2012

In bold: current or former NCB members

Alsos IG, Ehrich D, Thuiller W, Eidesen PB, Tribsch A, Schönswetter P, Lagaye C, Taberlet P, Brochmann C 2012. Genetic consequences of climate change for northern plants. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 279: 2042-2051.

Andersen M, Derocher AE, Wiig Ø, Aars J 2012. Title: Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) maternity den distribution in Svalbard, Norway. Polar Biology 35: 499-508. 

Aubail A, Dietz R, Riget F, Sonne C, Wiig Ø, Caurant F 2012. Temporal trend of mercury in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from Svalbard using teeth as a biomonitoring tissue. Journal of Environmental Monitoring 14: 56-63. 

Bellemain E, Davey ML, Kauserud H, Epp LS, Boessenkool S, Coissac E, Geml J, Edwards ME, Willerslev E, Gussarova G, Taberlet P, Brochmann C. Fungal paleodiversity revealed using high-throughput metabarcoding of ancient DNA from arctic permafrost. Environmental Microbiology (accepted).

Boessenkool S, Epp LS, Haile J, Bellemain E, Edwards M, Coissac E, Willerslev E, Brochmann C 2012. Blocking human contaminant DNA during PCR allows amplification of rare mammal species from sedimentary ancient DNA. Molecular Ecology 21: 1806–1815.

Brochmann C, Edwards ME, Alsos IG. The turbulent past and future of arctic plants: climate change, spatial dynamics, and genetic diversity. In: Rohde K (ed.). The Balance of Nature and Human Impact. Cambridge University Press (accepted).

Bytingsvik J, Lie E, Aars J, Derocher AE, Wiig Ø, Jenssen BM 2012. PCBs and OH-PCBs in polar bear mother-cub pairs: A comparative plasma levels in 1998 and 2008. Science of the Total Environment 417: 117-128. 

Cook JA, Brochmann C, Talbot SL, Fedorov VB, Taylor EB, Väinölä R, Hoberg EP, Kholodova M, Magnusson KP. Genetics. In: Arctic Biodiversity Assessment: Status and Trends in Arctic Biodiversity. Scientific Report to Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), Arctic Council (accepted).

Jiménez-Mejías P, Luceño M, Lye KA, Brochmann C, Gussarova G. Genetically diverse but with surprisingly little geographical structure: the complex history of the widespread herb Carex nigra (Cyperaceae). Journal of Biogeography (accepted).

Demissew S, Brochmann C, Kelbessa E, Friis I, Nordal I, Nemomissa S, Woldemariam T, Bekele T, Asfaw Z, Woldu Z 2012. The Ethiopian Flora Project: a springboard to other projects. Symbolae Botanicae Upsalensis 35(2): 189-215.

Epp LS, Boessenkool S, Bellemain EP, Haile J, Esposito A, Riaz T, Erséus C, Gusarov V, Edwards ME, Johnsen A, Stenøien HK, Hassel K, Kauserud H, Yoccoz NG, Bråthen KA, Willerslev E, Taberlet P, *Coissac E, *Brochmann C (*joint senior authorship) 2012. New environmental metabarcodes for analysing soil DNA: potential for studying past and present ecosystems. Molecular Ecology 21: 1821–1833.

Geml J, Kauff F, Brochmann C, Lutzoni F, Laursen GA, Redhead SA, Taylor DL 2012. Frequent circumarctic and rare transequatorial dispersals in the lichenised agaric genus Lichenomphalia (Hygrophoraceae, Basidiomycota). Fungal Biology 116: 388-400.

Geml J, Timling I, Robinson CH, Lennon N, Nusbaum HC, Brochmann C, Noordeloos ME, Taylor DL 2012. An arctic community of symbiotic fungi assembled by long-distance dispersers: phylogenetic diversity of ectomycorrhizal basidiomycetes in Svalbard based on soil and sporocarp DNA. Journal of Biogeography 39: 74-88.

Gussarova G, Alsos IG, Brochmann C 2012. Annual plants colonizing the Arctic? Phylogeography and genetic variation in the Euphrasia minima complex (Orobanchaceae). Taxon 61: 146–160.

Ikeda H, Carlsen T, Fujii N, Brochmann C, Setoguchi H 2012. Pleistocene climatic oscillations and the speciation history of an alpine endemic and a widespread arctic-alpine plant. New Phytologist 194: 583–594.

Johnsen A, Carter KL, Delhey K, Lifjeld JT, Robertson RJ, Kempenaers B 2012. Laying-order effects on sperm numbers and on paternity: comparing three passerine birds with different life histories. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 66:181-190. doi: 10.1007/s00265-011-1265-4

Jørgensen T, Kjær KH, Haile J, Rasmussen M, Boessenkool S, Andersen K, Coissac E, Taberlet P, Brochmann C, Orlando L, Gilbert MTP, Willerslev E 2012. Islands in the ice: detecting past vegetation on Greenlandic nunataks using historical records and sedimentary ancient DNA meta-barcoding. Molecular Ecology 21: 1980–1988.

Jørgensen T, Haile J, Möller P, Andreev A, Boessenkool S, Rasmussen M, Kienast F, Coissac E, Taberlet P, Brochmann C, Bigelow NH, Andersen K, Orlando L, Gilbert MTP, Willerslev E 2012. A comparative study of ancient sedimentary DNA, pollen and macrofossils from permafrost sediments of northern Siberia reveals long-term vegetational stability. Molecular Ecology 21: 1989–2003.

Leclerc LME, Lydersen C, Haug T, Bachmann L, Fisk AT, Kovacs KM 2012. A missing piece in the Arctic food web puzzle? Stomach contents of Greenland sharks sampled in Svalbard, Norway. Polar Biology 35: 1197-1208.

