• Liu, Hai Ying; Halvorsen, Rune (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)
    The aim of this study is to examine the effect of individual canopy tree on the species composition and abundance of understorey vegetation in subtropical forests, by applying a model for tree influence on understorey ...
  • Riedel, Matthias; Hansen, Lars Ove (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)
    The family Ichneumonidae represents a very species-rich family of parasitoid Hymenoptera. In Norway, 1583 different Ichneumonid species have been reported so far. The present survey gives distributional records for 98 ...
  • Hansen, Lars Ove; Bjureke, Kristina (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)
    The agromyzid fly Phytomyza arnicae Hering, 1925 is reported from Norway for the first time. This species is exclusively associated with Arnica montana L., where the larvae are leaf-miners. Mining larvae were collected in ...
  • Hansen, Lars Ove (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)
    The ichneumonid wasp Neorhacodes enslini (Ruschka, 1922) is recorded for the first time in Norway. A single female was caught in a Malaise-trap at Abildsø, Østensjøvannet, Oslo municipality (AK; EIS 28), July 1996. This ...
  • Hogner, Silje (Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2012)
    The process of speciation is the splitting of single populations into two or more distinct, reproductively isolated taxa. Common modes of speciation are sympatric, allopatric and parapatric speciation, with speciation in ...
  • Hansen, Lars Ove; Thuroczy, Csaba; Japoshvili, George (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)
    The material of the family Encyrtidae at the Natural History Museum of Oslo is revised. A total of 22 species is reported for the first time from Norway. Thus, the total number of Norwegian encyrtid species is now 42. ...
  • Hogner, Silje; Laskemoen, Terje; Lifjeld, Jan Terje; Porkert, Jiri; Kleven, Oddmund; Albayrak, Tamer; Kabasakal, Bekir; Johnsen, Arild (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)
    Mitochondrial DNA usually shows low sequence variation within and high sequence divergence among species, which makes it a useful marker for phylogenetic inference and DNA barcoding. A previous study on the common redstart ...
  • Stien, Audun; Ims, Rolf Anker; Albon, Steve D.; Fuglei, Eva; Irvine, R.J.; Ropstad, Erik; Halvorsen, Odd; Langvatn, Rolf; Loe, Leif Egil; Veiberg, Vebjørn; Yoccoz, Nigel (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)
    Assessing the role of weather in the dynamics of wildlife populations is a pressing task in the face of rapid environmental change. Rodents and ruminants are abundant herbivore species in most Arctic ecosystems, many of ...
  • Lifjeld, Jan Terje; Laskemoen, Terje; Kleven, Oddmund; Pedersen, Anne Tiril Myhre; Lampe, Helene M.; Rudolfsen, Geir; Schmoll, Tim; Slagsvold, Tore (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)
    There is growing evidence that post-copulatory sexual selection, mediated by sperm competition, influences the evolution of sperm phenotypes. Evidence for pre-copulatory sexual selection effects on sperm traits, on the ...
  • Hogner, Silje; Sæther, Stein Are; Borge, Thomas; Bruvik, Torbjørn; Johnsen, Arild; Sætre, Glenn-Peter (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)
    Recent multilocus studies of congeneric birds have shown a pattern of elevated interspecific divergence on the Z chromosome compared to the autosomes. In contrast, intraspecifically, birds exhibit less polymorphism on the ...
  • Stigenberg, Julia; Hansen, Lars Ove (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
    The tribe Meteorini comprises the two genera Meteorus Haliday, 1835 and Zele Curtis, 1832, and materials of these genera has been examined in the collections of the Natural History Museum in Oslo. Nine species not previously ...
  • Wieczorek, John; Bánki, Olaf; Blum, Stan; Deck, John; Döring, Markus; Dröge, Gabriele; Endresen, Dag Terje Filip; Goldstein, Philip; Leary, Patrick; Krishtalka, Leonard; Ó Tuama, Éamonn; Robbins, Robert J.; Robertson, Tim; Yilmaz, Pelin (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
    The workshop-hackathon was convened by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) at its secretariat in Copenhagen over 22-24 May 2013 with additional support from several projects (RCN4GSC, EAGER, VertNet, BiSciCol, ...
  • Gustafsson, A. Lovisa S. (Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
    The main objectives of this thesis are to study patterns and processes of plant speciation in arctic and alpine diploid plants. Cryptic species are here referred to as morphologically similar individuals belonging to the ...
  • Hatteland, Bjørn Arild; Roth, Steffen; Andersen, Arild; Kaasa, Kristin; Støa, Bente; Solhøy, Torstein (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
    The present distribution of the invasive slug Arion vulgaris Moquin-Tandon was studied in Norway. This important pest species has spread to many parts of Europe during the last decades, inflicting damage to agriculture and ...
  • Riedel, Matthias; Hansen, Lars Ove (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
    The present survey gives distributional records for 49 species of the family Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) previously not recorded from Norway. Eight of these have hitherto not been reported from Scandinavia, namely Adelognathus ...
  • Boumans, Louis (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
    Eleven specimens of Camilla flavicauda Duda 1922 were accidentally reared indoors in Oslo, and a twelfth one was later found free living. In addition, four old specimens of Camilla glabra (Fallén, 1823) were found in the ...
  • Japoshvili, George; Hansen, Lars Ove (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
    The collection of the family Encyrtidae at the Natural History Museum of Oslo is revised, and this study focuses on the ethanol preserved material in particular. Eighteen species are reported for the first time from Norway, ...
  • Boumans, Louis; de Jong, Herman; Oosterbroek, Pjotr (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
    Females of the autumn crane fly Tipula (Platytipula) moiwana (Matsumura, 1916) were collected along the river Ljanselva in Oslo. This species was hitherto only known from the easternmost Palaearctic and from the Moscow and ...
  • Hansen, Lars Ove; Japoshvili, George (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
    The collection of the family Encyrtidae at the Natural History Museum of Oslo is revised, and this study focuses on the ethanol-preserved material in particular. Sixteen species are reported for the first time from Norway, ...
  • Coulson, Stephen James; Fjellberg, Arne; Gwiazdowicz, Dariusz J.; Lebedeva, Natalia V.; Melekhina, Elena N.; Solhøy, Torstein; Erséus, Christer; Maraldo, Kristine; Miko, Ladislav; Schatz, Heinrich; Schmelz, Rüdiger M; Søli, Geir Einar Ellefsen; Stur, Elisabeth (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
    The terrestrial environment of the High Arctic consists of a mosaic of habitat types. In addition to the natural habitat diversity, various human-influenced types may occur. For the resident invertebrate fauna, these ...