Her finner du en oversikt over noen av de PhD og MSc oppgavene som er blitt til ved hjelp av COAT data og infrastruktur siden 2015

• Hyronimus Bernardus Tabor Noteboom (2024): Grazed vs the Ungrazed: Herbivory Effects on Leaf Nutrient Content and Chemical Defense. Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT.
• Maria Huntsaar (2024): To keep or not to keep track of time in eternal sunshine? Diel activity patterns of Svalbard arthropods during polar day. Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT.
• Guro Hedemann Aalstad (2024): Growth responses of seedlings along encroachment gradients of the allelopathic plant Empetrum nigrum. Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT.
• Robin Andrik Satter (2024): Arctic Shrub Expansion: Implications for Stream Benthic Invertebrate Community Structure & Function. Master thesis in Biology, Freshwater Ecolgy Gruop, UiT.

2023:

• Giacomo Carlsen (2023): Distribution, Age and Growth Dynamics of Scots Pine Recruits on Its Northern Distributional Limit in Norway. Master thesis in Biology, NMBU.
• Lars Mikkjel Hus Kråkenes (2023): Recruitment of Scots pine Pinus Sylvestris L. beyond the edge of its current distribution range in the forest-tundra ecotone of northern Norway. Master thesis in Biology, NMBU.
• Bror Mathias Bonde (2023): Aggregative response in white-tailed eagles- an initial study of the terrestrial implications of invasive Pacific pink salmons (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) in northern Norway. Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT.
• Kos Jack Johan Pepels (2023): Does crypsis influence foraging patterns in a colour polymorphic Arctic fox population? Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT.

2022:

• Eivind Flittie Kleiven (2022): Population cycles in small rodents seen through the lens of a wildlife camera. PhD thesis in Biology, UiT.
• Pedro Da Silva Nicolau (2022): Boreal rodents fluctuating in space and time: Tying the observation process to the modeling of seasonal population dynamics. PhD thesis in Biology, UiT.
• Isabell Eischeid (2022): Tundra vegetation ecology from the sky - Aerial images and photogrammetry as tools to monitor landscape change. PhD thesis in Biology, UiT.
• Anna Caroline Grimsby (2022): Spatiotemporal distribution and co-occurrence of Arctic herbivores in spring. Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT.
• Hildur Søndergaard Holm (2022): Effect of simulated disturbance by geese on soil temperature and active layer thickness over one growing season. Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT.
• Daniel Johan Krogh (2022): Changes in environment cause dietary shifts in the Svalbard Arctic fox: A stable isotope study. Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT.

2021:

• Liv Monica Trondrud (2021): Energetics in seasonal environments: reindeer as a case study. PhD thesis in Biology, NMBU.

2020:

• Dag Alexander Hultgren Olsen (2020): Do the predators of Yamal have a learning effect of artificial nests? Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT.
• Karoline Helene Aares (2020): Homesick plants - a study on Plant-soil feedback in home and foreign soil following a latitudinal sampling gradient from Morocco to Svalbard. Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT.
• Filippo Marolla (2020): Understanding and forecasting population dynamics in changing arctic ecosystems. PhD thesis in Biology, UiT.

• Marine Lizy (2020): The effects of changes in snow structures on the population of tundra voles (Microtus oeconomus). Bachelor oppgave Nordlige populasjoner og økosystemer, UiT.

• Matteo Petit Bon (2020): Short-term tundra plant-community nutrient responses to herbivory and warming: New insights from Near infrared-reflectance spectroscopy methodology. PhD thesis in Biology, UiT/UNIS
• Jonas Mölle (2020): Using subnivean cameras to compare winter habitat occupancy of lemmings and voles in an arctic small rodent community.  Master's Thesis Environmental Management,  University of Kiel

2019:

• Christian Stolz (2019): The nestling diet of Svalbard snow buntings identified by DNA metabarcoding. Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT.
• Mathilde Le Moullec (2019): Spatiotemporal variation in abundance of key tundra species: from local heterogeneity to large-scale synchrony. PhD thesis in Biology, Department of Biology, NTNU

• Mathilde Heas (2019) Nitrogen variability in plant leaves across four different scales. Bachelor oppgave Nordlige populasjoner og økosystemer, UiT.

2018:

• Clémence Koren (2018): Estimating population trends of a riparian bird community in low-Arctic tundra. Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT
• Jack Ethan Ball (2018): Evaluating the use of biotic interactions in species distribution models.Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT
• Zina Asnah Kebir (2018): Corvids response to fluctuating abundance of resources in tundra ecosystems. Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT
• Ingrid Marie Garfelt Paulsen (2018): Calving site characteristics and habitat use in Svalbard reindeer. Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT

• Prune Maguerite Lacote (2018) Application of NIRS (Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy) To Quantify Fungal Endophytes in Grasses. Bachelor oppgave Nordlige populasjoner og økosystemer, UiT. (For full-text PDF ta kontakt med Leif Einar Støvern)

2017:

• Ragnhild Bjørkås (2017): Spatio-temporal dynamics in breeding occurrence of passerine birds in subarctic birch forest. Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT
• Petter Bernhard Carlsen (2017): Five-year numerical response of saproxylic beetles following a dead wood pulse left by moth outbreaks in northern Scandinavia. Master thesis in biology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, NMBU
• Jacob Robinson (2017): Initial Community Convergence on Plant Defense Syndromes Explains Community Responses to Herbivore Exclosures. Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT
• Kristine Slettum Skarphol (2017): IVAARNATUR:urbanEcoObservatory. Diplomoppgave, Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo (NB! Stor fil)
• Erik Schmidt Lindgaard (2017): An assessment of three survey methods on common bird species in low Arctic tundra.Comparing line transect distance sampling, repeated point counts and double observer point counts. Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT

2016:

• Fanny Caroline Aurelie Delaye (2016): An assessment of survey methods to estimate spring density of two ptarmigan species in arctic Norway. Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT
• Anthine Moen (2016): Shared predation and its impact on two sympatric rodent species. Adding to nature’s complexity. Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT
• Anthine Moen (2016): Shared predation and its impact on two sympatric rodent species. Adding to nature’s complexity. Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT
• Marita Anti Strømeng (2016): An assessment of survey methods to estimate spring density of two ptarmigan species in arctic Norway. Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT
• Katarina Inga (2016): Herbivores modify palatability of Silica–rich grasses. Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems
• Anna Katharina Pilsbacher (2016): Effects of Empetrum nigrum chemical interference on plant development. Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT
• Trond Elling Barstad (2016): Seasonal adaptation, phenology and survival in gall-inducing sawflies (Tenthredinidae: Nematinae: Pontania). PhD thesis in Biology, UiT.

2015:

• Ole Petter Laksforsmo Vindstad (2015): Cyclically outbreaking geometrid moths in sub-arctic mountain birch forest: the organization and impacts of their interactions with animal communities. PhD thesis in Biology, UiT.
• Eivind Flittie Kleiven (2015): Predictive state-space modelling of lemming population outbreaks on the Fennoscandian tundra: Are determinants of spatial variation in outbreak amplitude temporally consistent? Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT
• Jon Kristian Anda (2015): Factors affecting presence and diet of red foxes and birds of prey. A large scale study in Finnmark. Master thesis in Biology, Northern Populations and Ecosystems, UiT

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