• E39 over Kjøsapollen i Hornindal - verknad for økologisk tilstand 

      Hobæk, Anders; Mjelde, Marit (NIVA-rapport;7369, Research report, 2019)
      Kjøsapollen i Hornindal er innsnevra som følgje av utfylling for veg og har dermed redusert utskifting av vatn med Hornindalsvatnet. Økologisk tilstand i Kjøsapollen med omsyn til eutrofiering er vurdert ut frå tilgjengelege ...
    • Early ecosystem responses to watershed restoration along a headwater stream 

      Kallenbach, Emilie; Sand-Jensen, Kaj; Morsing, Jonas; Martinsen, Kenneth Thorø; Kragh, Theis; Raulund-Rasmussen, Karsten; Baastrup-spohr, Lars (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Along many streams, natural riparian vegetation has been replaced by agricultural fields or plantations resulting in ecosystem alterations due to changes of the interactions across the land-water ecotone. We studied the ...
    • Early life stages of Northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis) are sensitive to fish feed containing the anti-parasitic drug diflubenzuron 

      Bechmann, Renée Katrin; Lyng, Emily; Westerlund, Stig; Bamber, Shaw; Berry, Mark; Arnberg, Maj; Kringstad, Alfhild; Calosi, Piero; Seear, Paul J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Increasing use of fish feed containing the chitin synthesis inhibiting anti-parasitic drug diflubenzuron (DFB) in salmon aquaculture has raised concerns over its impact on coastal ecosystems. Larvae of Northern shrimp ...
    • Early life stress induces long-term changes in limbic areas of a teleost fish: The role of catecholamine systems in stress coping 

      Vindas, Marco A; Fokos, Stefanos; Pavlidis, Michail; Höglund, Erik; Dionysopoulou, Sylvia; Ebbesson, Lars OE; Papandroulakis, Nikolaos; Dermon, Catherine R (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Early life stress (ELS) shapes the way individuals cope with future situations. Animals use cognitive flexibility to cope with their ever-changing environment and this is mainly processed in forebrain areas. We investigated ...
    • Ecdysone Receptor Agonism Leading to Lethal Molting Disruption in Arthropods: Review and Adverse Outcome Pathway Development 

      Song, You; Villeneuve, Daniel L.; Toyota, Kenji; Iguchi, Taisen; Tollefsen, Knut Erik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Molting is critical for growth, development, reproduction and survival in arthropods. Complex neuroendocrine pathways are involved in the regulation of molting and may potentially become targets of environmental endocrine ...
    • Ecdysteroid and juvenile hormone biosynthesis, receptors and their signaling in the freshwater microcrustacean Daphnia 

      Miyakawa, Hitoshi; Sato, Tomomi; Song, You; Tollefsen, Knut Erik; Iguchi, Taisen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The two essential insect hormones, ecdysteroids and juvenile hormones, are possessed not only by insects, but also widely by arthropods, and regulate various developmental and physiological processes. In contrast to the ...
    • Ecological condition, biodiversity and major environmental challenges in a tropical river network in the Bago District nin South-central Myanmar: first insights to the unknown. 

      Eriksen, Tor Erik; Friberg, Nikolai; Brittain, John Edward; Søli, Geir Einar Ellefsen; Ballot, A.; Årstein-Eriksen, E.; Adler Blakseth, T.; Veiteberg Braaten, H.F. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Freshwater ecosystems in the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot face immediate threats through habitat loss and species extinction. Systems to monitor ecological status and trends in biodiversity are therefore crucially needed. ...
    • Ecological correlates of riverine diatom and macroinvertebrate alpha and beta diversity across Arctic Fennoscandia. 

