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    • Can plastic related chemicals be indicators of plastic ingestion in an Arctic seabird? 

      Collard, France; Tulatz, Felix; Harju, Mikael; Herzke, Dorte; Bourgeon, Sophie; Gabrielsen, Geir Wing (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      For decades, the northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) has been found to ingest and accumulate high loads of plastic due to its feeding ecology and digestive tract morphology. Plastic ingestion can lead to both physical and ...

    • Small watersheds may play a disproportionate role in arctic land-ocean fluxes 

      Vonk, J.E.; Speetjens, N.J.; Poste, Amanda (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      While over 99% of coastal arctic rivers drain small catchments, future projections of landocean fluxes are based on data from large rivers. We encourage inclusion of and increased focus on smaller catchments to support ...

    • Levelling-up rhodolith-bed science to address global-scale conservation challenges 

      Tuya, Fernando; Schubert, Nadine; Aguirre, Julio; Basso, Daniela; Bastos, Eduardo O.; Berchez, Flávio; Bernardino, Angelo F.; Bosch, Néstor E.; Burdett, Heidi L.; Espino, Fernando; Fernández-Gárcia, Cindy; Francini-Filho, Ronaldo B.; Gagnon, Patrick; Hall-Spencer, Jason M.; Haroun, Ricardo; Hofmann, Laurie C.; Horta, Paulo A.; Kamenos, Nicholas A.; Le Gall, Line; Magris, Rafael A.; Martin, Sophie; Nelson, Wendy A.; Neves, Pedro; Olivé, Irene; Otero-Ferrer, Francisco; Peña, Viviana; Pereira-Filho, Guilherme H.; Ragazzola, Federica; Rebelo, Ana Cristina; Ribeiro, Cláudia; Rinde, Eli; Schoenrock, Kathryn; Silva, João; Sissini, Marina N.; Tâmega, Frederico T.S. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Global marine conservation remains fractured by an imbalance in research efforts and policy actions, limiting progression towards sustainability. Rhodolith beds represent a prime example, as they have ecological importance ...

    • A global assessment of lake restoration in practice: New insights and future perspectives 

      Poikane, Sandra; Kelly, Martyn G.; Free, Gary; Carvalho, Laurence; Hamilton, David P.; Katsanou, Konstantina; Lürling, Miquel; Warner, Stuart; Spears, Bryan M.; Irvine, Kenneth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      A global survey of 179 restoration practitioners spanning 65 countries identified the extent of stakeholder engagement as a key factor determining the success or failure of restoration projects. Lack of support across ...

    • Marine invasive alien species in Europe: 9 years after the IAS Regulation 

      Katsanevakis, Stelios; Olenin, Sergej; Puntila-Dodd, Riikka; Rilov, Gil; Stæhr, Peter A. U.; Teixeira, Heliana; Tsirintanis, Konstantinos; Birchenough, Silvana N. R.; Jakobsen, Hans H.; Knudsen, Steen Wilhelm; Lansén, Anders; Mazaris, Antonios D.; Piraino, Stefano; Tidbury, Hannah J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Biological invasions, resulting from human activities, exert substantial impacts on ecosystems worldwide. This review focuses on marine invasive alien species (IAS) in Europe, examining the current state, proposing strategies ...

    • Removal of a cyanotoxins mixture by loose nanofiltration membranes applied in drinking water production 

      Lebad, Mohamed Said; Ballot, Andreas; Vogelsang, Christian; Abdessemed, Djamal; Krzeminski, Pawel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Cyanobacterial toxins may threaten human health if their levels in drinking water exceed certain thresholds. Therefore, it is important for water works that use raw water sources prone to cyanobacterial blooms to have ...

