• Kan informasjon om bløtbunnssamfunn og modeller for geofysiske forhold gi heldekkende kart over naturtilstanden i norske kystvann? 

      Gundersen, Hege; Bekkby, Trine; Norling, Karl (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Artsmangfold og sammensetning av dyr i marine sedimenter (bløtbunnsfauna) er spesielt egnet for å måle miljøets tilstand, fordi ulike typer partikkelbundet forurensning før eller senere når havbunnen. Indekser på artsmangfold ...
    • Kartlegging av hydromorfologi i norske elver - erfaringer med ulike metoder i Surna og Gudbrandsdalslågen 

      Zinke, Peggy; Lindholm, Markus; Dervo, Børre; Gosselin, Marie-Pierre; Harby, Atle; Kile, Maia R; Kling, Johan; Sundt, Håkon (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Fem ulike metoder for hydromorfologisk karakterisering og klassifisering av elver ble testet ut for utvalgte vannforekomster i Surna (35 km) og Gudbrandsdalslågen (15 km), for å teste hvorvidt de er egnet for utvikling av ...
    • Kelp carbon sink potential decreases with warming due to accelerating decomposition 

      Filbee-Dexter, Karen; Feehan, Colette J.; Smale, Dan A.; Krumhansl, Kira A.; Augustine, Skye; de Bettignies, Florian; Burrows, Michael T.; Byrnes, Jarrett E.K.; Campbell, Jillian; Davoult, Dominique; Dunton, Kenneth H.; Franco, Joao N.; Garrido, Ignacio; Grace, Sean P.; Hancke, Kasper; Johnson, Ladd E.; Konar, Brenda; Moore, Pippa J.; Norderhaug, Kjell Magnus; O'Dell, Alasdair; Pedersen, Morten F.; Salomon, Anne K.; Sousa-Pinto, Isabel; Tiegs, Scott; Yiu, Dara; Wernberg, Thomas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Cycling of organic carbon in the ocean has the potential to mitigate or exacerbate global climate change, but major questions remain about the environmental controls on organic carbon flux in the coastal zone. Here, we ...
    • Kelp forest distribution in the Nordic region 

      Kvile, Kristina Øie; Andersen, Guri Sogn; Baden, Susanne; Bekkby, Trine; Bruhn, Annette; Geertz-Hansen, Ole; Hancke, Kasper; Hansen, Jørgen L.S.; Krause-Jensen, Dorte; Rinde, Eli; Steen, Henning; Wegeberg, Susse; Gundersen, Hege (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Kelp forests are productive coastal ecosystems that provide a range of ecosystem services. Mapping the distribution and area occupied by kelp forests is a critical step to identify their ecosystem functions and services, ...
    • Kinetics and Size Effects on Adsorption of Cu(II), Cr(III), and Pb(II) Onto Polyethylene, Polypropylene, and Polyethylene Terephthalate Microplastic Particles 

      Han, Xiaoxin; Wang, Shiyu; Yu, Xue; Vogt, Rolf David; Feng, Jianfeng; Zhai, Lifang; Ma, Weiqi; Zhu, Lin; Lu, Xueqiang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Due to its small size, large specific surface area and hydrophobicity, microplastics, and the adsorbed contaminants may together cause potential negative effects on ecosystems and human beings. In this study, kinetics and ...
    • Knowledge graph embedding for ecotoxicological effect prediction 

      Myklebust, Erik Bryhn; Jimenez-Ruiz, Ernesto; Chen, Jiaoyan; Wolf, Raoul; Tollefsen, Knut-Erik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Exploring the effects of a chemical compound on a species takes a considerable experimental effort. Appropriate methods for estimating and suggesting new effects can dramatically reduce the work needed to be done by a ...
    • Laboratory Development of an AI System for the Real-Time Monitoring of Water Quality and Detection of Anomalies Arising from Chemical Contamination 

