Research at the Biodiversity Unit
Research at Biodiversity Unit focuses broadly on biodiversity and ecosystem functions and –services.
The research infrastructure including the botanical garden and two field stations, long-term experiments and environmental monitoring datasets and scientific collections provides an excellent support for multidisciplinary research on topical questions such as climate change, biodiversity crisis, and the sustainable use and protection of natural resources in both natural and man-made environments.
In addition to its own research, the Biodiversity Unit promotes multidisciplinary research at the university and serves as a showcase for public outreach.
Our research
New publications
Regional and temporal variation in escape history of Norwegian farmed Atlantic salmon (2024)
ICES Journal of Marine Science
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))
New national and regional bryophyte records, 76 (2024)
Journal of Bryology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Acknowledging and understanding the contributions of nature to human sense of time (2024)
People and Nature
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1))
New data on spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Iraqi Kurdistan, with new species and records (2024)
Zootaxa
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
gtrendsAPI: An R wrapper for the Google Trends API (2024)
Software impacts
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))
Predation on Live and Artificial Insect Prey Shows Different Global Latitudinal Patterns (2024)
Global Ecology and Biogeography
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Can citizen science and social media images support the detection of new invasion sites? A deep learning test case with Cortaderia selloana (2024)
Ecological Informatics
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))
“New Data on the Spider Fauna of Iran”: an overview of the results from a decade-long large-scale project (2024)
European Congress of Arachnology
(Other publication)
Genomic signatures of hybridization between Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus in natural populations (2024)
Ecology and Evolution
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))
Unravelling the Entoloma politum complex (2024)
Plant and fungal systematics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)