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  • Chapter 42: Information, knowledge and agricultural biodiversity 
    Endresen, Dag Terje Filip (Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    Plant genetic resources for food and agriculture include an estimated 7.4 million ex situ accessions conserved in genebank collections. An estimated 40% of these accessions are both electronically documented and freely ...
  • Characterisation and mapping of landscape types, a case study from Norway 
    Erikstad, Lars; Uttakleiv, Lars Andre; Halvorsen, Rune (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
    The European Landscape Convention emphasises the human perception of landscapes in its definition of the landscape, and promotes citizen participation in landscape management processes. On the other hand, landscape definitions ...
  • Chemistry of quartz related to the Zinnwald/Cínovec Sn-W-Li greisen-type deposit, Eastern Erzgebirge, Germany 
    Müller, Axel; Herklotz, Gunter; Giegling, Horst (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    Magmatic and hydrothermal quartz populations related to the Late-Variscan Zinnwald/Cínovec Sn-W-Li greisen-type deposit in the Eastern Erzgebirge/Krušné Hory (German/Czech Republic) were studied in terms of trace element ...
  • Chlorophytum delicatulum (Asparagaceae), a newly described species from Zambia 
    Osborne, Jo; Vollesen, Kaj; Bjorå, Charlotte Sletten; Grall, Aurélie; Merrett, Lari; Kativu, Shakkie (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    Summary Chlorophytum delicatulum Osborne, Vollesen & Bjorå from Zambia is described, illustrated and placed within the context of recent taxonomic and phylogenetic work on Chlorophytum in Africa. This delicate herb ...
  • Chondrichthyans from the Grippia bonebed (Early Triassic) of Marmierfjellet, Spitsbergen 
    Bratvold, Janne; Delsett, Lene Liebe; Hurum, Jørn Harald (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    The Grippia bonebed is located at Marmierfjellet in Flowerdalen, Isfjorden area of Spitsbergen. The bonebed occurs in the Vendomdalen Member, Vikinghogda Formation, Early Triassic (Spathian). It is unique in Spitsbergen ...
  • Clavis: An open and versatile identification key format 
    Koch, Wouter; Elven, Hallvard; Finstad, Anders Gravbrøt (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    The skills and knowledge needed to recognize and classify taxa are becoming increasingly scarce in the scientific community. At the same time, it is clear that these skills are strongly needed in biodiversity monitoring ...
  • Climate and land-use drive the functional composition of vascular plant assemblages across Norway 
    Petersen, Tanja Kofod; Vuorinen, Katariina Elsa M; Bendiksby, Mika; Speed, James David Mervyn (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    Traditionally, biogeography has described the distribution of species. But as plant functional traits and functional diversity underpin ecosystem dynamics, understanding drivers of functional diversity at biogeographical ...
  • Climate change drives substantial decline of understorey species richness and abundance in Norway spruce forests during 32 years of vegetation monitoring 
    Økland, Tonje; Halvorsen, Rune; Lange, Holger; Nordbakken, Jørn-Frode; Clarke, Nicholas (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    Questions Observations in permanent forest vegetation plots in Norway and elsewhere indicate that complex changes have taken place over the period 1988–2020. These observations are summarised in the “climate-induced ...
  • Climate shapes the spatiotemporal variation in color morph diversity and composition across the distribution range of Chrysomela lapponica leaf beetle 
    Kozlov, Mikhail V.; Oudendijk, Zowi; Forsman, Anders; Lanta, Vojtěch; Barclay, Maxwell V. L.; Gusarov, Vladimir I.; Gustafsson, Bert; Huang, Zheng-Zhong; Kruglova, Oksana Y.; Marusik, Yuri M.; Mikhailov, Yuri E.; Mutanen, Marko; Schneider, Alexander; Sekerka, Lukáš; Sergeev, Maksim E.; Zverev, Vitali; Zvereva, Elena L.; Gusarov, Vladimir (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Color polymorphism offers rich opportunities for studying the eco-evolutionary mechanisms that drive the adaptations of local populations to heterogeneous and changing environments. We explored the color morph diversity ...
  • Climate warming feedback from mountain birch forest expansion: Reduced albedo dominates carbon uptake 
    de Wit, Heleen; Bryn, Anders; Hofgaard, Annika; Karstensen, Jonas; Kvalevåg, Maria Malene; Peters, Glen Philip (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
    Expanding high‐elevation and high‐latitude forest has contrasting climate feedbacks through carbon sequestration (cooling) and reduced surface reflectance (warming), which are yet poorly quantified. Here, we present an ...
  • Climate–ecosystem modelling made easy: The Land Sites Platform 
    Keetz, Lasse Torben; Lieungh, Eva; Karimi-Asli, Kaveh; Geange, Sonya Rita; Gelati, Emiliano; Tang, Hui; Yilmaz, Yeliz A.; Aas, Kjetil Schanke; Althuizen, Inge; Bryn, Anders; Falk, Stefanie; Fisher, Rosie; Fouilloux, Anne; Horvath, Peter; Indrehus, Sunniva; Lee, Hanna; Lombardozzi, Danica; Parmentier, Frans-Jan W.; Pirk, Norbert; Vandvik, Vigdis; Vollsnes, Ane Victoria; Skarpaas, Olav; Stordal, Frode; Tallaksen, Lena M. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs) provide a state-of-the-art process-based approach to study the complex interplay between vegetation and its physical environment. For example, they help to predict how terrestrial ...
