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Do you need help during field- or labwork? Would you like to share your experience? bioSPIRE puts you in contact with younger students whom you help by giving valuable, practical experience in biology.
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Do you want to see a lot of colourful tropical fish? And also learn how to identify and measure them so we get reliable data on small-scale artisanal fisheries? Well, you’re in luck!… Read more →
Alpine grasslands harbour a vast biodiversity and contribute to the terrestrial carbon store. Climate change is predicted to cause shifts in plant community composition in alpine environments. These shifts are likely to also change the functioning of the belowground system and affect soil organisms as well as the interactions between the aboveground and belowground components of the ecosystem. We need to understand the effect of changed climate in order to protect the alpine grassland systems.… Read more →
To understand how alpine plants are affected by climate change we moved lower elevation species up into the mountain. Now we investigate the competitive effect of these lower elevation plants on alpine species. Do you want to help answer these questions by entering data for us?… Read more →
Global change affects populations, communities, and ecosystems across the world. Alpine plant communities are affected more because climate is changing more rapidly than elsewhere. Plant functional traits are a powerful approach to predict how plant communities will respond to warmer temperature, higher precipitation or change nitrogen addition in the future.… Read more →
There is a lot of missing data on insects in Norway. This data gap makes it hard to know how stable populations of pollinators actually are. In order to detect any possible decreases, we need to map species and monitor any changes in population densities and diversity. By joining this project, you will be contributing with exactly this, which is incredibly important work!… Read more →
Depositions of ammonia and nitrogen oxides have heavily increased since the mid 1900’s, and nitrogen additions in grasslands have shown to affect grass biomass, soil pH and nutrient availability. But how do these grasslands recover if nitrogen additions stop, and for how long does the added nitrogen stay in the systems?… Read more →
Would you like to learn how scientists measure and study growth in mesopelagic fish, a new and perhaps a valuable future food resource from the ocean? … Read more →
Do you want to fish guppies in experimental populations? Do you want to see how their life histories respond to fishing-induced selection? Do you want to get hands-on measuring fish and determining their sex and maturation stage?… Read more →
Do you want to learn a method for discriminating different herring populations? Here you have the possibility to learn and apply otolith shape analysis.… Read more →
Would you like to learn how to collect measurement data (weight/length) and dissect otoliths from juvenile cod in the way it is done in ecosystem surveys?… Read more →