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FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

The early stages of adaptive divergence: the speed of evolution

In this proposed project we will study processes during the early phase of adaptive divergence. Lesjaskogsvatnet was colonized by grayling Thymallus thymallus in 1880 and during 120 years more than 20 demes have been established. Owing to profound tempera ture differences among tributaries, we ex...

Tildelt: kr 3,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2009

Sted: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Linking physics and biology - Structuring of cod-populations in the North Sea/Skagerrak water-system

We propose to study the physical and biological mechanisms that generate and maintain a highly genetically structured population of cod in the Skagerrak water system. We hypothesize that a combination of oceanographic features (i.e., within fjords water c irculation), spawning behavior (i.e. stro...

Tildelt: kr 6,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Oslo

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Natural and farmed habitat as a basis for production of red deer in Norway

The project will provide a basis to predict the potential for production of red deer based on detailed knowledge of the natural and farmed habitat as well as detailed studies of red deer habitat use in multiple areas. The yield of red deer reached 27600 i n 2005. Red deer thus constitute the 2nd ...

Tildelt: kr 9,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Oslo

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosjektstøtte for medisin, helse og biologi

Statistical tools for studying genetic architecture

Advances in molecular biology have revealed that most phenotypes are controlled by highly complex and interactive gene networks. This complex genetic basis is, however, not reflected in the rather simple genotype-phenotype maps postulated in population an d quantitative genetics. These models are...

Tildelt: kr 2,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Interactions between eutrophication, oil and contaminants in marine ecosystems

Although there is much knowledge about environmental processes associated with environmental pressures such as eutrophication, oil and contaminants, there is limited understanding of how such pressures interact in their effects in marine ecosystems. This project aims to clarify interactions betwe...

Tildelt: kr 8,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Functional genomics of phenotypic plasticity of cod: a national consortium.

The proposed project is submitted by the University of Oslo as such (through its rector) on behalf of the other members in the consortium consisting of strong basic research groups with a strong and long experience within the fields of genomics, ecology a nd evolutionary biology. Although we repr...

Tildelt: kr 9,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Biodiversity of marine benthos: perspective from a global change

The impacts of pronounced climate change are now apparent at various sites in the Subarctic and Arctic, and numerical simulation models converge on the prediction that future warming trends will be amplified at high northern latitudes. There is therefore an immediate and pressing need to develop ...

Tildelt: kr 1,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2010

Sted: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Marine ecosystem effects of eutrophication: Interactions between small pelagic fish and predators in low oxygen waters

The starting hypothesis for this proposal is that clupeid fish (Sprat) are more tolerant to low oxygen waters than their gadoid predators. Low oxygen waters (albeit above a critical level) thus represent a resource as a predatory refuge. This hypothesis w ill be addressed during winter in a fjord...

Tildelt: kr 2,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2010

Sted: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Recruitment dynamics of the herring stocks in the western North Pacific and Norwegian Sea

Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) and Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi) are closely related but biologically distinct species, residing mainly in the Northern parts of the two oceans. Both species are pelagic plankton-feeders and contain both migratory as well as quite stationary stocks. Many st...

Tildelt: kr 55 000

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2007

Sted: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Effects of snow conditions on the predator-prey interaction between hare and lynx

It is believed that snow conditions influence the predator-prey interaction between hare and lynx, but empirical evidence is needed to confirm this assumption. Two very promising data sources are already available. First, the 10-year dataset consisting of snow-tracking records of predators from ...

Tildelt: kr 0,14 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2007

Sted: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Participation in expedition to Vanuatu

We have been invited by Dr Philippe Bouchet, Natural History Museum Paris to take part in the world's largest scientif expedition to map the biodiversity of one of the most species rich areas in the world, Santo, Vanuatu, New Hebrides. The expedition wil l be over an 8 week period and invlove te...

Tildelt: kr 0,16 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2006

Sted: Oslo

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Fishery-induced changes in vital components of a large pike (Esox lucius) population

To reduce the impact of human activities on ecosystems is a major challenge of the next decades. Worldwide, overfishing depletes numerous fish stocks, threatening fisheries economy, biodiversity and the functioning of ecosystems. However, developing susta inable fishery policies necessitates a th...

Tildelt: kr 1,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2008

Sted: Oslo

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.) on the Norwegian coast: fresh water colonisation, divergence rates and adaptive speciation

This project will investigate how historical contingency and evolutionary mechanisms interact to prime ecological and physiological adaptation, which may ultimately result in speciation in the threespined stickleback. This primarily marine species has fou nded numerous anadromous- and stationary ...

Tildelt: kr 2,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2009

Sted: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Exposure as a factor for primary and secundary production in a kelp forest

Project summary It is a well established fact that kelp forest are highly productive areas, with an annual production about 10 times of what might be found in phytoplankton dominated waters. Resent research have also shown that kelp is an important carbon source for many animals in these areas. ...

Tildelt: kr 0,16 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2007

Sted: Oslo

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Allopolyploid evolution in plants: patterns and processes within the genus Viola

This project aims at disentangling ?diploid? lineages in ancient polyploid groups using the genus Viola (Violaceae) as study object. Chromosome numbers, isozymes and our preliminary data on two low-copy nuclear RNA polymerase genes all suggest that the ma jority of temperate groups of Viola have ...

