• Marine litter in the Nordic Seas: Distribution composition and abundance 

      Buhl-Mortensen, Lene; Buhl-Mortensen, Pål (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
      Litter has been found in all marine environments and is accumulating in seabirds and mammals in the Nordic Seas. These ecosystems are under pressure from climatic change and fisheries while the human population is small. ...
    • Marine mammal consumption and fisheries removals in the Nordic and Barents Seas 

      Skern-Mauritzen, Mette; Lindstrøm, Ulf Ove; Biuw, Martin; Elvarsson, Bjarki; Gunnlaugsson, Thorvaldur; Haug, Tore; Kovacs, Kit M.; Lydersen, Christian; McBride, Margaret; Mikkelsen, Bjarni; Øien, Nils Inge; Víkingsson, Gísli (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      In this study, we assess prey consumption by the marine mammal community in the northeast Atlantic [including 21 taxa, across three regions: (I) the Icelandic shelf, Denmark Strait, and Iceland Sea (ICE); (II) the Greenland ...
    • Marine mammal hotspots across the circumpolar Arctic 

      Hamilton, Charmain D.; Lydersen, Christian; Aars, Jon; Acquarone, Mario; Atwood, Todd; Baylis, Alastair; Biuw, Martin; Boltunov, Andrei N.; Born, Erik W.; Boveng, Peter; Brown, Tanya M.; Cameron, Michael; Citta, John; Crawford, Justin; Dietz, Rune; Elias, Jim; Ferguson, Steven H.; Fisk, Aaron; Folkow, Lars; Frost, Kathryn J.; Glazov, Dmitri M.; Granquist, Sandra M.; Gryba, Rowenna; Harwood, Lois; Haug, Tore; Heide-Jørgensen, Mads Peter; Hussey, Nigel E.; Kalinek, Jimmy; Laidre, Kristin L.; Litovka, Dennis I.; London, Josh M.; Loseto, Lisa L.; MacPhee, Shannon; Marcoux, Marianne; Matthews, Cory J. D.; Nilssen, Kjell Tormod; Nordøy, Erling Sverre; O’Corry-Crowe, Greg; Øien, Nils Inge; Olsen, Morten Tange; Quakenbush, Lori; Rosing-Asvid, Aqqalu; Semenova, Varvara; Shelden, Kim E. W.; Shpak, Olga V.; Stenson, Garry; Storrie, Luke; Sveegaard, Signe; Teilmann, Jonas; Ugarte, Fernando; Von Duyke, Andrew L.; Watt, Cortney; Wiig, Øystein; Wilson, Ryan R.; Yurkowski, David J.; Kovacs, Kit M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Aim: Identify hotspots and areas of high species richness for Arctic marine mammals. Location: Circumpolar Arctic. Methods: A total of 2115 biologging devices were deployed on marine mammals from 13 species in the Arctic ...
    • Marine mammal hotspots in the Greenland and Barents Seas 

      Hamilton, Charmain Danielle; Lydersen, Christian; Aars, Jon; Biuw, Martin; Boltunov, Andrei; Born, Erik W.; Dietz, Rune; Folkow, Lars; Glazov, Dmitry M.; Haug, Tore; Heide-Jørgensen, Mads-Peter; Kettemer, Lisa Elena; Laidre, Kristin L.; Øien, Nils Inge; Nordøy, Erling Sverre; Rikardsen, Audun H.; Rosing-Asvid, Aqqalu; Semenova, Varvara; Shpak, Olga V.; Sveegaard, Signe; Ugarte, Fernando; Wiig, Øystein; Kovacs, Kit M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Environmental change and increasing levels of human activity are threats to marine mammals in the Arctic. Identifying marine mammal hotspots and areas of high species richness are essential to help guide management and ...
    • Marine microplastic debris: An emerging issue for food security, food safety and human health 

      Barboza, Luís G.A.; Dick Vethaak, A; Lavorante, Beatriz RBO; Lundebye, Anne-Katrine; Guilhermino, Lucia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Recent studies have demonstrated the negative impacts of microplastics on wildlife. Therefore, the presence of microplastics in marine species for human consumption and the high intake of seafood (fish and shellfish) in ...
    • Marine plastics from Norwegian west coast carry potentially virulent fish pathogens and opportunistic human pathogens harboring new variants of antibiotic resistance genes 

      Radisic, Vera; Nimje, Priyank Sharad; Bienfait, André Marcel; Marathe, Nachiket (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      To our best knowledge this is the first study characterizing fish pathogens isolated from marine plastics from the West coast of Norway for their potential for pathogenicity using whole genome sequencing. Marine plastic ...
    • Marine protected areas increase survival of Atlantic cod 

      Moland, Even; Chacon, Albert Fernandez; Olsen, Esben Moland; Espeland, Sigurd Heiberg (Journal article, 2015)
    • Marine protected areas rescue a sexually selected trait in European lobster 

      Sørdalen, Tonje Knutsen; Halvorsen, Kim Aleksander Tallaksen; Vøllestad, Leif Asbjørn; Moland, Even; Olsen, Esben Moland (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Marine protected areas (MPAs) are increasingly implemented worldwide to maintain and restore depleted populations. However, despite our knowledge on the myriad of positive responses to protection, there are few empirical ...
    • Marine protected areas rescue a sexually selected trait in European lobster 

