• Bacterial bioindicators enable biological status classification along the continental Danube river 

      Fontaine, Laurent; Pin, Lorenzo; Savio, Domenico; Friberg, Nikolai; Kirschner, Alexander K. T.; Farnleitner, Andreas H.; Eiler, Alexander (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Despite the importance of bacteria in aquatic ecosystems and their predictable diversity patterns across space and time, biomonitoring tools for status assessment relying on these organisms are widely lacking. This is ...
    • Balancing conservation goals and ecotourism development in coastal wetland management in Sri Lanka: A choice experiment 

      Dushani, Salpage Nesha; Aanesen, Margrethe; Vondolia, Godwin K (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Understanding the tradeoff between tourism development and environmental conservation is essential for the sustainable management of ecotourism. Accordingly, we conducted a choice experiment (CE) using valuation workshops ...
    • Battle of the borders: Is a range-extending fiddler crab affecting the spatial niche of a congener species? 

      Arakaki, Jonathann Yukio; De Grande, Fernando Rafael; Arvigo, Alexandre Luiz; Pardo, Juan Carlos Farias; Fogo, Bruno Rafael; Sanches, Fábio HC; Miyai, Caio Akira; Marochi, Murilo Zanetti; Tânia, Costa (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Climate change is drastically altering environmental conditions and resource availability. Many organisms are shifting their distribution boundaries. Fiddler crabs, for instance, are important ecosystem engineers in coastal ...
    • A Bayesian Approach to Incorporating Spatiotemporal Variation and Uncertainty Limits into Modeling of Predicted Environmental Concentrations from Chemical Monitoring Campaigns 

      Wolf, Raoul; Tollefsen, Knut-Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Environmental monitoring studies provide key information to assess ecosystem health. Results of chemical monitoring campaigns can be used to identify the exposure scenarios of regulatory concern. In environmental risk ...
    • A Bayesian Belief Network learning tool integrates multi-scale effects of riparian buffers on stream invertebrates 

      Forio, Marie Anne Eurie; Burdon, Francis J.; De Troyer, Niels; Lock, Koen; Witing, Felix; Baert, Lotte; De Saeyer, Nancy; Rîșnoveanu, Geta; Popescu, Cristina; Kupilas, Benjamin; Friberg, Nikolai; Boets, Pieter; Johnson, Richard K.; Volk, Martin; McKie, Brendan G.; Goethals, Peter L.M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Riparian forest buffers have multiple benefits for biodiversity and ecosystem services in both freshwater and terrestrial habitats but are rarely implemented in water ecosystem management, partly reflecting the lack of ...
    • Beach litter sources around Nuuk, Greenland: An analysis by UArctic summer school graduate course students 

      Haarr, Marthe Larsen; Bach, Lis; Chambers, Catherine P.; Falk-Andersson, Jannike; Juul-Pedersen, Thomas; Metcalfe, Ryan d'Arcy; Sinisalo, Anna Katariina; Strand, Jakob; Svendsen, Helene; Baak, Julia E.; Björnsdóttir, Helga Hvanndal; Brenner, Elsa Margaret Krook; Christiansen, Sigrid; Delattre, Cécilia; Gauthier, Maeva; Georgiou, Rachel Helen; Günther, Ljuba; Hägg, Fanny; Markussen, Ulunnguaq; Parga Martínez, Karla Berenice; le Pevedic, Arnaud; Refosco, Alice; Tandberg, Bror Kristian Raanaas; Tulatz, Felix; Van Broeck, Silke; Visser, Nathan Thomas; Wittwer, Louise (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Modeling studies illustrate the potential for long-range transport of plastics into the Arctic, although the degree to which this occurs remains relatively undocumented. We utilised a teaching exercise at a UArctic summer ...
    • Behavioural response of brown trout (Salmo trutta) to total dissolved gas supersaturation in a regulated river 

      Lennox, Robert J.; Thiemer, Kirstine; Vollset, Knut Wiik; Pulg, Ulrich; Stranzl, Sebastian; Nilsen, Cecilie Iden; Haugen, Thrond Oddvar; Velle, Gaute (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Total dissolved gas supersaturation from dams and power stations is a chronic freshwater pollutant that is toxic to animals with aquatic respiration. Laboratory ecotoxicology experiments have revealed capacity for captive ...
    • Benthic algal vegetation in Isfjorden, Svalbard 

      Fredriksen, Stein; Gabrielsen, Tove M.; Kile, Maia Røst; Sivertsen, Knut (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Benthic algal vegetation was investigated at 10 sites in Isfjorden, Svalbard. Five sites were visited during summer 2010 and five during summer 2012. Both the littoral and sublittoral vegetation were sampled, the littoral ...
    • Benthic Communities on the Mohn’s Treasure Mound: Implications for Management of Seabed Mining in the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge 

      Ramirez-Llodra, Eva; Hilário, Ana; Paulsen, Emil; Costa, Carolina; Bakken, Torkild; Johnsen, Geir; Rapp, Hans Tore (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The Mohn’s Treasure, described as an inactive sulfide mound, was discovered at 2,600- m depth on the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge (AMOR) in 2002. In 2015, we conducted the first biological survey of Mohn’s Treasure using remotely ...
    • Benthic community status and mobilization of Ni, Cu and Co at abandoned sea deposits for mine tailings in SW Norway 

