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    • How many species of Mollusca are there in Brazil? A collective taxonomic effort to reveal this still unknown diversity 

      Machado, Fabrizio M.; Miranda, Marcel S.; Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe; Pimenta, Alexandre D. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-11)
      The expression ‘you need to know to conserve’ is a well-known cliche among biologists. Documenting the richness of a group of organisms is the first step towards understanding biodiversity and preparing efficient conservation plans. In this context, many efforts have been made to quantify the number of species on Earth and estimate the number of species still unknown to science. A few countries have ...
    • The snails of Super Mario Bros 

      Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-11)
      Nintendo has recently released a new Mario game, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, a multiplayer platformer involving a good dose of mushrooms, both in-game and presumably during development. But psychedelic trips aside, in the first few stages of the game we are introduced to a completely new (and arguably the best) “enemy” in Mario games: a snail with a fabulous pink shell. Figure 1. Snail (©Nintendo, ...
    • Major 7 arpeggios over different chord types 

      Andreassen, Tore Morten (Book; Bok, 2024)
    • Exotic pollen in sediments from the high Arctic Lake Tenndammen, Svalbard archipelago: diversity, sources, and transport pathways 

      Poliakova, Anastasia; Brown, Antony Gavin; Alsos, Inger Greve (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-01-18)
      We analysed the pollen and spores extracted from 73 samples of lacustrine sediments from Colesdalen in Svalbard (Lake Tenndammen) as well as 10 soil samples collected from the lake’s shores. In total, 56 pollen taxa were recorded from the sediments spanning the last 800 years, whilst 35 pollen types were found in the soil samples. Pollen was categorised as (i) regional (from Svalbard); (ii) ...
    • A FLexible musical instrument Augmentation that is Programmable, Integrated in a Box (FLAPIBox) 

      Stifjell, Erik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Most musical instrument augmentations aim to only fit one specific instrument and depend on an external sound system to work as intended. In a more acoustic concert setting this often alienates the electronic sound component. The FLAPIBox is an integrated solution that fits most acoustic instruments and use its own resonance for playing electronic sound in a more organic way—through the instrument ...
    • When details matter: Integrative revision of Holarctic Coelophthinia Edwards (Diptera, Mycetophilidae), including mapping of its mitogenome, leads to the description of four new pseudocryptic species 

      Kjærandsen, Jostein; Kerr, Peter H.; Lindemann, Jon Peder; Kurina, Olavi (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-02-14)
      Background - The small genus Coelophthinia Edwards, 1941 of the subfamily Gnoristinae (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) is so far known to harbour four species from the Palaearctic, Nearctic and Neotropical Regions. Extensive DNA barcoding of fungus gnats of the family Mycetophilidae through the International Barcode of Life project (iBOL) have initiated integrative studies resulting in taxonomic upgrades ...
    • The Ervika Runestone and Other Evidence for the Early Christianization of Northern Norway 

      Spangen, Marte; Henriksen, Jørn Erik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      In the early 1980s, a runestone fragment with a Christian inscription from the early eleventh century was discovered in Harstad town, northern Norway, in excavated masses originating from the farm Ervika. Runestones are very rare archaeological finds in this region, but, despite being included in runological overviews, the Ervika stone has not been studied or published by archaeologists or historians. ...
    • Individual genotypes from environmental DNA: Fingerprinting snow tracks of three large carnivore species 

      De Barba, Marta; Baur, Molly; Boyer, Frédéric; Fumagalli, Luca; Konec, Marjeta; Miquel, Christian; Pazhenkova, Elena; Remollino, Nadège; Skrbinšek, Tomaž; Stoffel, Céline; Taberlet, Pierre Robert Michel (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-15)
      Continued advancements in environmental DNA (eDNA) research have made it possible to access intraspecific variation from eDNA samples, opening new opportunities to expand non-invasive genetic studies of wildlife populations. However, the use of eDNA samples for individual genotyping, as typically performed in non-invasive genetics, still remains elusive. We present successful individual genotyping ...
    • The Domestic Turn in Postpandemic Indigenous Arctic Tourism: Emerging Stories of Self and Other 

      Brattland, Camilla; Ren, Carina; Bembom, Elsbeth; Bruin, Randy (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      In this article, we explore how the lockdowns followed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent rise in domestic tourism impacted the ways in which Arctic tourism businesses sold and shared their experiences and stories to the domestic tourist–for many, a new and unusual guest. In exploring cases from Greenland and Northern Norway, we are interested in describing tourism marketing and product ...
    • Young and burned out–the dilemma of women’s elite football. Early termination of the football career for elite women footballers in Norway caused by a high degree of emotional and interpersonal stressors 

      Wilhelmsen, Linda (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-09-30)
      Early termination of football careers is a challenge for elite women footballers. They quit their careers before experience, competence, and performance are fully developed, and women’s football is deprived of the opportunity to develop to the highest optimal quality. Women’s elite football is mostly semi-professional, with athletes juggling between football, work, and education. This qualitative ...
    • Human-environment interactions in the Mesolithic – The case of site Paliwodzizna 29, a lakeside site in central Poland 

      Osipowicz, Grzegorz; Badura, Monika; Brown, Antony Gavin; Hudson, Samuel M.; Jankowski, Michał; Makowiecki, Daniel; Noryśkiewicz, Agnieszka M.; Orłowska, Justyna; Sykuła, Marcin; Weckwerth, Piotr (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-11-10)
      Human-environmental relations before agriculture can be revealed at archaeological sites through multi-method palaeoenvironmental studies, particularly at sites which have both dryland and wetland areas. Paliwodzizna 29 is such as site, being a series of pits and hearths at the edge of Lake Grodno in Central Poland. A combination of faunal analysis, lithostratigraphy, pollen, diaspores, charcoal and ...
    • Stornaust fra middelalder. Forskningsutgravning i 2022 på Nergården, Bjarkøy, Harstad k. 

