• Effect of aerobic exercise intensity on health-related quality of life in severe obesity: a randomized controlled trial 

  Berge, Jarle; Hjelmesæth, Jøran Sture; Kolotkin, Ronette Loganzo; Støren, Øyvind; Bratland-Sanda, Solfrid; Hertel, Jens Kristoffer; Gjevestad, Espen Svendsen; Småstuen, Milada Cvancarova; Helgerud, Jan; Bernklev, Tomm (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  Background: Aerobic exercise is an important part of obesity treatment and may improve health-related quality of life (HRQOL). The objective of this study was to compare the effect of two different exercise programs on ...

• Host in reserve: The role of common shrews (Sorex araneus) as a supplementary source of tick hosts in small mammal communities influenced by rodent population cycles 

  De Pelsmaeker, Nicolas; Korslund, Lars; Steifetten, Øyvind (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  Rodents often act as important hosts for ticks and as pathogen reservoirs. At north -ern latitudes, rodents often undergo multi- annual population cycles, and the peri -odic absence of certain hosts may inhibit the survival ...

• Size is not everything: differing activity and foraging patterns between the sexes in a monomorphic mammal 

  Lodberg-Holm, Hanna Kavli; Steyaert, Sam; Reinhardt, Stefanie; Rosell, Frank Narve (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Animals balance foraging with other activities, and activity patterns may differ between sexes due to differing physical requirements and reproductive investments. Sex-specific behavioural differences are common in sexually ...

• Climate influence on plant–pollinator interactions in the keystone species Vaccinium myrtillus 

  Olsen, Siri Lie; Evju, Marianne; Åström, Jens; Løkken, Jørn Olav; Dahle, Sondre; Andresen, Jonas; Eide, Nina Elisabeth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  Climate change is altering the world's ecosystems through direct effects of climate warming and precipitation changes but also indirectly through changes in biotic interactions. For instance, climate-driven changes in plant ...

• The impact of bio-logging on body weight change of the Eurasian beaver 

  Robstad, Christian Andre; Lodberg-Holm, Hanna Kavli; Mayer, Martin; Rosell, Frank Narve (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Bio-logging is a common method to collect ecological data on wild animals, but might also induce stress, reduce body condition, and alter behavior. Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber) are a semi-aquatic and nocturnal species ...

• Spatial and temporal variability in summer diet of gray wolves (Canis lupus) in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem 

  Lodberg-Holm, Hanna Kavli; Teglas, Bonnie S.; Tyers, Daniel B.; Jimenez, Michael D.; Smith, Douglas W. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  The role of predation by large carnivores in suppressing prey populations and structuring ecosystems is highly debated, calling for a detailed understanding of carnivore diets. Wolves (Canis lupus) roam across three ...

• Fertilizing behavior of extract of organomineral-activated biochar: low-dose foliar application for promoting lettuce growth 

  Kumar, Abhay; Joseph, Stephen; Graber, Ellen R.; Taherysoosavi, Sara; Mitchell, David R. G.; Munroe, Paul; Tsechansky, Ludmila; Lerdahl, Ove; Aker, Walter; Sæbø, Mona (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Background: Fostering plant growth and improving agricultural yields by adding “macro”-sized biochar to soil has been extensively explored. However, the impact and mechanism of action of aqueous extracts of biochar applied ...

• Optimal foraging by a large ungulate in an extreme environment: Wild mountain reindeer select snow-free feeding habitats in winter 

  Romtveit, Lena; Strand, Olav; Mossing, Anders; Kastdalen, Leif; Hjeltnes, Arne William; Bjerketvedt, Dag Kjartan; Odland, Arvid; Heggenes, Jan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Optimal foraging models predict that individual animals will optimize net energy gain by intensifying forage activity and/or reducing forage energy cost. Then, the free distribution model predicts an animal's distribution ...

• Seasonal and diel movement patterns of brown bears in a population in southeastern Europe 

  Bogdanović, Neda; Hertel, Anne G.; Zedrosser, Andreas; Paunović, Milan; Plećaš, Milan; Ćirović, Duško (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Most animals concentrate their movement into certain hours of the day depending on drivers such as photoperiod, ambient temperature, inter- or intraspecific competition, and predation risk. The main activity periods of ...

