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    • Browning of Scottish surface water sources exposed to climate change 

      Haaland, Ståle Leif; Eikebrokk, Bjørnar; Riise, Gunnhild; Vogt, Rolf David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Levels of dissolved natural organic matter (DNOM) are increasing in our boreal watercourses. This is manifested by an apparent increase in its yellow to brown colour of the water, i.e., browning. Sound predictions of future ...

    • Bruk av indikatorer og verdielementer for å synliggjøre og vurdere nytte i regulerte vassdrag 

      Nesheim, Ingrid; Barkved, Line (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Nyttevurdering er en obligatorisk del av konsekvensutredning i vannkraftutviklingsprosjekter, og relevant i revisjon av miljøvilkår og i tiltaksvurderinger. En viktig målsetning er å få frem informasjon om hvilke aktører ...

    • Brukerfinansiert klimaberedskap? En beregningsmodell for overvannsgebyr i Oslo 

      Barton, David Nicholas; Venter, Zander; Sælthun, Nils Roar; Furuseth, Ingvild Skumlien; Seifert-Dähnn, Isabel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      A stormwater fee for Oslo? A computational approach to user financed climate readiness. Stormwater fee systems constitute a potential policy instrument for user financed climate readiness in Norwegian cities. Stormwater ...

    • Bypass of Booming Inputs of Urban and Sludge-Derived Microplastics in a Large Nordic Lake 

      Clayer, Francois; Jartun, Morten; Buenaventura, Nina T; Guerrero, Jose-Luis; Lusher, Amy (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Microplastic research, initially focusing on marine environments, left freshwater ecosystems largely unexplored. Freshwaters are also vulnerable to microplastics and are likely the largest microplastic supplier to the ...

    • Calculating expected effects of treatment effectivity and river flow rates on the contribution of WWTP effluent to the ARG load of a receiving river 

      Schwermer, Carsten Ulrich; Uhl, Wolfgang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Concentrations of genetic markers for antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) were measured in the effluents of three Norwegian wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and in a receiving river upstream and downstream of the discharge ...

    • Can benthic foraminifera serve as proxies for changes in benthic macrofaunal community structure? Implications for the definition of reference conditions 

      Bouchet, Vincent MP; Telford, Richard J; Rygg, Brage; Oug, Eivind; Alve, Elisabeth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Benthic macrofauna is one of the most widely used biological groups to assess the ecological status of marine systems. Lately, attention has been paid to similar use of benthic foraminifera. In this study, distribution ...

    • Can current moisture responses predict soil CO2 efflux under altered precipitation regimes? A synthesis of manipulation experiments 

      Vicca, Sara; Bahn, Michael; Estiarte, Marc; Loon, E. Emiel van; Vargas, Rodrigo; Giorgio, Alberti; Ambus, Per; Arain, M. Altaf; Beier, Claus; Bentley, Lisa Patrick; Borken, Werner; Buchmann, Nina; Collins, Scott L.; Dato, Giovanbattista D. de; Dukes, Jeffrey S.; Escolar, Cristina; Fay, Philip A.; Guidolotti, Gabriele; Hanson, Paul J.; Kahmen, Ansgar; Kröel-Dulay, György; Ladreiter-Knauss, Thomas; Larsen, Klaus Steenberg; Lellei-Kovács, Eszter; Lebrija-Trejos, Edwin; Maestre, Fernando T.; Marhan, Sven; Marshall, Miles; Meir, Patrick; Miao, Y.; Muhr, Jan; Niklaus, Pascal A.; Ogaya, Romà; Peñuelas, Josep; Poll, Christian; Rustad, Lindsey E.; Savage, Kathleen; Schindlbacher, Andreas; Schmidt, Inger Kappel; Smith, Andy R.; Sotta, Eleneide Doff; Suseela, Vidya; Tietema, Albert; Gestel, Natasja van; Straaten, Oliver van; Wan, Shiqiang; Weber, Ulrich; Janssens, Ivan A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      As a key component of the carbon cycle, soil CO2 efflux (SCE) is being increasingly studied to improve our mechanistic understanding of this important carbon flux. Predicting ecosystem responses to climate change often ...

    • Can improved nutrition for Atlantic salmon in freshwater increase fish robustness, survival and growth after seawater transfer? 

      Sissener, NH; Hamre, K; Fjelldal, PG; Philip, AJP; Espe, M; Miao, L; Höglund, E; Sørensen, C; Skjærven, KH; Holen, E; Subramanian, S; Vikeså, C; Norberg, B; Remø, SC (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The loss of fish in the seawater (SW) phase of Atlantic salmon farming is high, and a major proportion of this loss occurs in the period just after SW transfer. In the current study, we hypothesize that improvements made ...

    • Can multitrophic interactions and ocean warming influence large-scale kelp recovery? 

      Christie, Hartvig C; Gundersen, Hege; Rinde, Eli; Filbee-Dexter, Karen; Norderhaug, Kjell Magnus; Pedersen, Torstein; Bekkby, Trine; Gitmark, Janne Kim; Fagerli, Camilla With (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Ongoing changes along the northeastern Atlantic coastline provide an opportunity to explore the influence of climate change and multitrophic interactions on the recovery of kelp. Here, vast areas of sea urchin‐dominated ...

    • 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 ...

