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    • Touch in digitalized worlds: An introduction 

      Broch, Tuva Beyer; Varma, Saiba (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      The English word digital (from the Latin, digitus)etymologically connects both fingers and technologies.In this special issue, we honor this dual meaning of thedigital by foregrounding how living in a digital era bothchallenges ...

    • Toward a decade of ocean science for sustainable development through acoustic animal tracking 

      Alós, Josep; Aarestrup, Kim; Abecasis, David; Afonso, Pedro; Alonso-Fernandez, Alexandre; Aspillaga, Eneko; Barcelo-Serra, Margarida; Bolland, Jonathan; Cabanellas-Reboredo, Miguel; Lennox, Robert; McGill, Ross; Özgül, Aytaç; Reubens, Jan; Villegas-Ríos, David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The ocean is a key component of the Earth's dynamics, providing a great variety of ecosystem services to humans. Yet, human activities are globally changing its structure and major components, including marine biodiversity. ...

    • Toward improved impact evaluation of community forest management in Indonesia 

      Meijaard, Erik; Santika, Truly; Wilson, Kerrie A.; Budiharta, Sugeng; Kusworo, Ahmad; Law, Elizabeth; Friedman, Rachel; Hutabarat, Joseph A.; Indrawan, Tito P.; Sherman, Julie; St.John, Freya A.V.; Struebig, Matthew J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Many tropical countries continue to devolve forest management to forest-dwelling communities. The assumption is that local knowledge of forests and community engagement in forest management will attain multiple social and ...

    • 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. ...

    • Towards a systematics of ecodiversity: The EcoSyst framework 

      Halvorsen, Rune; Skarpaas, Olav; Bryn, Anders; Bratli, Harald; Erikstad, Lars; Simensen, Trond; Lieungh, Eva (Journal article, 2020)
      Background Although a standard taxonomy of organisms has existed for nearly 300 years, no consensus has yet been reached on principles for systematization of ecological diversity (i.e., the co‐ordinated variation of abiotic ...

    • Towards an Urban Resilience Index: A Case Study in 50 Spanish Cities 

      Suárez, Marta; Gomez-Baggethun, Erik; Benayas, Javier; Tilbury, Daniella (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
      Urbanization is a major driver of land use change and global environmental decline. With accelerated urbanization worldwide, it is essential to put in place new policies to conserve urban ecosystems, species and the services ...

    • Tracking animals in freshwater with electronic tags: past, present and future 

      Cooke, Steven J.; Midwood, Jonathan D.; Thiem, Jason D.; Klimley, Peter; Lucas, Martyn C.; Thorstad, Eva Bonsak; Eiler, John H.; Holbrook, Chris; Ebner, Brendan C (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)
      Considerable technical developments over the past half century have enabled widespread application of electronic tags to the study of animals in the wild, including in freshwater environments. We review the constraints ...

    • Tracking neighbours promotes the coexistence of large carnivores 

      López-Bao, José Vicente; Mattisson, Jenny; Persson, Jens; Aronsson, Malin; Andrén, Henrik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
      The study of competition and coexistence among similar interacting species has long been considered a cornerstone in evolutionary and community ecology. However, understanding coexistence remains a challenge. Using two ...

    • Training future generations to deliver evidence-based conservation and ecosystem management 

      Downey, Harriet; Amano, Tatsuya; Cadotte, Mark; Cook, Carly N.; Cooke, Steven J.; Haddaway, Neal R.; Jones, Julia P. G.; Littlewood, Nick; Walsh, Jessica C.; Abrahams, Mark I.; Adum, Gilbert; Akasaka, Munemitsu; Alves, Jose A.; Antwis, Rachael E.; Arellano, Eduardo C.; Axmacher, Jan; Barclay, Holly; Batty, Lesley; Benítez-López, Ana; Bennett, Joseph R.; Berg, Maureen J.; Bertolino, Sandro; Biggs, Duan; Bolam, Friederike C.; Bray, Tim; Brook, BarryW.; Bull, Joseph W.; Burivalova, Zuzana; Cabeza, Mar; Chauvenet, Alienor L. M.; Christie, Alec P.; Cole, Lorna; Cotton, Alison J.; Cotton, Sam; Cousins, Sara A.O.; Craven, Dylan; Cresswell, Will; Cusack, Jeremy J.; Dalrymple, Sarah E.; Davies, Zoe G.; Diaz, Anita; Dodd, Jennifer A.; Felton, Adam; Fleishman, Erica; Gardner, Charlie J.; Garside, Ruth; Ghoddousi, Arash; Gilroy, James J.; Gill, David A.; Gill, Jennifer A.; Glew, Louise; Grainger, Matthew (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      1. To be effective, the next generation of conservation practitioners andmanagers need to be critical thinkers with a deep understanding of how to make evidence-based decisions and of the value of evidence synthesis. 2. ...