      Rudjord, Zofia Czyczula; Reid, Malcolm James; Schwermer, Carsten Ulrich; Lin, Yan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Monitoring water quality is critical for mitigating risks to human health and the environment. It is also essential for ensuring high quality water-based and water-dependent products and services. The monitoring and detection ...
    • Lack of sea urchin settlement may explain kelp forest recovery in overgrazed areas in Norway 

      Fagerli, Camilla With; Norderhaug, Kjell Magnus; Christie, Hartvig C (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      In this study, we investigated whether failure of sea urchin recruitment can explain an ongoing phase shift from overgrazed, barren grounds to kelp forests along the coast of mid- Norway. Settlement of sea urchins on ...
    • Lake browning counteracts cyanobacteria responses to nutrients: Evidence from phytoplankton dynamics in large enclosure experiments and comprehensive observational data 

      Solheim, Anne Lyche; Gundersen, Hege; Mischke, Ute; Skjelbred, Birger; Nejstgaard, Jens Christian; Guislain, Alexis L. N.; Sperfeld, Erik; Giling, Darren P.; Haande, Sigrid; Ballot, Andreas; Moe, S. Jannicke; Stephan, Susanne; Walles, Tim J. W.; Jechow, Andreas; Minguez, Laetitia; Ganzert, Lars; Hornick, Thomas; Hansson, Truls Hveem; Stratmann, Cleo N.; Järvinen, Marko; Drakare, Stina; Carvalho, Laurence; Grossart, Hans-Peter; Gessner, Mark O.; Berger, Stella Angela (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Lakes worldwide are affected by multiple stressors, including climate change. This includes massive loading of both nutrients and humic substances to lakes during extreme weather events, which also may disrupt thermal ...
    • Land Use Change to Reduce Freshwater Nitrogen and Phosphorus will Be Effective Even with Projected Climate Change 

      Wade, Andrew J.; Skeffington, Richard A.; Couture, Raoul-Marie; Lampa, Martin Erlandsson; Groot, Simon; Halliday, Sarah J.; Harezlak, Valesca; Hejzlar, Josef; Jackson-Blake, Leah Amber; Lepistö, Ahti; Papastergiadou, Eva; Riera, Joan Lluis; Rankinen, Katri; Shahgedanova, Maria; Trolle, Dennis; Whitehead, Paul G.; Psaltopoulos, Demetris; Skuras, Dimitris (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Recent studies have demonstrated that projected climate change will likely enhance nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) loss from farms and farmland, with the potential to worsen freshwater eutrophication. Here, we investigate ...
    • Land use contribution to spatiotemporal stream water and ecological quality: Implications for water resources management in peri-urban catchments 

      Lemaire, Gregory G.; Rasmussen, Jes Jessen; Höss, Sebastian; Figari Kramer, Sebastian; Schittich, Anna-Ricarda; Zhou, Yujian; Köppl, Christian J.; Traunspurger, Walter; Bjerg, Poul L.; McKnight, Ursula S. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Climate change and intensifying agricultural production and urbanization are central factors driving the global freshwater biodiversity decline. To design sustainable green transition schemes and support urban planning, a ...
    • Land-cover, climate and fjord morphology drive differences in organic matter and nutrient dynamics in two contrasting northern river-fjord systems 

      Schultze, Sabrina; Andersen, Tom; Hessen, Dag Olav; Ruus, Anders; Borgå, Katrine; Poste, Amanda (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Climate and land-use changes are leading to impacts on individual ecosystems as well as shifts in transfer dynamics between interconnected systems. At the land-ocean interface, changes in riverine inputs of organic matter ...
    • Land-use change in a Nordic future towards bioeconomy: A methodological framework to compare and merge stakeholder and expert opinions on qualitative scenarios 

