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What influences tourists' overall holiday experience? Tourism company products versus destination products
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013-03-19)
There are as yet to our knowledge no systematic investigations comparing the effects of specific tourism company product and total destination product components on tourists’ experience. The current study addressed this particular issue, based upon a convenience sample of 867 tourists visiting Northern Norway in the summer of 2011. The study results indicated that the effect of the company product ...
Adjuvants and immunostimulants in fish vaccines: Current knowledge and future perspectives.
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
Vaccination is the most adequate method to control infectious diseases that threaten the aquaculture industry worldwide. Unfortunately, vaccines are usually not able to confer protection on their own; especially those vaccines based on recombinant antigens or inactivated pathogens. Therefore, the use of adjuvants or immunostimulants is often necessary to increase the vaccine efficacy. Traditional ...
Diversity of hard-bottom fauna relative to environmental gradients in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
A baseline study of hard-bottom zoobenthos in relation to environmental
gradients in Kongsfjorden, a glacial fjord in Svalbard, is presented, based on
collections from 1996 to 1998. The total species richness in 62 samples from
0 to 30 m depth along five transects was 403 species. Because 32 taxa could not
be identified to species level and because 11 species are probably new to
science, the ...
Making ecosystem-based management operational: Integrated monitoring in Norway
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
Ecosystem-based management presupposes that the state and development trends of an ecosystem - or of ecological quality - can be measured and followed. Currently, in many coastal countries there exists a variety of monitoring practices that are concerned with single issues only, and are not an integrated part of a larger framework. With the trend towards more comprehensive forms of ecosystem-based ...
Invasion genetics of vendace (Coregonus albula (L.)) in the Inari-Pasvik watercourse: revealing the origin and expansion pattern of a rapid colonization event
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
Species invasions can have wide-ranging biological and socio-economic effects and are generally unwanted by legislation. Identification of the source population as well as the ecology and genetics of both the invader population and the receiving community is of crucial importance. The rapid invasion of a small coregonid fish vendace (Coregonus albula) in a major northern European subarctic watercourse ...
Homing behaviour of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) during final phase of marine migration and river entry
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
Little is known about Atlantic salmon behaviour during the last phase of the marine homing migration and subsequent river entry. In this study, 56 adult Atlantic salmon in the Alta Fjord in northern Norway were equipped with acoustic transmitters. Salmon generally followed the coastline, but their horizontal distribution was also affected by wind-induced spreading of river water across the fjord. ...
What Do the IUCN Categories Really Protect? A Case Study of the Alpine Regions in Spain.
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
Protected area (PA) coverage is used as an indicator of biodiversity protection worldwide. The effectiveness of using PAs as indicators has been questioned due to the diversity of categories encompassed by such designations, especially in PAs established for purposes other than biodiversity protection. Although international standards have been developed by the International Union for Conservation ...
Estimation of travel mode choice for domestic tourists to Nha Trang using the multinomial probit model
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
The purpose of this study is to examine how the characteristics of domestic tourists and attributes of travel modes influence the tourists’ modal choice to Nha Trang, Viet Nam by applying the multinomial probit model. The analysis is based on primary data surveyed from tourists visiting Nha Trang in March, 2011. A total of 402 valid samples were used from 554 initial samples. The study provides ...
Bacterial diversity of aMasi, a South African fermented milk product, determined by clone library and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
In the present study, we investigated the bacterial diversity of aMasi, a traditional South African fermented milk product, by 16S rRNA clone library and Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE) analysis. Two hundred and eighty two clones from clone library were isolated and identified from aMasi, prepared from the milk of four cows from one herd in the EkuPindiseni Community, North West of ...
Probiotic dosing of ruminococcus flavefaciens affects rumen microbiome structure and function in reindeer
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013-08-20)
Highly cellulolytic bacterial species such as <i>Ruminococcus flavefaciens</i> are regarded essential for the microbial breakdown of cellulose in the rumen. We have investigated the effect of ruminal dosing of <i>R. flavefaciens</i> strain 8/94-32 during realimentation of starved reindeer (males, n = 3). Microbiome function measured as in situ digestion of cellulose and food pellets (percent DMD; ...