    • The Role of Coastal Yedoma Deposits and Continental Shelf Sediments in the Arctic Ocean Silicon Cycle 

      Ray, Nicholas E.; Martens, Jannik; Ajmar, Marco; Tesi, Tommaso; Yakushev, Evgeniy; Gangnus, Ivan; Strauss, Jens; Schirrmeister, Lutz; Semiletov, Igor; Wild, Birgit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      The availability of silicon (Si) in the ocean plays an important role in regulating biogeochemical and ecological processes. The Si budget of the Arctic Ocean appears balanced, with inputs equivalent to outputs, though it ...

    • Long-term rise in riverine dissolved organic carbon concentration is predicted by electrolyte solubility theory 

      Monteith, Donald T.; Henrys, Peter A.; Hruška, Jakub; de Wit, Heleen; Krám, Pavel; Moldan, Filip; Posch, Maximilian; Räike, Antti; Stoddard, John L.; Shilland, Ewan M.; Pereira, M. Gloria; Evans, Chris D. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The riverine dissolved organic carbon (DOC) flux is of similar magnitude to the terrestrial sink for atmospheric CO2, but the factors controlling it remain poorly determined and are largely absent from Earth system models ...

    • Does sedation with AQUI-S® mitigate transport stress and post transport mortality in ballan wrasse (Labrus bergyltae)? 

      Calabrese, Sara; Jonassen, Thor Magne; Steigum, Endre; Åsnes, Helga Øen; Imsland, Albert; Saude, Carolina Serra; Wergeland, Truls; Höglund, Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      Ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta) are commonly used as cleaner fish in salmon farms as a biological treatment to mitigate sea lice infestation. Improved welfare for cleaner fish both during production of these fish and when ...

    • No additional stress of sublethal gas supersaturation in a landlocked population of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) exposed to environmental acidification 

      Höglund, Erik; Loland, Lifen Zhou; Høgberget, Rolf; Skov, Peter Vilhelm; Velle, Gaute (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      The landlocked Atlantic salmon population “bleke” faces extinction due to environmental acidification (EA) and hydropower expansion in the Norwegian river Otra. Despite of restoration, unexpected mortality has been reported ...

    • Why is the Biotic ligand model so scarcely applied in Brazil? A review 

      de Souza, Nikolas Gomes Silveira; Weber, Laura Isabel; Saraiva, Victor Barbosa; Ferreira, Maria Inês Paes; de Paulo Santos de Oliveira, Vicente; Júnior, Jader Lugon; Hauser-Davis, Rachel Ann; Lopes, Renato Matos; Martins, Samantha Eslava; de Oliveira, Manildo Marcião (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Brazil boasts of large hydrographic basins, numerous lentic environments, and an extensive coastal region. These aquatic environments are susceptible to the presence of metals originated from both natural and anthropic ...

    • Effects of petrogenic pollutants on North Atlantic and Arctic Calanus copepods: From molecular mechanisms to population impacts 

      Hansen, Bjørn Henrik; Tarrant, Ann M.; Lenz, Petra H.; Roncalli, Vittoria; Almeda, Rodrigo; Broch, Ole Jacob; Altin, Dag; Tollefsen, Knut-Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Oil and gas industries in the Northern Atlantic Ocean have gradually moved closer to the Arctic areas, a process expected to be further facilitated by sea ice withdrawal caused by global warming. Copepods of the genus ...

    • Understanding temporal variability across trophic levels and spatial scales in freshwater ecosystems 

      Siqueira, Tadeu; Hawkins, Charles P.; Olden, Julian D.; Tonkin, Jonathan; Comte, Lise; Saito, Victor S.; Anderson, Thomas L.; Barbosa, Gedimar P.; Bonada, Núria; Bonecker, Claudia C.; Cañedo-Argüelles, Miguel; Datry, Thibault; Flinn, Michael B.; Fortuño, Pau; Gerrish, Gretchen A.; Haase, Peter; Hill, Matthew J.; Hood, James M.; Huttunen, Kaisa-Leena; Jeffries, Michael J.; Muotka, Timo; O'Donnell, Daniel R.; Paavola, Riku; Paril, Petr; Paterson, Michael J.; Patrick, Christopher J.; Perbiche-Neves, Gilmar; Rodrigues, Luzia C.; Schneider, Susanne Claudia; Straka, Michal; Ruhi, Albert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      A tenet of ecology is that temporal variability in ecological structure and processes tends to decrease with increasing spatial scales (from locales to regions) and levels of biological organization (from populations to ...