      Solheim, Anne Lyche; Tolvanen, Anne; Skarbøvik, Eva; Kløve, Bjørn; Collentine, Dennis; Kronvang, Brian; Blicher-Mathiesen, Gitte; Hashemi, Fatemeh; Juutinen, Artti; Hellsten, Seppo; Pouta, Eija; Vermaat, Jan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Future development of bioeconomy is expected to change land use in the Nordic countries in agriculture and forestry. The changes are likely to affect water quality due to changes in nutrient run-off. To explore possible ...
    • Land-use dominates climate controls on nitrogen and phosphorus export from managed and natural Nordic headwater catchments 

      de Wit, Heleen A; Lepistö, Ahti; Marttila, Hannu; Wenng, Hannah; Bechmann, Marianne; Blicher-Mathiesen, Gitte; Eklöf, Karin; Futter, Martyn N.; Kortelainen, Pirkko; Kronvang, Brian; Kyllmar, Katarina; Rakovic, Jelena (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Agricultural, forestry‐impacted and natural catchments are all vectors of nutrient loading in the Nordic countries. Here, we present concentrations and fluxes of total nitrogen (totN) and phosphorus (totP) from 69 Nordic ...
    • Landscape features control river's confluences water quality and tributary fish composition 

      Bowes, Rachel; Bergman, Eva; Donadi, Serena; Greenberg, Larry; Sandin, Leonard; Lind, Lovisa (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Rivers networks represent hierarchical dendritic habitats within terrestrial landscapes and differences in connectivity and land use influence dispersal, and consequently biodiversity patterns. We, therefore, measured ...
    • Large-scale monitoring and risk assessment of microplastics in the Amazon River 

      Rico, Andreu; Redondo-Hasselerharm, Paula; Vighi, Marco; Waichman, Andrea Viviana; de Souza Nunes, Gabriel Silva; Oliveira, Rhaul de; Singdahl-Larsen, Cecilie; Hurley, Rachel; Nizzetto, Luca; Schell, Theresa (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Microplastics (MPs) are one of the most widespread contaminants worldwide, yet their risks for freshwater ecosystems have seldom been investigated. In this study, we performed a large monitoring campaign to assess the ...
    • Large-scale salmon farming in Norway impacts the epiphytic community of Laminaria hyperborea 

      Haugland, Barbro Taraldset; Armitage, Caroline S.; Kutti, Tina; Husa, Vivian; Skogen, Morten D.; Bekkby, Trine; Carvajalino-Fernandez, Marcos Antonio; Bannister, Raymond J; White, Camille Anna; Norderhaug, Kjell Magnus; Fredriksen, Stein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Large-scale finfish farms are increasingly located in dispersive hard-bottom environments where Laminaria hyperborea forests dominate; however, the interactions between farm effluents and kelp forests are poorly understood. ...
    • Lead Sources to the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica 

      Ndungu, Kuria; Zurbrick, Cheryl M; Stammerjohn, Sharon; Severmann, Silke; Sherrell, Robert M; Flegal, A. Russel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      The global prevalence of industrial lead (Pb) contamination was exemplified decades ago by the predominance of anthropogenic Pb in samples of Antarctic surface ice and in Southern Ocean surface waters. Decreases in ...
    • Leaf breakdown rates as a functional indicator were influenced by an invasive non-native invertebrate in urban ponds 

      Thornhill, Ian; Friberg, Nikolai; Batty, Lesley; Thamia, Victoria; Ledger, Mark E. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Impacts on biodiversity and the functioning of ecosystems are often overlooked in small waterbodies as they are not regularly monitored as part of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). These small systems are, however, often ...
    • ‘Leaving No One Behind’–Sustainable Development of Sámi Reindeer Husbandry in Norway 

      Johnsen, Kathrine Ivsett; Eira, Inger Marie Gaup; Mathiesen, Svein Disch; Oskal, Anders (Chapter, 2022)
      Within pastoral systems there is deep knowledge of the dynamics of the landscape and nature; and the Sámi traditional reindeer herding understanding of sustainable reindeer husbandry holds adaptive mechanisms for dealing ...