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(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. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
The material of the family Aphelinidae at the Natural History Museum of Oslo is revised. Twelve species not previously recorded from Norway have been found. One species Aphelinus quercus n. sp. is described and illustrated. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
The luminescence spectra of a suite of natural sodium framework silicates including four different sodalite variants and tugtupite have been collected during X-ray irradiation as a function of temperature between 20 and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)
The present survey reports 58 species of wasps belonging to the family Ichneumonidae hitherto not reported from Norway. The subfamilies Cryptinae, Ctenopelmatinae, Ichneumoninae, Microleptinae, Orthocentrinae, Pimplinae ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 1999)
The genus Nothochrysa is reported for the first time from Norway. The two species N. flaviceps (Stephens, 1836) and N. capitata (Fabricius, 1793) were captured in light-traps in Kristiansand (VAY) in 1999. The biology and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
The amazon ant Polyergus rufescens (Latreille, 1798) is recorded in Norway. Two cohorts were observed at Skåtøy, Kragerø municipality (TEY, EIS 11), 9 July 1995, raiding pupae of Formica fusca Linnaeus, 1758, which is one ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
The present faunistic survey gives distributional records for 125 species of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera) from several subfamilies (Agathidinae, Alysiinae, Aphidiinae, Brachistinae, Braconinae, Cheloninae, Doryctinae, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
The study of the collection of the family Encyrtidae at the Natural History Museum of Oslo continues. Eighteen species are reported for the first time from Norway in this revision, bringing the total number of Norwegian ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2010)
Sperm cells are the most variable animal cells, and a tremendous variation in sperm phenotypes exists among species, from minute amoeboid sperm to giant sperm in some species of fruit flies. Much effort has been devoted ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
This dissertation is about female promiscuity in passerine birds. By using comparative analytical approaches, I have tried to determine why there is such variation in the frequency of this behaviour. I have found that ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2011)
Genetic variation is a prerequisite for evolution. The present thesis examines how genetic diversity arises and is maintained. The thesis can be divided into two subprojects, addressing neutral and functional genetic ...
(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 ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2009)
Large herbivores such as sheep affect plants directly and indirectly through selective foraging, trampling, urination and defecation, thereby modifying intra- and interspecific interactions and altering resource availability ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2009)
As a starting point GIS (geographical information systems) seem intuitively to be a practical tool for biologists performing ecological research. GIS conveniently stores, explores, analyses and visualizes biological/ecol ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The scattered eastern African high mountains harbor a renowned and highly endemic flora, but the taxonomy and phylogeographic history of many plant groups are still insufficiently known. The high-alpine populations of the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Crossing experiments indicate that hybrid sterility barriers frequently have developed within diploid, circumpolar plant species of the genus Draba. To gain insight into the rapid evolution of postzygotic reproductive ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Herein we describe the new species, Psora taurensis, from two localities in the Taurus Mountains in Turkey at ca. 1000 m altitude. Investigations of anatomy, secondary chemistry and DNA sequences (ITS and mtSSU) of P. ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Morphological investigations confirm that there are two species of Papaver in Svalbard: P. dahlianum and P. cornwallisense. The two most distinctive diagnostic characters are the number of stamens and the length of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Tubers of terrestrial orchids are harvested and traded from the eastern Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea for the traditional product Salep. Overexploitation of wild populations and increased middle-class prosperity have ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Background and AimsNepenthes attracts wide attention with its spectacularly shaped carnivorous pitchers, cultural value and horticultural curiosity. Despite the plant’s iconic fascination, surprisingly little anatomical ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Orchids are one of the largest plant families and are commercially traded for a variety of purposes, including as ornamental plants, medicinal products and food. These markets involve thousands of species, which may be ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
In eastern Mediterranean countries orchids continue to be collected from the wild for the production of salep, a beverage made of dried orchid tubers. In this study we used nrITS1 and nrITS2 DNA metabarcoding to identify ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Data from large sampling programmes for the mapping of marine invertebrates in the Oslofjord, Norway, and the Skagerrak, spanning more than six decades, are compiled and digitized to provide easy access in modern data ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport / PublishedVersion, 2014)