    • Trans-Equatorial Migration Routes, Staging Sites and Wintering Areas of a High-Arctic Avian Predator: The Long-tailed Skua (Stercorarius longicaudus) 

      Gilg, Olivier; Moe, Børge; Hanssen, Sveinn Are; Schmidt, Niels Martin; Sittler, Benoit; Hansen, Jannik; Reneerkens, Jeroen; Sabard, Brigitte; Chastel, Olivier; Moreau, Jérôme; Phillips, Richard A.; Oudman, Thomas; Biersma, Elisabeth M.; Fenstad, Anette; Lang, Johannes; Bollache, Loïc (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)
      The Long-tailed Skua, a small (,300 g) Arctic-breeding predator and seabird, is a functionally very important component of the Arctic vertebrate communities in summer, but little is known about its migration and winter ...

    • Transformative governance of biodiversity: insights for sustainable development 

      Visseren-Hamakers, Ingrid; Razzaque, Jona; McElwee, Pamela; Turnhout, Esther; Kelemen, Eszter; Rusch, Graciela; Fernández-Llamazares, Álvaro; Chan, Ivis; Lim, Michelle; Islar, Mine; Gautam, Ambika P.; Williams, Meryl; Mungatana, Eric; Karim, Md Saiful; Muradian, Roldan; Gerber, Leah R.; Lui, Gabriel; Liu, Jinlong; Spangenberg, Joachim H.; Zaleski, Dara (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      While there is much debate on transformative change amongacademics and policymakers, the discussion on how to governsuch change is still in its infancy. This article argues thattransformative governance is needed to enable ...

    • Transformative potential of nature-based values that influence the relationships between reported and intended pro-environmental behavior 

      Johnson, Dana N.; van Riper, Carena J.; Rogowski, Julianna; Salcido, Evan; Stewart, William P.; Keller, Rose (Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Protected area landscapes embody multiple values of nature that can create meaning in everyday life. Though the values ascribed to these environments theoretically inspire changes in human behavior, surprisingly few studies ...

    • Transitions of social-ecological subsistence systems in the Arctic 

      Fauchald, Per; Hausner, Vera Helene; Schmidt, Jennifer Irene; Clark, Douglas A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Transitions of social-ecological systems (SES) expose governance systems to new challenges. This is particularly so in the Arctic where resource systems are increasingly subjected to global warming, industrial development ...

    • Transmission dynamics of the monogenean Gyrodactylus salaris under seminatural conditions 

      Hendrichsen, Ditte Katrine; Kristoffersen, Roar; Gjelland, Karl Øystein; Knudsen, Rune; Kusterle, Stefan; Rikardsen, Audun H.; Henriksen, Eirik Haugstvedt; Smalås, Aslak; Olstad, Kjetil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)

    • Transplanting turfs to facilitate recovery in a low-alpine environment — What matters? 

      Mehlhoop, Anne Catriona; Evju, Marianne; Hagen, Dagmar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Questions: Restoration of disturbed alpine ecosystems is difficult due to harsh environmental conditions. Transplanting of vegetation turfs into disturbed areas has been used as a restoration method in disturbed alpine ...

    • Trawling disturbance on megabenthos and sediment in the Barents Sea: Chronic effects on density, diversity, and composition 

      Buhl-Mortensen, Lene; Ellingsen, Kari Elsa; Buhl-Mortensen, Pål; Skaar, Kristian Landmark; Gonzalez-Mirelis, Genoveva (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Bottom-trawl fisheries are expanding into deeper habitats and higher latitudes, but our understanding of their effects in these areas is limited. The ecological importance of habitat-forming megabenthos and their vulnerability ...

    • Trees enhance soil carbon sequestration and nutrient cycling in a silvopastoral system in south-western Nicaragua 

      Hoosbeek, Marcel R.; Remme, Roy P.; Rusch, Graciela (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Tree occurrence in silvopastoral systems of Central America has been under pressure for various reasons including attempts to improve grassland productivity and the need for wood. However, scattered isolated trees are ...

    • Trends in the start of the growing season in Fennoscandia 1982–2011 

      Høgda, Kjell Arild; Tømmervik, Hans; Karlsen, Stein Rune (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Global temperature is increasing, and this is affecting the vegetation phenology in many parts of the world. In Fennoscandia, as well as Northern Europe, the advances of phenological events in spring have been recorded in ...

    • Triiodothyronine (T3) levels fluctuate in response to ambient temperature rather than nutritional status in a wild tropical ungulate 

      Hunninck, Louis Marcel; Jackson, Craig Ryan; May, Roelof Frans; Røskaft, Eivin; Palme, R; Sheriff, M.J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Animals can employ a range of physiological mechanisms in response to unpredictable changes within their environment, such as changes in food availability and human disturbances. For example, impala exhibit higher faecal ...

    • Trophic ecology of piscivorous Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus (L.)) in subarctic lakes with contrasting food-web structures 

      Kahilainen, Kimmo Kalevi; Thomas, Stephen; Harrod, Chris; Hayden, Brian; Eloranta, Antti (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The trophic ecology of piscivorous Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus (L.); charr) in the food webs of large subarctic lakes is not well understood. We assessed charr diets, parasites, growth, maturity, and stable isotope ...