      Sørdalen, Tonje Knutsen; Halvorsen, Kim Aleksander Tallaksen; Vøllestad, Leif Asbjørn; Moland, Even; Olsen, Esben Moland (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Marine protected areas (MPAs) are increasingly implemented worldwide to maintain and restore depleted populations. However, despite our knowledge on the myriad of positive responses to protection, there are few empirical ...
    • Marine ω-3, vitamin D levels, disease outcome and periodontal status in rheumatoid arthritis outpatients 

      Beyer, Kathrin; Lie, Stein Atle; Kjellevold, Marian; Dahl, Lisbeth; Brun, Johan G; Bolstad, Anne Isine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)
    • Market women’s skills, constraints, and agency in supplying affordable, safe, and high-quality fish in Ghana 

      Overå, Ragnhild; Atter, Amy; Amponsah, Samuel; Kjellevold, Marian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      In Ghana, the role of female informal traders (“market women”) in making low-cost smoked and dried fish available in urban and rural marketplaces is the key to explaining the high consumption of fish in the country. However, ...
    • Market women’s skills, constraints, and agency in supplying affordable, safe, and high-quality fish in Ghana 

      Overå, Ragnhild; Atter, Amy; Amponsah, Samuel; Kjellevold, Marian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      In Ghana, the role of female informal traders (“market women”) in making low-cost smoked and dried fish available in urban and rural marketplaces is the key to explaining the high consumption of fish in the country. However, ...
    • Market women’s skills, constraints, and agency in supplying affordable, safe, and high‑quality fish in Ghana 

      Overå, Ragnhild; Atter, Amy; Amponsah, Samuel; Kjellevold, Marian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      In Ghana, the role of female informal traders (“market women”) in making low-cost smoked and dried fish available in urban and rural marketplaces is the key to explaining the high consumption of fish in the country. However, ...
    • Market women’s skills, constraints, and agency in supplying affordable, safe, and high‑quality fish in Ghana 

      Overå, Ragnhild; Atter, Amy; Amponsah, Samuel; Kjellevold, Marian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      In Ghana, the role of female informal traders (“market women”) in making low-cost smoked and dried fish available in urban and rural marketplaces is the key to explaining the high consumption of fish in the country. However, ...
    • Marteilia refringens and Marteilia pararefringens sp. nov. are distinct parasites of bivalves and have different European distributions 

      Kerr, Rose C.; Ward, Georgia M.; Stentiford, Grant D.; Alfjorden, Anders; Mortensen, Stein; Bignell, John P.; Feist, Stephen W.; Villalba, Antonio; Carballal, María J.; Cao, Asun; Arzul, Isabelle; Ryder, David; Bass, David (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Marteilia refringens causes marteiliosis in oysters, mussels and other bivalve molluscs. This parasite previously comprised two species, M. refringens and Marteilia maurini, which were synonymized in 2007 and subsequently ...
    • Mass estimates of individual gas-bearing mesopelagic fish from in situ wideband acoustic measurements ground-truthed by biological net sampling 

      Agersted, Mette Dalgaard; Khodabandeloo, Babak; Klevjer, Thor A.; García-Seoane, Eva; Strand, Espen; Underwood, Melanie; Melle, Webjørn Raunsgård (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      A new acoustic approach to estimate the mass of individual gas-bearing fish at their resident depth at more than 400 m was tested on Cyclothone spp.. Cyclothone are small and slender, and possibly numerically underestimated ...
    • Mass sedimentation of Phaeocystis pouchetii in the Barents Sea 

      Wassmann, Paul; Vernet, Maria; Mitchell, B. Greg; Rey, Francisco (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 1990-09-06)
      Mass sedimentation of gelatinous colonies of the prymensiophyte Phaeocystis pouchetii were observed in the upper 100 m of Atlantic water in the central Barents Sea. Sedimentation rates of particulate organic carbon and ...
    • Match-mismatch dynamics in the Norwegian-Barents Sea system 

      Ferreira, Ana Sofia De Araújo; Stige, Leif Christian; Neuheimer, Anna B.; Bogstad, Bjarte; Yaragina, Natalia A.; Prokopchuk, Irina; Durant, Joel Marcel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      A key process affecting variation in the recruitment of fish into fisheries is the spatio-temporal overlap between prey and predator (match-mismatch hypothesis, MMH). The Northeast Arctic cod Gadus morhua and its dominant ...
    • Match-mismatch dynamics in the Norwegian-Barents Sea system 

      Ferreira, Ana Sofia De Araújo; Stige, Leif Christian; Neuheimer, Anna B.; Bogstad, Bjarte; Yaragina, Natalia A.; Prokopchuk, Irina; Durant, Joel Marcel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      A key process affecting variation in the recruitment of fish into fisheries is the spatio-temporal overlap between prey and predator (match-mismatch hypothesis, MMH). The Northeast Arctic cod Gadus morhua and its dominant ...