• Overvåking av Ytre Oslofjord 2019-2023 - Årsrapport 2022 

  Engesmo, Anette; Gran, Sandra; Kaste, Øyvind; Staalstrøm, Andre (NIVA-rapport;7885-2023, Research report, 2023)

  Jordbruk var største enkeltkilde for tilførsler av menneskeskapt fosfor og nitrogen i 2021. Avløpsrenseanlegg bidro med ca. 19% av fosfortilførselen og 24% av nitrogentilførselen. Glomma har klart størst tilførsel av ...

• Tålegrenser for forsuring og overskridelser for Høyangervassdraget i Vestland fylke 

  Gundersen, Cathrine Brecke; Austnes, Kari; Sample, James Edward; Lund, Espen (NIVA-rapport;7910-2023, Research report, 2023)

  Det har blitt beregnet tålegrenser for forsuring og overskridelse av disse for Høyangervassdraget og separat for delnedbørfeltene Håland, Gautingsdal og Eiriksdal. Overskridelser er beregnet for dagens (årene 2017-2021) ...

• Assessing sources and fractions of metals associated with environmental plastics: a case study in Lake Como (Italy) 

  Carnati, Stefano; Pozzi, Andrea; Spanu, Davide; Monticelli, Damiano; Bettinetti, Roberta; Boldrocchi, Ginevra; Nizzetto, Luca; Binda, Gilberto (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  Understanding plastic–metal interactions is paramount to unveil the ecological risks of plastic pollution. Besides including a (variable) amount of metal-containing additives, plastic objects can adsorb metals on their ...

• Environmental Analysis of Imidacloprid in Norwegian Marine and Terrestrial Environments 

  Bæk, Kine; Reid, Malcolm (NIVA-rapport;7871-2023, Report, 2023)

  Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) was contracted by Benchmark Animal Health Norway AS to perform environmental sampling and chemical analysis of Imidacloprid. This associated with medicinal delicing treatments ...

• Inequitable distribution of plastic benefits and burdens on economies and public health 

  Karasik, Rachel; Lauer, Nancy E.; Baker, Anne-Elisabeth; Lisi, Niki E.; Somarelli, Jason A.; Eward, William C.; Fürst, Kathinka; Dunphy-Daly, Meagan M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  Plastic heterogeneously affects social systems – notably human health and local and global economies. Here we discuss illustrative examples of the benefits and burdens of each stage of the plastic lifecycle (e.g., macroplastic ...

• Predation of Atlantic salmon across ontogenetic stages and impacts on populations 

  Falkegård, Morten; Lennox, Robert; Thorstad, Eva Bonsak; Einum, Sigurd; Fiske, Peder; Garmo, Øyvind Aaberg; Garseth, Åse Helen; Skoglund, Helge; Solberg, Monica Favnebøe; Utne, Kjell Rong; Vollset, Knut; Vøllestad, Leif Asbjørn; Wennevik, Vidar; Forseth, Torbjørn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  Managers and stakeholders increasingly ask whether predation is a driving force behind the poor status of many species, and whether predator control is likely to be a successful management action to intervene. We review ...

• Using ecosystem models to inform ecosystem-based fisheries management in Europe: a review of the policy landscape and related stakeholder needs 

  Rodriguez-Perez, Ana; Tsikliras, Athanassios C.; Gal, Gideon; Steenbeek, Jeroen; Falk-Andersson, Jannike; Heymans, Johanna J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  The need to implement an ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) is enshrined in numerous regulations and strategies, at both global and European level. In practice, it is challenging to implement EBFM because it ...

• Predicting Environmental Risks of Pharmaceuticals from Wholesale Data: An Example from Norway 

  Welch, Samuel A.; Moe, S. Jannicke; Sharikabad, Mohammad Nouri; Tollefsen, Knut-Erik; Olsen, Kristine; Grung, Merete (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  Environmental risk assessment (ERA) of pharmaceuticals relies on available measured environmental concentrations, but often such data are sparse. Predicted environmental concentrations (PECs), calculated from sales weights, ...

• Seasonal riverine inputs may affect diet and mercury bioaccumulation in Arctic coastal zooplankton 

  Carrasco, Nathalie; Mcgovern, Maeve; Evenset, Anita; Søreide, Janne E.; Arts, Michael T.; Jonsson, Sofi; Poste, Amanda Elizabeth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  Climate change driven increases in permafrost thaw and terrestrial runoff are expected to facilitate the mobilization and transport of mercury (Hg) from catchment soils to coastal areas in the Arctic, potentially increasing ...

• Assembling the Seabed: Pan-European and Interdisciplinary Advances in Understanding Seabed Mining 

  Chen, Wenting; Peters, Kimberley; Amon, Diva; Baker, Maria; Childs, John; Gollner, Marta Conte Sabine; Magnussen, Kristin Tangvik; Mondre, Aletta; Navrud, Ståle; Singh, Pradeep A.; Steinberg, Philip; Willaert, Klaas (Chapter, 2023)

  This chapter deploys assemblage theory and thinking to bring together a unique set of insights on the seabed ranging from the ecological, to legal, practice to theoretical. It does so with a particular aim in mind: to ...

