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A new paper in the ICES Journal of Marine Science discusses whether and how fisheries-induced evolution will shift reference points, a key tool in fisheries management.
After five long days of fishing guppies in the lab, EvoFish switched to bigger targets. Sea fishing turned out to be a lot more eventful than guppy fishing.
Andria Utama has successfully completed his Master examination. EvoFish congratulates!
Ranga Jayawickrama has successfully completed his Master examination. EvoFish congratulates!
Even low doses of environmental pollutants can threaten our health. The current epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes in western countries may be directly related to the effects of even small amounts of environmental pollutants on our bodies.
When climate change alters distributions of fish stocks, it is not only the biology of fish stocks that is affected: also the ownership of fish stocks is changing. This has implications for the countries that are sharing a resource.
UiB researchers are documenting the extraordinary biodiversity in Uganda in pictures.
The Director of the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies is visiting BIO!
Fish Health Professor Heidrun Wergeland turns 60!
We have the pleasure of presenting the following new employees and visitors at the Centre for Geobiology:
A chance discovery of a sunken log on the seabed in the North Atlantic is providing concrete support for the idea that stepping stone habitats may help to explain the diffusion of populations of organisms across the deep seafloor.
Could cooperative behaviour between males be based on female promiscuity?
The Tage Nilsson Memorial Lectures in the Department of Geology, Quaternary Sciences, University of Lund were given by Hilary and John Birks on March 7 and 8.

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