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Øyvind Fiksen

Øyvind Fiksen

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
43
Citations
5711
World Ranking
5399
National Ranking
81

Overview

Øyvind Fiksen is affiliated with the University of Bergen in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with significant contributions to subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Oceanography, and Aquatic Science.

The scientist's work covers several main topics within environmental and marine sciences. These include:

  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
  • Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
  • Marine Ecology and Invasive Species

The publication record of Øyvind Fiksen includes papers published in various scientific journals. Notable recent papers are:

  • "Body size adaptions under climate change: zooplankton community more important than temperature or food abundance in model of a zooplanktivorous fish" (2020), Marine Ecology Progress Series
  • "Trade-offs between risks of predation and starvation in larvae make the shelf break an optimal spawning location for Atlantic bluefin tuna" (2021), Journal of Plankton Research
  • "Poleward distribution of mesopelagic fishes is constrained by seasonality in light" (2021), Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Atlantic bluefin tuna spawn early to avoid metabolic meltdown in larvae" (2021), Ecology
  • "Abundance of Pelagia noctiluca early life stages in the western Mediterranean Sea scales with surface chlorophyll" (2020), Marine Ecology Progress Series

Øyvind Fiksen has published most frequently in the following venues:

  • Marine Ecology Progress Series
  • Journal of Plankton Research
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Ecology

Collaborations are evident in their frequent co-authors, who have contributed multiple times to their body of work. These co-authors include:

  • Patricia Reglero
  • Diego Álvarez-Berastegui
  • Daniel Ottmann
  • Christian Jørgensen
  • Francisco Alemany

Best Publications

  • The logic of skipped spawning in fish

    Christian Jørgensen;Bruno Ernande;Øyvind Fiksen;Ulf Dieckmann

  • Linking behavioural ecology and oceanography: larval behaviour determines growth, mortality and dispersal

    Øyvind Fiksen;Christian Jørgensen;Trond Kristiansen;Frode Vikebø

  • Coastal water darkening and implications for mesopelagic regime shifts in Norwegian fjords

    Dag Lorents Aksnes;Nicolas Dupont;Arved Staby;Øyvind Fiksen

  • THE EVOLUTION OF SPAWNING MIGRATIONS: STATE DEPENDENCE AND FISHING-INDUCED CHANGES

    Christian Jørgensen;Erin S. Dunlop;Anders Frugård Opdal;Øyvind Fiksen

  • Drift, growth, and survival of larval Northeast Arctic cod with simple rules of behaviour

    Frode Vikebø;Christian Jørgensen;Trond Kristiansen;Øyvind Fiksen

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

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

  • Size-selective fishing gear and life history evolution in the Northeast Arctic cod

    Christian Jørgensen;Bruno Ernande;Øyvind Fiksen

  • 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

  • State-dependent Energy Allocation in Cod (Gadus Morhua)

    Christian Jørgensen;Øyvind Fiksen

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

    Øystein Varpe;Øyvind Fiksen;Aril Slotte

  • A model of optimal life history and diel vertical migration in Calanus finmarchicus

    Øyvind Fiksen;François Carlotti

  • The combined effect of transport and temperature on distribution and growth of larvae and pelagic juveniles of Arcto-Norwegian cod

    Frode Vikebø;Svein Sundby;Bjørn Ådlandsvik;Øyvind Fiksen

  • Vertical distribution and population dynamics of copepods by dynamic optimization

    Oyvind Fiksen

  • State‐dependent spawning migration in Norwegian spring‐spawning herring

    A. Slotte;Ø. Fiksen

  • Vertical salmon lice behaviour as a response to environmental conditions and its influence on regional dispersion in a fjord system

    Ingrid Askeland Johnsen;Øyvind Fiksen;Anne Dagrun Sandvik;Lars Asplin

  • The adaptive timing of diapause – a search for evolutionarily robust strategies in Calanus finmarchicus

    Ø. Fiksen

  • Modelling the influence of light, turbulence and ontogeny on ingestion rates in larval cod and herring

    Ø. Fiksen;A.C.W. Utne;D.L. Aksnes;K. Eiane

  • Trait-based models of nutrient uptake in microbes extend the Michaelis-Menten framework

    Øyvind Fiksen;Michael J. Follows;Dag L. Aksnes

  • Using an individual-based model for assessment of sea turtle population viability

    Antonios D. Mazaris;Øyvind Fiksen;Yiannis G. Matsinos

  • Visual predators, environmental variables and zooplankton mortality risk

    J. Giske;D. L. Aksnes;Ø. Fiksen

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Jorgensen
Christian Jorgensen University of Bergen
Dag L. Aksnes
Dag L. Aksnes University of Bergen
Arild Folkvord
Arild Folkvord University of Bergen
Øystein Varpe
Øystein Varpe University of Bergen
Jarl Giske
Jarl Giske University of Bergen
Ken Haste Andersen
Ken Haste Andersen Technical University of Denmark
Stein Kaartvedt
Stein Kaartvedt University of Oslo
Francisco Alemany
Francisco Alemany Spanish Institute of Oceanography
André W. Visser
André W. Visser Technical University of Denmark
Svein Sundby
Svein Sundby Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research

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