Lotic ecosystems worldwide are being degraded by human activities, with severe consequences for stream biota. River restoration has gained momentum over the last decade, but many projects lack the long-term monitoring ...

Restoration ecology emerged as a separate field in ecology, and recently gained substantial attention due to global environmental changes and increased anthropogenic activities. The present research highlights the importance ...

Habitat type and structure influences diversity body size, recruitment, population size structure and survival of species in marine communities. There is, however, inadequate empirical evidence on what substitutes ...

The loss of biodiversity is happening faster now than ever in human history, being mainly driven by changes in land use. Concurrently, cities are expanding and are expected to reach over 1.2 million km2 within 2030. The ...

Anthropogenic activities associated with increasing influx of people in cities globally and the capital city of Norway, Oslo, has expansively fragment and decreased urban green space, reducing the connectivity between the ...

During the last five years, Norway has rewetted almost 80 drained mires to reduce climate emissions, limit the risk of natural disasters, and to prevent further loss of biodiversity. Even more mires are planned to be ...

Lesser sandeel (Ammodytes marinus, Raitt, 1934, sandeel for short) is a keystone species of the Barents Sea ecosystem. However, little is known about the distribution of this species in the Tana fjord or Tana river delta ...

The two rivers Salangselva and Kvernmoelva in Troms county, were both channelized and erosion secured during the 1980s. This stimulated agricultural activity in adjacent properties in the following years. In parallel, a ...