      Wickler, Stephen Kent (Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2023)
      Rapporten presenterer resultater fra siste feltsesong av forskningsutgravning av nausttufter på Nergården, Bjarkøy utført av Norges arktiske universitetsmuseum (UM) og Troms og Finnmark fylkeskommune i fire feltperioder (2019-2022). De samlede utgravningsresultatene danner et grunnlag for tolkning av konstruksjon, kronologi og relasjoner mellom tre stornaustbygninger; et opprinnelig jernaldernaust ...
    • Rapid laminated clastic alluviation associated with increased Little Ice Age flooding co-driven by climate variability and historic land-use in the middle Severn catchment, UK 

      Pears, Ben; Brown, Antony Gavin; Toms, Phillip S; Wood, Jamie; Pennington, Benjamin T; Jones, Richard (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-06)
      The analysis of exceptionally well-preserved visible clastic laminations in deep alluvial sediments at Kempsey, Worcestershire (UK), allows a new highresolution analysis of late-Holocene flood-history in the largest UK catchment, as well as local human response. At the sample site over 4.5m of sandy-silt overbank-alluvium accumulated on the floodplain and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) ...
    • Environmental DNA of aquatic macrophytes: The potential for reconstructing past and present vegetation and environments 

      Revéret, Aloïs Nicolas; Rijal, Dilli Prasad; Heintzman, Peter D.; Brown, Antony Gavin; Stoof-Leichsenring, Kathleen R.; Alsos, Inger Greve (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-07-29)
      1. Environmental DNA is increasingly being used to reconstruct past and present biodiversity including from freshwater ecosystems. Macrophytes are especially good environmental indicators, thus their environmental DNA palaeorecord might shed light on past postglacial environments.<p> <p>2. Here, we first review and compare studies that use metagenomics, targeted capture, and various barcoding ...
    • Sámi bear graves in Norway - hidden sites and rituals 

      Sommerseth, Ingrid Kristine (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)
      This paper presents a research project on bear-human relationships, focusing on the Sámi bear grave rituals and burial customs in Norway. The background to this project is a study of 30 bear burial sites, of which several were archaeologically recorded. Based on this information, a typical feature of these sites are burials in natural rock cavities, caves and in screes and under large boulders. In ...
    • Thinking decolonially towards music’s institution: A post-conference reflection 

      Steen, Ellen Marie Bråthen; De Dios, Anjeline; Dodds, Phil; Groth, Sanne Krogh; Benivolski, Xenia; Borchgrevink, Hild; Bubandt, Nils; Chekan, Yuri; Rijo Lopes Da Cunha, Maria; Farnsworth, Brandon; Lovell, Rosanna; Mann, Caryl; Mauruschat, Ania; Nwachukwu, Ucee-Uchenna L.; Zhao, Yiren (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-08)
      How do we talk about musical colonisation? How do we talk about this work of talking about it; that is, interrogating what we mean by colonisation and its counter-logic of decolonisation or decoloniality?
    • Tardigrade diversity and community composition across Norwegian boreal forests 

      Guidetti, Roberto; Jönsson, K. Ingemar; Kaczmarek, Łukasz; Meier, Terje; Speed, James David Mervyn; Prestø, Tommy; Stur, Elisabeth; Topstad, Lasse; Cesari, Michele; Roszkowska, Milena; Zawierucha, Krzysztof; Hassel, Kristian; Ekrem, Torbjørn (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-26)
      Tardigrades are common in many terrestrial environments and habitats. Although little is known on their ecological preferences, previous studies found diversity and community composition significantly affected by various variables. This study associated tardigrade species’ records with climatic variables, forest type, and substrate categories exploring tardigrade diversity and species communities ...
    • Life through an Ediacaran glaciation: Shale- and diamictite-hosted organic-walled microfossil assemblages from the late Neoproterozoic of the Tanafjorden area, northern Norway 

      Agic, Heda; Jensen, Sören; Meinhold, Guido; Högström, Anette Elisabeth Sofi; Ebbestad, Jan Ove R.; Høyberget, Magne; Palacios, Teodoro; Taylor, Wendy L. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-05)
      New organic-walled microfossil (OWM) assemblages are reported from upper Neoproterozoic glacial and interglacial siliciclastic deposits in Finnmark, northern Norway. A nearly continuous sedimentary succession of the Vestertana Group contains two glaciogenic units, the Smalfjorden and Mortensnes formations, interpreted as end-Cryogenian Marinoan and Ediacaran glaciations, respectively. We investigated ...
    • Historical RNA expression profiles from the extinct Tasmanian tiger 

      Mármol-Sánchez, Emilio; Fromm, Bastian; Oskolkov, Nikolay; Pochon, Zoé; Kalogeropoulos, Panagiotis; Eriksson, Eli; Biryukova, Inna; Sekar, Vaishnovi; Ersmark, Erik; Andersson, Björn; Dalén, Love; Friedländer, Marc R. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-07-18)
      Paleogenomics continues to yield valuable insights into the evolution, population dynamics, and ecology of our ancestors and other extinct species. However, DNA sequencing cannot reveal tissue-specific gene expression, cellular identity, or gene regulation, which are only attainable at the transcriptional level. Pioneering studies have shown that useful RNA can be extracted from ancient specimens ...
    • A Tender World - Transience, Control and the Inevitable 

      Björklund, Maija Liisa (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-12-09)
      In the thesis, I attempt to investigate uncertainty and change, seen through the concepts of tenderness or vulnerability. Using examples from movements and practices like Deep Adaptation and Deep Listening, I also link this perspective to my recent art practice during the MA studies at UIT through concrete projects, and methodolgies used.