Natural History Museum

• Research
  • National Centre for Biosystematics (NCB)
  • Norwegian center for paleontology
  • Mineralogy
  • National Center for Insect Biodiversity
  • Research groups
  • Research projects
  • The Freshwater Ecology & Inland Fisheries Laboratory (LFI)
  • ForBio Research School
  • Researching the Arctic
  • Research infrastructure

Research projects

• A
  • AFROALP II - Afro-alpine 'sky islands': genetic versus taxonomic biodiversity, climate change, and conservation
  • ARKO: Areas for red-listed species - survey and monitoring

• B
  • BarFrost – Reconstruction of past ecosystems by barcoding DNA preserved in permafrost
  • BearHealth - Health effects of persistent organic pollutants in polar bears
  • Biodiversity and humans in a fragmented world: towards a sound conservation program for the Pare Mountains

• C
  • Conodonts from the Carboniferous and Permian of Svalbard
  • Conservation-genetics of Staurolemma omphalarioides
  • Cryptic Speciation in Arctic Plants

• D
  • Diversity mapping of Norwegian gyrodactylid flatworms – mining natural history collections

• E
  • ECOCHANGE - Challenges in assessing and forecasting biodiversity and ecosystem changes in Europe
  • Evolutionary history and phylogeny of the genus Scadoxus (Amaryllidaceae) and its adaption to changing environment

• F
  • Filling the blanks: a quest for overlooked Norwegian species in poorly known insect taxa: Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae
  • Four species in Cyperaceae with disjunct distribution South Norway to South Africa – a comparative analysis. A pilot project

• G
  • Genetic and environmental factors influencing pathogenisity in the interaction between Gyrodactylus salaris and its salmonid host
  • Geographic variation in cranial morphology of narwhals from Greenland and the Eastern Canadian Arctic

• H
  • Habitat fragmentation and pathways to extinction in dead-wood dependent fungi

• I
  • Individual and comparative phylogeographies of disjunctly distributed arctic-alpine plant species

• J
  • Jurassic Plesiosaurs and Ichthyosaurs of Svalbard

• L
  • Lamioid mints

• M
  • MHC genes in passerine birds – diversity and evolution
  • Microsatellite markers – mutations and diversity
  • Molecular identification of fungi
  • Molecular phylogeny of the staphylinid beetle tribe Athetini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)
  • Molecular phylogeny of the staphylinid beetle tribe Oxypodini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)

• N
  • NatTOv – elaboration of an academic foundation for intensive naturetype surveying
  • Nature types in Norway (NiN)
  • Norwegian Insect Red Lists 2010 and 2015: optimizing the use of species occurrence data for objective evaluation of endangered status

• O
  • Ordovician trilobites

• P
  • Paleontological data analysis and modelling
  • Phylogeny and systematics of higher basidiomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
  • Phylogeny, biogeography and generic delimitation of the genera Anthericum and Chlorophytum
  • Prediction modelling: A reliable tool for evaluating the status of Norwegian Red listed insects?

• R
  • Radiolarians

• S
  • SURV-ICE – Did vascular plants and bryophytes survive the last ice age in Scandinavia?
  • Scales of variation in vascular plant distribution
  • Searching for the roots of the arctic flora: biogeographic connections to the Himalayas
  • Sexual selection, genetic differentiation and reproductive isolation in birds
  • Sixty million years old mammal tracks from Svalbard
  • Speciation in aquatic insects
  • Species-delimitation in selected species-groups of Cortinarius
  • Sperm, speciation and promiscuity - an integrated analysis of evolution in passerine birds
  • Status, genetic diversity and stock identity of Spitsbergen bowhead whales
  • Systematic descriptions of bryozoans from the Carboniferous, Permian and Triassic in the Arctic

• T
  • The Laptev Sea walrus: an enigma revisited
  • Thelephorales in Norway
  • Triassic amphibians from Svalbard

• U
  • Understanding genetic diversity in birds using MHC genes and a hypermutable microsatellite as model systems
  • Upper Jurassic methane seeps from Svalbard (Spitsbergen, inner Isfjorden area)
  • Upper Paleozoic material from Novaya Zemlya, sedimentological, paleontological and petroleum related studies

• W
  • Wood-inhabiting corticioid homo- and heterobasidiomycetes in Norway: new species and new distribution patterns revealed by fruitbody surveys and molecular screening

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