• The interplay between hunting rate, hunting selectivity, and reproductive strategies shapes population dynamics of a large carnivore 

  Van de Walle, Joanie; Pelletier, Fanie; Zedrosser, Andreas; Swenson, Jon; Jenouvrier, Stéphanie; Bischof, Richard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Harvest, through its intensity and regulation, often results in selection on female reproductive traits. Changes in female traits can have demographic consequences, as they are fundamental in shaping population dynamics. ...

• Forests buffer the climate-induced decline of body mass in a mountain herbivore 

  Reiner, Rudolf; Zedrosser, Andreas; Zeiler, Hubert; Hackländer, Klaus; Corlatti, Luca (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Climate change is known to affect key life-history traits, such as body mass, reproduction, and survival in many species. Animal populations inhabiting mountain habitats are adapted to extreme seasonal environmental ...

• Correcting for enzyme immunoassay changes in long term monitoring studies 

  Wilson, Abbey E.; Sergiel, Agnieszka; Selva, Nuria; Swenson, Jon; Zedrosser, Andreas; Stenhouse, Gordon; Janz, David M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Enzyme immunoassays (EIAs) are a common tool for measuring steroid hormones in wildlife due to their low cost, commercial availability, and rapid results. Testing technologies improve continuously, sometimes requiring ...

• Cosmogenic exposure dating (36Cl) of landforms on Jan Mayen, North Atlantic, and the effects of bedrock formation age assumptions on 36Cl ages 

  Anjar, Johanna; Akҫar, Naki; Larsen, Eiliv A.; Lyså, Astrid; Marrero, Shasta; Mozafari, Nasim; Vockenhuber, Christof (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Jan Mayen is a small volcanic island situated 550 km north of Iceland. Glacial sediments and landforms are relatively common on the island but, so far, only a few of them have been dated. In this study, we present and ...

• Aquatic habitat use in a semi-aquatic mammal: the Eurasian beaver 

  Mortensen, Rasmus Mohr; Reinhardt, Stefanie; Hjønnevåg, Marina Eraker; Wilson, R. P.; Rosell, Frank (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Background: Semi-aquatic mammals exploit resources both on land and in water and may require both to meet their habitat requirements including food- and building resources, refuges, and for social interactions with ...

• Contrasting Growth Response of Evergreen and Deciduous Arctic-Alpine Shrub Species to Climate Variability 

  Dobbert, Svenja; Pape, Roland; Löffler, Jörg (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Broad-scale changes in arctic-alpine vegetation and their global effects have long been recognized and labeled one of the clearest examples of the terrestrial impacts of climate change. Arctic-alpine dwarf shrubs are a key ...

• Dendrometer Measurements of Arctic-Alpine Dwarf Shrubs and Micro-Environmental Drivers of Plant Growth - Dataset from Long-Term Alpine Ecosystem Research in Central Norway (LTAER-NO) 

  Löffler, Jörg; Dobbert, Svenja; Pape, Roland; Wundram, Dirk (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Here, we present fine-scale measurements of stem diameter variation from three common arctic-alpine dwarf-shrub species monitored in two mountain regions of Central Norway. All three species (Betula nana, Empetrum nigrum ...

• How does spatial heterogeneity affect inter- and intraspecific growth patterns in tundra shrubs? 

  Dobbert, Svenja; Pape, Roland; Löffler, Jörg (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  1. Arctic and alpine ecosystems are strongly affected by rapidly changing environmental conditions, resulting in profound vegetation shifts, which are highly heterogeneous and hard to predict, yet have strong global impacts. ...

• Continent-Wide Modelling of Potential Habitats and Connectivity for the Eurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx) in Europe 

  Dobbert, Svenja; Pape, Roland; Löffler, Jörg (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) once inhabited almost the whole of the European continent. After facing nearly complete extinction about a century ago, they now form a more or less connected metapopulation with eleven broad-scale ...

