Open-Source Marine Biodiversity Data Quality in the Norwegian Sea Spanning 149 Years: Knowledge Gaps in the Deep-Sea Mining Opening Area.

This work identifies spatial-temporal patterns of marine species biodiversity in the Norwegian, Greenland and Barents Seas and provides specific information in Norway for Environmental Impact Assessments and Statements about area-based indices for biodiversity. The opening of the Norwegian Extended Continental Shelf for deep-sea mining is a currently relevant topic for environmental management, as strategies to minimize mining impacts and delimit key zones for ecological preservation have been widely advised. A quality control procedure covering temporal and spatial scales on open-source biodiversity data was applied, including the compilation of marine species from the archives of the Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition 1876-1878.

Modelling temperature-driven changes in species associations across freshwater communities.

Due to global climate change-induced shifts in species distributions, estimating changes in community composition through the use of Species Distribution Models has become a key management tool. Being able to determine how species associations change along environmental gradients is likely to be pivotal in exploring the magnitude of future changes in species' distributions. This is particularly important in connectivity-limited ecosystems, such as freshwater ecosystems, where increased human translocation is creating species associations over previously unseen environmental gradients.