    • Can polyethylene passive samplers predict polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) uptake by earthworms and turnips in a biochar amended soil? 

      Ludovica, Silvani; Sigurbjörg, Hjartardottir; Lucie, Bielská; Lucia, Škulcová; Gerard, Cornelissen; Luca, Nizzetto; Sarah E., Hale (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      A pot experiment was carried out in which aged polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) contaminated soil was amended with biochar, and three phases: earthworms, turnips and polyethylene (PE) passive samplers, were added simultaneously ...

    • Can sea urchin grazing of kelp forests in the arctic make rocky shore systems more vulnerable to oil spills? 

      Christie, Hartvig C; Bekkby, Trine; Norderhaug, Kjell Magnus; Beyer, Jonny; Jørgensen, Nina Mari (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      In Arctic Norway, the risk of major marine oil spills associated with increasing offshore drilling, land terminal, and maritime transport activities is a cause for concern. Intertidal and subtidal kelp and seaweed communities ...

    • “Candidatus Similichlamydia laticola”, a novel Chlamydia-like agent of epitheliocystis in sevenconsecutive cohorts of farmed Australian Barramundi, lates calcarifer (Bloch) 

      Stride, Megan C.; Polkinghorne, Adam; Powell, Mark Darryn; Nowak, Barbara F. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Six consecutively hatched cohorts and one cohort of pre-hatch eggs of farmed barramundi (Lates calcarifer) from south Australia were examined for Chlamydia-like organisms associated with epitheliocystis. To identify and ...

    • Carbon export is facilitated by sea urchins transforming kelp detritus 

      Filbee-Dexter, Karen; Pedersen, Morten Foldager; Fredriksen, Stein; Norderhaug, Kjell Magnus; Rinde, Eli; Kristiansen, Trond; Albretsen, Jon; Wernberg, Thomas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      With the increasing imperative for societies to act to curb climate change by increasing carbon stores and sinks, it has become critical to understand how organic carbon is produced, released, transformed, transported, and ...

    • Cardiac molecular-acclimation mechanisms in responseto swimming-induced exercise in atlantic salmon 

      Castro, Vicente; Grisdale-Helland, Barbara; Helland, Ståle; Torgersen, Jacob; Kristensen, Torstein; Claireaux, Guy; Farrell, Anthony P.; Takle, Harald Rune (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Cardiac muscle is a principal target organ for exercise-induced acclimation mechanisms in fish and mammals, given that sustained aerobic exercise training improves cardiac output. Yet, the molecular mechanisms underlying ...

    • Carotenoid glycoside isolated and identified from cyanobacterium Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii 

      Nagy, Veronika; Agócs, Attila; Deli, József; Gulyás-Fekete, Gergely; Illyés, Tünde-Zita; Kurtán, Tibor; Turcsi, Erika; Béni, Szabolcs; Dékány, Miklós; Ballot, Andreas; Vasas, Gábor (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The freshwater cyanobacterium Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii was investigated for carotenoid composition. Besides β-carotene, echinenone and (9/9′Z)-echinenone a carotenoid glycoside was found to be the main component. ...

    • Cascading effects of mass mortality events in Arctic marine communities 

      Langangen, Øystein; Ohlberger, Jan; Stige, Leif C.; Durant, Joel M.; Ravagnan, Elisa; Stenseth, Nils C.; Hjermann, Dag Ø. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Mass mortality events caused by pulse anthropogenic or environmental perturbations (e.g., extreme weather, toxic spills or epizootics) severely reduce the abundance of a population in a short time. The frequency and impact ...

    • A case of anisotropic exchange of non-polar chemicals with absorption-based passive samplers in water 

      Allan, Ian John; Jenssen, Marthe Torunn Solhaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Passive sampling is a powerful technique for the sampling hydrophobic organic contaminants present at trace level in water. A robust application of performance reference compounds (PRCs) for the estimation of in situ ...

    • Catchment properties and the photosynthetic trait composition of freshwater plant communities 

      Iversen, L L; Winkel, A; Baastrup-Spohr, L; Hinke, A B; Alahuta, J; Baattrup-Pedersen, A; Birk, S; Brodersen, S; Chambers, P A; Ecke, F; Feldmann, T; Gebler, D; Heino, J; Jespersen, T S; Moe, S J; Riis, T; Sass, L; Vestergaard, O; Maberly, S C; Sand-Jensen, K; Pedersen, O (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Unlike in land plants, photosynthesis in many aquatic plants relies on bicarbonate in addition to carbon dioxide (CO2) to compensate for the low diffusivity and potential depletion of CO2 in water. Concentrations of ...

    • Caught in the middle: bottom‑up and top‑down processes impacting recruitment in a small pelagic fsh 

      Moyano, Marta; Illing, Björn; Akimova, Anna; Alter, Katharina; Bartolino, Valerio; Börner, Gregor; Clemmesen, Catriona; Finke, Annegret; Gröhsler, Tomas; Kotterba, Paul; Livdane, Lina; Mittermayer, Felix; Moll, Dorothee; von Nordheim, Lena; Peck, Myron A.; Schaber, Matthias; Polte, Patrick (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Understanding the drivers behind fluctuations in fish populations remains a key objective in fishery science. Our predictive capacity to explain these fluctuations is still relatively low, due to the amalgam of interacting ...