Seeds in a changing world
What kind of seeds to plants need to have to survive in the mountains in Norway?Does that change is snow depth or
length of snow cover? These are some of the things you can help figure out in this project. Read More …
Author: jonathans
Domestic grazing animals as landscape engineers: Effects on biodiversity and ecosystem service provisioning in Nordhordland
How does livestock management impact biodiversity, ecosystem functions and ecosystem services? How do different grazing regimes on summer dairy farms shape landscape heterogeneity and connectivity and how do they affect pollinator communities?
In this multidisciplinary project we investigate the relationships between human and nature in the scope of developing a sustainable management of land-use and natural resources in the Nordhordland Biosphere area – Norway’s only Biosphere Reserve in UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme. Join us if you want practical experience in common field- and lab-methods in applied ecology and to be a part of an ambitious and enthusiastic team! Read More …
Biomass sorting to investigate how alpine plants are affected by climate change
How do the interactions between alpine plants change when the climate changes? In this project we aim to answer this question, and you can be an important part of this process! Read More …
Otolith shape analysis to discriminate herring populations
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 …
Climate change impacts on alpine plants
What will happen when the alpine regions in Norway become warmer? What will happen to the existing alpine plants when new species from the lowlands colonize the mountains? Do you want to be a part of answering these questions, and do field work in beautiful mountain regions in Norway? Join us! Read More …
Illustrators needed for the ArtsApp-project!
Do you want experience in app-developing? We are looking for students that are good at drawing to help with simple illustrations for our species identification keys! Read More …
Mapping of salmon pathogens on wild salmonids in Trøndelag
Wild and farmed salmonids have co-existed along the Norwegian coast for about half a century. But how do pathogens found on farmed fish populations affect the stock of wild fish and vice versa? Read More …
Effects of supplemented water on mating behavior and reproductive success of female bean beetles, Callosobruchus maculatus.
The females of species Callosobruchus maculatus, bean beetles, are polyandrous, which receives nuptial gifts from males during the copulations. In this project you will handle the bean beetles at close up and follow them through their life cycle to observe the effects of supplemented water on mating behaviour and reproductive success of female bean beetles. Read More …
Indirect effects of climate change on alpine plant communities.
What will happen when the alpine regions in Norway become warmer? What will happen to the existing alpine plants when new species from the lowlands colonize the mountains? Do you want to be a part of answering these questions, and do field work in beautiful mountain regions in Norway? Join us! Project description INCLINE is Read More …
Guri Brandal
Vi har kost oss masse på lab med biospire! Det har vært spennende å få være med og gjøre noe utenom pensum (men fortsatt relevant til pensum!), der vi ikke føler karakterpresset mens vi lærer. Christel har vært kjempegrei og hjulpet oss og vist oss spennende litteratur om faget. Vi har også fått sett nærmere Read More …
Ingrid Katrine Kregnes – project #6
Jeg har hatt det helt supert under dette prosjektet. Det har vært veldig gøy og lærerikt, og tiden har flydd. Jeg vil definitivt anbefale andre å bli med på det samme prosjektet, og vil anbefale alle å bruke biospire til å finne andre type prosjekter. Jeg er veldig glad jeg ble med på prosjektet, da Read More …
Sofie Gjærløw – project #6
Jeg syns det har vært morsomt og lærerikt! Likte spesielt godt at professorer og forskere kom inn og viste oss bilder og lærte oss forskjellige ting. Har visst i mange år at jeg vil bli marinbiolog så syns dette var en fin erfaring. Jeg vil anbefale biospire til andre jeg studerer med, og vil gjerne Read More …
Frøpredasjon: Feltarbeid i fjellene på Vestlandet!
Hva skjer med økosystemet i alpine strøk når det blir varmere og våtere? Klimaendringene påvirker samspillet mellom arter både direkte og indirekte, deriblant trofiske interaksjoner mellom dyr som fugler, gnagere og insekter, og planter. Hvordan kan vi ved undersøkelser av frøpredasjon få en bedre forståelse for disse komplekse samspillene? Sett av en uke i sommer til å undersøke Read More …
Jon Tomas Magnusson – project #5
I’m a student from Barcelona staying in Bergen for a year and working on a bioSPIRE project has been one of the highlights of my Erasmus+ experience. It has given me the opportunity to work in an area of biology which I’ve never worked on before, studying sponge biodiversity and measuring spicules. I would recommend anyone that has Read More …
Length/weight measurements and otolith dissection from juvenile cod.
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 …