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Torkild Tveraa is affiliated with the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on ecology. Within this broad field, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as ecology, global and planetary change, general health professions, genetics, and management, monitoring, policy, and law.

Their scientific work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Indigenous Studies and Ecology
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

Tveraa has published research in several frequent venues, including:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Oecologia
  • Ecological Applications

Among recent papers featuring Tveraa's collaboration or contribution are:

  • The neglected season: Warmer autumns counteract harsher winters and promote population growth in Arctic reindeer, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • The rise of a marine generalist predator and the fall of beta diversity, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • End-user involvement to improve predictions and management of populations with complex dynamics and multiple drivers, 2020, Ecological Applications
  • Resource-driven colonization by cod in a high Arctic food web, 2020, Ecology and Evolution
  • When does weather synchronize life-history traits? Spatiotemporal patterns in juvenile body mass of two ungulates, 2020, Journal of Animal Ecology

The researcher frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Audun Stien
  • Nigel G. Yoccoz
  • Bram Van Moorter
  • Anna Skarin
  • Manuela Panzacchi

Best Publications

  • USING FIRST‐PASSAGE TIME IN THE ANALYSIS OF AREA‐RESTRICTED SEARCH AND HABITAT SELECTION

    P. E. R. Fauchald;Torkild Tveraa

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

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

  • Induced Shift in Ecosystem Productivity? Extensive Scale Effects of Abundant Large Herbivores

    Kari Anne Bråthen;Rolf A. Ims;Nigel G. Yoccoz;Per Fauchald

  • Public information affects breeding dispersal in a colonial bird: kittiwakes cue on neighbours

    Thierry Boulinier;Karen D McCoy;Nigel G Yoccoz;Julien Gasparini

  • Induced maternal response to the Lyme disease spirochaete Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in a colonial seabird, the kittiwake Rissa tridactyla

    Julien Gasparini;Karen D. McCoy;Claudy Haussy;Torkild Tveraa

  • Contrasting effects of summer and winter warming on body mass explain population dynamics in a food-limited Arctic herbivore.

    Steve D. Albon;R. Justin Irvine;Odd Halvorsen;Rolf Langvatn

  • Hierarchical patch dynamics and animal movement pattern

    Per Fauchald;Torkild Tveraa

  • What regulate and limit reindeer populations in Norway

    Torkild Tveraa;Per Fauchald;Nigel Gilles Yoccoz;Rolf Anker Ims

  • An examination of a compensatory relationship between food limitation and predation in semi-domestic reindeer

    Torkild Tveraa;Per Fauchald;Cathrine Henaug;Nigel G. Yoccoz

  • Experimental evidence of a risk-sensitive reproductive allocation in a long-lived mammal.

    Bård-Jørgen Bårdsen;Per Fauchald;Torkild Tveraa;Knut Langeland

  • Population densities, vegetation green-up, and plant productivity: impacts on reproductive success and juvenile body mass in reindeer.

    Torkild Tveraa;Audun Stien;Bård-J. Bårdsen;Per Fauchald

  • 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

  • Can Reindeer Overabundance Cause a Trophic Cascade

    Rolf A. Ims;Nigel G. Yoccoz;Kari Anne Bråthen;Per Fauchald

  • 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

  • Unconventional ventral attachment of time–depth recorders as a new method for investigating time budget and diving behaviour of seabirds

    Yann Tremblay;Yves Cherel;Marc Oremus;Torkild Tveraa

  • Wasp-waist interactions in the North Sea ecosystem.

    Per Fauchald;Henrik Skov;Mette Skern-Mauritzen;David Johns

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

    Kjell Einar Erikstad;Torkild Tveraa

  • Effects of egg size and parental quality on early nestling growth: An experiment with the Antarctic petrel

    Trond Amundsen;Svein-Hakon Lorentsen;Torkild Tveraa

  • Tracking prospecting movements involved in breeding habitat selection: insights, pitfalls and perspectives

    Aurore Ponchon;David Grémillet;David Grémillet;Blandine Doligez;Blandine Doligez;Thierry Chambert;Thierry Chambert

  • Density-dependence vs. density-independence - linking reproductive allocation to population abundance and vegetation greenness.

    Bård-Jørgen Bårdsen;Torkild Tveraa

  • Migration, prospecting, dispersal? What host movement matters for infectious agent circulation?

    Thierry Boulinier;Sarah Kada;Aurore Ponchon;Marlène Dupraz

Frequent Co-Authors

Audun Stien
Audun Stien University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Nigel G. Yoccoz
Nigel G. Yoccoz University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Kjell Einar Erikstad
Kjell Einar Erikstad Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Thierry Boulinier
Thierry Boulinier University of Montpellier
Rolf A. Ims
Rolf A. Ims University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Karen D. McCoy
Karen D. McCoy University of Montpellier
Øystein Varpe
Øystein Varpe University of Bergen
David Grémillet
David Grémillet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Steve D. Albon
Steve D. Albon James Hutton Institute
Janneche Utne Skaare
Janneche Utne Skaare Norwegian University of Life Sciences

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