• Global maps of soil temperature 

  Lembrechts, Jonas J.; van den Hoogen, Johan; Alto, Juha; Ashcroft, Michael B.; De Frenne, Pieter; Kemppinen, Julia; Kopecký, Martin; Luoto, Miska; Maclean, Ilya M. D.; Crowther, Thomas W.; Bailey, Joseph J.; Haesen, Stef; Klinges, David H.; Niittynen, Pekka; Scheffers, Brett R.; Van Meerbeek, Koenraad; Aartsma, Peter; Abdalaze, Otar; Abedi, Mehdi; Aerts, Rien; Ahmadian, Negar; Ahrends, Antje; Alatalo, Juha M.; Alexander, Jake M.; Allonsius, Camille Nina; Altman, Jan; Ammann, Christof; Andres, Christian; Andrews, Christopher; Ardö, Jonas; Arriga, Nicola; Arzac, Alberto; Aschero, Valeria; Assis, Rafael L.; Assmann, Jakob Johann; Bader, Maaike Y.; Bahalkeh, Khadijeh; Barančok, Peter; Barrio, Isabel C.; Barros, Agustina; Barthel, Matti; Basham, Edmund W.; Bauters, Marijn; Bazzichetto, Manuele; Marchesini, Luca Belelli; Bell, Michael C.; Benavides, Juan C.; Alonso, José Luis Benito; Berauer, Bernd J.; Bjerke, Jarle W.; Björk, Robert G.; Björkman, Mats P.; Björnsdóttir, Katrin; Blonder, Benjamin; Boeckx, Pascal; Boike, Julia; Bokhorst, Stef; Brum, Bárbara N. S.; Brůna, Josef; Buchmann, Nina; Buysse, Pauline; Camargo, José Luís; Campoe, Otávio C.; Candan, Onur; Canessa, Rafaella; Cannone, Nicoletta; Carbognani, Michele; Carnicer, Jofre; Casanova-Katny, Angélica; Cesarz, Simone; Chojnicki, Bogdan; Choler, Philippe; Chown, Steven L.; Cifuentes, Edgar F.; Čiliak, Marek; Contador, Tamara; Convey, Peter; Cooper, Elisabeth J.; Cremonese, Edoardo; Curasi, Salvatore R.; Curtis, Robin; Cutini, Maurizio; Dahlberg, C. Johan; Daskalova, Gergana N.; de Pablo, Miguel Angel; Chiesa, Stefano Della; Dengler, Jürgen; Deronde, Bart; Descombes, Patrice; Di Cecco, Valter; Di Musciano, Michele; Dick, Jan; Dimarco, Romina D.; Dolezal, Jiri; Dorrepaal, Ellen; Dušek, Jiří; Eisenhauer, Nico; Eklundh, Lars; Erickson, Todd E.; Erschbamer, Brigitta; Eugster, Werner; Ewers, Robert M.; Exton, Dan A.; Fanin, Nicolas; Fazlioglu, Fatih; Feigenwinter, Iris; Fenu, Giuseppe; Ferlian, Olga; Calzado, M. Rosa Fernández; Fernández-Pascual, Eduardo; Finckh, Manfred; Higgens, Rebecca Finger; Forte, T'ai G. W.; Freeman, Erika C.; Frei, Esther R.; Fuentes-Lillo, Eduardo; García, Rafael A.; García, María B.; Géron, Charly; Gharun, Mana; Ghosn, Dany; Gigauri, Khatuna; Gobin, Anne; Goded, Ignacio; Goeckede, Mathias; Gottschall, Felix; Goulding, Keith; Govaert, Sanne; Graae, Bente Jessen; Greenwood, Sarah; Greiser, Caroline; Grelle, Achim; Guénard, Benoit; Guglielmin, Mauro; Guillemot, Joannès; Haase, Peter; Haider, Sylvia; Halbritter, Aud H.; Hamid, Maroof; Hammerle, Albin; Hampe, Arndt; Haugum, Siri Vatsø; Hederová, Lucia; Heinesch, Bernard; Helfter, Carole; Hepenstrick, Daniel; Herberich, Maximiliane; Herbst, Mathias; Hermanutz, Luise; Hik, David S.; Hoffrén, Raúl; Homeier, Jürgen; Hörtnagl, Lukas; Høye, Toke