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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Brachypsyche sibirica (Martynov, 1924) (Trichoptera, Limnephilidae) is recorded for the first time in Norway based on a male specimen collected in Lom in 1963 by Carl Fredrik Lühr. The species has a Palaearctic distribution ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Abstract
Extreme environments offer powerful opportunities to study how different organisms have adapted to similar selection pressures at the molecular level. Arctic plants have adapted to some of the coldest ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Abstract
Taxonomists have proposed numerous hybrid species in plants, but to gain a better understanding of the role that hybridization may play in plant diversification, such taxonomic hypotheses must be tested ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2020)
Denne rapporten gir en kortfattet beskrivelse av metadata for et naturtypekart etter NiN-metodikk, utarbeidet for et 500×500 m stort område omkring Unsetsætra, Biri, Gjøvik (Oppland). Kartet omfatter to kartlag, ett ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The genus Dragmatucha Meyrick is reviewed and 11 species of a total of 13 are described as new. The new species originate from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda. Based on morphological characters, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Trichaptum abietinum and Trichaptum fuscoviolaceum (Hymenochaetales, Basidiomycota) are closely related saprotrophic fungi, widely distributed on coniferous wood in temperate regions worldwide. Three intersterility groups ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The genus Cosmosphorus Ratzeburg, 1848 (Hymenoptera, Euphorinae) is revised for Norway. The three species Cosmophorus klugi Ratzeburg, 1848, C. regius Niezabitowski, 1910, and C. cembrae Ruschka, 1925 are recorded. A brief ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion, 2021)
Genetic differentiation and phenotypic plasticity jointly shape intraspecific trait variation, but their roles differ among traits. In short- lived plants, reproductive traits may be more genetically determined due to their ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE) refers to one of the greatest increases in biodiversity during the Phanerozoic. Recent studies have shown that this taxonomic increase can be attributed to elevated ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Background Meta-analyses have shown firefighters to be at an increased risk of several cancer types. Occupational carcinogen exposure may explain these increased risks. This study aims to describe Norwegian fire departments' ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Norwegian landscapes are changing at an increasingly rapid rate and therefore systematically structured information about observable landscape variation is required for knowledge-based management of landscape diversity. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Water temperatures control life histories and diversity of aquatic species. Hydropower regulation, particularly in high head systems, alters natural water temperature regimes, which may have profound and long‐term impacts ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Earth's heat budget is strongly influenced by spatial and temporal variations in surface heat flow caused by plate tectonic cycles. Here, we use a novel set of paleo‐seafloor age grids extending back to the mid‐Paleozoic ...
(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.
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(Report / Rapport, 2021)
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2021)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Even though plants represent an essential part of our lives offering exploitational, supporting and cultural services, we know very little about the biology of the rarest and most threatened plant species, and even less ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Henbane Hyoscyamus niger is a truly exceptional plant. Few species in our flora are as enveloped with mysticism and magic as henbane. The species is monocarpic with both annual and biennial forms. Biennial plants grow a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The study of faecal samples to reconstruct the diets and habitats of extinct megafauna has traditionally relied on pollen and macrofossil analysis. DNA metabarcoding has emerged as a valuable tool to complement and refine ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Many studies investigating the human microbiome-cancer interface have focused on the gut microbiome and gastrointestinal cancers. Outside of human papillomavirus driving cervical cancer, little is known about the relationship ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Sperm swimming performance affects male fertilization success, particularly in species with high sperm competition. Understanding how sperm morphology impacts swimming performance is therefore important. Sperm swimming ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
(1) We document the invertebrate fauna collected from 24 oak canopies in east and west Norway as a contribution to the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre’s ‘The Norwegian Taxonomy Initiative’. (2) A snap-shot inventory ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Motivation
Previously we presented swarm, an open-source amplicon clustering programme that produces fine-scale molecular operational taxonomic units (OTUs) that are free of arbitrary global clustering thresholds. Here, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Harmful algal blooms (HAB) are recurrent phenomena in northern Europe along the coasts of the Baltic Sea, Kattegat-Skagerrak, eastern North Sea, Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea. These HABs have caused occasional massive ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga which has historically been an important model system in cell biology. Here, we attempt to re-introduce A. acetabulum as a model system through the investigation of the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Loss of Arctic sea ice owing to climate change is predicted to reduce both genetic diversity and gene flow in ice-dependent species, with potentially negative consequences for their long-term viability. Here, we tested for ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Over the last two decades, the use of DNA barcodes has transformed our ability to identify and assess life on our planet. Both strengths and weaknesses of the method have been exemplified through thousands of peer-reviewed ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Uncovering anthropogenic and environmental drivers behind past biological change requires integrated analyses of long-term records from a diversity of disciplines. We applied an interdisciplinary approach exploring effects ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
