World’s population growth and rise in food consumption per capita have led to increased food demand and overexploitation of natural resources in recent decades. Such increase has threatened the global feeding schemes to maintain a balance between food supply and demand. Although “The Blue Revolution” promised to fill such gap and simultaneously alleviate the overexploitation of the oceans, deterioration ...

Aquaculture worldwide is under constant scrutiny and financial pressure to maintain fish health, while providing an essential food source to a growing populace. To assist in monitoring mariculture sites and preventing harmful diseases, we tested a recently proposed method of trace pathogen detection using eDNA metabarcoding. The target pathogen, Paramoeba perurans, is the etiological agent of AGD, ...

Vestfjorden is an area of great ecological relevance since it is one of the main spawning areas of North East Atlantic cod. The survival rate of the cod larvae depends greatly on the abundance of zooplankton, which in turn depends on phytoplankton. Due to the extreme seasonality of high latitude fjords with a short productive season, understanding the phytoplankton distribution in spring is crucial. ...

Grafting is a widely used technique for propagation of plants in both agriculture and horticulture worldwide and involves combining two or more plants into one chimeric plant, ultimately with a shared vascular system. Benefits of grafting such as pathogen resistance, increase in fruit yield and abiotic stress tolerance have long been known, but the biological mechanisms of how plants graft are still ...

The coastal shrimp (Pandalus borealis) represent an important income for a small-scale fishery. The more economical important fishery of shrimp is located offshore. There is sparse information and literature regarding the coastal shrimp, and it is a lot we do not know about the species that inhabits our coast and fjords. Genetic research will provide more information on the species in these areas. ...

The attenuation coefficient <i>b</i> is one of the most common ways to describe how strong the carbon flux is attenuated throughout the water column. Therefore, <i>b</i> is an essential input variable in many carbon flux and climate models. Marsay et al. (2015, <a href=https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1415311112>https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1415311112</a>) proposed that the median surface water temperature ...

A unicellular, heterotrophic, eukaryotic parasite was isolated from nearshore Arctic marine sediment in association with the diatom <i>Pleurosigma</i> sp. The parasite possessed ectoplasmic threads that could penetrate diatom frustules. Healthy and reproducing <i>Pleurosigma</i> cultures would begin to collapse within a week following the introduction of this parasite. The parasite (2–10 μm diameter) ...

1. The leaf is an essential unit for measures of plant ecological traits. Yet, measures of plant chemical traits are often achieved by merging several leaves, masking potential foliar variation within and among plant individuals. This is also the case with cost‐effective measures derived using near‐infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS). The calibration models developed for converting NIRS spectral ...

Species are likely to segregate their ecological niches to minimize competition for resources, but for centrally foraging predators that breed on sub-Antarctic islands in the Southern Ocean the possibility of niche segregation may be minimal. This study is the first to examine the spatial and trophic aspects of the foraging niche of sympatrically breeding macaroni and chinstrap penguins at the ...

<i>Introduction</i> - Monogeneans of the genus <i>Gyrodactylus</i> were found on the gills of specimens of the bigeye sculpin <i>Triglops nybelini</i> Jensen, 1944 caught by trawl in the Barents Sea in January–February 2016.<p> <p><i>Methods</i> - Morphological preparations of the parasites were examined and photographed under a microscope at magnifcations of×100–1000 and morphometric analyses ...