) is a flagship species for marine conservation, but important aspects of its life history remain unknown. Concerns over imminent extinction motivated a nuclear DNA study of ...

    • Genetic characterization of free-ranging Asiatic wild ass in Central Asia as a basis for future conservation strategies 

      Kaczensky, Petra; Kovtun, Ekaterina; Habibrakhmanov, Rustam; Hemami, Mahmoud‑Reza; Khaleghi, Amirhossein; Linnell, John Durrus; Rustamov, Eldar; Sklyarenko, Sergey; Walzer, Chris; Zuther, Steffen; Kuehn, Ralph (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Loss of genetic diversity due to drift and inbreeding reduces a population’s ability to respond to environmental change and may result in inbreeding depression. The Asiatic wild ass (Equus hemionus), regionally also known ...

    • Genetic diversity, gene flow, and landscape resistance in a pond-breeding amphibian in agricultural and natural forested landscapes in Norway 

      Haugen, Hanne; Dervo, Børre Kind; Østbye, Kjartan; Heggenes, Jan; Devineau, Olivier; Linløkken, Arne N. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Genetic diversity is a key part of biodiversity, threatened by human activities that lead to loss of gene flow and reduction of effective population sizes. Gene flow is a result of both landscape connectivity and ...

    • Genetic evidence of farmed straying and introgression in Swedish wild salmon populations 

      Palm, Stefan; Karlsson, Sten; Diserud, Ola Håvard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Escaped farmed Atlantic salmon represent a well-documented and ongoing threat to wild conspecific populations. In Norway, the world-leading producer of farmed salmon, annual monitoring of straying and genetic introgression ...

    • Genome sequencing and conservation genomics in the Scandinavian wolverine population 

      Ekblom, Robert; Brechlin, Birte; Persson, Jens; Smeds, Linnea; Johansson, Malin; Magnusson, Jessica; Flagstad, Øystein; Ellegren, Hans (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)
      Genetic approaches have proved valuable to the study and conservation of endangered populations, especially for monitoring programs, and there is potential for further developments in this direction by extending analyses ...

    • Genome-wide diversity loss in reintroduced Eurasian lynx populations urges immediate conservation management 

      Mueller, Sarah Ashley; Prost, Stefan; Anders, Ole; Breitenmoser-Würsten, Christine; Kleven, Oddmund; Klinga, Peter; Konec, Marjeta; Kopatz, Alexander; Krojerova-Prokesova, Jarmila; Middelhoff, Tomma Lilli; Obexer-Ruff, Gabriela; Reiners, Tobias Erik; Schmidt, Krzysztof; Sindicic, Magda; Skrbinsek, Tomaz; Tám, Branislav; Saveljev, Alexander P.; Naranbaatar, Galsandorj; Nowak, Carsten (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Reintroductions may produce populations that suffer from decreasing genetic diversity due to isolation, genetic drift and inbreeding if not assisted by careful management. To assess the genetic outcomes of reintroductions ...

    • A genus new to Norway and the distribution of Protaphidius wissmannii (Ratzeburg, 1848) (Hymenoptera, Braconidae; Aphidiinae) in Scandinavia, a parasitoid of ant-attended aphids on tree trunks 

      Staverløkk, Arnstein; Gärdenfors, Ulf; van Achterberg, Kees (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The genus Protaphidius Ashmead, 1900 and it's only species in Europe, P. wissmannii (Ratzeburg, 1848) are here reported new to Norway. Protaphidius wissmannii is a parasitoid of giant aphids of the genus Stomaphis Linnaeus, ...

    • Geographic variation in the intensity of warming and phenological mismatch between Arctic shorebirds and invertebrates 

      Kwon, Eunbi; Weiser, Emily L.; Lanctot, Richard B.; Brown, Stephen C.; Gates, Heather R.; Gilchrist, Grant; Kendall, Steve J.; Lank, David B.; Liebezeit, Joseph R.; McKinnon, Laura; Nol, Erica; Payer, David C.; Rausch, Jennie; Rinella, Daniel J.; Saalfeld, Sarah T.; Senner, Nathan R.; Smith, Paul A.; Ward, David; Wisseman, Robert W.; Sandercock, Brett (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Responses to climate change can vary across functional groups and trophic levels, leading to a temporal decoupling of trophic interactions or “phenological mismatches.” Despite a growing number of single-species studies ...

    • Gesellschaftliche Einstellungen zur Rückkehr des Wolfs nach Deutschland : Social attitudes towards the wolf's return to Germany 

      Lehnen, Lisa; Mueller, Thomas; Reinhardt, Ilka; Kaczensky, Petra (Journal article, 2021)

    • Global 10 m Land Use Land Cover Datasets: A Comparison of Dynamic World, World Cover and Esri Land Cover 

      Venter, Zander; Barton, David Nicholas; Chakraborty, Tirthankar; Simensen, Trond; Singh, Geethen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The European Space Agency’s Sentinel satellites have laid the foundation for global land use land cover (LULC) mapping with unprecedented detail at 10 m resolution. We present a cross-comparison and accuracy assessment of ...

