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Elisabeth Alve

Elisabeth Alve

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
38
Citations
7477
World Ranking
8545
National Ranking
107

Overview

Elisabeth Alve is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway. Their research primarily covers areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Oceanography, Paleontology, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their recent publications include studies on ecological and environmental conditions, with notable papers as follows:

  • Defining ecological reference conditions in naturally stressed environments - How difficult is it? (2020, Marine Environmental Research)
  • Monitoring environmental impacts of fish farms: Comparing reference conditions of sediment geochemistry and benthic foraminifera with the present (2020, Ecological Indicators)
  • Does the analysed size fraction of benthic foraminifera influence the ecological quality status and the interpretation of environmental conditions? Indications from two northern Norwegian fjords (2022, Ecological Indicators)
  • Assessing Environmental Quality in a Historically Polluted Fjord: A Comparison of Benthic Foraminiferal eDNA and Morphospecies Approaches (2024, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences)
  • Paleo Cruise 2018 (2020, The Nansen Legacy Report Series)

The scientist collaborates regularly with several colleagues across multiple projects. Frequent co-authors include Silvia Hess, Anouk T. Klootwijk, Paul E. Renaud, Jane K. Dolven, and Thorbjørn Joest Andersen.

Elisabeth Alve's research is published predominantly in venues such as Ecological Indicators, Marine Environmental Research, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, Progress In Oceanography, and Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science.

Core topics of their work encompass Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Marine and Environmental Studies, Arctic and Antarctic Ice Dynamics, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

Best Publications

  • BENTHIC FORAMINIFERAL RESPONSES TO ESTUARINE POLLUTION: A REVIEW

    Elisabeth Alve

  • The FOBIMO (FOraminiferal BIo-MOnitoring) initiative—Towards a standardised protocol for soft-bottom benthic foraminiferal monitoring studies

    Joachim Schönfeld;Elisabeth Alve;Emmanuelle Geslin;Frans Jorissen

  • Benthic foraminifera in sediment cores reflecting heavy metal pollution in Sorfjord, western Norway

    Elisabeth Alve

  • Vertical migratory response of benthic foraminifera to controlled oxygen concentrations in an experimental mesocosm

    E. Alve;J. M. Bernhard

  • Colonization of new habitats by benthic foraminifera : A review

    Elisabeth Alve

  • Marginal marine environments of the Skagerrak and Kattegat: a baseline study of living (stained) benthic foraminiferal ecology

    Elisabeth Alve;John W. Murray

  • Benthic foraminifera provide a promising tool for ecological quality assessment of marine waters

    Vincent M.P. Bouchet;Elisabeth Alve;Brage Rygg;Richard J. Telford

  • Natural dissolution of modern shallow water benthic foraminifera: taphonomic effects on the palaeoecological record

    John W. Murray;Elisabeth Alve

  • Benthic foraminiferal distribution and recolonization of formerly anoxic environments in Drammensfjord, southern Norway

    E. Alve

  • Propagule transport as a key method of dispersal in benthic foraminifera (Protista)

    Elisabeth Alve;Susan T. Goldstein

  • Survival, ATP pool, and ultrastructural characterization of benthic foraminifera from Drammensfjord (Norway): response to anoxia

    Joan M. Bernhard;Elisabeth Alve

  • MAJOR ASPECTS OF FORAMINIFERAL VARIABILITY (STANDING CROP AND BIOMASS) ON A MONTHLY SCALE IN AN INTERTIDAL ZONE

    John W. Murray;Elisabeth Alve

  • Dispersal, survival and delayed growth of benthic foraminiferal propagules

    Elisabeth Alve;Susan T. Goldstein

  • Foram-AMBI: A sensitivity index based on benthic foraminiferal faunas from North-East Atlantic and Arctic fjords, continental shelves and slopes

    Elisabeth Alve;Sergei Korsun;Joachim Schönfeld;Noortje Dijkstra

  • Ecology and taphonomy of benthic foraminifera in a temperate mesotidal inlet

    Elizabeth Alve;John w. Murray

  • TEMPORAL VARIABILITY IN VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF LIVE (STAINED) INTERTIDAL FORAMINIFERA, SOUTHERN ENGLAND

    Elisabeth Alve;John W. Murray

  • Monitoring strategies for re-establishment of ecological reference conditions: possibilities and limitations.

    Elisabeth Alve;Aivo Lepland;Jan Magnusson;Kristian Backer-Owe

  • Estuarine foraminiferal distribution in Sandebukta, a branch of the Oslo Fjord

    E. Alve;J. Nagy

  • Opportunistic features of the foraminifer Stainforthia fusiformis (Williamson): evidence from Frierfjord, Norway

    Elisabeth Alve

  • A common opportunistic foraminiferal species as an indicator of rapidly changing conditions in a range of environments

    Elisabeth Alve

  • Foraminifera, climatic change, and pollution: a study of late Holocene sediments in Drammensfiord, southeast Norway

    Elisabeth Alve

Frequent Co-Authors

John W. Murray
John W. Murray National Oceanography Centre
Katrine Husum
Katrine Husum Norwegian Polar Institute
Joan M. Bernhard
Joan M. Bernhard Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Richard J. Telford
Richard J. Telford University of Bergen
Joachim Schönfeld
Joachim Schönfeld GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Thorbjørn Joest Andersen
Thorbjørn Joest Andersen University of Copenhagen
Aivo Lepland
Aivo Lepland Tallinn University of Technology
Silvia Spezzaferri
Silvia Spezzaferri University of Fribourg
Frans Jorissen
Frans Jorissen University of Angers
Gijs D. Breedveld
Gijs D. Breedveld Norwegian Geotechnical Institute

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