• Surface microplastics in the Kara Sea: from the Kara Gate to the 83°N 

  Berezina, Anfisa; Pakhomova, Svetlana; Zhdanov, Igor; Mekhova, Olga; Polivanova, Tatiana; Novikov, Matvei; Pogojeva, Maria; Osadchiev, Alexander; Stepanova, Natalia; Yakushev, Evgeniy (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  Despite ongoing research into microplastics pollution in the Arctic Ocean, the region remains underexplored. In the Eurasian Arctic studies mainly focus on the Barents Sea, while there are only limited and variable data ...

• EuroGOOS roadmap for operational coastal downstream services 

  El Serafy, Ghada; Mészáros, Lőrinc; Fernández, Vicente; Capet, Arthur; She, Jun; Sotillo, Marcos Garcia; Melet, Angelique; Legrand, Sebastien; Mourre, Baptiste; Campuzano, Francisco; Federico, Ivan; Guarnieri, Antonio; Rubio, Anna; Dabrowski, Tomasz; Umgiesser, Georg; Staneva, Joanna; Ursella, Laura; Pairaud, Ivane; Bruschi, Antonello; Frigstad, Helene; Baetens, Katrijn; Creach, Veronique; Charria, Guillaume; Alvarez Fanjul, Enrique (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  The EuroGOOS Coastal working group examines the entire coastal value chain from coastal observations to services for coastal users. The main objective of the working group is to review the status quo, identify gaps and ...

• 18S rDNA gene metabarcoding of microeukaryotes and epi-endophytes in the holobiome of seven species of large brown algae 

  Bjorbækmo, Marit Frederikke Markussen; Brodie, Juliet; Krabberød, Anders Kristian; Logares, Ramiro; Fuss, Janina; Fredriksen, Stein; Wold-Dobbe, Anders; Shalchian-Tabrizi, Kamran; Bass, David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  Brown algae (Phaeophyceae) are habitat-forming species in coastal ecosystems and include kelp forests and seaweed beds that support a wide diversity of marine life. Host-associated microbial communities are an integral ...

• Impacts of Riverine Floods on Morphodynamics in the Yellow River Delta 

  Fu, Yutao; Bellerby, Richard; Ji, Hongyu; Chen, Shenliang; Fan, Yaoshen; Li, Peng (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  The geomorphological stability and ecological environment of megadeltas worldwide are of vital importance for their sustainable development. Deltaic hydro-morphodynamics is extremely sensitive to high riverine flow due to ...

• 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 ...

• Monitoring of environmental contaminants in freshwater food webs (MILFERSK) 2022 

  Jartun, Morten; Økelsrud, Asle; Bæk, Kine; Rundberget, Thomas; Øxnevad, Sigurd; Ruus, Anders; Grung, Merete; Enge, Ellen Katrin; Hanssen, Linda; Harju, Mikael; Johansen, Ingar (NIVA-rapport;7875-2023, Research report, 2023)

  Samples of a benthic food chain in Lake Mjøsa have been collected, and the concentrations of emerging contaminants such as Siloxanes, PFAS, UV-compounds, Quaternary Ammonium Compounds, Musks, Benzothiazoles and Chlorinated ...

• Acclimation to various temperature and pCO2 levels does not impact the competitive ability of two strains of Skeletonema marinoi in natural communities 

  Briddon, Charlotte L.; Nicoară, Maria; Hegedüs, Adriana; Niculea, Adina; Bellerby, Richard; Eikrem, Wenche; Gomez Crespo, Bibiana; Dupont, Sam; Drugă, Bogdan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  Understanding the long-term response of key marine phytoplankton species to ongoing global changes is pivotal in determining how oceanic community composition will respond over the coming decades. To better understand the ...

• 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 ...

• Organic Alkalinity as an Important Constituent of Total Alkalinity and the Buffering System in River-To-Coast Transition Zones 

  Song, Shuzhen; Bellerby, Richard; Wang, Zhaohui Aleck; Wurgaft, Eyal; Li, Daoji (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  Organic acid-base species in the dissolved organic carbon pool have been shown to make an important contribution (i.e., organic alkalinity; OrgAlk) to the total alkalinity (TA) in many coastal systems. This study documents ...

• Age and Synchronization of Daphnia magna Affect Sensitivity to Teflubenzuron in Acute Standardized Toxicity Tests 

  Nordblad Schmidt, Simon; Rundberget, Thomas; Song, You; Tollefsen, Knut-Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  The standard Daphnia sp. acute toxicity test for assessing the adverse effects of chemicals on aquatic invertebrates stipulates the use of neonates that are ≤24 h old (hours post release [hpr]) at the start of the exposure. ...

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