  • A climatic trigger for the giant Troll pockmark field in the northern North Sea 
    Mazzini, Adriano; Svensen, Henrik; Forsberg, Carl Fredrik; Linge, Henriette; Lauritzen, Stein-Erik; Haflidason, Haflidi; Hammer, Øyvind; Planke, Sverre; Tjelta, Tor-Inge (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    Pockmarks are seafloor craters usually formed during methane release on continental margins. However, the mechanisms behind their formation and dynamics remain elusive. Here we report detailed investigations on one of the ...
  • Collections of Arctic Plants, Lichens, and Fungi in the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway 
    Bjorå, Charlotte Sletten; Bendiksby, Mika; Johannessen, Lars Erik; Løfall, Bjørn Petter; Timdal, Einar (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    The Arctic has been, and is, an area of focus for the botanical and fungal (lichenized fungi included) collections at the Natural History Museum of Oslo. These collections house more than 233,000 unique Arctic specimens, ...
  • Colonization and diversification in the African ‘sky islands’: insights from fossil-calibrated molecular dating of Lychnis (Caryophyllaceae). 
    Gizaw, Abel; Brochmann, Christian; Nemomissa, Sileshi; Wondimu, Tigist; Masao, Catherine; Tusiime, Felly Mugizi; Abdi, Ahmed Abdikhadir; Oxelman, Bengt; Popp, Magnus; Dimitrov, Dimitar (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2016)
    The flora on the isolated high African mountains or ‘sky islands’ is remarkable for its peculiar adaptations, local endemism and striking biogeographical connections to remote parts of the world. Ages of the plant lineages ...
  • Combining biometrics and genetics to distinguish two subspecies of the Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo carbo and P. c. sinensis at an inland lake in southeast Norway 
    Grøndahl, Finn Audun; Johnsen, Arild (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Great Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo are now regularly seen in inland watercourses in southeast Norway, after the P. c. sinensis subspecies first established breeding colonies in coastal south Norway in 1996. Although both ...
  • Commonness and ecology, but not bigger brains, predict urban living in birds 
    Dale, Svein; Lifjeld, Jan T; Rowe, Melissah (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
    Background Several life history and ecological variables have been reported to affect the likelihood of species becoming urbanized. Recently, studies have also focused on the role of brain size in explaining ...
  • Comparative analysis of four medicinal floras: Phylogenetic methods to identify cross‐cultural patterns 
    Lei, Di; Al-Jabri, Turaiya; Teixidor Toneu, Irene; Saslis-Lagoudakis, Haris; Ghazanfar, Shahina A.; Hawkins, Julie A. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Four medicinal floras were compared using phylogenetic methods, to test whether there are shared patterns in medical plant use at the level of the whole medicinal floras, or for specific therapeutic applications. Checklists ...
  • Comparative authentication of Hypericum perforatum herbal products using DNA metabarcoding, TLC and HPLC-MS 
    Raclariu, Ancuta Cristina; Paltinean, Ramona; Vlase, Laurian; Labarre, Aurélie; Manzanilla, Vincent; Ichim, Mihael Cristi; Crisan, Gianina; Brysting, Anne Krag; de Boer, Hugo (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    Many herbal products have a long history of use, but there are increasing concerns over product efficacy, safety and quality in the wake of recent cases exposing discrepancies between labeling and constituents. When it ...
  • Comparative genomics of Ascetosporea gives new insight into the evolutionary basis for animal parasitism in Rhizaria 
    Hiltunen Thorén, Markus; Onuț-Brännström, Ioana; Alfjorden, Anders; Pecková, Hana; Swords, Fiona; Hooper, Chantelle; Holzer, Astrid S.; Bass, David; Burki, Fabien (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Background Ascetosporea (Endomyxa, Rhizaria) is a group of unicellular parasites infecting aquatic invertebrates. They are increasingly being recognized as widespread and important in marine environments, ...
  • Comparative performance of the BGISEQ-500 vs Illumina HiSeq2500 sequencing platforms for palaeogenomic sequencing 
    Mak, Sarah S.T.; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Carøe, Christian; Geng, Chunyu; Liu, Shanlin; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Kuderna, Lukas FK; Zhang, Wenwei; Fu, Shujin; Vieira, Filipe G.; Germonpre, Mietje; Bocherens, Hervé; Fedorov, Sergey; Petersen, Bent; Sicheritz-Pontén, Thomas; Marques-Bonet, Tomas; Zhang, Guojie; Jiang, Hui; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    Ancient DNA research has been revolutionized following development of next-generation sequencing platforms. Although a number of such platforms have been applied to ancient DNA samples, the Illumina series are the dominant ...