Norwegian Institute for Water Research

Global origins of tuna and billfish fisheries reveal the transition from coastal access to oceanic exploitation

Ocean ecosystems have played a crucial role in people’s lives around the world for millennia. However, questions persist about when, why, and how people first began removing biomass from offshore habitats and established fisheries in distant, oceanic environments. We explore the...

eData: A tool and format for rapid extraction of exposure data from scientific articles

Abstract Extracting and formatting data is among the most tedious elements of assessing environmental chemical occurrence and exposure. We present a toolkit (eData) to streamline this process, generate FAIR data, and maximise traceability and transparency: a FAIR Data Reporting F...

Framing nature‐based solutions in Norwegian public media: A critical discourse analysis of public narratives

Abstract Nature‐based solutions (NbS) have become central to environmental governance. Yet, their societal legitimacy depends on how they are framed in public discourse. This study investigates how Norwegian media actors construct narratives around NbS, whose voices are amplified...

Quantifying temporal changes in the monetary value of forest cultural ecosystem services globally: a meta-analysis

Abstract The world’s forests, and the biodiversity they contain, provide multiple cultural ecosystem services that are essential to people’s well-being. However, interactions between people and forests evolve alongside broader societal and environmental change, raising questions...

Availability and representativeness of freshwater macroinvertebrate data to enable Europe-wide assessment of biodiversity trends

Freshwater ecosystems, though covering less than 1% of Earth's surface, harbor around 10% of all species. Pressures like pollution, water extraction, and habitat loss can exhibit complex interactions in their effects on freshwater biodiversity. Understanding the effects of these...

The Zooplankton International Geospatial dataset: A global repository of spatiotemporal freshwater zooplankton community composition data from lakes and reservoirs to support ecological research

Abstract Zooplankton transfer substantial energy in aquatic food webs and are used as indicators of environmental change. Syntheses of zooplankton community dynamics globally require datasets that span a wide range of environmental gradients; however, these datasets are limited d...