• Environmental variation as a driver of predator-prey interactions 

      Tablado, Zulimo; Fauchald, Per; Mabille, Geraldine; Stien, Audun; Tveraa, Torkild (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)
      Animals often face the trade-off of optimizing foraging while limiting predation. In variable and seasonal environments the availability of resources changes spatially and temporally, forcing animals to adapt their spatial ...
    • Escape history and proportion of farmed Atlantic salmon Salmo salar on the coast and in an adjacent salmon fjord in Norway 

      Aronsen, Tonje; Ulvan, Eva Marita; Næsje, Tor; Fiske, Peder (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      To gain more knowledge about escaped farmed salmon Salmo salar in the wild, we investigated the proportion of escapees, body length at escape, proportion escaped as smolts/post-smolts (≤300 mm) and number of winters in the ...
    • Escaped farmed Atlantic salmon grow, migrate and disperse throughout the Arctic Ocean like wild salmon 

      Jensen, Arne Johan; Karlsson, Sten; Fiske, Peder; Hansen, Lars Petter; Hindar, Kjetil; Østborg, Gunnel Marie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)
      This paper describes the first observations of escaped farmed Atlantic salmon Salmo salar in the Arctic Ocean. Among 138 individuals of Atlantic salmon captured at the west coast of the Spitsbergen Island at Svalbard in ...
    • Escaped farmed Atlantic salmon in Norwegian rivers during 1989–2013 

      Diserud, Ola Håvard; Fiske, Peder; Sægrov, Harald; Urdal, K.; Aronsen, Tonje; Lo, Håvard; Barlaup, Bjørn Torgeir; Niemela, Eero; Orell, P.; Erkinaro, J.; Lund, Roar A.; Økland, Finn; Østborg, Gunnel Marie; Hansen, Lars Petter; Hindar, Kjetil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      We report on the data from an extensive monitoring programme for the occurrence of escaped farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in Norwegian rivers for 25 years. This monitoring started as a 3-year research programme in ...
    • Estimating and managing broad risk of chronic wasting disease spillover among cervid species 

      Mysterud, Atle; Solberg, Erling Johan; Meisingset, Erling L.; Panzacchi, Manuela; Rauset, Geir Rune; Strand, Olav; Van Moorter, Bram; Rolandsen, Christer Moe; Rivrud, Inger Maren (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The management of infectious wildlife diseases often involves tackling pathogens that infect multiple host species. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease that can infect most cervid species. CWD was detected in ...
    • Estimating lichen volume and reindeer winter pasture quality from Landsat imagery 

      Falldorf, Tobias; Strand, Olav; Panzacchi, Manuela; Tømmervik, Hans (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)
      Reindeer and caribou are keystone species in the circumpolar region, and rely on lichens as their main winter forage to survive in some of the most extreme environments on Earth. Lichen mats, however, can be heavily ...
    • Estimating spatially variable and density-dependent survival using open-population spatial capture–recapturemodels 

      Milleret, Cyril Pierre; Dey, Soumen; Dupont, Pierre; Brøseth, Henrik; Turek, Daniel; Bischof, Richard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Open-population spatial capture–recapture (OPSCR) models use the spatialinformation contained in individual detections collected over multiple consec-utive occasions to estimate not only occasion-specific density, but ...
    • Estrategias de los árboles para el uso eficiente del agua y tolerancia a la sequía en sistemas silvopastoriles 

      Bucheli, Pilar; Benjamin, Tamara; Rusch, Graciela; Ibrahim, Muhammad; Casals, Pere; Sánchez, Dalia; Pugnaire, Francisco (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      La adquisición de recursos del suelo por las plantas depende de la especie, las características del suelo y de otros factores del medio ambiente local. El fin de este estudio fue conocer la distribución y los tipos de ...
    • Eurasian lynx fitness shows little variation across Scandinavian human-dominated landscapes 

      López-Bao, José Vicente; Aronsson, Malin; Linnell, John Durrus; Odden, John; Persson, Jens; Andrén, Henrik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Despite extensive research on the ecology and behavioural adaptations of large carnivores in humandominated landscapes, information about the fitness consequences of sharing landscapes is still limited. We assessed the ...
    • European catfsh (Silurus glanis) as a freshwater apex predator drives ecosystem via its diet adaptability 

      Vejřík, Lukáš; Vejříková, Ivana; Blabolil, Petr; Eloranta, Antti; Kočvara, Luboš; Peterka, Jiří; Sajdlová, Zuzana; The Chung, Son Hoang; Šmejkal, Marek; Kiljunen, Mikko; Cech, Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Apex predators play a key role in ecosystem stability across environments but their numbers in general are decreasing. By contrast, European catfish (Silurus glanis), the European freshwater apex predator, is on the increase. ...
    • European eel Anguilla anguilla compromise speed for safety in the early marine spawning migration 

