• Altitudinal distribution and host-parasite relations of ticks in Norway 

      De Pelsmaeker, Nicolas (Doctoral dissertations at the University of South-Eastern Norway;87, Doctoral thesis, 2021-03-05)
      With a warming climate and changes in land use during the last decades, ticks have been observed to occur at increasingly higher latitudes and altitudes in the northern hemisphere. With the range expansion of ticks comes ...
    • Importance of air and soil temperatures for bioclimatic delimitations in Norwegian mountains 

      Bandekar, Gauri Ganpat (Doctoral dissertations at the University of South-Eastern Norway;4, Doctoral thesis, 2018-06-18)
      Distribution limits of plants in relation to climatic variables have long interested ecologists. High latitudes and altitudes house distribution limits of forests, treelines, treeline ecotones and vascular plants in alpine ...
    • Natural and human-induced impacts on the genetic structure of Eurasian reindeer 

      Kvie, Kjersti (Doctoral dissertations at the University College of Southeast Norway;11, Doctoral thesis, 2017-03-17)
      Geografisk variasjon hos arter og populasjoner er basert på genetisk variasjon, som videre er grunnleggende for naturstyrt evolusjon. Genetisk variasjon og struktur er styrt av faktorer som mutasjoner, seleksjon og genetisk ...