Browsing Institutt for biovitenskap by Title
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)For more than five decades, research has been conducted at Ny-Ålesund, in Svalbard, Norway, to understand the structure and functioning of High- Arctic ecosystems and the profound impacts on them of environmental change. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)Camera trapping is an increasingly important tool in animal ecology that is generally targeted towards large mammals, and especially large carnivores. Nonetheless, the cameras are triggered by all large and medium-sized ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Studies of the effects of habitat fragmentation and degradation on primate positional behavior, strata use, and substrate utilization offer valuable insights into the behavioral and ecological flexibility of primates whose ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Variability of mesopelagic scattering layers is often attributed to environmental conditions or multi-species layer composition. Yet, little is known about variation in behaviour among the individuals forming scattering ...
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Flow Cytometric Analysis of Tumor-Associated Macrophages in Human Non-Small Cell Lung CancerRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)Insect pollination is an important contribution to wild ecosystems in Norway and 80 % of plants seem to benefit from this important ecosystem service. During the last century, there has been an overall decline in pollinators, ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Shade coffee farming has been promoted as a means of combining sustainable coffee production and biodiversity conservation. Supporting this idea, similar levels of diversity and abundance of birds have been found in shade ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)The verification of the protein content in membrane fractions after separation of Gram-negative bacterial membranes is to date a tedious and demanding process. With this project, we wanted to create Escherichia coli (E. ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)To monitor and quantify the changes in pollinator communities over time, it is important to have robust survey techniques of insect populations. Pan traps allow for the assessment of the relative insect abundance in an ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)Seabirds bring substantial amounts of nitrogen (N) and phosphorous (P) from sea to their breeding colonies. On Svalbard, previous research has focused on the ornithogenic fluxes from sea to land, but little is known of the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)These days many gyms and fitness centers are closed to reduce transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in society. The gym is an environment rich in microorganisms, and careful hygiene is a necessity to keep infections at bay. ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)African wolves (AWs) are sympatric with endangered Ethiopian wolves (EWs) in parts of their range. Scat analyses have suggested a dietary overlap between AWs and EWs, raising the potential for exploitative competition, and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background Typing of Neisseria gonorrhoeae is necessary for epidemiologic surveillance, while time consuming and resource intensive. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy has shown promising results when typing ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Otoliths are inner-ear structures of all teleost fish with functional importance for hearing and balance. The otoliths usually consist of aragonite, a polymorph of calcium carbonate, but may also take the form partly or ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)The high Arctic is in a rapid transition due to climate change, and both direct effects due to warming and an extended growing season, as well as an indirect effect caused by increased bird activity and density (notably ...