The main goal of the present report is to outline the possibilities for an enhanced cooperation between the Nordic countries within eScience and biodiversity. LifeWatch is one of several ESFRI projects which aim to establish ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Natural selection in domestic dogs is of great interest in evolutionary biology since dogs have migrated to every inhabited continent of the world alongside humans, and adapted to diverse environments. Here, we explored ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Restriction-site associated DNA sequencing (RAD-seq) has recently become an important method to generate genome-wide molecular data for species delimitation, phylogeography, and population genetic studies. However, very ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2005)
Background
The Floral Genome Project was initiated to bridge the genomic gap between the most broadly studied plant model systems. Arabidopsis and rice, although now completely sequenced and under intensive ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2009)
Background
Non-coding satellite DNA (satDNA) usually has a high turn-over rate frequently leading to species specific patterns. However, some satDNA families evolve more slowly and can be found in several ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
With nearly 300 species, the infraorder Meliphagides represents one of the largest and most conspicuous Australasian bird radiations. Although the group has been the focus of a number of recent phylogenetic studies, a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2008)
Background
Microsatellites are frequently used genetic markers in a wide range of applications, primarily due to their high length polymorphism levels that can easily be genotyped by fragment length analysis. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)
Background
During the last 15 years the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of nuclear DNA has been used as a target for analyzing fungal diversity in environmental samples, and has recently been selected as ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)
Crustose lichen communities on rocks exhibit fascinating spatial mosaics resembling political maps of nations or municipalities. Although the establishment and development of biological populations are important themes in ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2008)
Background
In the present pilot study we applied recently published protocols for detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis in human remains. We screened long bones from an 18th century cemetery and skulls from ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2006)
Background
The inflorescence of the cut-flower crop Gerbera hybrida (Asteraceae) consists of two principal flower types, ray and disc, which form a tightly packed head, or capitulum. Despite great interest ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2006)
Background
The glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3)/SHAGGY-like kinases (GSKs) are non-receptor serine/threonine protein kinases that are involved in a variety of biological processes. In contrast to the two ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Colymbosaurus is a genus of long-necked plesiosaurian represented by two valid species: C. megadeirus from the Upper Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Kimmeridgian–Tithonian) of the United Kingdom and C. svalbardensis from the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)
Background
The great variety in sequence, length, complexity, and abundance of satellite DNA has made it difficult to ascribe any function to this genome component. Recent studies have shown that satellite ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Background
Evolutionary biology endeavours to explain biological diversity, and as such it is critical to develop an understanding of the adaptive and functional significance of trait variation. Spermatozoa ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2011)
Background
The fungal genus Serpula (Serpulaceae, Boletales) comprises several saprotrophic (brown rot) taxa, including the aggressive house-infecting dry rot fungus Serpula lacrymans. Recent phylogenetic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The Larvik Plutonic Complex (LPC) contains pegmatites with a wide array of mineral assemblages and morphological features. The pegmatites have traditionally been described as nepheline syenite and syenite pegmatites which ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Sympatric species are expected to minimize competition by partitioning resources, especially when these are limited. Herbivores inhabiting the High Arctic in winter are a prime example of a situation where food availability ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Background
The rather species-poor oviparous gyrodactylids are restricted to South America. It was suggested that they have a basal position within the otherwise viviparous Gyrodactylidae. Accordingly, it ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
In the present study, we describe the new species, Psora altotibetica, from nine localities in China (Tibetan area) and Nepal. The study includes analyses of anatomy, secondary chemistry, and DNA sequence data of P. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The Late-Proterozoic Sveconorwegian pegmatite province in southern Norway and southwest Sweden hosts seven rare-element pegmatite districts with more than 5000 rare-element pegmatites. Most of these pegmatites with ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
