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    • National mapping and assessment of ecosystem services projects in Europe – Participants’ experiences, state of the art and lessons learned 

      Vári, Ágnes; Adamescu, Cristian Mihai; Balzan, Mario; Gocheva, Kremena; Götzl, Martin; Grunewald, Karsten; Inácio, Miguel; Linder, Madli; Obiang-Ndong, Gregory; Pereira, Paulo; Santos-Martín, Fernando; Sieber, Ina; Stepniewska, Malgorzata; Tanacs, Eszter; Termansen, Mette; Tromeur, Eric; Vackarova, Davina; Czúcz, Bálint (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      Backed by the Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 and 2030, numerous ‘Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystem Services’ (MAES) projects have been completed in recent years in the member states of the European Union, with substantial ...
    • The Native Bees of Lolland (Denmark) Revisited after 100 Years: The Demise of the Specialists 

      Rasmussen, Claus; Sydenham, Markus A. K.; Schmidt, Hans Thomsen; Madsen, Henning Bang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      There is a global concern over insect declines, including both species loss and population declines. In particular, declines of species, such as bees that anchor trophic interactions and shoulder many of the essential ...
    • Natural and anthropogenic drivers of escaped farmed salmon occurrence and introgression into wild Norwegian Atlantic salmon populations 

      Diserud, Ola Håvard; Fiske, Peder; Karlsson, Sten; Glover, Kevin Alan; Næsje, Tor; Aronsen, Tonje; Bakke, Gunnar O; Barlaup, Bjørn Torgeir; Erkinaro, J.; Florø-Larsen, Bjørn; Foldvik, Anders; Heino, Mikko Petteri; Kanstad-Hanssen, Øyvind; Lo, Håvard; Lund, Roar Asbjørn; Muladal, R.; Niemela, E.; Økland, Finn; Østborg, Gunnel Marie; Otterå, Håkon Magne; Skaala, Øystein; Skoglund, Helge; Solberg, Ingrid; Solberg, Monica Favnebøe; Sollien, Vegard Pedersen; Sægrov, Harald; Urdal, Kurt; Wennevik, Vidar; Hindar, Kjetil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Marine aquaculture of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) is a relatively new industry where breeding programs have led to rapid genetic change in the captive populations that were built up alongside conspecific wild individuals. ...
    • A natural antipredation experiment: predator control and reduced sea ice increases colony size in a long-lived duck 

      Hanssen, Sveinn Are; Moe, Børge; Bårdsen, Bård-Jørgen; Hanssen, Frank Ole; Gabrielsen, Geir W. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)
      Anthropogenic impact on the environment and wildlife are multifaceted and far-reaching. On a smaller scale, controlling for predators has been increasing the yield from local natural prey resources. Globally, human-induced ...
    • Natural forest regeneration on anthropized landscapes could overcome climate change effects on the endangered maned sloth (Bradypus torquatus, Illiger 1811) 

      Santos, Paloma Marques; Ferraz, Katia M.P.M. de Barros; Ribeiro, Milton Cezar; Dos Santos, Bernardo Brandão Niebuhr; Vancine, Maurício Humberto; Chiarello, Adriano Garcia; Paglia, Adriano Pereira (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Climate change and habitat loss have been identified as the main causes of species extinction. Forest regeneration and protected areas are essential to buffer climate change impacts and to ensure quality habitats for ...
    • Near-natural forests harbor richer saproxylic beetle communities than those in intensively managed forests 

      Jacobsen, Rannveig Margrete; Burner, Ryan C.; Olsen, Siri Lie; Skarpaas, Olav; Sverdrup-Thygeson, Anne (Journal article, 2020)
      Globally, boreal forests cover 33 percent of Earth's forested area, constitute the largest terrestrial carbon source, and house an important biodiversity of forest-dependent species, many of which are saproxylic taxa reliant ...
    • Need for transparent and repeatable conservation frameworks: reply to Child et al. 2019 

