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    • Commonness and rarity in the marine biosphere 

      Connolly, Sean R.; MacNeil, M. Aaron; Caley, M. Julian; Knowlton, Nancy; Cripps, Ed; Hisano, Mizue; Thibaut, Loïc M.; Bhattacharya, Bhaskar D.; Benedetti-Cecchif, Lisandro; Brainard, Russell E.; Brandt, Angelika; Bulleri, Fabio; Ellingsen, Kari Elsa; Kaiser, Stefanie; Kröncke, Ingrid; Linse, Katrin; Maggi, Elena; O'Hara, Timothy D.; Plaisance, Laetitia; Poore, Gary C.B.; Sarkar, Santosh K.; Sathpaty, Kamala K.; Schückel, Ulrike; Williams, Alan; Wilson, Robin S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Contributed by Nancy Knowlton, April 28, 2014 (sent for review November 25, 2013; reviewed by Brian McGill and Fangliang He) Explaining patterns of commonness and rarity is fundamental for understanding and managing ...
    • Communication Interventions and Fear of Brown Bears: Considerations of Content and Format 

      Johansson, Maria; Hallgren, Lars; Flykt, Anders; Støen, Ole-Gunnar; Thelin, Linda; Frank, Jens (Journal article, 2019)
      Communication interventions are commonly proposed as a way to address people’s fear and negative attitudes to build tolerance in shared landscapes between humans and large carnivores. Therefore, managing authorities ...
    • Community aggregated traits disclose functional responses to seasonal resource fluctuations and spatial heterogeneity 

      Ospina, Sonia; Rusch, Graciela; Easdale, Tomas A.; Finegan, Bryan; Casanoves, Fernando; Ibraham, Muhammad (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
    • Community-wide mesocarnivore response to partial ungulate migration 

      Henden, John-André; Stien, Audun; Bårdsen, Bård-Jørgen; Yoccoz, Nigel Gilles; Ims, Rolf Anker (Journal article, 2014)
      1. Mesocarnivores increase in number and geographic range in human-disturbed ecosystems with cascading negative impact on biodiversity. To mitigate such impacts, it is essential to identify the proximate causes of such ...
    • Community-wide mesocarnivore response to partial ungulate migration 

      Henden, John-André; Stien, Audun; Bårdsen, Bård-Jørgen; Yoccoz, Nigel Gilles; Ims, Rolf Anker (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      1.Mesocarnivores increase in number and geographic range in human-disturbed ecosystems with cascading negative impact on biodiversity. To mitigate such impacts, it is essential to identify the proximate causes of such ...
    • Comparing dominance relationships and movement of native marble trout (Salmo marmoratus) and introduced rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) 

      Pengal, Polona; Cokan, Blaz; Økland, Finn; Höjesjö, Johan; Tambets, Meelis; Thorstad, Eva Bonsak (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
    • Comparing land use impacts using ecosystem quality, biogenic carbon emissions, and restoration costs in a case study of hydropower plants in Norway 

      Lillesund, Vilde Fluge; Hagen, Dagmar; Michelsen, Ottar; Foldvik, Anders; Barton, David Nicholas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Purpose Habitat destruction is today the most severe threat to global biodiversity. Despite decades of efforts, there is still no proper methodology on how to assess all aspects of impacts on biodiversity from land use and ...
    • Comparing the implicit valuation of ecosystem services from nature-based solutions in performance-based green area indicators across three European cities 

      Stange, Erik; Barton, David Nicholas; Andersson, Erik; Haase, Dagmar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Performance-based green area indicators are increasingly used as policy instruments to promote nature-based solutions in urban property development. We explore the differences and parallels of three green area indicators: ...
    • Comparisons of reproductive function and fatty acid fillet quality between triploid and diploid farm Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) 

      Murray, D.S.; Kainz, M.J.; Hebberecht, L.; Sales, K.R.; Hindar, Kjetil; Gage, Matthew J.G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Triploidy could prevent escaped farm salmon breeding in the wild, while also improving nutrient quality within farmed fillets. Despite these potential advantages, triploid Atlantic salmon have not been widely used in ...
    • Competition between apex predators? Brown bears decrease wolf kill rate on two continents 

      Tallian, Aimee; Ordiz, Andres; Metz, Matthew C.; Milleret, Cyril; Wikenros, Camilla; Smith, Douglas W.; Stahler, Daniel R.; Kindberg, Jonas; MacNulty, Daniel R.; Wabakken, Petter; Swenson, Jon; Sand, Håkan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Trophic interactions are a fundamental topic in ecology, but we know little about how competition between apex predators affects predation, the mechanism driving top-down forcing in ecosystems.We used long-term datasets ...
    • Complacency or resilience? Perceptions of environmental and social change in Lofoten and Vesterålen in northern Norway 

      Kaltenborn, Bjørn Petter; Linnell, John Durrus; Thomassen, Jørn; Lindhjem, Henrik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Arctic and northern coastal regions are among the least developed in the world in terms of density of settlements, population and resource exploitation. It is often assumed that these regions will be frontiers of future ...
    • Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic 

