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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Ethnopharmacological relevance: This study is the first ethnobotanical survey focusing on the herbal medicines traditionally used by the nomadic community of the Algerian steppe, identifying new medicinal plants and uses ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Constructed stormwater ponds mitigate runoff volumes and pollution, and provide other ecosystem services, such as supporting biodiversity, but these services attracted relatively less attention. The impacts of the pollution ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The Generic Ecological Impact Assessment of Alien Species (GEIAA) is described. It comprises a set of criteria and an assessment procedure. The set of criteria consists of three criteria that quantify invasion potential, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The early Palaeozoic Era records the initial biodiversification of the Phanerozoic. The increase in biodiversity involved drastic changes in taxon longevity, and in rates of origination and extinction. Here, we calculate ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The quartz-K-feldspar-cemented breccia of Berglia-Glassberget in the Lierne municipality in central Norway forms an ellipsoid structure 250 m × 500 m in size. The hydrothermal breccia is barren in terms of economic commodities ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The two species Parmelia ernstiae and P. serrana are reported as new to Norway from two collections each, identified by the DNA barcode marker (nrITS). A chemical analysis of selected specimens of P. saxatilis s. lat. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Eudialyte-group minerals (EGM) attract global interest as potential resources for high-field-strength elements (e.g. Zr, Nb, Ta, and rare-earth elements), i.e. critical materials for modern technologies. They are particularly ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Background
DNA barcodes are increasingly being used for species identification amongst the lichenised fungi. This paper presents a dataset aiming to provide an authoritative DNA barcode sequence library for a wide array ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Phyllopsora is a crustose to squamulose lichen genus inhabiting the bark of trees in moist tropical forests and rainforests. Species identification is generally challenging and is mainly based on ascospore morphology, ...
Xylopsora canopeorum (Umbilicariaceae), a new lichen species from the canopy of Sequoia sempervirens
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Xylopsora canopeorum Timdal, Reese Næsborg & Bendiksby is described as a new species occupying the crowns of large Sequoia sempervirens trees in California, USA. The new species is supported by morphology, anatomy, secondary ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Earth’s surface and mantle sulphur reservoirs are connected via subduction, crustal recycling and volcanism. Although oceanic hotspot lavas currently provide the best constraints on the deep sulphur cycle, their restricted ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Members of the class Mamiellophyceae comprise species that can dominate picophytoplankton diversity in polar waters. Yet, polar species are often morphologically indistinguishable from temperate species, although clearly ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Domestic dogs have been central to life in the North American Arctic for millennia. The ancestors of the Inuit were the first to introduce the widespread usage of dog sledge transportation technology to the Americas, but ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
A plethora of studies published over the last two decades produced numerous contradictory phylogenies leading to the lack of consensus on phylogenetic history in dung beetles. Thus, due to those contradictions, the community ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
With almost 600 species, the latest molecular phylogeny of pholcid spiders (Eberle et al. 2018, BMC Evolutionary Biology) more than triples the largest previously available molecular phylogeny of the family. At the level ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Biodiversity on Earth has seen many increases and decreases throughout its history. Unrevealing these changes is crucial for understanding mechanisms and dissecting principles behind diversification and extinction events.
One ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The new minerals cuatrocapaite-(NH4) (IMA2018-083) and cuatrocapaite-(K) (IMA2018-084) are the NH4- and K-dominant members of a series with the general formula (NH4,K)3(NaMg□)(As2O3)6Cl6·16H2O. Both minerals were found at ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
A hitherto unrecognized Paleogene outcrop has been discovered at Sylfjellet, a mountain located at the northern side of Isfjorden, Svalbard. The strata, which cover an area of 0.8 km2, have until now been assigned to the ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
Peculiar rocks consisting of large and rare minerals are known as nepheline syenite pegmatites and can be found in larvikite (national rock of Norway!) around the Larvik area. Detailed chemical analyses of a mineral called ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Interactions between fungi and plants, including parasitism, mutualism, and saprotrophy, have been invoked as key to their respective macroevolutionary success. Here we evaluate the origins of plant-fungal symbioses and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
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, 2017)
Polar bears have experienced a rapid loss of sea-ice habitat in the Barents Sea. Monitoring this subpopulation focuses on the effects on polar bear demography. In August 2015, we conducted a survey in the Norwegian Arctic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The tropical alpine ecosystem in eastern Africa is highly fragmented among biological ‘sky islands’, where populations of frost-tolerant organisms are isolated from each other by a ‘sea’ of tropical lowlands. One-third of ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Changes in growth forms frequently accompany plant adaptive radiations, including páramo–a high‐elevation treeless habitat type of the northern Andes. We tested whether diverse group of Senecio inhabiting montane forests ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
The Atlantic coast of South America is characterized by a great diversity and endemism of fishes. Past eustatic changes that promoted cycles of isolation, expansion, and connection of coastal catchments are considered ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Norwegian universities have trained students and other scholars from the South within fields related to African plant diversity through the last decades. The activities were funded by NUFU, the Norwegian Council of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Intraspecific competition for food is expected to increase the trophic niche width of consumers, defined here as their diet diversity, but this process has been little studied in herbivores. Population densities of small ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Animals can be important in modulating ecosystem-level nutrient cycling, although their importance varies greatly among species and ecosystems. Nutrient cycling rates of individual animals represent valuable data for testing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Much adaptive evolutionary change is underlain by mutational variation in regions of the genome that regulate gene expression rather than in the coding regions of the genes themselves. An understanding of the role of gene ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Nordland is Norway’s second largest county, with an areal extent of 38,482 km2 . In general, Nordland is reasonably well covered in terms of botanical exploration, with few blank areas. No flora covering the entire area ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Pegmatites are extremely coarse-grained and heterogeneous rocks in which quantitative measurements of mineral proportions and chemical compositions of the whole rock are virtually impossible to acquire. Thus, conventional ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Only one species of the genus Allodia has been previously recorded from the Afrotropical region, Allodia (Brachycampta) flavorufa Matile, 1978. Six new species are described here, all representing the nominotypical subgenus, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The Late Jurassic Slottsmøya Member Lagerstätte on Spitsbergen preserves a diverse array of marine reptiles, including four named taxa of ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaurs. One of these, Palvennia hoybergeti, is based on the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Premise of research. Self-compatibility is a requirement for reproductive assurance via selfing and may therefore be beneficial in environments with infrequent or unpredictable pollinator service. However, self-compatible ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
A new specimen of Phalarodon from the Middle Triassic Botneheia Formation on Svalbard, although not complete, is well preserved with both cranial and postcranial elements. Uncompressed preservation of the rostrum reveals ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Niobium is usually considered to be one of the least mobile elements during alteration of rocks in geological processes and is thought to only be mobile at elevated temperatures and/or pressures. Since niobium is assumed ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
As the Arctic warms, vegetation is responding, and satellite measures indicate widespread greening at high latitudes. This ‘greening of the Arctic’ is among the world’s most important large-scale ecological responses to ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Standardized tools are needed to identify and prioritize the most harmful non-native species (NNS). A plethora of assessment protocols have been developed to evaluate the current and potential impacts of non-native species, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The Paraná deposit, located at Southwestern Rio Grande do Norte state, in Brazil, is one of the few emerald deposits found at Borborema Province. The mineralization occurs in phlogopite schists and actinolite-phlogopite ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Abstract
