Seasonal coat colour moulting species moult to white winter fur for crypsis in snow-covered landscapes. Seasonal coat colour moulting occurs in birds and mammals; some are colour polymorphic; one of which is the arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), having a blue and white colour morph. Camouflage, thermoregulation and physiology likely contributed to the evolution of this polymorphism. Climate change is ...

Secondary production was estimated at the Polar Front in 2022 using optical sampling techniques to sample zooplankton, growth rates computed with semi-emprical equations and egg production of Calanus spp. was also estimated.

Climate warming induces poleward distributional shifts of boreal species in Arctic regions resulting in compositional changes with poorly understood consequences for Arctic food-webs. This thesis addresses the spatial variation in Barents Sea food-webs using previously compiled distributional data in polygons specified for the Nowegian and Barents Sea NoBa Atlantis model and a highly resolved Barents ...

It has in recent years been a shift in the land-based aquaculture production from flow through systems (FTS) to recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS). With emerging use of RAS, it is necessary with knowledge regarding potential issues, whereas one potentially increasing problem is accumulation of microplastics (MP) in the RAS water. The objects of this study were to determine MPs concentration in ...

The Earth is in constant movement around the Sun – this has created environments with changing light throughout the day and year. Through evolution animals have adapted to this change in light and circadian and circannual rhythms have evolved to enhance fitness and survival. Animals living in the Arctic region have a different relationship to light changes as for several months a year the Sun ...

The Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) is a true arctic species and is considered to be the northernmost freshwater fish. Since this species is being known for its great variability in size, phenotype, colour, ecology and history, some of them are landlocked (which stay in freshwater all their life) and others are anadromous (they undertake summer migrations to sea and then they come back to ...

Wetlands are severely affected by human development. About 50 % of their original global extent has been lost, their populations of plants and animals have declined faster than for any other ecosystem, and 25 % of wetland-dependent species are threatened. As the main reason for these declines is habitat loss, often caused by infrastructure development, it is critical to develop conservation strategies ...

The release of red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) into the Barents Sea by Russian scientists in the 1960s had the goal of establishing a self-sustaining stock for the purpose of commercial harvest. The red king crab has been successfully established as a stock in Norwegian waters where it has become an important commercial resource in the eastern regions of Finnmark. The Norwegian red king ...

Climate change is expected to shift the boreal biome northward through expansion at the northern and contraction at the southern boundary respectively. However, biome-scale evidence of such a shift is rare. Here, we used remotely-sensed tree cover data to quantify temporal changes across theNorth American boreal biome from 2000 to . 2019. We reveal a strong northsouth asymmetry in tree cover change, ...

1. The concept of cumulative impacts is widespread in policy documents, regu-lations and ecological studies, but quantification methods are still evolving. Infrastructure development usually takes place in landscapes with preexist-ing anthropogenic features. Typically, their impact is determined by computing the distance to the nearest feature only, thus ignoring the potential cumulative impacts of ...