      Myers-Smith, Isla H.; Kerby, Jeffrey T.; Phoenix, Gareth K.; Bjerke, Jarle W.; Epstein, Howard E.; Assmann, Jakob J.; John, Christian; Andreu-Hayles, Laia; Angers-Blondin, Sandra; Beck, Pieter S. A.; Berner, Logan T.; Bhatt, Uma S.; Bjorkman, Anne D.; Blok, Daan; Bryn, Anders; Christiansen, Casper Tai; Cornelissen, J. Hans C.; Cunliffe, Andrew M.; Elmendorf, Sarah C.; Forbes, Bruce C.; Goetz, Scott J.; Hollister, Robert D.; de Jong, Rogier; Loranty, Michael M.; Macias-Fauria, Marc; Maseyk, Kadmiel; Normand, Signe; Olofsson, Johan; Parker, Thomas C.; Parmentier, Frans-Jan W.; Post, Eric; Schaepman-Strub, Gabriela; Stordal, Frode; Sullivan, Patrick F.; Thomas, Haydn J.D.; Tømmervik, Hans; Treharne, Rachael; Tweedie, Craig E.; Walker, Donald A.; Wilmking, Martin; Wipf, Sonja (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      As the Arctic warms, vegetation is responding, and satellite measures indicate widespread greening at high latitudes. This ‘greening of the Arctic’ is among the world’s most important large-scale ecological responses to ...
    • Composición florística de pastizales en Muy Muy y Rivas, Nicaragua 

      Morales, Julio; Rusch, Graciela; Casanoves, Fernando; Söderström, Lars; Rocha, Lester (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      A pesar de ser ecosistemas manejados, surgidos de la transformación de ambientes naturales, los pastizales compuestos por especies nativas y exóticas pueden tener un papel importante en la conservación de la biodiversidad ...
    • Composition and Drivers of Gut Microbial Communities in Arctic-Breeding Shorebirds 

      Grond, Kirsten; Domingo, Jorge W. Santo; Lanctot, Richard B.; Jumpponen, Ari; Bentzen, Rebecca L.; Boldenow, Megan L.; Brown, Stephen C.; Casler, Bruce; Cunningham, Jenny A.; Doll, Andrew C.; Freeman, Scott; Hill, Brooke L.; Kendall, Steven J.; Kwon, Eunbi; Liebezeit, Joseph R.; Pirie-Dominix, Lisa; Rausch, Jennie; Sandercock, Brett (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 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 ...
    • Computer vision enables short- and long-term analysis of Lophelia pertusa polyp behaviour and colour from an underwater observatory 

      Osterloff, Jonas; Nilssen, Ingunn; Järnegren, Johanna; Van Engeland, Tom; Buhl-Mortensen, Pål; Nattkemper, Tim W. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      An array of sensors, including an HD camera mounted on a Fixed Underwater Observatory (FUO) were used to monitor a cold-water coral (Lophelia pertusa) reef in the Lofoten-Vesterålen area from April to November 2015. ...
    • Concern about climate change, biodiversity loss, habitat degradation andlandscape change: Embedded in different packages of environmental concern? 

      Skogen, Ketil; Helland, Håvard; Kaltenborn, Bjørn Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Climate change and biodiversity loss are often seen as the two most serious environmental threats facing humanity. It also seems to be a common notion that concerns about these issues are embedded in the same package of ...
    • Confronting and coping with uncertainty in biodiversity research and praxis 

      Haila, Yrjö; Henle, Klaus; Apostolopoulou, Evangelia; Cent, Joanna; Framstad, Erik; Goerg, Christoph; Jax, Kurt; Klenke, Reinhard; Magnuson, William; Matsinos, Yiannis G.; Mueller, Birgit; Paloniemi, Riikka; Pantis, John D.; Rauschmayer, Felix; Ring, Irene; Settele, Josef; Similä, Jukka; Touloumis, Konstantinos; Tzanopoulos, Joseph; Pe'er, Guy (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)
      This paper summarises discussions in a workshop entitled “exploring uncertainties in biodiversity science, policy and management”. It draws together experiences gained by scientists and scholars when encountering and coping ...
    • Consequences of barriers and changing seasonality on population dynamics and harvest of migratory ungulates 

      Van Moorter, Bram; Engen, Steinar; Fryxell, John M.; Panzacchi, Manuela; Nilsen, Erlend Birkeland; Mysterud, Atle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Many animal populations providing ecosystem services, including harvest, live in seasonal environments and migrate between seasonally distinct ranges. Unfortunately, two major sources of human-induced global change threaten ...
    • Consequences of cross-season demographic correlations for population viability 

      Layton-Matthews, Kate; Reiertsen, Tone Kristin; Erikstad, Kjell E.; Anker-Nilssen, Tycho; Daunt, Francis; Wanless, Sarah; Barrett, Robert; Newell, Mark A; Harris, Mike P. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Demographic correlations are pervasive in wildlife populations and can represent important secondary drivers of population growth. Empirical evidence suggests that correlations are in general positive for long-lived ...
    • Consequences of past climate change and recent human persecution on mitogenomic diversity in the arctic fox 

      Larsson, Petter; von Seth, Johanna; Hagen, Ingerid Julie; Götherström, Anders; Androsov, Semyon; Germonpre, Mietje; Bergfeldt, Nora; Fedorov, Sergey; Eide, Nina Elisabeth; Sokolova, Natalia; Berteaux, Dominique; Angerbjörn, Anders; Flagstad, Øystein; Plotnikov, Valeri; Norén, Karin; Diez-Del-Molino, David; Dussex, Nicolas; Stanton, David W.G.; Dalén, Linda (Journal article, 2019)
      Ancient DNA provides a powerful means to investigate the timing, rate and extent of population declines caused by extrinsic factors, such as past climate change and human activities. One species probably affected by both ...