      Schaanning, Morten Thorne; Trannum, Hilde Cecilie; Øxnevad, Sigurd; Ndungu, Kuria (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      During 1960–94 tailings from an ilmenite mine in southwest Norway were placed in sea deposits in a sheltered fjord and a more exposed coastal basin. In 2015 both deposit sites were sampled to assess the state of metal ...
    • Benthic Diatom Communities in Urban Streams and the Role of Riparian Buffers 

      Mutinova, Petra Thea; Kahlert, Maria; Kupilas, Benjamin; McKie, Brendan G.; Friberg, Nikolai; Burdon, Francis J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Urbanization impacts stream ecosystems globally through degraded water quality, altered hydrology, and landscape disturbances at the catchment and riparian scales, causing biodiversity losses and altered system functioning. ...
    • Benzoylurea pesticides used as veterinary medicines in aquaculture: Risks and developmental effects on nontarget crustaceans 

      Macken, Ailbhe; Lillicrap, Adam David; Langford, Katherine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Diflubenzuron and teflubenzuron are benzoylureas that are used in aquaculture to control sea lice. Flubenzurons have low toxicity to many marine species such as fish and algae but by their nature are likely to have significant ...
    • Berlin statement on legacy and emerging contaminants in polar regions 

      Ebinghaus, Ralf; Barbaro, Elena; Bengtson Nash, Susan; de Avila, Cristina; De Wit, Cynthia A.; Dulio, Valeria; Felden, Janine; Franco, Antonio; Gandrass, Jürgen; Grotti, Marco; Herata, Heike; Hughes, Kevin A.; Jartun, Morten; Joerss, Hanna; Kallenborn, Roland; Koschorrek, Jan; Küster, Anette; Lohmann, Rainer; Wang, Zhanyun; MacLeod, Matthew; Pugh, Rbecca; Rauert, Caren; Slobodnik, Jaroslav; Sühring, Roxanna; Vorkamp, Katrin; Xie, Zhiyong (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Polar regions should be given greater consideration with respect to the monitoring, risk assessment, and management of potentially harmful chemicals, consistent with the requirements of the precautionary principle. Protecting ...
    • Best available technologies and treatment trains to address current challenges in urban wastewater reuse for irrigation of crops in EU countries 

      Rizzo, Luigi; Gernjak, Wolfgang; Krzeminski, Pawel; Malato, Sixto; McArdell, Christa S.; Sánchez Pérez, José Antonio; Schaar, Heidemarie; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Conventional urban wastewater treatment plants (UWTPs) are poorly effective in the removal of most contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), including antibiotics, antibiotic resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance ...
    • Betydningen av indre bølger i Oslofjorden 

      Staalstrøm, Andre (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Når kraftige strømmer passerer undersjøiske fjellrygger i en væske med vertikal tetthetssjiktning, dannes det indre bølger. Slike bølger dannes i Oslofjorden når tidevannsstrømmen passerer Drøbakterskelen. Disse indre ...
    • Big Question to Developing Solutions: A Decade of Progress in the Development of Aquatic New Approach Methodologies from 2012 to 2022 

      Langan, Laura M.; Paparella, Martin; Burden, Natalie; Constantine, Lisa; Margiotta-Casaluci, Luigi; Miller, Thomas H.; Moe, S. Jannicke; Owen, Stewart F.; Schaffert, Alexandra; Sikanen, Tiina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      In 2012, 20 key questions related to hazard and exposure assessment and environmental and health risks of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the natural environment were identified. A decade later, this article ...
    • Bigger is not better: cortisol-induced cardiac growth and dysfunction in salmonids 

      Johansen, Ida Beitnes; Sandblom, Erik; Skov, Peter V.; Gräns, Albin; Ekström, Andreas; Lunde, Ida Gjervold; Vindas, Marco Antonio; Zhang, Lili; Höglund, Erik; Frisk, Michael; Sjaastad, Ivar; Nilsson, Göran Erik; Øverli, Øyvind (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Stress and elevated cortisol levels are associated with pathological heart growth and cardiovascular disease in humans and other mammals. We recently established a link between heritable variation in post-stress cortisol ...
    • Binding of waterborne pharmaceutical and personal care products to natural dissolved organic matter 

      Rizzuto, Simone; Baho, Didier Ludovic; Jones, Kevin C.; Zhang, Hao; Leu, Eva; Nizzetto, Luca (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Information on how key environmental conditions such as natural dissolved organic matter (DOM) and water pH alter the possible risks posed by pharmaceuticals (PPCPs) is still scarce. In our previous study, the presence of ...
    • Bioaccumulation and biological effects of cigarette litter in marine worms 

      Wright, Stephanie L.; Rowe, Darren; Reid, Malcolm James; Thomas, Kevin V; Galloway, Tamara S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Marine debris is a global environmental issue. Smoked cigarette filters are the predominant coastal litter item; 4.5 trillion are littered annually, presenting a source of bioplastic microfibres (cellulose acetate) and ...
    • Bioaccumulation and biomagnification of mercury in African lakes: The importance of trophic status 

      Poste, Amanda; Muir, Derek C. G.; Guildford, Stephanie J; Hecky, Robert E. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Despite the global prevalence of both mercury (Hg) contamination and anthropogenic eutrophication, relatively little is known about the behavior of Hg in eutrophic and hypereutrophic systems or the effects of lake trophic ...