      Brittain, John Edward; Heino, Jani; Friberg, Nikolai; Aroviita, J.; Kahlert, M.; Karjalainen, S-M.; Keck, F.; Lento, J.; Liljaniemi, P.; Mykrä, H.; Schneider, Susanne Claudia; Ylikörkko, J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Arctic freshwaters support biota adapted to the harsh conditions at these latitudes, but the climate is changing rapidly and so are the underlying environmental filters. Currently, we have limited understanding of broad-scale ...
    • Ecological Drivers of Mercury Bioaccumulation in Fish of a Subarctic Watercourse 

      Amundsen, Per-Arne; Henriksson, Nina Matilda; Poste, Amanda; Prati, Sebastian; Power, Michael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Mercury (Hg) is a serious concern for aquatic ecosystems because it may biomagnify to harmful concentrations within food webs and consequently end up in humans that eat fish. However, the trophic transfer of mercury through ...
    • Ecological Memory of Historical Contamination Influences the Response of Phytoplankton Communities 

      Baho, Didier Ludovic; Rizzuto, Simone; Nizzetto, Luca; Hessen, Dag Olav; Norberg, Jon; Skjelbred, Birger; Jones, Kevin C.; Zhang, Hao; Leu, Eva (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Ecological memory (EM) recognizes the importance of previous stress encounters in promoting community tolerance and thereby enhances ecosystem stability, provided that gained tolerances are preserved during non-stress ...
    • Ecological risk assessment at the food web scale: A case study of a mercury contaminated oilfield 

      Shao, Bo; Luo, Jie; He, Mei; Tian, Lei; He, Wenxiang; Xu, Li; Zhang, Zeyu; Lin, Yan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Mercury, particularly methylmercury, can accumulate through food webs and generate high risks for species at higher trophic levels. Inorganic mercury can be methylated into the organic species methylmercury if suitable ...
    • Ecological risk assessment to marine organisms induced by heavy metals in China's coastal waters 

      Wang, Mengzhu; Tong, Yindong; Chen, Cen; Liu, Xianhua; Lu, Yiren; Zhang, Wei; He, Wei; Wang, Xuejun; Zhao, Shen; Lin, Yan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      China's coastal environment has been heavily affected by the loading of terrestrial pollutants in recent decades, and quantitative risk assessment is urgently needed to assess the ecological risks of China's coastal ...
    • Ecological Role of Submarine Canyons and Need for Canyon Conservation: A Review 

      Fernández-Arcaya, Ulla; Ramirez-Llodra, Eva; Aguzzi, Jacopo; Allcock, A. Louise; Davies, Jaime; Dissanayake, Awantha; Harris, Peter; Howell, Kerry; Huvenne, Verlee A. I.; Macmillan-Lawler, Miles; Martín, Jacobo; Menot, Lenaick; Nizinski, Martha; Puig, Pere; Rowden, Ashley A.; Sanchez, Florence; Van den Beld, Inge M. J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Submarine canyons are major geomorphic features of continental margins around the world. Several recent multidisciplinary projects focused on the study of canyons have considerably increased our understanding of their ...
    • Ecological status assessment of clay rivers with naturally enhanced water phosphorus concentrations 

      Schneider, Susanne Claudia; Skarbøvik, Eva (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The species composition of benthic algae changes as water phosphorus concentrations increase, and these changes can be used for ecological status assessment according to the Water Framework Directive. Natural background ...
    • Ecological status assessment of European lakes: a comparison of metrics for phytoplankton, macrophytes, benthic invertebrates and fish 

      Solheim, Anne Lyche; Feld, Christian K.; Birk, Sebastian; Phillips, Geoff; Carvalho, Laurence; Morabito, Giuseppe; Mischke, Ute; Willby, Nigel; Søndergaard, Martin; Hellsten, Seppo; Kolada, Agnieszka; Mjelde, Marit; Böhmer, Jürgen; Miler, Oliver; Pusch, Martin T.; Argillier, Christine; Jeppesen, Erik; Lauridsen, Torben L.; Poikane, Sandra (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Data on phytoplankton, macrophytes, benthic invertebrates and fish from more than 2000 lakes in 22 European countries were used to develop and test metrics for assessing the ecological status of European lakes as required ...
    • Ecological surprise: concept, synthesis, and social dimensions 