Lifjeld JT, Laskemoen T, Kleven O, Pedersen ATM, Lampe HM, Rudolfsen, G, Schmoll, T, Slagsvold, T 2012. No Evidence for Pre-Copulatory Sexual Selection on Sperm Length in a Passerine Bird. PLoS ONE 7(2): e32611. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0032611

Lydersen C, Freitas C, Wiig Ø, Bachmann L, Heide-Jørgensen MP, Swift R, Kovacs KM 2012. Lost highway not forgotten: Satellite tracking of a bowhead whale (balaena mysticetus) from the critically endangered spitsbergen stock. Arctic Institute of North America. Vol65, No1 >Lydersen

Miettinen O, Larsson E, Sjökvist E, Larsson K-H 2012. Comprehensive taxon sampling reveals unaccounted diversity and morphological plasticity in a group of dimitic polypores (Polyporales, Basidiomycota). Cladistics 28: 251-270.

Miller W, Schuster SC, Welch AJ, Ratan A, Bedoya-Reina OC, Zhao F, Kim HL, Burhans RC, Drautz DI, Wittekindt NE, Tomsho LP, Ibarra-Laclette E, Herrera-Estrella L, Peacock E, Farley S, Sage GK, Rode K, Obbard M, Montiel R, Bachmann L, IngÛlfsson O, Aars J, Mailund T, Wiig O, Talbot SL, Lindqvist C 2012. Polar and brown bear genomes reveal ancient admixture and demographic footprints of past climate change. PNAS 36: 2382-2390. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1210506109

Moore SE, Stafford KM, Melling H, Berchok C, Wiig Ø, Kovacs KM, Lydersen C, Richter-Menge J 2012. Comparing marine mammal acoustic habitats in Atlantic and Pacific sectors of the High Arctic: year-long records from Fram Strait and the Chukchi Plateau. Polar Biology 35: 475-480. 

Muenzenberger B, Schneider B, Nilsson RH, Bubner B, Larsson KH, Huttle RF 2012. Morphology, anatomy, and molecular studies of the ectomycorrhiza formed axenically by the fungus Sistotrema sp. (Basidiomycota). Mycological Progress 11: 817-826.

Parducci L, Jørgensen T, Tollefsrud MM, Elverland E, Alm T, Fontana SL, Bennett KD, Haile J, Matetovici I, Suyama Y, Edwards ME, Andersen K, Rasmussen M, Boessenkool S, Coissac E, Brochmann C, Taberlet P, Houmark-Nielsen M, Larsen NK, Orlando L, Gilbert MTP, Kjær KH, Alsos IG, Willerslev E 2012. Glacial survival of boreal trees in northern Scandinavia. Science 335: 1083-1086.

Paziewska A, Harris PD, Zwolinska L, Sinski E 2012. Differences in the ecology of Bartonella infections of Apodemus flavicollis and Myodes glareolus in a boreal forest. Parasitology 139: 881-893.

Paziewska A, Sinski E, Harris PD 2012. Recombination, Diversity and Allele Sharing of Infectivity Proteins Between Bartonella Species from Rodents. Microbial Ecology 64: 525-536.

Pertoldi C, Sonne C, Wiig Ø, Baagoe HJ, Loeschcke V, Bechshoft TO 2012. East Greenland and Barents Sea polar bears (Ursus maritimus): adaptive variation between two populations using skull morphometrics as an indicator of environmental and genetic differences. Hereditas 149: 99-107. 

RamÌrez R, Harris PD, Bakke TA 2012. An agent-based modelling approach to estimate error in gyrodactylid population growth. International Journal for Parasitology 42: 809-817.

Piñeiro R, Popp M, Hassel K, Listl D, Westergaard KB, Flatberg KI, Stenøien HK, Brochmann C. Circumarctic dispersal and long-distance colonization of South America: the moss genus Cinclidium. Journal of Biogeography (accepted).

Rode KD, Peacock E, Taylor M, Stirling I, Born EW, Laidre KL, Wiig Ø 2012. A tale of two polar bear populations: ice habitat, harvest, and body condition. Population Ecology 54: 3-18. 

Sjökvist E, Larsson E, Eberhardt U, Rwarden L, Larsson K-H 2012. Stipitate steriod basidiocarps have evolved multiple times. Mycologia doi: 10.3852/11-174

Taberlet P, Coissac E, Pompanon F, Brochmann C, Willerslev E 2012. Towards next-generation biodiversity assessment using DNA metabarcoding. Molecular Ecology 21: 2045–2050.

Vrancken J, Brochmann C, Wesselingh RA 2012. A European phylogeography of Rhinanthus minor compared to Rhinanthus angustifolius: unexpected splits and signs of hybridization. Ecology and Evolution doi: 10.1002/ece3.276.

Wiig Ø, Heide-Jorgensen MP, Laidre KL, Garde E, Reeves RR 2012. Geographic variation in cranial morphology of narwhals (Monodon monoceros) from Greenland and the eastern Canadian. Arctic Polar Biology 35: 63-71.

Yoccoz NG, Bråthen KA, Gielly L, Haile J, Edwards ME, Goslar T, von Stedingk H, Brysting AK, Coissac E, Pompanon F, Sønstebø JH, Miquel C, Valentini A, de Bello F, Chave J, Thuiller W, Wincker P, Cruaud C, Gavory F, Rasmussen M, Gilbert MTP, Orlando L, *Brochmann C, *Willerslev E, *Taberlet P. (* joint senior authorship) 2012. DNA from soil mirrors plant taxonomic and growth form diversity. Molecular Ecology 21: 3647-3655 (with Perspective, Mol. Ecol. 21: 3637-3639).