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Kjell Einar Erikstad is affiliated with the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Norway. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecological Modeling, and Genetics.

The scientist's work involves key topics such as Avian ecology and behavior, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Marine animal studies overview, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Mercury impact and mitigation studies, Climate variability and models, and Marine and fisheries research.

Kjell Einar Erikstad has contributed to various publications, including several papers noted for their relevance and citation counts. Some recent papers include:

  • Mercury contamination and potential health risks to Arctic seabirds and shorebirds, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Connecting the data landscape of long-term ecological studies: The SPI-Birds data hub, 2020, Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Hemispheric asymmetry in ocean change and the productivity of ecosystem sentinels, 2021, Science
  • North Atlantic winter cyclones starve seabirds, 2021, Current Biology
  • Seasonal variation of mercury contamination in Arctic seabirds: A pan-Arctic assessment, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Kjell Einar Erikstad include Sébastien Descamps, Tycho Anker-Nilssen, Þorkell Lindberg Þórarinsson, Francis Daunt, and Tone K. Reiertsen.

The scientist's work appears regularly in several publication venues, with notable frequency in the Journal of Animal Ecology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), The Science of The Total Environment, Current Biology, and Global Change Biology.

Best Publications

  • Cost of reproduction in a long-lived bird: incubation effort reduces immune function and future reproduction.

    Sveinn Are Hanssen;Dennis Hasselquist;Ivar Folstad;Kjell Einar Erikstad

  • SCALE-DEPENDENT PREDATOR–PREY INTERACTIONS: THE HIERARCHICAL SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF SEABIRDS AND PREY

    Per Fauchald;Kjell Einar Erikstad;Hege Skarsfjord

  • ON THE COST OF REPRODUCTION IN LONG-LIVED BIRDS: THE INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY

    Kjell Einar Erikstad;Per Fauchald;Torkild Tveraa;Harald Steen

  • The effect of climate on adult survival in five species of North Atlantic seabirds

    Hanno Sandvik;Kjell Einar Erikstad;Robert T. Barrett;Nigel G. Yoccoz

  • Costs of immunity: immune responsiveness reduces survival in a vertebrate

    Sveinn Are Hanssen;Dennis Hasselquist;Ivar Folstad;Kjell Einar Erikstad;Kjell Einar Erikstad

  • Evolutionary signals of selection on cognition from the great tit genome and methylome

    Veronika N. Laine;Toni I. Gossmann;Kyle M. Schachtschneider;Kyle M. Schachtschneider;Colin J. Garroway

  • ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ORGANOCHLORINE POLLUTANTS IN THE ARCTIC: A STUDY OF THE GLAUCOUS GULL

    Jan Ove Bustnes;Kjell Einar Erikstad;Janneche Utne Skaare;Vidar Bakken

  • Effect of wintering area and climate on the survival of adult Atlantic puffins Fratercula arctica in the eastern Atlantic

    Michael P. Harris;Tycho Anker-Nilssen;Robin H. McCleery;Kjell Einar Erikstad

  • An Experimental Study of the Costs of Reproduction in the Kittiwake Rissa Tridactyla

    Karl-Otto Jacobsen;Kjell Einar Erikstad;Bernt-Erik Saether

  • Scale-dependent predator-prey interactions: the aggregative response of seabirds to prey under variable prey abundance and patchiness

    Per Fauchald;Kjell Einar Erikstad

  • Clutch-Size Determination in Precocial Birds: A Study of the Common Eider

    Kjell Einar Erikstad;Jan Ove Bustnes;Truls Moum

  • Parental care in the common eider (Somateria mollissima): factors affecting abandonment and adoption of young

    Jan O. Bustnes;Kjell E. Erikstad

  • Adjustment of parental effort in the puffin; the roles of adult body condition and chick size

    K. E. Erikstad;M. Asheim;P. Fauchald;L. Dahlhaug

  • Patterns of incubation and nest‐site attentiveness in relation to organochlorine (PCB) contamination in glaucous gulls

    J.O. Bustnes;V. Bakken;K.E. Erikstad;F. Mehlum

  • Immune function and organochlorine pollutants in arctic breeding glaucous gulls

    JO Bustnes;SA Hanssen;I Folstad;KE Erikstad

  • Regulation of food provisioning in the Antarctic petrel; the importance of parental body condition and chick body mass

    Torkild Tveraa;Bernt‐Erik Sether;Ronny Aanes;Kjell Einar Erikstad

  • Ocean-wide Drivers of Migration Strategies and Their Influence on Population Breeding Performance in a Declining Seabird.

    Annette L. Fayet;Robin Freeman;Tycho Anker-Nilssen;Antony Diamond

  • Size selection of common mussels, Mytilus edulis, by common eiders, Somateria mollissima: energy maximization or shell weight minimization?

    Jan Ove Bustnes;Kjell Einar Erikstad

  • Global phenological insensitivity to shifting ocean temperatures among seabirds

    Katharine Keogan;Francis Daunt;Sarah Wanless;Richard A. Phillips

  • Mercury contamination and potential health risks to Arctic seabirds and shorebirds.

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  • Does the cost of incubation set limits to clutch size in common eiders Somateria mollissima

    Kjell Einar Erikstad;Torkild Tveraa

  • Reduced immunocompetence and cost of reproduction in common eiders

    Sveinn Are Hanssen;Ivar Folstad;Kjell Einar Erikstad

Frequent Co-Authors

Hallvard Strøm
Hallvard Strøm Norwegian Polar Institute
Tycho Anker-Nilssen
Tycho Anker-Nilssen Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Torkild Tveraa
Torkild Tveraa Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
David Grémillet
David Grémillet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Sébastien Descamps
Sébastien Descamps Norwegian Polar Institute
Nigel G. Yoccoz
Nigel G. Yoccoz University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Ivar Folstad
Ivar Folstad University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Veerle L.B. Jaspers
Veerle L.B. Jaspers Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Dorte Herzke
Dorte Herzke Norwegian Institute for Air Research
Janneche Utne Skaare
Janneche Utne Skaare Norwegian University of Life Sciences

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