The spatial patterns in abundance and composition of benthic invertebrate larvae (meroplankton), the correlation between these patterns and environmental variables (temperature, salinity and chl a) and the relative abundance of meroplankton in the mesozooplankton community were investigated in the sub-Arctic Porsangerfjord, Norway (70° N). Zooplankton samples and CTD-profiles were collected at ...

Following the recent Global Carbon Project (GCP) synthesis of the decadal methane (CH₄ budget over 2000– 2012 (Saunois et al., 2016), we analyse here the same dataset with a focus on quasi-decadal and inter-annual variability in CH₄ emissions. The GCP dataset integrates results from topdown studies (exploiting atmospheric observations within an atmospheric inverse-modelling ...

The trophic niches of Arctic charr and brown trout differ when the species occur in sympatry . Their trophically transmitted parasit es are expected to reflect these differences. Here , we investigate how the infections of Diphyllobothrium dendriticum and Diphyllobothrium ditremum differ between charr and trout. These tapeworms use copepods ...

Parasite−host systems show markedly variable patterns in isotopic fractionation: parasites can be either depleted or enriched in 15N and 13C as compared to their hosts. However, it remains unknown whether isotopic fractionation patterns are similar in comparable parasite−host systems from markedly different ecosystems. Results of this study show that large-sized Schistocephalus spp. endoparasites ...

The response of animals to anthropogenic noise can be aggravated by lack of familiarity with its auditory pattern and also by nervousness characteristic of particular phases of their life cycle. Both conditions apply in the Arctic where human activity is highly localised and field operations, being largely restricted to summer, coincide with the period when animals produce and nurse offspring and, ...

The naturally fragmented habitat on the tallest African mountains provides a good model system to study vicariance, dispersal, and hybridization. Many mountains are separated by lowland that likely was unsuitable for high-alpine plants even during cold climatic periods. <br> We explore the relative importance of these processes using two endemic sister species: the widespread Ethiopian/eastern East ...

In April and May of 2016, Norway confirmed two cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a wild reindeer and a wild moose, respectively. In the light of this emerging issue, the European Commission requested EFSA to recommend surveillance activities and, if necessary, additional animal health risk-based measures to prevent the introduction of the disease and the spread into/within the EU, specifically ...

Oppdrett av blåskjell har i de senere år økt sterkt i omfang i Norge, men kunnskapen om de økologiske konsekvensene av virksomheten er meget begrenset. Et betydelig problem som har oppstått i denne forbindelse er predasjon fra fugl, og da særlig ærfugl. Dette har klare negative konsekvenser for lønnsomheten, samt representerer et kunstig habitat og mulige negative påvirkninger for fugl. Bedre ...

Skibotnelva i Troms var lenge det eneste vassdraget i våre to nordligste fylker med infeksjon av fiskeparasitten Gyrodactylus salaris. Parasitten ble første gang påvist i 1979, og to rotenonbehandlinger i den lakseførende delen (i 1988 og 1995) har vært mislykkede. Di-rektoratet for naturforvaltning vurderer bygging av langtidssperre som et av flere aktuelle utryddingstiltak i Skibotnelva. Imidlertid ...

Exposure to environmental stressors during early-life stages can change the rate and timing of various developmental processes. Epigenetic marks affecting transcriptional regulation can be altered by such environmental stimuli. To assess how stress might affect the methylome and transcriptome in salmon, fish were treated using cold-shock and air-exposure from the eye-stage until start-feeding. ...