To bolster restoration efforts necessary to mitigate environmental degradation, relevant indicators, measurable targets, and assessments of ecosystems’ progress towards recovery are essential. These are particularly important ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The phylogenetic diversity of Ochrophyta, a diverse and ecologically important radiation of algae, is still incompletely understood even at the level of the principal lineages. One taxon that has eluded simple classification ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Abstract The monumental work of Olov Hedberg provided deep insights into the spectacular and fragmented tropical alpine flora of the African sky islands. Here we review recent molecular and niche modelling studies and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Objectives
Natural history collections are often thought to represent environments in a pristine natural state—free from human intervention—the so-called “wild.” In this study, we aim to assess the level of human influence ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Abstract The macroscopic single-celled green alga Acetabularia acetabulum has been a model system in cell biology for more than a century. However, no genomic information is available from this species. Since the alga has ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2020)
Formålet med veilederen er å fylle det kunnskapsrommet som trengs for å bruke natursystemnivået i NiN til feltbasert kartlegging; både til opplæring av nye kartleggere, til hjelp ved utlysning av oppdrag, og som veiledning ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Global declines in biodiversity highlight the need to effectively monitor the density and distribution of threatened species. In recent years, molecular survey methods detecting DNA released by target-species into their ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Populations of large mammals have declined at alarming rates, especially in areas with intensified land use where species can only persist in small habitat fragments. To support conservation planning, we developed habitat ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Ciliates have a long history of being central in evolutionary and ecological studies on eukaryotic microorganisms. Although thousands of species have been discovered, their total diversity still remains unknown. Here, we ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Abandonment of agricultural land is a process described from different regions of many industrialized countries. Given the current focus on land use, land use change and food security, it appears highly relevant to develop ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The aim of this study is to generate a first global overview of pressures and methods used to assess the environmental quality of rivers and streams using macroinvertebrates. In total, 314 peer-review studies were reviewed, ...
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The Mediterranean specimens of the genus Microporella collected from shallow water habitats during several surveys and cruises undertaken mostly off the Italian coast are revised. As a result of the disentanglement of the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Biodiversity informatics is a new and evolving field, requiring efforts to develop capacity and a curriculum for this field of science. The main objective was to summarise the level of activity and the efforts towards ...
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Abstract The taxonomy of Sistotremastrum (Trechisporales, Basidiomycota) is revised based on morphology and DNA data. The genus is shown to be polyphyletic, and therefore it is split into two units— Sistotremastrum s. str. ...
Reliability in distribution modeling — A synthesis and step-by-step guidelines for improved practice
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Information about the distribution of a study object (e.g., species or habitat) is essential in face of increasing pressure from land or sea use, and climate change. Distribution models are instrumental for acquiring such ...
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Poleward shifts in species distributions are expected and frequently observed with a warming climate. In Arctic ecosystems, the strong warming trends are associated with increasing greenness and shrubification. Vertebrate ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
1. The restriction site-associated DNA (RADseq) family of protocols involves digesting DNA and sequencing the region flanking the cut site, thus providing a cost and time-efficient way for obtaining thousands of genomic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Abstract A nomenclature scheme has been set up for the nordite supergroup of minerals, which have the general formula A 2 BXYZT 6 O 17 and where A = Na; B = Na, Ca; X = Sr, Ca, Ba; Y = REE , Sr; Z = Zn, Fe, Mn, Mg and T = ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
1. In species providing extended parental care, one or both parents care for altricial young over a period including more than one breeding season. We expect large parental investment and long-term dependency within family ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
With the change to one scientific name for fungal taxa, generic names typified by species with sexual or asexual morph types are being evaluated to determine which names represent the same genus and thus compete for use. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The organic-rich shales of the Middle Triassic Botneheia Formation in Svalbard and its correlative units offshore are considered important source rock intervals for oil and gas generation in the Norwegian Barents Shelf ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
1. Warming in the Arctic is predicted to change freshwater biodiversity through loss of unique taxa and northward range expansion of lower latitude taxa. Detecting such changes requires establishing circumpolar baselines ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
In this study, we use low-coverage shotgun sequencing of genomic DNA, commonly referred to as genome skimming, to investigate the phylogenetic relationships of the fungus gnat genus Allodia Winnertz (Mycetophilidae, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) are crucial for adaptive immunity, and theory predicts that the optimal number of alleles is intermediate rather than maximal. Support for such an intermediate optimum ...
