... evolution of High Arctic Eurasia, from Svalbard to Severnaya Zemlya (Gee and Pease, 2004), to better understand the Uralian, Caledonian, Timanian and older history of the “basement” (figure 1). Recently it has proved possible to include ...
... important primary producers in coastal hard bottom ecosystems. Furthermore they contribute essentially to the structural heterogeneity of their habitat, thereby increasing the number of ecological niches available to other organisms. ...
... has participated in several SCAR Epoch GPS campaigns. The set of observations at Aboa, connected to Wasa, is a natural continuation of the five previous GPS campaigns undertaken at Wasa. In a similar way it was decided to set up a ...
... changed the atmosphere’s chemical composition. The chlorine loading in the stratosphere is four times the natural abundance (WMO, 2002) causing, since the beginning of the 1980s, severe ozone depletion between 13 and 23 km in the late ...
... compounds which were previously thought to be of anthropogenic origin, but which now actually seem to be natural products with properties very similar to the classical persistent compound. We were the first expedition through ...
... samples were extracted onto C-18 disks in order to concentrate dissolved organic material and determine its structural characteristics. Samples included open Atlantic surface waters, Arctic surface waters, ice melt and Mackenzie river ...
... collaboration between Göteborg and Newcastle Universities, the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat and the UK Natural Environment Research Council, which funded this study. Given the context of this work in the wider ‘carbon ...
... Kamchatka and Scandinavia on plant – herbivore systems. Further, the fact that the two areas have rather similar natural resources but are managed within different societal systems offers many interesting comparisons. The aims During the ...
... be incorporated into the scientific collections of the Department of Vertebrate Zoology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. We had a particular interest in collecting fish and birds. The activities of other participating research ...
... that was free from UV and one where the zooplankton were exposed to about the same UV environment as in their natural environment (472 μW cm-2). The experiment was performed in one of Oden’s laboratory containers and was allowed to run ...
... A.E. and Cody, W.J. 1980. Vascular plants of continental Northwest Territories, Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, National Museums of Canada, Ottawa. Price, P.W., Clancy, K.M. and Roininen, H. 1994. Comparative population ...
... M.C. 1995. Steppe-tundra transition: a herbivore-driven biome shift at the end of the Pleistocene. The American Naturalist 146(5): 765–794.
... preparation for the long jump, by sampling the food abundance on the coastal mudflats and by making behavioural observations of the birds. By putting radio transmitters on birds we planned to follow in detail both the departure from ...
... the maintenance and transmission of disease. It also illustrates the need for collaboration among wildlife, agricultural and human health researchers. The participants in this project were ornithologists and also had specialisations, in ...
... Numbers of individuals and numbers of tests are given in table 1. These cage experiments were performed under the natural migration period of the species under study and were mainly performed outdoors, or after exposure to outdoor orientation ...
... a number of ways, for example through competition, parasitism or predation. This may lead to the evolution of behavioural or morphological traits which can either facilitate or counteract these interactions. However such co-evolution also ...
... 479, Moscow, Nauka, 182 p. Stone, D., Crumley, S. and Parfenov, L. 1992. Paleomagnetism and the Kolyma structural loop. ICAM Proceedings, 189–194.
... Ridge could yield valuable information on the origin of the ridge and could strengthen the argument for a natural prolongation of the Canadian–Greenland Shelf onto the ridge. On 19 and 20 August 2012 two dredges were undertaken, both ...
... Sweden Principal investigator Tero Härkönen Department of Ecotoxicology/Contaminant Research, Swedish Museum of Natural History Stockholm, Sweden Principal investigator Ellery Ingall School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia ...
... focus of environmental protection programmes, yet large quantities are also released into the atmosphere by natural processes in algae. This was examined in sea water, ice and melting ponds across the Arctic Ocean. Studies of ...