T.; Hrbacek, Filip; Hylander, Kristoffer; Iwata, Hiroki; Jackowicz-Korczynski, Marcin Antoni; Jactel, Hervé; Järveoja, Järvi; Jastrzębowski, Szymon; Jentsch, Anke; Jimiénez, Juan J.; Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg S.; Jucker, Tommaso; Jump, Alistair S.; Juszczak, Radoslaw; Kanka, Róbert; Kašpar, Vít; Kazakis, George; Kelly, Julia; Khuroo, Anzar A.; Klemedtsson, Leif; Klisz, Marcin; Kljun, Natascha; Knohl, Alexander; Kobler, Johannes; Kollár, Jozef; Kotowska, Martyna M.; Kovács, Bence; Kreyling, Juergen; Lamprecht, Andrea; Lang, Simone I.; Larson, Christian; Larson, Keith; Laska, Kamil; le Maire, Guerric; Leihy, Rachel I.; Lens, Luc; Liljebladh, Bengt; Lohila, Annalea; Lorite, Juan; Loubet, Benjamin; Lynn, Joshua; Macek, Martin; Mackenzie, Roy; Magliulo, Enzo; Maier, Regine; Malfasi, Francesco; Máliš, František; Man, Matěj; Manca, Giovanni; Manco, Antonio; Manise, Tanguy; Manolaki, Paraskevi; Marciniak, Felipe; Matula, Radim; Mazzolari, Ana Clara; Medinets, Sergiy; Medinets, Volodymyr; Meeussen, Camille; Merinero, Sonia; Mesquita, Rita de Cássia Guimarães; Meusburger, Katrin; Meysman, Filip J. R.; Michaletz, Sean T.; Milbau, Ann; Moiseev, Dmitry; Moiseev, Pavel; Mondoni, Andrea; Monfries, Ruth; Montagnani, Leonardo; Moriana-Armendariz, Mikel; di Cella, Umberto Morra; Mörsdorf, Martin; Mosedale, Jonathan R.; Muffler, Lena; Muñoz-Rojas, Miriam; Myers, Jonathan A.; Myers-Smith, Isla H.; Nagy, Laszlo; Nardino, Marianna; Naujokaitis-Lewis, Ilona; Newling, Emily; Niclas, Lena; Niedrist, Georg; Nissner, Armin; Nilsson, Mats B.; Normand, Signe; Nosetto, Marcelo D.; Nouvellon, Yann; Nuñez, Martin A.; Ogaya, Romà; Ogée, Jérôme; Okello, Joseph; Olejnik, Janusz; Olesen, Jørgen Eivind; Opedal, Øystein H.; Orsenigo, Simone; Palaj, Andrej; Pampuch, Timo; Panov, Alexey V.; Pärtel, Meelis; Pastor, Ada; Pauchard, Aníbal; Pauli, Harald; Pavelka, Marian; Pearse, William D.; Peichl, Matthias; Pellissier, Loïc; Penczykowski, Rachel M.; Penuelas, Josep; Petit Bon, Matteo; Petraglia, Alessandro; Phartyal, Shyam S.; Phoenix, Gareth K.; Pio, Casimiro; Pitacco, Andrea; Pitteloud, Camille; Plichta, Roman; Porro, Francesco; Portillo-Estrada, Miguel; Pulenard, Jérôme; Poyatos, Rafael; Prokushkin, Anatoly S.; Puchalka, Radoslaw; Pușcaș, Mihai; Radujković, Dajana; Randall, Krystal; Backes, Amanda Ratier; Remmele, Sabine; Remmers, Wolfram; Renault, David; Risch, Anita C.; Rixen, Christian; Robinson, Sharon A.; Robroek, Bjorn J. M.; Rocha, Adrian V.; Rossi, Christian; Rossi, Graziano; Roupsard, Olivier; Rubstov, Alexey V.; Saccone, Patrick; Sagot, Clotilde; Sallo-Bravo, Jhonatan; Santos, Cinthya C.; Sarneel, Judith M.; Scharnweber, Tobias; Schmeddes, Jonas; Schmidt, Marius; Scholten, Thomas; Schuchardt, Max; Schwartz, Naomi; Scott, Tony; Seeber, Julia; de Andrade, Ana Cristina