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When females copulate with multiple males, pre- and post-copulatory sexual selection may interact synergistically or in opposition. Studying this interaction in wild populations is complex and potentially biased, because ...
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The saltmarsh sparrow Ammospiza caudacuta and Nelson's sparrow A. nelsoni differ in ecological niche, mating behavior, and plumage, but they hybridize where their breeding distributions overlap. In this advanced hybrid ...
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Distribution modeling methods are used to provide occurrence probability surfaces for modeled targets. While most often used for modeling species, distribution modeling methods can also be applied to vegetation types. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Environmental change and increasing levels of human activity are threats to marine mammals in the Arctic. Identifying marine mammal hotspots and areas of high species richness are essential to help guide management and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Morphologically similar species, that is cryptic species, may be similar or quasi-similar owing to the deceleration of morphological evolution and stasis. While the factors underlying the deceleration of morphological ...
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Abstract Sperm cells are variable both within and among species. To be able to accurately measure sperm cells and understand their function, it is important that sperm cells are preserved in a manner that maintains their ...
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1. Several studies have shown the potential of eDNA-based proxies for plant identification, but little is known about their spatial and temporal resolution. This limits its use for plant biodiversity assessments and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Abstract Divergence in sperm phenotype and female reproductive environment may be a common source of postmating prezygotic (PMPZ) isolation between species. However, compared to other reproductive barriers it has received ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
We aimed with this study to explore usage of medicinal plants in Scandinavian folk medicine against diseases interpreted to involve the immune system, and to further screen water extracts from previously overlooked medicinal ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The mckelveyite group consisting of seven carbonate minerals – mckelveyite-(Y), ewaldite, weloganite, donnayite-(Y), alicewilsonite-(YCe), alicewilsonite-(YLa), and bainbridgeite-(YCe) – is formally established. The general ...
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Norwegian Journal of Entomology: http://www.entomologi.no/journals/nje/nje.htm.
Norsk entomologisk forening: http://www.entomologi.no/index.htm
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Ethiopia is home to one of the richest and most unique assemblages of fauna and flora on the African continent. Contained within its borders are two major centers of endemism, the mesic Roof of Africa (also known as the ...
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Currents are unique drivers of oceanic phylogeography and thus determine the distribution of marine coastal species, along with past glaciations and sea-level changes. Here we reconstruct the worldwide colonization history ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Phylogenetic placement refers to a family of tools and methods to analyze, visualize, and interpret the tsunami of metagenomic sequencing data generated by high-throughput sequencing. Compared to alternative (e. g., ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract. The new mckelveyite group mineral alicewilsonite-(YCe), ideally Na2Sr2YCe(CO3)6 ⋅ 3H2O, was found at Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada, and subsequently at the Saint-Amable sill, Quebec, Canada, and the Khibiny ...
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The metamorphic reworking of mineralized pegmatites during orogenesis remains unclear, making the genesis and the tectonomagmatic significance of pegmatite mineralization obscure. This study demonstrates the multiple ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Background
Climate change coupled with other anthropogenic pressures may affect the extent of suitable habitat for species and thus their distributions. This is particularly true for species occupying ...
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Repetitive DNA make up a considerable fraction of most eukaryotic genomes. In fish, transposable element (TE) activity has coincided with rapid species diversification. Here, we annotated the repetitive content in 100 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Norwegian Journal of Entomology: http://www.entomologi.no/journals/nje/nje.htm.