Tildelt: kr 2,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2009

Sted: Oslo

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Signal evolution: adaptation and constraint

A central challenge in evolutionary biology is to understand what determines the reliability and flexibility of animal signals. We investigate signal evolution and signal discrimination in two contexts, mate choice and mimicry, with focus on how adaptatio n is affected by learning, plasticity, va...

Tildelt: kr 4,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2009

Sted: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Algal toxins & polyunsaturated fatty acids: a polyketide genomic approach to safe and efficient utilisation of microalgae in bioproduction

Microalgal secondary metabolites have attracted attention for two main reasons: first, because they are source of toxins in harmful algal blooms and second, because they are potential rich source of polyunsaturated fatty acids. The dinoflagellates are hig hly diverse group of flagellated unicellu...

Tildelt: kr 3,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2010

Sted: Oslo

IS-STP-Statsstipendprogram, utlendinger

Miettinen, Otto finsk statsstip 2005/06

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Tildelt: kr 29 000

Prosjektperiode: 2005-2006

Sted: Oslo

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Long term consequences of interspecific cross-fostering in the wild

The significance of learning has been relatively overlooked in studies of fundamental behavioural traits such as species recognition, mate choice and social dominance. I propose a project to investigate long term consequences of interspecific cross-foster ing in the wild in terms of such behaviou...

Tildelt: kr 2,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2005-2009

Sted: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Economically and ecologically sustainable fisheries management: optimising fish harvest while conserving seabird diversity

International agreements require fisheries policy to be based on an ecosystem approach. The overall objective of this project is to achieve a better understanding of marine ecosystem management with a combination of ecological criteria (keeping all specie s, including those that compete with huma...

Tildelt: kr 2,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2005-2008

Sted: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Spatial economic analyses in wildlife management

In this project I will explore how continuous spatial distributions of habitat may be applied to explain the spatial distribution of a species with high economic value - the moose. Continuous habitat distributions may be estimated from spatial data for in stance by the use of Kernel methods. The ...

Tildelt: kr 1,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2005-2007

Sted: Oslo

IS-RUS-Stipendprogram for NVRussl.

Ilmast, Nicolay 04/05-11

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Tildelt: kr 18 000

Prosjektperiode: 2005-2005

Sted: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Biogeochemistry in Northern Watersheds, a Reactor in Global Change

Land and freshwater ecosystems are important reactors in Global Change; pollution and climate change affect biogeochemical functions, which feeds back on climate forcing and eutrophication through emissions to water and atmosphere. An interdisciplinary wa tershed project is proposed, focusing the...

Tildelt: kr 8,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2005-2009

Sted: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: A molecular phylogeny of the brown-spored agarics (Basidiomycota)

The agarics with brownish spore prints embrace the families Cortinariaceae, Strophariaceae, Bolbitiaceae and Tubariaceae. In the Northern hemisphere, there is a vast number of brown-spored agarics, adapted to a variety of habitats. The phylogenetic relati onships between the large, brown-spored g...

Tildelt: kr 2,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2005-2011

Sted: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Exposure as a factor for primary and secundary production in a kelp forest

It is a well established fact that kelp forest are highly productive areas, with an annual production about 10 times of what might be found in phytoplankton dominated waters. Resent research have also shown that kelp is an important carbon source for many animals in these areas. However, few ani...

Tildelt: kr 2,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2005-2007

Sted: Oslo

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Evolution of chloroplasts: addressing the genomic processes behind acquisition of secondary and tertiary organelles

The dinoflagellate chloroplasts (plastids) originate from eukaryotic photosynthetic endosymbionts. Rather than being derived from a single group (being monophyletic) the plastids of dinoflagellates are originate from several organism groups and are thus of polyphyletic origin. Most dinoflagellat...

Tildelt: kr 4,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2005-2009

Sted: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Environmental effects of oil and gas exploration on the benthic fauna of the Norwegian continental shelf: an analysis using the OLF database

We will use traditional and new multivariate statistical methods to analyse effects of using oil-based and non-oli-based drilling fluids on the benthos of the Norwegian continental shelf. These methods allow one to test hypotheses of cause and effect and thus may move from a descriptive to a pr...

Tildelt: kr 1,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2005-2008

Sted: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Assessing marine food chains using molecular probes

The project aims at developing molecular probes, and use these in assessments of marine food chains. Group-specific or species-specific probes will be developed, tested and validated, and used to detect the prey organisms for carnivorously feeding copepo ds. Pellets from freshly collected copepo...

Tildelt: kr 1,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2005-2008

Sted: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Ecological effects of sheep grazing and the economy of sustainable husbandry in alpine habitats

Sheep husbandry is an important part of the rural economy in Norway, with a tradition going some 5000 years back into the Bronze age. However, increases in numbers (2-2.5 million sheep on summer pasture) and a more extensive use of alpine habitats (made a ccessible by roads) during the last centu...

Tildelt: kr 2,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2005-2007

Sted: Oslo

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Evolution of mating type and vegetative incompatibility genes in fungi: The dry rot fungus Serpula lacrymans as a model species

In recent years an international research initiative focusing on the devastating dry rot fungus Serpula lacrymans has been established. Previous research suggests that S. lacrymans provides a unique model system to study evolutionary processes and life hi story traits in basidiomycetes, including...

Tildelt: kr 4,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2005-2009

Sted: Oslo