Segalin; Seipel, Tim; Semenchuk, Philipp; Senior, Rebecca A.; Serra-Diaz, Josep M.; Sewerniak, Piotr; Shekhar, Ankit; Sidenko, Nikita V.; Siebicke, Lukas; Collier, Laura Siegwart; Simpson, Elizabeth; Siqueira, David P.; Sitková, Zuzana; Six, Johan; Smiljanic, Marko; Smith, Stuart W.; Smith-Tripp, Sarah; Somers, Ben; Sørensen, Mia Vedel; Souza, José João L. L.; Souza, Bartolomeu Israel; Dias, Arildo Souza; Spasojevic, Marko J.; Speed, James David Mervyn; Spicher, Fabien; Stanisci, Angela; Steinbauer, Klaus; Steinbrecher, Rainer; Steinwandter, Michael; Stemkovski, Michael; Stephan, Jörg G.; Stiegler, Christian; Stoll, Stefan; Svátek, Martin; Svoboda, Miroslav; Tagesson, Torbern; Tanentzap, Andrew J.; Tanneberger, Franziska; Theurillat, Jean-Paul; Thomas, Haydn J. D.; Thomas, Andrew D.; Tielbörger, Katja; Tomaselli, Marcello; Treier, Urs Albert; Trouillier, Mario; Turtureanu, Pavel Dan; Tutton, Rosamond; Tyystjärvi, Vilna A.; Ueyama, Masahito; Ujházy, Karol; Ujházyová, Mariana; Uogintas, Domas; Urban, Anastasiya V.; Urban, Josef; Urbaniak, Marek; Ursu, Tudor-Mihai; Vaccari, Francesco Primo; Van de Vondel, Stijn; van den Brink, Liesbeth; Van Geel, Maarten; Vandvik, Vigdis; Vangansbeke, Pieter; Varlagin, Andrej; Veen, G. F.; Veenendaal, Elmar; Venn, Susanna E.; Veerbeck, Hans; Verbruggen, Erik; Verheijen, Frank G. A.; Villar, Luis; Vitale, Luca; Vittoz, Pascal; Vives-Ingla, Maria; von Oppen, Jonathan; Walz, Josefine; Wang, Runxi; Wang, Yifeng; Way, Robert G.; Wedegärtner, Ronja E. M.; Weigel, Robert; Wild, Jan; Wilkinson, Matthew; Martin, Wilmking; Wingate, Lisa; Winkler, Manuela; Wipf, Sonja; Wohlfahrt, Georg; Xenakis, Georgios; Yang, Yan; Yu, Zicheng; Yu, Kailiang; Zellweger, Florian; Zhang, Jian; Zhang, Zhaochen; Zhao, Peng; Ziemblińska, Klaudia; Zimmermann, Reiner; Zong, Shengwei; Zyryanov, Viacheslav I.; Nijs, Ivan; Lenoir, Jonathan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Research in global change ecology relies heavily on global climatic grids derived from estimates of air temperature in open areas at around 2 m above the ground. These climatic grids do not reflect conditions below vegetation ...

• Clinicopathological factors associated with tumour-specific mutation detection in plasma of patients with RAS-mutated or BRAF-mutated metastatic colorectal cancer 

  Hamfjord, Julian; Guren, Tormod Kyrre; Glimelius, Bengt; Sorbye, Halfdan; Pfeiffer, Per; Dajani, Olav; Lingjærde, Ole Christian; Tveit, Magne Kjell; Pallisgaard, Niels; Spindler, Karen-Lise Garm; Kure, Elin Wenche Hegland (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Detection of tumour-specific circulating cell-free DNA in plasma (ctDNA) fails in a significant number of cases depending on the clinical context. The primary aim was to investigate clinicopathological factors associated ...

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