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    • Lepidoptera Larvae Responses to Induced Chemical Defenses in Bilberry (Vaccinium Myrtillus) Grown in Two Climatic Conditions 

      Heiestad, Håkon Nikolai Løhren (Master thesis, 2018-05)
      Host plant and herbivorous insect relationships are complex and intricate as they involve interactions influenced by many biotic and abiotic factors, leading to varying and often unpredictive patterns of insect populations ...

    • Kartlegging, terrenganalysar og simulering av eit trekantforma jordskred på Skredestranda, Nordfjord 

      Søgnesand, Anne Marte (Master thesis, 2018-05)
      Skred som blir utløyst av nedbør kan auke i førekomst som følgje av klimaendringar. I Noreg er det venta nedbørsauke på 18 % mot år 2100 på utsleppsscenario RCP8,5. Utsleppscenarioet er utarbeida av FNs klimapanel og betyr ...

    • Improving the Sustainability of HVL: A Translation of the SDGs for Higher Education Institutes and HVL Stakeholders’ Perceptions, Engagement and Recommendation in Relation to HVL Sustainability 

      Slaymark, Victoria; Zeiss, Jan (contributor) (Master thesis, 2018-05)
      Higher education institutes (HEIs) have the potential to be key actors and leaders to transform society towards sustainable development (SD). They must function themselves as ‘Living Labs’, adopting a whole systems approach ...

    • «Våt blir du uansett, så det å rafte på ein regntung dag, ein kan ikkje gjere noko som er betre enn det»: Ein kvalitativ studie av klimahandteringar i reiselivsnæringa i Voss kommune 

      Hauge, Guro (Master thesis, 2018-05)
      Denne oppgåva tek føre seg korleis reiselivet i Voss kommune vil handtere dei framtidige klimaendringane og kva dei ser på som dei største utfordringane i arbeidet med dette. Oppgåva ser på korleis kommunen, ulike ...

    • Improving the sustainability of the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences: A translation of the SDGs for higher education institutions and carbon footprint assessment of the Sogndal Campus 

      Zeiss, Jan Pedro; Slaymark, Victoria (contributor) (Master thesis, 2018-05)
      PURPOSE: The purpose of this thesis is twofold: (i) develop an initial draft of a sustainability assessment framework for higher education institutions (HEIs) based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ...

    • Variasjonar i vekst og reproduksjon hos blåbær (Vaccinium myrtillus) i forhold til klima og lokal økologisk forhold 

      Berge, Rannveig (Master thesis, 2018-05)
      Samandrag Blåbær er ein viktig matkjelde for mange artar på den nordlege halvkule, derfor er det viktig å vite korleis blåbær vert påverka av klimaendringane. Vekst og reproduksjon hos planter er bestemt av både regionale ...

    • Klimatilpassing i kommunar i Sogn og Fjordane 

      Feidje, Ragnhild Berge (Master thesis, 2018-05)
      Det er viktig å tilpasse seg eit klima i endring. Denne tilpassinga vil i stor grad skje på lokalt nivå, då det er her ein merkar effektane. Målet med denne oppgåva er å auke kunnskapen om korleis kommunar i Sogn og ...

    • Sinking Islands in the Sky: Projecting the future distributions of Ranunculus glacialis, Poa flexuosa and Trisetum spicatum in Jotunheimen, Norway under climate change 

      Throndsen, Sigbjørn (Master thesis, 2018-05)
      Introduction Changes in species distributional range as a response to climate change is well documented. The changes are substantial along elevational gradients, and the general trend is that the warming has caused an ...

    • Grunneigarstyrt småkraft på vent, kva konsekvensar vil det få på sikt? 

      Røneid, Trond (Master thesis, 2018-05)
      I Noreg er historia til vasskrafta lang og innhaldsrik. Etter over 100 år med tradisjonar står vasskrafta fortsatt sterkt i landet og det er fortsatt mange utbyggingar spreidd over heile landet. Småkrafta har hatt størst ...

    • Between winter storm surges - Human occupation on a growing Mid-Holocene transgression maximum (Tapes) beach ridge at Longva, Western Norway 

      Bondevik, Stein; Lødøen, Trond; Tøssebro, Christine; Årskog, Hanne Bente; Hjelle, Kari Loe; Mehl, Ingvild Kristine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Substantial amounts of archaeological material have been found intermixed with beach pebbles and cobbles on the Tapes beach ridge at Longva on the island Flemsøya/Skuløya in Western Norway. The artefacts show that the beach ...