    • Global analysis of seasonal changes in trematode infection levels reveals weak and variable link to temperature 

      Paterson, Rachel; Poulin, Robert; Selbach, Christian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Seasonal changes in environmental conditions drive phenology, i.e., the annual timing of biological events ranging from the individual to the ecosystem. Phenological patterns and successional abundance cycles have been ...

    • Global assessment of marine plastic exposure risk for oceanic birds 

      Clark, Bethany L.; Carneiro, Ana P. B.; Pearmain, Elizabeth J.; Rouyer, Marie-Morgane; Clay, Thomas A.; Cowger, Win; Phillips, Richard A.; Manica, Andrea; Hazin, Carolina; Eriksen, Marcus; González-Solís, Jacob; Adams, Josh; Albores-Barajas, Yuri V.; Alfaro-Shigueto, Joanna; Alho, Maria Saldanha; Araujo, Deusa Teixeira; Arcos, José Manuel; Arnould, John P. Y.; Barbosa, Nadito J. P.; Barbraud, Christophe; Beard, Annalea M.; Beck, Jessie; Bell, Elizabeth A.; Bennet, Della G.; Berlincourt, Maud; Biscoito, Manuel; Bjørnstad, Oskar K.; Bolton, Mark; Jones, Katherine A. Booth; Borg, John J.; Bourgeois, Karen; Bretagnolle, Vincent; Bried, Joël; Briskie, James V.; de L. Brook, M.; Brownlie, Katherine C.; Bugoni, Leandro; Calabrese, Licia; Campioni, Letizia; Carey, Mark J.; Carle, Ryan D.; Carlile, Nicholas; Carreiro, Ana R.; Catry, Paulo; Catry, Teresa; Cecere, Jacopo G.; Ceia, Filipe R.; Cherel, Yves; Choi, Chang-Yong; Cianchetti-Benedetti, Marco; Clarke, Rohan H.; Fayet, Annette; Dehnhard, Nina; Descamps, Sebastien; Helberg, Morten; Strøm, Hallvard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Plastic pollution is distributed patchily around the world’s oceans. Likewise, marine organisms that are vulnerable to plastic ingestion or entanglement have uneven distributions. Understanding where wildlife encounters ...

    • A global assessment of parasite diversity in galaxiid fishes 

      Paterson, Rachel A.; Viozzi, Gustavo P.; Rauque, Carlos A.; Flores, Verónica R.; Poulin, Robert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Free-living species often receive greater conservation attention than the parasites they support, with parasite conservation often being hindered by a lack of parasite biodiversity knowl edge. This study aimed to determine ...

    • A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action 

      Gonzalez, Andrew; Vihervaara, Petteri; Balvanera, Patricia; Bates, Amanda E.; Bayraktarov, Elisa; Bellingham, Peter J.; Bruder, Andreas; Campbell, Jillian; Catchen, Michael D.; Cavender-Bares, Jeannine; Chase, Jonathan; Coops, Nicholas; Costello, Mark John; Czúcz, Bálint; Delavaud, Aurélie; Dornelas, Maria; Dubois, Grégoire; Duffy, Emmett J.; Eggermont, Hilde; Fernandez, Miguel; Fernández, Néstor; Ferrier, Simon; Geller, Gary N.; Gill, Michael; Gravel, Dominique; Guerra, Carlos A.; Guralnick, Robert; Harfoot, Michael; Hirsch, Tim; Hoban, Sean; Hughes, Alice C.; Hugo, Wim; Hunter, Margaret E.; Isbell, Forest; Jetz, Walter; Juergens, Norbert; Kissling, W. Daniel; Krug, Cornelia B.; Kullberg, Peter; Le Bras, Yvan; Leung, Brian; Londoño-Murcia, Maria Cecilia; Lord, Jean-Michel; Loreau, Michel; Luers, Amy; Ma, Keping; MacDonald, Anna J.; Maes, Joachim; McGeoch, Melodie; Mihoub, Jean Baptiste; Millette, Katie L. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The rate and extent of global biodiversity change is surpassing our ability to measure, monitor and forecast trends. We propose an interconnected worldwide system of observation networks — a global biodiversity observing ...

    • Global change and ecosystem connectivity: how geese link fields of central Europe to eutrophication of Arctic freshwaters 

      Hessen, Dag Olav; Tombre, Ingunn; van Geest, Gerben; Alfsnes, Kristian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Migratory connectivity by birds may mutually affect different ecosystems over large distances. Populations of geese overwintering in southern areas while breeding in high-latitude ecosystems have increased strongly ...