The cumulative effects of climate warming on herbivore vital rates and population dynamics are hard to predict, given that the expected effects differ between seasons. In the Arctic, warmer summers enhance plant growth ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The lesser Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean is known as a biodiversity hotspot, hosting many endemic species. However, recent introduction of a highly invasive species, the Australian redclaw crayfish (Cherax ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Increased human activity and climate change are expected to increase the numbers and impact of alien species in the Arctic, but knowledge of alien species is poor in most Arctic regions. Through field investigations over ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Motivation
Compositional heterogeneity—when the proportions of nucleotides and amino acids are not broadly similar across the dataset—is a cause of a great number of phylogenetic artefacts. Whilst a variety ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The Tres Arroyos granite–pegmatite system is located in the SW margin of the Nisa-Alburquerque Variscan batholith. Two granitic facies (monzogranite and marginal leucogranite) and three types of aplite–pegmatite dykes ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2007)
Background
A controversial topic in evolutionary developmental biology is whether morphological diversification in natural populations can be driven by expansions and contractions of amino acid repeats in ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Background
Aloe vera supports a substantial global trade yet its wild origins, and explanations for its popularity over 500 related Aloe species in one of the world’s largest succulent ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Background
Gyrodactylus salaris is a directly transmitted ectoparasite that reproduces in situ on its fish host. Wild Norwegian (East Atlantic) salmon stocks are thought to be ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The new mineral hansesmarkite (IMA2015-067), Ca2Mn2Nb6O19·20H2O, was discovered at the AS Granit larvikite quarry in Tvedalen, Larvik, Vestfold, Norway. Hansesmarkite forms faintly yellow crystals up to 0.3 mm or thin ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
The layered agpaitic nepheline syenites (kakortokites) of the Ilímaussaq complex, South Greenland, host voluminous accumulations of eudialyte-group minerals (EGM). These complex Na-Ca-zirconosilicates contain economically ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
High tropical mountains harbour remarkable and fragmented biodiversity thought to a large degree to have been shaped by multiple dispersals of cold-adapted lineages from remote areas. Few dated phylogenetic/phylogeographic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Telomere length is related to aging in many eukaryotes and the rate of telomere attrition has been suggested to reflect individual genetic quality. Telomere length could thus have implications for mate choice. We investigated ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Previous studies based on single mitochondrial markers have shown that the common raven (Corvus corax) consists of two highly diverged lineages that are hypothesised to have undergone speciation reversal upon secondary ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
One hundred and seventy-three years ago, the last two Great Auks, Pinguinus impennis, ever reliably seen were killed. Their internal organs can be found in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, but the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Gene expression changes potentially play an important role in adaptive evolution under human‐induced selection pressures, but this has been challenging to demonstrate in natural populations. Fishing exhibits strong selection ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Chikanda is a traditional dish made with wild-harvested ground orchid tubers belonging to three orchidioid genera, Disa, Satyrium and Habenaria, all of which are CITES appendix II-listed. Identification of collected orchid ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Intensified human land use continues to increase habitat loss and fragmentation, and leads to a homogenization of biodiversity. Specialized species with narrow niches seem to be declining more rapidly than generalist ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Most people in the Swat valley of northwest Pakistan practice subsistence farming, supplementing their income by collecting and selling wild harvested plants for use in herbal medicine. Previous work showed that the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
Phylogeographic studies in the high mountains of Africa are hampered by the limited material available, resulting in insufficient knowledge of taxonomic variation within and among closely related species. Here, we address ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The Lepidoptera species recorded in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are listed. The history of lepidopterology in the Nordic-Baltic area and in each country is outlined. The current ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Southeast (SE) Asia is 1 of the most biodiverse regions in the world, and it holds approximately 20% of all mammal species. Despite this, the majority of SE Asia's genetic diversity is still poorly characterized. The growing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Ethnopharmacological relevance What are the minimum methodological and conceptual requirements for an ethnopharmacological field study? How can the results of ethnopharmacological field studies be reported so that researchers ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
A male specimen of Dryadaula heindeli Gaedike & Scholz, 1998 (Lepidoptera, Dryadaulidae) was found in western Norway in Møre og Romsdal at Averøy: Rokset in August 2017. The circumstances of the record, the species’ biology ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The distributions of species are not only determined by where they can survive – they must also be able to reproduce. Although immigrant inviability is a well‐established concept, the fact that immigrants also need to be ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Background
