• High concentrations of lead (Pb) in blood and milk of free-ranging brown bears (Ursus arctos) in Scandinavia 

  Fuchs, Boris; Thiel, Alexandra; Zedrosser, Andreas; Brown, Ludovick; Hydeskov, Helle Bernstorf; Rodushkin, Ilia; Evans, Alina; Boesen, Amanda Høyer; Græsli, Anne Randi; Kindberg, Jonas; Arnemo, Jon Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Exposure to lead (Pb) is a global health problem for both humans and wildlife. Despite a dramatic decline in human Pb exposure following restrictions of leaded gasoline and industry and thereby an overall reduction of Pb ...

• Macroecology of north european wet grassland landscapes: Habitat quality, waders, avian predators and nest predation 

  Manton, Michael; Angelstam, Per Krister (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Wet grassland degradation is a global issue that involves both altered land cover patterns and ecological processes, which affect the distribution and abundance of species. The sharp decline in European wader bird (Charadrii) ...

• Investigating cow−calf contact in a cow-driven system: performance of cow and calf 

  Johnsen, Julie Føske; Kischel, Stine Grønmo; Sætervik Rognskog, Maren; Vagle, Inga; Johanssen, Juni Rosann E.; Ruud, Lars Erik; Ferneborg, Sabine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  In this research communication we describe the performance of dairy cow−calf pairs in two cow-driven CCC-systems differing in cows' access to the calves through computer-controlled access gates (smart gates, SG). We ...

• Environmental and biological factors are joint drivers of mercury biomagnification in subarctic lake food webs along a climate and productivity gradient 

  Kozak, Natalia; Ahonen, Salla A.; Keva, Ossi; Østbye, Kjartan; Taipale, Sami J.; Hayden, Brian; Kahilainen, Kimmo K. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Subarctic lakes are getting warmer and more productive due to the joint effects of climate change and intensive land-use practices (e.g. forest clear-cutting and peatland ditching), processes that potentially increase ...

• Animal welfare testing for shooting and darting free-ranging wildlife: a review and recommendations 

  Hampton, Jordan O.; Arnemo, Jon Martin; Barnsley, Richard; Cattet, Marc; Daoust, Pierre-Yves; DeNicola, Anthony J.; Eccles, Grant; Fletcher, Don; Hinds, Lyn A.; Hunt, Rob; Portas, Timothy; Stokke, Sigbjørn; Warburton, Bruce; Wimpenny, Claire (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Several important techniques for managing wildlife rely on ballistics (the behaviour of projectiles), including killing techniques (shooting) as well as capture and marking methods (darting). Because all ballistic techniques ...

• Physical Activity Levels and Perceived Changes in the Context of Intra-EEA Migration: A Study on Italian Immigrants in Norway 

  Calogiuri, Giovanna; Rossi, Alessio; Terragni, Laura (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  As mobility within the European Economic Area (EEA) is on the rise, it is important to understand migrants' health-related behaviors (such as physical activity [PA]) within this context. This study investigated i) the ...

• Effects of camera-trap placement and number on detection of members of a mammalian assemblage 

  Hofmeester, Tim R.; Thorsen, Neri H.; Cromsigt, Joris P.G.M.; Kindberg, Jonas; Andren, Henrik; Linnell, John D. C.; Odden, John (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  A central goal in camera-trapping (CT) studies is to maximize detection probability and precision of occupancy estimates while minimizing the number of CTs to reduce equipment and labor costs. Few studies, however, have ...

• Service User Experiences of How Flexible Assertive Community Treatment May Support or Inhibit Citizenship: A Qualitative Study 

  Brekke, Eva; Clausen, Hanne Kristin; Brodahl, Morten; Lexén, Annika; Keet, René; Mulder, Cornelis L.; Landheim, Anne Signe (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  The aim of this study was to explore and describe service user experiences of how receiving services from a Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) team may support or inhibit citizenship. Within a participatory ...

• Negotiating a transnational career around borders: Women's stories in boundaryless academia 

  Chroni, Stiliani; Ronkainen, Noora; Ryba, Tatiana V.; Elbe, Anne-Marie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  The study aimed to give voice to two women sport scientists’ life stories to centralize the challenges and ways of coping their career journeys entailed, and enlighten our understanding of the lived experience and meaning ...

• Moving far, staying close: red fox dispersal patterns revealed by SNP genotyping 

  Walton, Zea Ann; Hagenlund, Mari; Østbye, Kjartan; Samelius, Gustaf; Odden, Morten; Norman, Anita J.; Willebrand, Tomas; Spong, Göran (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  The genetic structure of a population can provide important insights into animal movements at varying geographical scales. Individual and social behaviors, such as philopatry and dispersal, affect patterns of relatedness, ...

• Diets and drugs for weight loss and health in obesity – An update 

  Aaseth, Jan; Ellefsen, Stian; Alehagen, Urban; Sundfør, Tine M.; Alexander, Jan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Numerous combinations of diets and pharmacological agents, including lifestyle changes, have been launched to treat obesity. There are still ambiguities regarding the efficacies of different approaches despite many clinical ...

