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Overview

Per-Arne Amundsen is affiliated with the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with significant contributions in subfields such as Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Parasitology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics that characterize their work include:

  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Parasites and Host Interactions
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Rune Knudsen
  • Eirik H. Henriksen
  • Anders G. Finstad
  • Sebastian Prati
  • Miroslava Soldánová

Per-Arne Amundsen has published extensively in several scientific venues, with recurring publications in:

  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Scientific Reports
  • Freshwater Biology
  • Oikos
  • Journal of Animal Ecology

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Per-Arne Amundsen include:

  • Beyond ecological opportunity: Prey diversity rather than abundance shapes predator niche variation (2020, Freshwater Biology)
  • The effect of inter- and intraspecific competition on individual and population niche widths: a four-decade study on two interacting salmonids (2021, Oikos)
  • A synoptic history of the development, production and environmental oversight of hydropower in Brazil, Canada, and Norway (2021, Hydrobiologia)
  • Cercarial behaviour alters the consumer functional response of three-spined sticklebacks (2021, Journal of Animal Ecology)
  • Seasonal dietary shifts enhance parasite transmission to lake salmonids during ice cover (2020, Ecology and Evolution)

Best Publications

  • Atlantic salmon Salmo salar L., brown trout Salmo trutta L. and Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus (L.): a review of aspects of their life histories

    A. Klemetsen;P.-A. Amundsen;J. B. Dempson;B. Jonsson

  • A new approach to graphical analysis of feeding strategy from stomach contents data—modification of the Costello (1990) method

    P.-A. Amundsen;H.-M. Gabler;F. J. Staldvik

  • Heavy metal contamination in freshwater fish from the border region between Norway and Russia

    Per-Arne Amundsen;Frode J. Staldvik;Anatolij A. Lukin;Nikolai A. Kashulin

  • Parallel evolution of ecomorphological traits in the European whitefish Coregonus lavaretus (L.) species complex during postglacial times

    K. Østbye;P.‐A. Amundsen;L. Bernatchez;A. Klemetsen

  • Culling prey promotes predator recovery--alternative states in a whole-lake experiment.

    Lennart Persson;Lennart Persson;Lennart Persson;Per-Arne Amundsen;Per-Arne Amundsen;Per-Arne Amundsen;André M. De Roos;André M. De Roos;André M. De Roos;Anders Klemetsen;Anders Klemetsen;Anders Klemetsen

  • Competitive exclusion after invasion

    Thomas Bøhn;Per-Arne Amundsen;Ashley Sparrow

  • Feeding studies take guts - critical review and recommendations of methods for stomach contents analysis in fish.

    Per‐Arne Amundsen;Javier Sánchez‐Hernández

  • Rapidly changing life history during invasion

    Thomas Bøhn;Odd Terje Sandlund;Per‐Arne Amundsen;Raul Primicerio

  • Causes and consequences of ontogenetic dietary shifts: a global synthesis using fish models

    Javier Sanchez-Hernandez;Andy D Nunn;Colin Ean Adams;Per-Arne Amundsen

  • Food web topology and parasites in the pelagic zone of a subarctic lake

    Per-Arne Amundsen;Kevin D. Lafferty;Rune Knudsen;Raul Primicerio

  • THE COMPETITIVE EDGE OF AN INVADING SPECIALIST

    Thomas Bøhn;Per-Arne Amundsen

  • Intraspecific competition and density dependence of food consumption and growth in Arctic charr

    Per-Arne Amundsen;Rune Knudsen;Anders Klemetsen

  • Gill raker morphology and feeding ecology of two sympatric morphs of European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus)

    Per-Arne Amundsen;Thomas Bøhn;Gry H. Vaga

  • Ecological speciation in postglacial European whitefish: rapid adaptive radiations into the littoral, pelagic, and profundal lake habitats

    Kim Præbel;Rune Knudsen;Anna Siwertsson;Markku Karhunen

  • Incipient speciation through niche expansion: an example from the Arctic charr in a subarctic lake

    Rune Knudsen;Anders Klemetsen;Per-Arne Amundsen;Bjørn Hermansen

  • The role of gill raker number variability in adaptive radiation of coregonid fish

    Kimmo Kahilainen;Anna Siwertsson;Karl Øystein Gjelland;Rune Knudsen

  • Ontogenetic niche shifts and resource partitioning in a subarctic piscivore fish guild

    Per-Arne Amundsen;Thomas Bøhn;Olga A. Popova;Frode J. Staldvik

  • Sympatric diversification as influenced by ecological opportunity and historical contingency in a young species lineage of whitefish

    Anna Siwertsson;Rune Knudsen;Kimmo K. Kahilainen;Kim Præbel

  • Diversity and structure of Chironomidae (Diptera) communities along a gradient of heavy metal contamination in a subarctic watercourse.

    Seyed Karim Mousavi;Raul Primicerio;Per Arne Amundsen

  • Diet, gastric evacuation rates and food consumption in a stunted population of Arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus L., in Takvatn, northern Norway

    P. A. Amundsen;A. Klemetsen

  • A way forward with eco evo devo: an extended theory of resource polymorphism with postglacial fishes as model systems

    Skúli Skúlason;Kevin J. Parsons;Richard Svanbäck;Katja Räsänen

  • Parasites as prey in aquatic food webs: implications for predator infection and parasite transmission

    David W. Thieltges;Per-Arne Amundsen;Ryan F. Hechinger;Pieter T. J. Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Rune Knudsen
Rune Knudsen University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Anders Klemetsen
Anders Klemetsen University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Kimmo K. Kahilainen
Kimmo K. Kahilainen University of Helsinki
Kim Præbel
Kim Præbel University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Raul Primicerio
Raul Primicerio University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Colin E. Adams
Colin E. Adams University of Glasgow
Kevin D. Lafferty
Kevin D. Lafferty United States Geological Survey
Armand M. Kuris
Armand M. Kuris University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael Power
Michael Power University of Waterloo
Jason Newton
Jason Newton University of Glasgow

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