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Øystein Varpe

Øystein Varpe

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
43
Citations
6832
World Ranking
5335
National Ranking
78

Overview

Øystein Varpe is affiliated with the University of Bergen in Norway. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, focusing particularly on ecology, oceanography, and global changes affecting marine environments.

Their work often addresses themes in ecology, global and planetary change, oceanography, atmospheric science, and nature and landscape conservation. Specific topics of interest include marine and fisheries research, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, marine and coastal ecosystems, isotope analysis in ecology, fish ecology and management studies, marine animal studies, and avian ecology and behavior.

Varpe's recent publications include:

  • Two hundred years of zooplankton vertical migration research, 2021, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Strengthening the evidence base for temperature-mediated phenological asynchrony and its impacts, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Distribution and ecology of polar cod (Boreogadus saida) in the eastern Barents Sea: A review of historical literature, 2021, Marine Environmental Research
  • A marine zooplankton community vertically structured by light across diel to interannual timescales, 2021, Biology Letters
  • Strong and regionally distinct links between ice-retreat timing and phytoplankton production in the Arctic Ocean, 2021, Limnology and Oceanography

They frequently publish in venues such as Marine Ecology Progress Series, Polar Biology, Limnology and Oceanography, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Ecological Modelling.

Among their frequent co-authors are Kanchana Bandara, Vigdis Tverberg, Ketil Eiane, Rubao Ji, and Johanna M. Aarflot.

Best Publications

  • Fishing-induced evolution of growth: concepts, mechanisms and the empirical evidence

    Katja Enberg;Christian Jørgensen;Erin S. Dunlop;Erin S. Dunlop;Øystein Varpe;Øystein Varpe;Øystein Varpe

  • Warmer and wetter winters: characteristics and implications of an extreme weather event in the High Arctic

    Brage Bremset Hansen;Ketil Isaksen;Rasmus E. Benestad;Jack Kohler

  • The importance of tidewater glaciers for marine mammals and seabirds in Svalbard, Norway

    Christian Lydersen;Philipp Assmy;Stig Falk-Petersen;Jack Kohler

  • Life history adaptations to seasonality

    Øystein Heggernes Varpe

  • In the dark: A review of ecosystem processes during the Arctic polar night

    Jørgen Berge;Paul E. Renaud;Gerald Darnis;Finlo Cottier

  • Sea ice phenology and timing of primary production pulses in the Arctic Ocean

    Rubao Ji;Meibing Jin;Øystein Varpe

  • Diel vertical migration of Arctic zooplankton during the polar night

    Jørgen Berge;Finlo Cottier;Øystein Varpe

  • Timing of reproductive events in the marine copepod Calanus glacialis: a pan-Arctic perspective

    Malin Daase;Stig Falk-Petersen;Stig Falk-Petersen;Øystein Varpe;Øystein Varpe;Gerald Darnis

  • Two hundred years of zooplankton vertical migration research

    Kanchana Bandara;Øystein Varpe;Lishani Wijewardene;Vigdis Tverberg

  • Is the poleward expansion by Atlantic cod and haddock threatening native polar cod, Boreogadus saida?

    Paul E. Renaud;Jørgen Berge;Øystein Varpe;Øystein Varpe;Ole Jørgen Lønne

  • Unexpected Levels of Biological Activity during the Polar Night Offer New Perspectives on a Warming Arctic.

    Jørgen Berge;Malin Daase;Paul E. Renaud;William G. Ambrose

  • The adaptive value of energy storage and capital breeding in seasonal environments

    Øystein Varpe;Christian Jørgensen;Geraint A. Tarling;Øyvind Fiksen

  • Rapid climate‐driven loss of breeding habitat for Arctic migratory birds

    Hannah S. Wauchope;Justine D. Shaw;Øystein Varpe;Elena G. Lappo

  • Early is better: seasonal egg fitness and timing of reproduction in a zooplankton life‐history model

    Øystein Varpe;Christian Jørgensen;Geraint A. Tarling;Øyvind Fiksen

  • Meta-ecosystems and biological energy transport from ocean to coast: the ecological importance of herring migration

    Øystein Varpe;Øyvind Fiksen;Aril Slotte

  • Understanding Evolutionary Impacts of Seasonality: An Introduction to the Symposium.

    Caroline M Williams;Gregory J Ragland;Gustavo Betini;Lauren B Buckley

  • Fitness and phenology: annual routines and zooplankton adaptations to seasonal cycles

    Øystein Varpe

  • Strengthening the evidence base for temperature-mediated phenological asynchrony and its impacts

    Jelmer M. Samplonius;Angus Atkinson;Christopher Hassall;Katharine Keogan;Katharine Keogan

  • Potential misidentifications of two climate indicator species of the marine arctic ecosystem: Calanus glacialis and C. finmarchicus

    Tove M Gabrielsen;Benjamin Merkel;Janne Søreide;Emma Johansson-Karlsson

  • Seasonal plankton-fish interactions: light regime, prey phenology, and herring foraging.

    Øystein Varpe;Øystein Varpe;Øyvind Fiksen

  • Non-consumptive mortality in copepods: occurrence of Calanus spp. carcasses in the Arctic Ocean during winter

    Malin Daase;Øystein Varpe;Stig Falk-Petersen;Stig Falk-Petersen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jørgen Berge
Jørgen Berge University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Stig Falk-Petersen
Stig Falk-Petersen University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Sébastien Descamps
Sébastien Descamps Norwegian Polar Institute
Yan Ropert-Coudert
Yan Ropert-Coudert Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Akiko Kato
Akiko Kato University of La Rochelle
Janne E. Søreide
Janne E. Søreide University Centre in Svalbard
Geir Johnsen
Geir Johnsen Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Paul E. Renaud
Paul E. Renaud University Centre in Svalbard
Finlo Cottier
Finlo Cottier Scottish Association For Marine Science
Yves Cherel
Yves Cherel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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