• Rapid recovery of normal gill morphology and blood physiology in brown trout (Salmo trutta) after short-term exposure to toxic concentrations of aqueous aluminium under non-steady state chemical conditions 

  Poleo, Antonio; Kjelsberg, Birgitte Marie; Rukke, Nina Alstad; Vøllestad, Leif Asbjørn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Freshwater acidification is characterised by elevated concentrations of aqueous aluminium. Global emissions of acidifying agents are reduced due to international agreements, and freshwater acidification has shifted from ...

• Consumer Preference Testing of Boiled Sweetpotato Using Crowdsourced Citizen Science in Ghana and Uganda 

  Moyo, Mukani; Ssali, Reuben; Namanda, Sam; Nakitto, Mariam; Dery, Eric K.; Akansake, Daniel; Adjebeng-Danquah, Joseph; van Etten, Jacob; de Sousa, Kaue; Lindqvist-Kreuze, Hannele; Carey, Edward; Muzhingi, Tawanda (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Crowdsourced citizen science is an emerging approach in plant sciences. The triadic comparison of technologies (tricot) approach has been successfully utilized by demand-led breeding programmes to identify varieties for ...

• Vasculoprotective properties of plasma lipoproteins from brown bears (Ursus arctos) 

  Pedrelli, Matteo; Parini, Paolo; Kindberg, Jonas; Arnemo, Jon Martin; Björkhem, Ingemar; Aasa, Ulrika; Westerståhl, Maria; Walentinsson, Anna; Pavanello, Chiara; Turri, Marta; Calabresi, Laura; Öörni, Katariina; Camejo, Gérman; Fröbert, Ole; Hurt-Camejo, Eva (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Plasma cholesterol and triglyceride (TG) levels are twice as high in hibernating brown bears (Ursus arctos) than healthy humans. Yet, bears display no signs of early stage atherosclerosis development when adult. To explore ...

• Climate suitability predictions for the cultivation of macadamia (Macadamia integrifolia) in Malawi using climate change scenarios 

  Zuza, Emmanuel Junior; Maseyk, Kadmiel; Bhagwat, Shonil A.; de Sousa, Kaue; Emmott, Andrew; Rawes, William; Araya, Yoseph Negusse (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Climate change is altering suitable areas of crop species worldwide, with cascading effects on people reliant upon those crop species as food sources and for income generation. Macadamia is one of Malawi’s most important ...

• Data-driven decentralized breeding increases prediction accuracy in a challenging crop production environment 

  de Sousa, Kaue; van Etten, Jacob; Poland, Jesse A.; Fadda, Carlo; Jannink, Jean-Luc; Gebrehawaryat Kidane, Yosef; Fantahun Lakew, Basazen; Kassahun Mengistu, Dejene; Pe, Mario Enrico; Solberg, Svein Øivind; Dell’Acqua, Matteo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Crop breeding must embrace the broad diversity of smallholder agricultural systems to ensure food security to the hundreds of millions of people living in challenging production environments. This need can be addressed by ...

• HumGut: a comprehensive human gut prokaryotic genomes collection filtered by metagenome data 

  Hiseni, Pranvera; Rudi, Knut; Wilson, Robert Charles; Hegge, Finn Terje; Snipen, Lars (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Background A major bottleneck in the use of metagenome sequencing for human gut microbiome studies has been the lack of a comprehensive genome collection to be used as a reference database. Several recent efforts have ...

• Age at first reproduction in wolves: Different patterns of density dependence for females and males 

  Wikenros, Camilla; Gicquel, Morgane; Zimmermann, Barbara; Flagstad, Øystein; Åkesson, Mikael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Age at first reproduction constitutes a key life-history trait in animals and is evolutionarily shaped by fitness benefits and costs of delayed versus early reproduction. The understanding of how intrinsic and extrinsic ...

• Ovarian characteristics and in vitro nuclear and cytoplasmic oocyte maturation in Duroc and Landrace pigs 

  Jochems, Reina; Gaustad, Ann Helen; Zak, Louisa J.; Grindflek, Eli; Zeremichael, Teklu Tewoldebrhan; Oskam, Irma Caroline; Myromslien, Frøydis Deinboll; Kommisrud, Elisabeth; Krogenæs, Anette Kristine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Differences in total number of piglets born per litter are observed between the Norwegian Duroc (ND) sire and Norwegian Landrace (NL) dam line. The aim of this study was to evaluate ovarian characteristics, and in vitro ...

• Investigating cow−calf contact in cow-driven systems: behaviour of the dairy cow and calf 

  Johnsen, Julie Føske; Johanssen, Juni Rosann E.; Vøien Aaby, Anna; Kischel, Stine Grønmo; Ruud, Lars Erik; Soki-Makilutila, Augustin; Kristiansen, Therese Bjørklund; Wibe, Anne; Bøe, Knut Egil; Ferneborg, Sabine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Research is needed on how technology can facilitate cow−calf contact (CCC). This research communication describes the behaviour of dairy cow−calf pairs in two cow-driven CCC-systems differing in cows' access to the calves ...

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