Understanding the phylogenetic relationships among species is one of the main goals of systematic biology. Simultaneously, credible phylogenetic hypotheses are often the first requirement for ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Human population expansion and associated degradation of the habitat of many wildlife species cause loss of biodiversity and species extinctions. The small Simen Mountains National Park in Ethiopia is one of the last ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Hybridization is frequent in the large and ecologically significant genus Carex (Cyperaceae). In four important sections of the northern regions (Ceratocystis, Glareosae, Phacocystis and Vesicariae), the frequent occurrence ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
All organisms need to fight pathogens to avoid infectious diseases. In vertebrates, two classes of polymorphic genes from the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) are crucial for triggering immune responses against ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / SubmittedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
A molecular phylogenetic analysis based on the DNA barcode marker (nrITS) of 12 specimens of Lecidea leucothallina revealed three monophyletic clades, two apotheciate and one sorediate. The sorediate clade is described as ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Nomenclatural type definitions are one of the most important concepts in biological nomenclature. Being physical objects that can be re-studied by other researchers, types permanently link taxonomy (an artificial agreement ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
A range of published arguments against formalizing the Anthropocene as a geological time unit have variously suggested that it is a misleading term of non-stratigraphic origin and usage, is based on insignificant temporal ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Multiple drivers shape the spatial distribution of species, including dispersal capacity, niche incumbency, climate variability, orographic barriers, and plate tectonics. However, biogeographic patterns of fungi commonly ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Climate change is expected to result in range shifts and habitat fragmentation for many species. In the Arctic, loss of sea ice will reduce barriers to dispersal or eliminate movement corridors, resulting in increased ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Despite the dramatic phenological responses of fungal fruiting to recent climate warming, it is unknown whether spatial distributions of fungi have changed and to what extent such changes are influenced by fungal traits, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Global change threatens invertebrate biodiversity and its central role in numerous ecosystem functions and services. Functional trait analyses have been advocated to uncover global mechanisms behind biodiversity responses ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The long history of human land use have had a strong influence on ecosystems and landscapes in the boreal forest region of Northern Europe and created semi-natural habitats of high conservation value. In this study, we ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
North America is currently home to a number of grey wolf (Canis lupus) and wolf-like canid populations, including the coyote (Canis latrans) and the taxonomically controversial red, Eastern timber and Great Lakes wolves. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Eutectic melting curves in the system MgO–SiO2 have been experimentally determined at lower mantle pressures using laser-heated diamond anvil cell (LH-DAC) techniques. We investigated eutectic melting of bridgmanite plus ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
After 142 years, Plutellapolaris Zeller, 1880 was rediscovered at Svalbard, Norway, in 2015. The locality and its vegetation are described. The specimen is the first female ever recorded, and its genitalia are illustrated. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Zoonotic infections transmitted from terrestrial and marine mammals to humans in European Arctic are of unknown significance, despite considerable potential for transmission due to local hunt and a rapidly changing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Almost all mammals communicate using sound, but few species produce complex songs. Two baleen whales sing complex songs that change annually, though only the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) has received much research ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Loss of Arctic sea ice has implications for the distribution and population structure of ice-dependent species such as polar bears Ursus maritimus. We used remotely sensed sea-ice concentration data for Baffin Bay, Canada, ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Wildlife trade is one of the largest threats to biodiversity today. To curb the devastating effects of unrestricted trade on species that are vulnerable to overexploitation, international trade is only permitted under ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
BioDATA is an international project on developing skills in biodiversity data management and data publishing. Between 2018 and 2021, undergraduate and postgraduate students from Armenia, Belarus, Tajikistan, and Ukraine, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Garcinia L. (Clusiaceae) fruits are a rich source of (−)-hydroxycitric acid, and this has gained considerable attention as an anti-obesity agent and a popular weight loss food supplement. In this study, we assessed ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Aim: Although the effects of climate on species richness are known, regional pro‐ cesses may lead to different species richness–climate relationships across continents resulting in species richness anomalies, especially ...