      Filbee-Dexter, Karen; Pittman, Jeremy; Haig, Heather A.; Alexander, Steven M.; Symons, Celia C.; Burke, Matthew J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      As the extent and intensity of human impacts on ecosystems increase and the capacity of ecosystems to absorb these impacts dwindles, unanticipated behavior in ecological systems—or surprises —is likely to become more common. ...
    • ECOMAR: A data-driven framework for ecosystem-based Maritime Spatial Planning in Danish marine waters. Results and conclusions from a development and demonstration project 

      Andersen, Jesper Harbo; Bendtsen, Jørgen; Hammer, Kathrine Jul; Harvey, E. Therese; Knudsen, Steen Wilhelm; Murray, Ciaran Joseph; Carstensen, Jacob; Petersen, Ib Krag; Svegaard, Signe; Tougaard, Jakob; Edelvang, Karen; Egekvist, Josefine; Olsen, Jeppe; Vinther, Morten; Al-Hamdani, Zyad; Jensen, Jørn Bo; Leth, Jørgen O; Kaae, Berit C; Olafsson, Anton Stahl; McClintock, William E.; Burt, Chad; Yocum, Dan (NIVA-rapport;7562, Research report, 2020)
      We report the developments and results of the ECOMAR project, which have taken place 2018-2020 and was funded by THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS. ECOMAR has established state-of-the-art data sets for the distribution of human ...
    • The economic costs, management and regulation of biological invasions in the Nordic countries 

      Kourantidou, Melina; Verbrugge, Laura N.H.; Haubrock, Phillip J.; Cuthbert, Ross N.; Angulo, Elena; Ahonen, Inkeri; Cleary, Michelle; Falk-Andersson, Jannike; Granhag, Lena; Gíslason, Sindri; Kaiser, Brooks; Kosenius, Anna-Kaisa; Lange, Henrik; Lehtiniemi, Maiju; Magnussen, Kristin; Navrud, Ståle; Nummi, Petri; Oficialdegui, Francisco J.; Ramula, Satu; Ryttäri, Terhi; von Schmalensee, Menja; Stefansson, Robert A.; Diagne, Christophe; Courchamp, Franck (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      A collective understanding of economic impacts and in particular of monetary costs of biological invasions is lacking for the Nordic region. This paper synthesizes findings from the literature on costs of invasions in the ...
    • ECORISK2050: An Innovative Training Network for predicting the effects of global change on the emission, fate, effects, and risks of chemicals in aquatic ecosystems 

      Welch, Samuel Alexander Stafford; Lane, Taylor; Desrousseaux, Alizée O.S; van Dijk, Joanke; Mangold-Döring, Annika; Gajraj, Rudrani; Hader, John D.; Hermann, Markus; Parvathi Ayillyath Kutteyeri, Anju; Mentzel, Sophie; Nagesh, Poornima; Polazzo, Francesco; Roth, Sabrina K.; Boxall, Alistair B.A.; Chefetz, Benny; Dekker, Stefan C.; Eitzinger, Josef; Grung, Merete; MacLeod, Matthew; Moe, S. Jannicke; Rico, Andreu; Sobek, Anna; van Wezel, Annemarie P.; van den Brink, Paul (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      By 2050, the global population is predicted to reach nine billion, with almost three quarters living in cities. The road to 2050 will be marked by changes in land use, climate, and the management of water and food across ...
    • Ecosystem accounting’s potential to support coastal and marine governance 

      Chen, Wenting; Van Assche, Kristof Albert M; Hynes, Stephen; Bekkby, Trine; Christie, Hartvig C; Gundersen, Hege (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The paper presents an exploratory assessment of ecosystem accounting's potential to support marine and coastal governance. Norwegian kelp forest management and restoration, and a series of nested case studies are used as ...