The great gerbil (Rhombomys opimus) is a social rodent living in permanent, complex burrow systems distributed throughout Central Asia, where it serves as the main host of several important vector-borne ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Many species, including humans, have emerged via complex reticulate processes involving hybridisation. Under certain circumstances, hybridisation can cause distinct lineages to collapse into a single lineage with an admixed ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Humeri of Pessopteryx nisseri and vertebrae referred to Cymbospondylus sp. are described from the Lower Saurian niveau at Marmierfjellet, Spitsbergen. This is the most well-preserved Cymbospondylus material described from ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Postcopulatory sexual selection may select for male primary sexual characteristics like sperm morphology and sperm motility, through sperm competition or cryptic female choice. However, how such characteristics influence ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Sperm exhibit extraordinary levels of morphological diversification across the animal kingdom. In songbirds, sperm have a helically shaped head incorporating a distinct acrosomal membrane or “helical keel,” the form and ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
In recent years, the field of sexual selection has exploded, with advances in theoretical and empirical research complementing each other in exciting ways. This perspective piece is the product of a “stock-taking” workshop ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The island-like distribution of subalpine habitats across mountain ranges can trigger the parallel evolution of locally adapted ecotypes. Such naturally replicated scenarios allow testing hypotheses on how elevational ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Aim: Understanding the evolution of the latitudinal diversity gradient (i.e. increase in species diversity towards the tropics) is a prominent issue in ecology and biogeography. Disentangling the relative contributions of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) are essential in vertebrate adaptive immunity, and they are highly diverse and duplicated in many lineages. While it is widely established that pathogen‐mediated selection ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Ethnopharmalogical relevance
In Africa, traditional medicine is important for local healthcare and plants used for these purposes are commonly traded. Identifying medicinal plants sold on markets is challenging, as leaves, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Crop wild relatives (CWR) can provide one solution to future challenges on food security, sustainable agriculture and adaptation to climate change. Diversity found in CWR can be essential for adapting crops to these new ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Interspecific competition is thought to play a key role in determining the coexistence of closely related species within adaptive radiations. Competition for ecological resources can lead to different outcomes from character ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Background: The genus Aloe has long been known for its use in healthcare and cosmetics. In Tanzania, overexploitation is threatening some Aloe species with extinction and yet, little has been documented on the abundance ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The endangered Spitsbergen stock of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) has once been large with up to estimated 100,000 individuals. Genetic diversity of the extant Spitsbergen stock is unknown. We present 10 complete ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Traditional crop varieties are an important source of genetic diversity for crop adaptation and modern breeding. Landraces of Asian (Oryza sativa) and African (Oryza glaberrima) rice have been well studied on the continents ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
We present the results of an inventory and status assessment of alien species in Norway. The inventory covered all known multicellular neobiota, 2496 in total, 1039 of which were classified as naturalised. The latter ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The Ordovician was a time of drastic biological and geological change. Previous work has suggested that there was a dramatic increase in global diversity during this time, but also has indicated that regional dynamics and ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
This thesis focuses on the fungus gnat genus Allodia in the dipteran family Mycetophilidae. Allodia has historically gone through several systematic changes, with additions and exclusions of taxa, and the diversity and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The Norwegian river Suldalslågen, known for its population of large‐sized Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar ), has been regulated for hydropower in 1966–1967 and in 1980. The initial regulation increased winter flows and reduced ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Thermal melanism theory states that dark-colored ectotherm organisms are at an advantage at low temperature due to increased warming. This theory is generally supported for ectotherm animals, however, the function of colors ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The genetic relationship between a granite pluton and adjacent complex of rare-metal pegmatite-aplite-banded sheets (Megiliggar Sheet Complex - MSC) has been studied at the border of the Tregonning topaz granite at Megiliggar ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Bryozoans are a moderately diverse, mostly marine phylum with a fossil record extending to the Early Ordovician. Compared to other phyla, little is known about their phylogenetic relationships at both lower and higher ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The MIAmaxent R package: Variable transformation and model selection for species distribution models
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The widely used “Maxent” software for modeling species distributions from presence‐only data (Phillips et al., Ecological Modelling, 190, 2006, 231) tends to produce models with high‐predictive performance but low‐ecological ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Phylogenetic relationships within the important ichthyosaur family Ophthalmosauridae are not well established, and more specimens and characters, especially from the postcranial skeleton, are needed. Three ophthalmosaurid ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2019)