    • Assessment of the risk to Norwegian biodiversity from private import and keeping of Northern Cardinal. Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Biodiversity of the Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food and Environment 

      Kirkendall, Lawrence Richard; Bryn, Anders; Flø, Daniel; Malmstrøm, Martin; Velle, Gaute; Berg, Paul Ragnar; Geange, Sonya Rita; Hindar, Kjetil; Kausrud, Kyrre Linné; Sandercock, Brett Kevin; Thorstad, Eva Bonsak; Nielsen, Anders (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      VKM has evaluated the risk to biodiversity from allowing private import and keeping of the Northern Cardinal as a caged bird in Norway, for birds acquired through the bird trade. VKM has reviewed the invasion ecology of ...

    • Seasonality in land–ocean connectivity and local processes control sediment bacterial community structure and function in a High Arctic tidal flat 

      Handler, Eleanor R.; Andersen, Sebastian; Gradinger, Rolf Rudolf; Mcgovern, Maeve; Vader, Anna; Poste, Amanda Elizabeth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Climate change is altering patterns of precipitation, cryosphere thaw, and land–ocean influxes, affecting understudied Arctic estuarine tidal flats. These transitional zones between terrestrial and marine systems are ...

    • Using a Bayesian Network Model to Predict Risk of Pesticides on Aquatic Community Endpoints in a Rice Field—A Southern European Case Study 

      Mentzel, Sophie; Martínez-Megías, Claudia; Grung, Merete; Rico, Andreu; Tollefsen, Knut-Erik; Van den Brink, Paul J.; Moe, S. Jannicke (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Bayesian network (BN) models are increasingly used as tools to support probabilistic environmental risk assessments (ERAs), because they can better account for uncertainty compared with the simpler approaches commonly used ...

    • Global benthic biogeographical regions and macroecological drivers for ophiuroids 

      Gonzalez, Lissette Victorero; Samadi, Sarah; O'Hara, Timothy D.; Mouchet, Maud; Delavenne, Juliette; Leprieur, Fabien; Leroy, Boris (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Delineating biogeographical regions can provide important insights into the processes shaping large-scale species distribution patterns. Here we aimed to 1) identify global marine benthic biogeographical regions for ...

    • Temperature and prey density drive growth and otolith formation of the world's most valuable fish stock 

      Ofelio, Claudia; Moyano, Marta; Sswat, Michael; Rioual, Fanny; Moullec, Fabien; Aguirre Velarde, Arturo; Peck, Myron A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Peruvian anchovy (Engraulis ringens) represents the largest single-species fishery worldwide. Knowledge on how temperature and prey availability influences growth and age estimation during marine fish early life stages is ...

    • Prediction of Extraordinarily High Floods Emerging From Heterogeneous Flow Generation Processes 

      Mushtaq, Sumra; Miniussi, Arianna; Merz, Ralf; Tarasova, Larisa; Marra, Francesco; Basso, Stefano (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      River floods are generated by various processes that, if disregarded, may induce errors in flood hazard assessment. This is particularly relevant where events extraordinarily larger than the typical floods have been observed, ...

    • Screening of Tire-Derived Chemicals and Tire Wear Particles in a Road Tunnel Wash Water Treatment Basin 

      Meland, Sondre; Granheim, Gina Marie; Rundberget, Thomas; Rødland, Elisabeth Strandbråten (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Road tunnels play a crucial role in modern road networks, in both urban and non-urban areas, and necessitate frequent cleaning and washing due to the harsh tunnel environment. As a result, road tunnels are considered hot ...