      Lennox, Robert J.; Økland, Finn; Mitamura, Hiromichi; Cooke, Steven J.; Thorstad, Eva Bonsak (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      There are substantial benefits to potential fitness conferred to animals that undertake migrations. However, animals must make compromises to maximize survival and compensate for the risks associated with long-distance ...
    • European mushroom assemblages are darker in cold climates 

      Franz-Sebastian, Krah; Büntgen, Ulf; Schaefer, Hanno; Müller, Jörg; Andrew, Carrie; Boddy, Lynne; Diez, Jeffrey; Egli, Simon; Freckleton, Robert; Gange, Alan C.; Halvorsen, Rune; Heegaard, Einar; Heideroth, Antje; Heibl, Christoph; Heilmann-Clausen, Jacob; Høiland, Klaus; Kar, Ritwika; Kauserud, Håvard; Kirk, Paul M.; Kuyper, Thomas W.; Krisai-Greilhuber, Irmgard; Nordén, Jenni; Papastefanou, Phillip; Senn-Irlet, Beatrice; Bässler, Claus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
    • European mushroom assemblages are phylogenetically structured by temperature 

      Bässler, Claus; Heilmann-Clausen, Jacob; Andrew, Carrie; Boddy, Lynne; Büntgen, Ulf; Diez, Jeffrey; Heegaard, Einar; Egli, Simon; Gange, Alan C.; Halvorsen, Rune; Kauserud, Håvard; Kirk, Paul M.; Krisai-Greilhuber, Irmgard; Kuyper, Thomas W.; Nordén, Jenni; Senn-Irlet, Beatrice; Krah, Franz-Sebastian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Recent global warming affects species compositions at an unprecedented rate. To predict climate-induced changes in species assemblages, a better understanding of the link between species occurrence and climate is needed. ...
    • Evaluating citizen science data for forecasting species responses to national forest management 

      Mair, Louise; Harrison, Philip J.; Jönsson, Mari; Löbel, Swantje; Nordén, Jenni; Siitonen, Juha; Lãmås, Tomas; Lundström, Anders; Snäll, Tord (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      The extensive spatial and temporal coverage of many citizen science datasets (CSD) makes them appealing for use in species distribution modeling and forecasting. However, a frequent limitation is the inability to validate ...
    • Evaluating competition for forage plants between honey bees and wild bees in Denmark 

      Rasmussen, Claus; Dupont, Yoko L.; Madsen, Henning Bang; Bogusch, Petr; Goulson, Dave; Herbertsson, Lina; Maia, Kate Pereira; Nielsen, Anders; Olesen, Jens M.; Potts, Simon G.; Roberts, Stuart P. M.; Sydenham, Markus A. K. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      A recurrent concern in nature conservation is the potential competition for forage plants between wild bees and managed honey bees. Specifically, that the highly sophisticated system of recruitment and large perennial ...
    • Evaluating cumulative effects of small scale hydropower development using GIS modelling and representativeness assessments 

      Erikstad, Lars; Hagen, Dagmar; Stange, Erik; Bakkestuen, Vegar (Journal article, 2020)
      Assessing cumulative effects are a vital task for strategic environmental assessments (SEA) but lack of consistent methodology has hampered the development and implementation of useful tools. We present a model for GIS and ...
    • Evaluating interactions of forestconservation policies on avoided deforestation 

      Roballino, Juan; Sandoval, Catalina; Barton, David Nicholas; Chacon, Adriana; Pfaff, Alexander (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      We estimate the effects on deforestation that have resulted from policy interactions between parks and payments and between park buffers and payments in Costa Rica between 2000 and 2005. We show that the characteristics ...
    • Evaluating the process of ecological restoration 

      Nilsson, Christer; Aradóttir, Ása L.; Hagen, Dagmar; Halldórsson, G.; Høegh, K.; Mitchell, Ruth J.; Raulund-Rasmussen, Karsten; Svavarsdottir, Kristin; Tolvanen, Anne; Wilson, Scott D. (Journal article, 2016)
      We developed a conceptual framework for evaluating the process of ecological restoration and applied it to 10 examples of restoration projects in the northern hemisphere. We identified three major phases, planning, ...
    • Evaluating the Ryman–Laikre effect for marine stock enhancement and aquaculture 

      Waples, Robin S.; Hard, Jeffrey J.; Hindar, Kjetil; Karlsson, Sten (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      The Ryman–Laikre (R-L) effect is an increase in inbreeding and a reduction in total effective population size (NeT) in a combined captive–wild system, which arises when a few captive parents produce large numbers of ...
    • Evaluating the use of local ecological knowledge (LEK) in determining habitat preference and occurrence of multiple large carnivores 

      Madsen, Emily K.; Elliot, Nicholas B.; Mjingo, Ernest E.; Masenga, Emmanuel H.; Jackson, Craig Ryan; May, Roelof Frans; Røskaft, Eivin; Broekhuis, Femke (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Understanding habitat preferences and distribution of threatened species is a cornerstone of conservation, however many of the techniques available can be resource intensive. One cost-effective method is by collecting ...