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  • Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of interconnectedness and modularity 
    Nordbotten, Jan Martin; Levin, Simon A.; Szathmáry, Eörs; Stenseth, Nils Christian (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    In this contribution, we develop a theoretical framework for linking microprocesses (i.e., population dynamics and evolution through natural selection) with macrophenomena (such as interconnectedness and modularity within ...
  • Ecological civilization: Interpreting the Chinese past, projecting the global future 
    Hansen, Mette Halskov; Svarverud, Rune; Li, Hongtao (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    Ecological civilization (shengtai wenming 生态文明) has been written into China’s constitution as the ideological framework for the country’s environmental policies, laws and education. It is also increasingly presented not ...
  • 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. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 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. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    1. 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 ...
  • Ecological costs of climate change on marine predator–prey population distributions by 2050 
    Sadykova, Dinara; Scott, Beth E.; De Dominicis, Michela; Wakelin, Sarah L.; Wolf, Judith; Sadykov, Alexander (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Identifying and quantifying the effects of climate change that alter the habitat overlap of marine predators and their prey population distributions is of great importance for the sustainable management of populations. ...
  • Ecological globalisation, serial depletion and the medieval trade of walrus rostra 
    Barrett, James; Boessenkool, Sanne; Kneale, Catherine; O'Connell, Tamsin C; Star, Bastiaan (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    The impacts of early ecological globalisation may have had profound economic and environmental consequences for human settlements and animal populations. Here, we review the extent of such historical impacts by investigating ...
  • 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 (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 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 plasticity in the gastrointestinal microbiomes of Ethiopian Chlorocebus monkeys 
    Trosvik, Pål; Rueness, Eli Knispel; de Muinck, Eric; Moges, Amera; Mekonnen, Addisu (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    Human activities can cause habitat degradation that may alter the types and quality of available food resources and thus influence the microbiomes of wild animal populations. Furthermore, seasonal shifts in food availability ...
  • Ecological ramifications of adaptation to size-selective mortality 
    Evangelista, Charlotte; Dupeu, Julia; Sandkjenn, Joakim; Pauli, Beatriz Diaz; Herland, Anders; Meriguet, Jacques; Vøllestad, Leif Asbjørn; Edeline, Eric (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Size-selective mortality due to harvesting is a threat to numerous exploited species, but how it affects the ecosystem remains largely unexplored. Here, we used a pond mesocosm experiment to assess how evolutionary responses ...
  • Ecological resilience in lakes and the conjunction fallacy 
    Spears, Bryan; Futter, Martyn N.; Jeppesen, Erik; Huser, Brian J; Ives, Stephen; Davidson, Thomas A; Adrian, Rita; Angeler, David G.; Burthe, Sarah J; Carvalho, Laurence; Daunt, Francis; Gsell, Alena S; Hessen, Dag Olav; Janssen, Annette B G; MacKay, Eleanor B; May, Linda; Moorhouse, Heather; Olsen, Saara; Søndergaard, Martin; Woods, Helen; Thackeray, Stephen J. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    There is a pressing need to apply stability and resilience theory to environmental management to restore degraded ecosystems effectively and to mitigate the effects of impending environmental change. Lakes represent excellent ...
  • Ecology of bacteria in the human gastrointestinal tract—identification of keystone and foundation taxa 
    Trosvik, Pål; de Muinck, Eric J (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
    Background Determining ecological roles of community members and the impact of specific taxa on overall biodiversity in the gastrointestinal (GI) microbiota is of fundamental importance. A step towards a ...
  • Ecology of overwintering sprat (Sprattus sprattus) 
    Solberg, Ingrid; Røstad, Anders; Kaartvedt, Stein (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
    We used moored upward-facing echosounders in combination with field campaigns to address the overwintering ecology of the clupeid sprat (Sprattus sprattus) throughout four separate winters in a Norwegian fjord. The stationary ...
  • Ecology of predator-induced morphological defense traits in Daphnia longispina (Cladocera, Arthropoda) 
    Sperfeld, Erik; Nilssen, Jens Petter; Rinehart, Shelby Anne; Klaus, Schwenk; Hessen, Dag Olav (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Abstract Inducible defenses against predators are widespread among plants and animals. For example, some Daphnia species form neckteeth against predatory larvae of the dipteran genus Chaoborus . Though thoroughly studied ...
  • Ecology of sleeping: The microbial and arthropod associates of chimpanzee beds 
    Thoemmes, Megan S.; Stewart, Fiona A; Hernandez-Aguilar, Raquel Adriana; Bertone, Matthew A.; Baltzegar, David A.; Borski, Russell J.; Cohen, Naomi; Coyle, Kaitlin P.; Piel, Alexander K.; Dunn, Robert R. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    The indoor environment created by the construction of homes and other buildings is often considered to be uniquely different from other environments. It is composed of organisms that are less diverse than those of the ...
  • Ecology of the collapse of Rapa Nui society: Population collapse of Rapa Nui society 
    Lima, M.; Gayo, E.M.; Latorre, C.; Santoro, C.M.; Estay, S.A.; Cañellas-Boltà, Núria; Margalef, O.; Giralt, S.; Sáez, A.; Pla-Rabes, S.; Stenseth, Nils Christian (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Collapses of food producer societies are recurrent events in prehistory and have triggered a growing concern for identifying the underlying causes of convergences/divergences across cultures around the world. One of the ...
  • Ecology, evolution, and conservation of Ethiopia’s biodiversity 
    Fashing, Peter; Nguyen, Nga; Demissew, Sebsebe; Gizaw, Abel; Atickem, Anagaw Meshesha; Mekonnen, Addisu; Nurmi, Niina O.; Kerby, Jeffrey T.; Stenseth, Nils Christian (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    Ethiopia is home to one of the richest and most unique assemblages of fauna and flora on the African continent. Contained within its borders are two major centers of endemism, the mesic Roof of Africa (also known as the ...
  • Econometric estimates of Earth's transient climate sensitivity 
    Phillips, Peter C. B.; Leirvik, Thomas; Storelvmo, Trude (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    How sensitive is Earth’s climate to a given increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations? This long-standing question in climate science was recently analyzed by dynamic panel data methods using extensive ...
  • Economic and health consequences of non-invasive respiratory support in newborn infants: a difference-in-difference analysis using data from the Norwegian patient registry 
    Kann, Inger C; Solevåg, Anne L (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
    Background Newborn infants with respiratory failure are often treated with intubation and mechanical ventilation for prolonged periods of time. Our objective was to evaluate whether increasing use of ...
  • Economic burden of osteoarthritis - Multi-country estimates of direct and indirect costs from the BISCUITS study 
    Hallberg, Sara; Rolfson, Ola; Karppinen, Jaro; Schiøttz-Christensen, Berit; Stubhaug, Audun; Toresson Grip, Emilie; Robinson, Rebecca L.; De Geer, Anna; Schepman, Patricia (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    Abstract Data from ‘BISCUITS’, a large Nordic cohort study linking several registries, were used to estimate differences in average direct and indirect costs between patients with osteoarthritis and controls ...
  • Economic crisis and regime transitions from within 
    Djuve, Vilde Lunnan; Knutsen, Carl Henrik (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    We study how economic crises relate to the likelihood of experiencing regime changes ‘from within’; that is, transitions brought about, in part or fully, by actors in the incumbent regime. While historically common and ...