Norsk entomologisk forening: http://www.entomologi.no/index.htm
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Questions: Field-based ecosystem mapping is prone to observer bias, typically resulting in a mismatch between maps made by different mappers, that is, inconsistency. Experimental studies testing the influence of site, ...
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Changes in phytoplankton abundance and biomass during the period 1933–2020 were examined by statistical modeling using data from the Inner Oslofjorden phytoplankton database. The phytoplankton abundances increased with ...
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In 1878, Arthur Waters described a bryozoan fauna from a Pleistocene (Calabrian) outcrop, at that time considered as Pliocene, located near the town of Brucoli in southeast Sicily (Italy). Waters’ work on bryozoans was ...
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African wolves (Canis lupaster) and Ethiopian wolves (C. simensis) occur often sympatrically across habitats in the Ethiopian Highlands, with recent studies finding evidence for interspecific competition. However, unlike ...
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As an important source of lithium and rare earth elements (REE) and other critical elements, pegmatites are of great strategic economic interest for present and future technological development. Identifying new pegmatite ...
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The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) has become a symbol of the threat to biodiversity from climate change. Understanding polar bear evolutionary history may provide insights into apex carnivore responses and prospects during ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Recent publications have argued that there are potentially serious consequences for researchers in recognising distinct genera in the terminal fusarioid clade of the family Nectriaceae. Thus, an alternate hypothesis, namely ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Current knowledge about Paleolithic human plant use is limited by the rare survival of identifiable plant remains as well as the availability of methods for plant detection and identification. By analyzing DNA preserved ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Abstract The repeated, rapid and often pronounced patterns of evolutionary divergence observed in insular plants, or the ‘plant island syndrome’, include changes in leaf phenotypes, growth, as well as the acquisition of a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Climate change has dramatic impacts on ecological systems, affecting a range of ecological factors including phenology, species abundance, diversity, and distribution. The breadth of climate change impacts on ecological ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Abstract Island systems provide important contexts for studying processes underlying lineage migration, species diversification, and organismal extinction. The Hawaiian endemic mints (Lamiaceae family) are the second largest ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Abstract
The advent of fast computational algorithms for phylogenetic comparative methods allows for considering multiple hypotheses concerning the co-adaptation of traits and also for studying if it is possible ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Little is known about the evolution of cold tolerance in polar plant species and how they differ from temperate relatives. To gain insight into their biology and the evolution of cold tolerance, we compared the molecular ...
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Safran et al. (2016a) manipulated two sexual traits (ventral plumage coloration and tail streamer length) in male barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) and reported divergent effects on paternity change between two study ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Understanding the effects of interspecific competition on genetic diversity will deepen our knowledge on species evolution. In the case of Calopteryx splendens and C. virgo, sympatric damselfly species, interspecific ...
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Sperm cells are exceptionally morphologically diverse across taxa. However, morphology can be quite uniform within species, particularly for species where females copulate with many males per reproductive bout. Strong ...
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Qatar, a peninsular country in the Persian Gulf, is significant to avian species due to its location along the African–Eurasian Flyway, a key migratory path. Receiving untreated domestic and industrial liquid waste from ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
As temperatures decrease in autumn, vegetation of temperate and boreal ecosystems increases its tolerance to freezing. This process, known as hardening, results in a set of physiological changes at the molecular level that ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
To monitor the changes in the landscape, and to relate these to ecological processes, we need robust and reproducible methods for quantifying the changes in landscape patterns. The main aim of this study is to present, ...
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Melting curves of Ca-perovskite (pure CaSiO3) were determined by ab initio density functional theory, using two solid-liquid coexistence methods and two free energy approaches, in the form of thermodynamic integration and ...
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Background Dry grasslands on calcareous bedrock in warm climates around the Oslo Fjord are naturally fragmented biodiversity hotspots. This habitat geographically coincides with the most densely populated area of Norway. ...
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In species with alternative reproductive tactics, there is much empirical support that parasitically spawning males have larger testes and greater sperm numbers as an evolved response to a higher degree of sperm competition, ...
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Sperm competition is thought to impose strong selection on males to produce competitive ejaculates to outcompete rival males under competitive mating conditions. Our understanding of how different sperm traits influence ...