      Grainger, Matthew; Nilsen, Erlend Birkeland (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
    • A needle in a haystack: Strontium isotopes (87Sr/86Sr) in otoliths identify origin of Largemouth Bass from a large Southwest reservoir 

      Vaisvil, Alexander; Willmes, Malte; Enriquez, Edward J.; Klein, Zachary B.; Caldwell, Colleen A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
    • Network characterization of the Entangled Model for sustainability indicators. Analysis of the network properties for scenarios 

      Vázquez, Pável; del Rio, Jesús A.; Cedano, Karla G.; van Dijk, Jiska; Jensen, Henrik Jeldtoft (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)
      Policy-makers require strategies to select a set of sustainability indicators that are useful for monitoring sustainability. For this reason, we have developed a model where sustainability indicators compete for the ...
    • A network to enhance the contributions from the social sciences and humanities to IPBES 

      Stokland, Håkon B.; Stenseke, Marie; Emery, Marla R. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      IPBES requires enhanced contributions from the social sciences and humanities in order to meet its mandate and influence policy. However, achieving this has so far proved challenging, notably in the form of a shortage in ...
    • New and previously known species of Copepoda and Cladocera (Crustacea) from Svalbard, Norway – who are they and where do they come from? 

      Dimante-Deimantovica, Inta; Walseng, Bjørn; Chertoprud, Elena S.; Novichkova, Anna K. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Arctic landscapes are characterised by an immense number of fresh and brackish water habitats – lakes, ponds and puddles. Due to a rather harsh environment, there is a limited number of species inhabiting these ecosystems. ...
    • A new biologging approach reveals unique flightless molt strategies of Atlantic puffins 

      Darby, Jamie; Harris, Mike P.; Wanless, Sarah; Quinn, John; Bråthen, Vegard Sandøy; Fayet, Annette; Clairbaux, Manon; Hart, Tom; Guillford, Tim; Freeman, Robin; Jessopp, Mark (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Animal- borne telemetry devices provide essential insights into the life- history strate -gies of far- ranging species and allow us to understand how they interact with their environment. Many species in the seabird family ...
    • New data on Cortinarius funga (Agaricales, Basidiomycota) from Altaiskiy Nature Reserve and Gorno-Altaysk area (sw Siberia, Russia) 

      Brandrud, Tor Erik; Gorbunova, I. A.; Ageev, D. V.; Dahlberg, A.; Dima, Bálint; Morozova, O.V.; Svetasheva, T. Yu. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      During an expedition in 2018 to Teletskoye Lake, Altaiskiy Nature Reserve and Gorno-Altaysk area (Altay Republic), 49 Cortinarius species were collected and documented, including ITS DNA sequencing of 32 samples. A total ...
    • A new species of jupati, genus Metachirus Burmeister 1854 (Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae) for the Brazilian Amazon 

      Miranda, Cleuton Lima; Nunes, Mario Da Silva; Fabrício MacHado, Arielli; Farias, Izeni Pires; Menezes, Fernando Heberson; Ardente, Natalia Carneiro; Dos Santos-Filho, Manoel; Bredin, Yennie Katarina; Da Silva, Maria Nazareth F. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The brown or pouchless four-eyed opossums or jupatis represent the genus Metachirus with a wide geographical range in the Neotropics. Recent studies show distinct monophyletic clades with high genetic divergence and ...
    • New tools to evaluate plastic ingestion by northern fulmars applied to North Sea monitoring data 2002–2018 

      van Franeker, Jan A.; Kühn, Susanne; Anker-Nilssen, Tycho; Edwards, Ewan W.J.; Gallien, Fabrice; Guse, Nils; Kakkonen, Jenni E.; Mallory, Mark L.; Miles, Will; Olsen, Kåre Olav; Pedersen, John; Provencher, Jennifer; Roos, Mervyn; Stienen, Eric; Turner, Daniel M.; van Loon, Willem M.G.M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Monitoring plastic in stomachs of beached northern fulmars for OSPAR’s Ecological Quality Objectives (EcoQOs) has been incorporated into the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). This paper aims to provide ...
    • Non-native vascular flora of the Arctic: Taxonomic richness, distribution and pathways 

