News archive for Evolutionary ecology

Young lady holding a bird chick in her hand

Lisa is studying how spring weather affects phenology in birds (13.12.2021)

Lisa Hansen Simonsen is about to hand in her Master thesis on the link between spring weather and phenology in small birds

Two male salmon lice guarding females and a lonely louse

Marie is studying dispersal in salmon lice (13.12.2021)

Marie Hauso is a high school teacher student interested in parasites and behaviour. She is now starting her Masters project with Adele Mennerat.

Baron Munchausen pulls himself out of a mire by his own hair

Does effort regulation of mixed fisheries really "work"? (10.12.2021)

Effort regulation could simplify managing mixed fisheries by directing effort towards common species and away from rare ones, thus "automatically" protecting the latter. But how likely is this protection actually to happen?

Mixed bottom trawl catch with a box crab on the top

Fishers fine-tune their catch profiles following price fluctuations (10.12.2021)

Bottom trawl is usually considered a relative unselective fishing gear, but Taiwanese coastal trawl fishers show a good ability to change their catch profiles to match market demands

Collaboration with the International School of Bergen (10.12.2021)

Beatriz Diaz Pauli joined forces with 8th graders from the International School of Bergen and their teacher Lars Haugen Aardal to become reviewers for the Frontiers of Young Minds journal.