    • Geochemical signatures of pingo ice and its origin in Grøndalen, West Spitsbergen 

      Demidov, Nikita; Wetterich, Sebastian; Verkulich, Sergey; Ekaykin, Alexey; Meyer, Hanno; Anisimov, Mikhail; Schirrmeister, Lutz; Demidov, Vasily; Hodson, Andrew (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Pingos are common features in permafrost regions that form by subsurface massive-ice aggradation and create hill-like landforms. Pingos on Spitsbergen have been previously studied to explore their structure, formation ...

    • The handbook for standardized field and laboratory measurements in terrestrial climate change experiments and observational studies (ClimEx) 

      Halbritter Rechsteiner, Aud Helen; De Boeck, Hans J.; Eycott, Amy Elizabeth; Reinsch, Sabine; Robinson, David A.; Vicca, Sara; Berauer, Bernd; Christiansen, Casper Tai; Estiarte, Marc; Grünzweig, José M.; Gya, Ragnhild; Hansen, Karin; Jentsch, Anke; Lee, Hanna; Linder, Sune; Marshall, John; Peñuelas, Josep; Schmidt, Inger Kappel; Stuart-Haëntjens, Ellen; Wilfahrt, Peter; Vandvik, Vigdis; Abrantes, Nelson; Almagro, María; Althuizen, Inge; Barrio, Isabel C.; te Beest, Mariska; Beier, Claus; Beil, Iilka; Berry, Z. Carter; Birkemoe, Tone; Bjerke, Jarle W.; Blonder, Benjamin; Blume-Werry, Gesche; Bohrer, Gil; Campos, Isabel; Cernusak, Lucas S.; Chojnicki, Bogdan H.; Cosby, Bernhard J.; Dickman, Lee T.; Djukic, Ika; Filella, Iolanda; Fuchslueger, Lucia; Gargallo-Garriga, Albert; Gillespie, Mark Andrew; Goldsmith, Gregory R.; Gough, Christopher; Halliday, Fletcher W.; Hegland, Stein Joar; Hoch, Gunter; Holub, Petr; Jaroszynska, Francesca Orinda Holl; Johnson, Daniel M.; Jones, Scott B.; Kardol, Paul; Keizer, Jan J.; Klem, Karel; Konestabo, Heidi Sjursen; Kreyling, Jürgen; Kröel-Dulay, György; Landhäusser, Simon M.; Larsen, Klaus S.; Leblans, Niki; Lebron, Inma; Lehmann, Marco M.; Lembrechts, Jonas J.; Lenz, Armando; Linstädter, Anja; Llusià, Joan; Macias-Fauria, Marc; Malyshev, Andrey V.; Mänd, Pille; Marshall, Miles; Matheny, Ashley M.; McDowell, Nate; Meier, Ina C.; Meinzer, Frederick C.; Michaletz, Sean T.; Miller, Megan L.; Muffler, Lena; Oravec, Michal; Ostonen, Ivika; Porcar-Castell, Albert; Preece, Catherine; Prentice, Iain C.; Radujković, Dajana; Ravolainen, Virve; Ribbons, Relena; Ruppert, Jan C.; Sack, Lawren; Sardans, Jordi; Schindlbacher, Andreas; Scoffoni, Christine; Sigurdsson, Bjarni D.; Smart, Simon M; Smith, Stuart; Soper, Fiona; Speed, James David Mervyn; Sverdrup-Thygeson, Anne; Sydenham, Markus A. K.; Taghizadeh-Toosi, Arezoo; Telford, Richard J.; Tielborger, Katja; Töpper, Joachim Paul; Urban, Otmar; van der Ploeg, Martine; Van Langenhove, Leandro; Večeřová, Kristýna; Ven, Arne; Verbruggen, Erik; Vik, Unni; Weigel, Robert; Wohlgemuth, Thomas; Wood, Lauren K.; Zinnert, Julie; Zurba, Kamal (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Climate change is a world‐wide threat to biodiversity and ecosystem structure, functioning and services. To understand the underlying drivers and mechanisms, and to predict the consequences for nature and people, we urgently ...

    • Microstructurally-constrained versus bulk fault gouge K-Ar dating 

      Scheiber, Thomas; Viola, Giulio; van der Lelij, Roelant; Margreth, Annina; Schönenberger, Jasmin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Structural, mineralogical and geochronological data were collected from two brittle fault zones (Fault I and II) deforming the Ordovician Rolvsnes granodiorite in SW Norway. Microstructurally-constrained K–Ar data from ...

    • Sustainable mobility at thirty 

      Holden, Erling; Gilpin, Geoffrey Sean; Banister, David (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      It is now almost three decades since the concept of ‘sustainable mobility’ first appeared in the 1992 EU Green Paper on the Impact of Transport on the Environment. This paper reviews the literature and reflects on how ...

    • Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective 

      Blöschl, Günter; Bierkens, Marc F.P.; Chambel, Antonio; Cudennec, Christophe; Destouni, Georgia; Fiori, Aldo; Kirchner, James W.; McDonnell, Jeff J.; Savenije, Hubert H.G.; Sivapalan, Murugesu; Stumpp, Christine; Toth, Elena; Volpi, Elena; Carr, Gemma; Lupton, Claire; Salinas, Josè; Széles, Borbála; Viglione, Alberto; Aksoy, Hafzullah; Allen, Scott T.; Amin, Anam; Andréassian, Vazken; Arheimer, Berit; Aryal, Santosh; Baker, Victor; Bardsley, Earl; Barendrecht, Marlies H.; Bartosova, Alena; Batelaan, Okke; Berghuijs, Wouter R.; Beven, Keith; Blume, Theresa; Bogaard, Thom; Borges, Pablo de Amorim; Böttcher, Michael E.; Boulet, Gilles; Breinl, Korbinian; Brilly, Mitja; Brocca, Luca; Buytaert, Wouter; Castellarin, Attilio; Castelletti, Andrea; Chen, Xiaohong; Chen, Yangbo; Chen, Yuanfang; Chifflard, Peter; Dathe, Annette; Lange, Holger; Mernild, Jacob Sebastian Haugaard; Steinsland, Ingelin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This paper is the outcome of a community initiative to identify major unsolved scientific problems in hydrology motivated by a need for stronger harmonisation of research efforts. The procedure involved a public consultation ...

    • Assessing restoration success by predicting time to recovery- But by which metric? 

      Rydgren, Knut; Auestad, Inger; Halvorsen, Rune; Hamre, Liv Norunn; Jongejans, Eelke; Töpper, Joachim Paul; Sulavik, Jan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      1. Restoration of degraded ecosystems may take decades or even centuries. Accordingly, information about the current direction and speed of recovery provided by methods for predicting time to recovery may give important ...

    • Arctic climate shifts drive rapid ecosystem responses across the West Greenland landscape 

      Saros, Jasmine E.; Anderson, Nicholas John; Juggins, Stephen; McGowan, Suzanne; Yde, Jacob C.; Bullard, Joanna E.; Yallop, Marian L.; Heathcote, Adam J.; Burpee, Benjamin T.; Fowler, Rachel A.; Barry, Christopher D.; Northington, Robert M.; Osburn, Christopher L.; Pla-Rabes, Sergi; Mernild, Jacob Sebastian Haugaard; Whiteford, Erika J.; Andrews, Grace; Kerby, Jeffrey T.; Post, Eric (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Prediction of high latitude response to climate change is hampered by poor understanding of the role of nonlinear changes in ecosystem forcing and response. While the effects of nonlinear climate change are often delayed ...

    • Key indicators of Arctic climate change: 1971–2017 

      Box, Jason E.; Colgan, William T.; Christensen, Torben Røjle; Schmidt, Niels Martin; Lund, Magnus; Parmentier, Frans-Jan W.; Brown, Ross; Bhatt, Uma S.; Euskirchen, Eugénie S.; Romanovsky, Vladimir E.; Walsh, John E.; Overland, James E.; Wang, Muyin; Corell, Robert; Meier, Walter N.; Wouters, Bert; Mernild, Jacob Sebastian Haugaard; Mård, Johanna; Pawlak, Janet; Olsen, Morten Skovgård (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Key observational indicators of climate change in the Arctic, most spanning a 47 year period (1971–2017) demonstrate fundamental changes among nine key elements of the Arctic system. We find that, coherent with increasing ...

    • Correlates of Commuter Cycling in Three Norwegian Counties 

      Nordengen, Solveig; Ruther, Denise Christina; Riiser, Amund; Andersen, Lars Bo; Solbraa, Ane Kristiansen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Globally, there is an increasing challenge of physical inactivity and associated diseases. Commuter cycling is an everyday physical activity with great potential to increase the health status in a population. We aimed to ...

    • Weathering Dynamics Under Contrasting Greenland Ice Sheet Catchments 

      Urra, Alexandra; Wadham, Jemma L.; Hawkings, Jon R.; Telling, Jon; Hatton, Jade E.; Yde, Jacob C.; Hasholt, Bent; van As, Dirk; Bhatia, Maya P.; Nienow, Peter W. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Chemical weathering dynamics in Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) catchments are largely unknown, due to a scarcity of field data. This paper presents the most comprehensive study to date of chemical weathering rates from four ...