• Do DOM quality and origin affect the uptake and accumulation of lipid-soluble contaminants in coastal filter feeders? An experimental simulation of teflubenzuron exposure to blue mussels 

      Schultze, Sabrina; Andersen, Tom; Knudtzon, Nina Cathrine; Ruus, Anders; Rundberget, Jan Thomas; Brooks, Steven; Poste, Amanda Elizabeth; Hessen, Dag Olav; Borgå, Katrine (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-09-25)
      The increased export of terrestrial dissolved organic matter (terrDOM) to coastal marine ecosystems may affect local filter feeders and the local food web via the altered uptake of organic material and associated contaminants. To compare terrDOM to marine DOM (marDOM) as contaminant vectors to coastal biota, we exposed blue mussels (Mytilus sp.) to the different DOM types in combination with ...
    • Do saproxylic beetles respond numerically to rapid changes in dead wood availability following moth outbreaks? 

      Schultze, Sabrina (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-05)
      Outbreaks of defoliating insects periodically cause mass mortality of trees, thereby generating pulses of dead wood resources for saproxylic (i.e. dead-wood dependent) organisms. This study investigated the responses of saproxylic beetles to a dead wood resource pulse caused by recent (2001-2009) outbreaks of geometrid moths in the subarctic mountain birch forest of the Varanger region in northern ...
    • Implications of Coastal Darkening for Contaminant Transport, Bioavailability, and Trophic Transfer in Northern Coastal Waters 

      McGovern, Maeve; Evenset, Anita; Borgå, Katrine; Wit, Heleen de; Braaten, Hans Fredrik Veiteberg; Hessen, Dag Olav; Schultze, Sabrina; Ruus, Anders; Poste, Amanda (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-06-13)
      The increased transport of terrestrially derived organic material (tOM) from catchments to rivers and lakes is leading to browning of northern freshwaters.(1) Although the same environmental drivers can be expected to lead to widespread increases in tOM and subsequent darkening in adjacent coastal systems,(2) this has received considerably less attention, and long-term monitoring data for detecting ...
    • Land-cover, climate and fjord morphology drive differences in organic matter and nutrient dynamics in two contrasting northern river-fjord systems 

      Schultze, Sabrina; Andersen, Tom; Hessen, Dag Olav; Ruus, Anders; Borgå, Katrine; Poste, Amanda (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-31)
      Climate and land-use changes are leading to impacts on individual ecosystems as well as shifts in transfer dynamics between interconnected systems. At the land-ocean interface, changes in riverine inputs of organic matter (OM) and nutrients have the potential to lead to shifts in coastal carbon and nutrient cycling with consequences for ecosystem structure and function. In this study, we assess OM ...
    • Numerical responses of saproxylic beetles to rapid increases in dead wood availability following geometrid moth outbreaks in sub-arctic mountain birch forest 

      Laksforsmo Vindstad, Ole Petter; Schultze, Sabrina; Jepsen, Jane Uhd; Biuw, Erik Martin; Kapari, Lauri Teemu; Sverdrup-Thygeson, Anne; Ims, Rolf Anker (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Saproxylic insects play an important part in decomposing dead wood in healthy forest ecosystems, but little is known about their role in the aftermath of large-scale forest mortality caused by pest insect outbreaks. We used window traps to study short-term changes in the abundance and community structure of saproxylic beetles following extensive mortality of mountain birch in sub-arctic northern ...