Cryptic species are detected at an ever‐increasing rate, mainly due to the application of molecular data. While the impact of this hidden diversity on macro‐ecology and conversation biology is widely recognized, its ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
High concentrations of mercury, possibly connected with widespread volcanism of the Siberian Traps, have previously been associated with the Smithian/Spathian (Early Triassic) boundary (SSB) in the Sverdrup Basin, Tethyan ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
In a rapidly changing world, it is important to understand how urban environments impact wildlife. For example, supplementary feeding of birds, though well‐intended, might have unexpected negative effects on the health of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Positive selection acting on Toll‐like receptors (TLRs) has been recently investigated to reveal evolutionary mechanisms of host–pathogen molecular co‐adaptation. Much of this research, however, has focused mainly on the ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Biologists typically distinguish species by how they look. However, with the development of DNA-based techniques to identify species, they found that genetically-different species may look remarkably similar. Biologists ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
DNA-based snapshots of ancient vegetation have shown that the composition of high-latitude plant communities changed considerably during the late Quaternary. However, parallel changes in biotic interactions remain largely ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Sperm morphology varies enormously across the animal kingdom. Whilst knowledge of the factors that drive the evolution of interspecific variation in sperm morphology is accumulating, we currently have little understanding ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Aim: Distribution modelling is a useful approach to obtain knowledge about the spatial distribution of biodiversity, required for, for example, red-list assessments. While distribution modelling methods have been applied ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Background
Female promiscuity is highly variable among birds, and particularly among songbirds. Comparative work has identified several patterns of covariation with social, sexual, ecological and life history ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Postcopulatory sexual selection may promote evolutionary diversification in sperm form, but the contribution of between‐species divergence in sperm morphology to the origin of reproductive isolation and speciation remains ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
BioDATA (Biodiversity Data for Internationalisation in Higher Education) is an international project to develop and deliver biodiversity data training for undergraduate and postgraduate students from Armenia, Belarus, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Although only a relatively small proportion of plant species form ectomycorrhizae with fungi, it is crucial for growth and survival for a number of widespread woody plant species. Few studies have attempted to investigate ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Latitudinal gradients allow insights into the factors that shape ecosystem structure and delimit ecosystem processes, particularly climate. We asked whether the biomass and diversity of soil macrofauna in boreal forests ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The great auk was once abundant and distributed across the North Atlantic. It is now extinct, having been heavily exploited for its eggs, meat, and feathers. We investigated the impact of human hunting on its demise by ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Sperm swimming performance, including swimming speed and the proportion of motile cells, may strongly affect fertilization success. However, little is known about how methodological factors affect in vitro measurement of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
1. Distinguishing correlative and causal connections among time series is an important challenge in evolutionary biology, ecology, macroevolution and palaeobiology.
2. Here, we present layeranalyzer, an r package that ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Seminal fluid proteins (SFPs) mediate an array of postmating reproductive processes that influence fertilization and fertility. As such, it is widely held that SFPs may contribute to postmating, prezygotic reproductive ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The general structural formula for the walentaite group is [((A), A], based on heteropolyhedral layers of configuration [M], with surface-coordinated species at the B, As2 and As3 sites, and with interlayer hydrated cation ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The Longyearbyen CO2 storage project drilling and coring campaign in central Spitsbergen provided new insights on the shale-dominated Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Agardhfjellet Formation, which is the onshore ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Grey wolves (Canis lupus ) are one of the few large terrestrial carnivores that have maintained a wide geographical distribution across the Northern Hemisphere throughout the Pleistocene and Holocene. Recent genetic studies ...
(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)
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 ...
(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. ...
(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 / 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)
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, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
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)
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)
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)
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 / 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 ...