      Wasowicz, Pawel; Sennikov, Alexander N.; Westergaard, Kristine Bakke; Spellman, Katie; Carlson, Matthew; Gillespie, Lynn J.; Saarela, Jeffery M.; Seefeldt, Steven S.; Bennett, Bruce; Bay, Christian; Ickert-Bond, Stefanie; Väre, Henry (Journal article, 2020)
      We present a comprehensive list of non-native vascular plants known from the Arctic, explore their geographic distribution, analyze the extent of naturalization and invasion among 23 subregions of the Arctic, and examine ...
    • Non-native vascular flora of the Arctic: Taxonomic richness, distribution and pathways 

      Wasowicz, Pawel; Sennikov, Alexander N.; Spellman, Katie; Carlson, Matthew; Gillespie, Lynn J.; Saarela, Jeffery M.; Seefeldt, Steven S.; Bennett, Bruce; Bay, Christian; Ickert-Bond, Stefanie; Väre, Henry (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      We present a comprehensive list of non-native vascular plants known from the Arctic, explore their geographic distribution, analyze the extent of naturalization and invasion among 23 subregions of the Arctic, and examine ...
    • Non-stationary Response of Tree Growth to Climate Trends Along the Arctic Margin 

      Hofgaard, Annika; Ols, Clementine; Drobyshev, Igor; Kirchhefer, Andreas J.; Sandberg, Staffan; Söderström, Lars (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Climate change modulates cold-marginal forest ecosystems through changing growth constraints. Understanding spatiotemporal variations in climate– growth relationships is essential to project forest ecosystem dynamics, and ...
    • Nonlinear spatial and temporal decomposition provides insight for climate change effects on sub-Arctic herbivore populations 

      Correia, Hannah E.; Tveraa, Torkild; Stien, Audun; Yoccoz, Nigel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Global temperatures are increasing, afecting timing and availability of vegetation along with relationships between plants and their consumers. We examined the efect of population density, herd body condition in the previous ...
    • North Atlantic winter cyclones starve seabirds 

      Clairbaux, Manon; Mathewson, Paul; Porter, Warren; Fort, Jérôme; Strøm, Hallvard; Moe, Børge; Fauchald, Per; Descamps, Sebastien; Helgason, Halfdan Helgi; Bråthen, Vegard Sandøy; Merkel, Benjamin; Anker-Nilssen, Tycho; Bringsvor, Ingar Støyle; Chastel, Olivier; Christensen-Dalsgaard, Signe; Danielsen, Jóhannis; Daunt, Francis; Dehnhard, Nina; Erikstad, Kjell E.; Ezhov, Alexey V.; Gavrilo, Maria; Krasnov, Yuri V.; Langset, Magdalene; Lorentsen, Svein-Håkon; Newell, Mark; Olsen, Bergur; Reiertsen, Tone Kristin; Systad, Geir Helge Rødli; Thórarinsson, Thorkell L; Baran, Mark; Diamond, Tony; Fayet, Annette L.; Fitzsimmons, Michelle G.; Frederiksen, Morten; Gilchrist, Hugh G.; Guilford, Tim; Huffeldt, Nicholas P.; Jessopp, Mark; Johansen, Kasper L.; Kouwenberg, Amy-Lee; Linnebjerg, Jannie F.; Major, Heather L.; Tranquilla, Laura McFarlane; Mallory, Mark; Merkel, Flemming R.; Montevecchi, William A.; Mosbech, Anders; Petersen, Aevar; Grémillet, David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Each winter, the North Atlantic Ocean is the stage for numerous cyclones, the most severe ones leading to seabird mass-mortality events called ‘‘winter wrecks.’’ During these, thousands of emaciated seabird carcasses are ...