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List of works by Leif Asbjørn Vøllestad

A call for global action to conserve native trout in the 21st century and beyond

scientific article published on 21 February 2020

A century of life-history evolution in grayling

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

A critical review of adaptive genetic variation in Atlantic salmon: implications for conservation.

scientific article published on May 2007

Adaptation and constraint in a stickleback radiation

scientific article published in October 2013

Age of European silver eels during a period of declining abundance in Norway

scientific article published on 12 April 2020

Allometric relationships in morphological traits associated with foraging, swimming ability, and predator defense reveal adaptations toward brackish and freshwater environments in the threespine stickleback

scientific article published on 29 October 2020

Antagonistic selection from predators and pathogens alters food-web structure

scholarly article

Assessing the consequences of habitat fragmentation for two migratory salmonid fishes

Basin-scale phenology and effects of climate variability on global timing of initial seaward migration of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar).

scientific article

Biotic and abiotic effects on cohort size distributions in fish

scientific article published in 2012

Body downsizing caused by non-consumptive social stress severely depresses population growth rate

scientific article published on 18 November 2009

Changes in selection and evolutionary responses in migratory brown trout following the construction of a fish ladder

scientific article

Circumpolar phylogeography of the northern pike (Esox lucius) and its relationship to the Amur pike (E. reichertii)

scientific article published in 2014

Community-level consequences of cannibalism

scientific article published on 25 October 2012

Contemporary divergence in early life history in grayling (Thymallus thymallus).

scientific article

Contemporary isolation-by-distance, but not isolation-by-time, among demes of European Grayling (Thymallus thymallus, Linnaeus) with recent common ancestors.

scientific article published in February 2009

Contemporary ocean warming and freshwater conditions are related to later sea age at maturity in Atlantic salmon spawning in Norwegian rivers

scientific article

Contemporary temperature-driven divergence in a Nordic freshwater fish under conditions commonly thought to hinder adaptation

scientific article

Cross-species amplification of 36 cyprinid microsatellite loci in Phoxinus phoxinus (L.) and Scardinius erythrophthalmus (L.).

scientific article published on 14 December 2009

Cytosine methylation patterns suggest a role of methylation in plastic and adaptive responses to temperature in European grayling (Thymallus thymallus) populations

scientific article published on 13 July 2020

DENSITY DEPENDENCE AND DENSITY INDEPENDENCE IN THE DEMOGRAPHY AND DISPERSAL OF PIKE OVER FOUR DECADES

scholarly article by Thrond O. Haugen et al published November 2007 in Ecological Monographs

Density-dependent consequences of size-selective induced life-history changes to population fitness in medaka (<i>Oryzias latipes</i>)

scientific article published on 19 July 2020

Developmental instability in grayling (Thymallus thymallus) exposed to methylmercury during embryogenesis

Dimensionless numbers and life history variation in Brown Trout

Disentangling local from macroenvironmental effects: quantifying the effect of human encroachments based on historical river catches of anadromous salmonids

Divergent trends in anadromous salmonid populations in Norwegian and Scottish rivers

scientific article published in March 2009

Ecological ramifications of adaptation to size-selective mortality

scientific article published on 06 October 2021

Effect of Growth Rate on Age at Metamorphosis of the European EelAnguilla anguilla

Effects of Freshwater and Marine Growth Rates on Early Maturity in Male Coho and Chinook Salmon

Effects of aqueous aluminium on four fish ectoparasites

scientific article published on 14 August 2006

Effects of climate change on trait-based dynamics of a top predator in freshwater ecosystems

scientific article

Effects of size- and sex-selective harvesting: An integral projection model approach

scientific article published on 29 October 2019

Erratum to: Population-level variation in juvenile brown trout growth from different climatic regions of Norway to an experimental thermal gradient

scholarly article published in Environmental Biology of Fishes

Estimating cause- and size- specific mortality hazard rates using mark-recapture-recovery data

scientific article published on 8 February 2019

Evolution of the life history of Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus

article published in 1994

Fitness consequences of early life conditions and maternal size effects in a freshwater top predator

scientific article published on 19 January 2016

Fitness, developmental instability, and the ontogeny of fluctuating asymmetry in Daphnia magna

Four decades of opposing natural and human-induced artificial selection acting on Windermere pike (Esox lucius).

scientific article published in June 2007

Gene pleiotropy constrains gene expression changes in fish adapted to different thermal conditions

scientific article

Genetic and morphometric divergence in threespine stickleback in the Chignik catchment, Alaska

scientific article published on 18 December 2013

Genetic evidence for different migration routes of freshwater fish into Norway revealed by analysis of current perch (Perca fluviatilis) populations in Scandinavia

scientific article published on 01 August 1998

Genetic parentage analysis confirms a polygynandrous breeding system in the European grayling (Thymallus thymallus).

scientific article

Genetic population structure of Gyrodactylus thymalli (Monogenea) in a large Norwegian river system

scientific article published on 14 October 2015

Genomic signatures of the plateless phenotype in the threespine stickleback

scientific article

Geographic variation and temporal trends in ice phenology in Norwegian lakes during the period 1890–2020

scientific article

Gyrodactylus spp. diversity in native and introduced minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus) populations: no support for "the enemy release" hypothesis

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

Habitat fragmentation has interactive effects on the population genetic diversity and individual behaviour of a freshwater salmonid fish

Harvest-induced disruptive selection increases variance in fitness-related traits

scientific article published on 9 September 2009

Harvesting changes mating behaviour in European lobster.

scientific article published on 22 March 2018

Hydrology influences breeding time in the white-throated dipper

scientific article published on 17 December 2020

Impact of harvesting cleaner fish for salmonid aquaculture assessed from replicated coastal marine protected areas

article published in 2017

Individual heterogeneity and early life conditions shape growth in a freshwater top-predator.

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Influence of harvest restrictions on angler release behaviour and size selection in a recreational fishery

scientific article published on 4 April 2016

Influence of oceanic factors on Anguilla anguilla (L.) over the twentieth century in coastal habitats of the Skagerrak, southern Norway.

scientific article published on 26 August 2010

Influences of Freshwater and Marine Growth on the Egg Size–Egg Number Tradeoff in Coho and Chinook Salmon

article by Thomas P. Quinn et al published January 2004 in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Is there a relationship between fluctuating asymmetry and reproductive investment in perch (Perca fluviatilis)?

scientific article published in 2002

LATITUDINAL VARIATION IN LIFE-HISTORY TRAITS IN EURASIAN PERCH

scientific article published in 2005

Lateral plate number in low-plated threespine stickleback: a study of plasticity and heritability

scientific article published on 6 April 2016

Life history and demographic determinants of effective/census size ratios as exemplified by brown trout (Salmo trutta).

scientific article

Long-term mark-recapture and growth data for large-sized migratory brown trout (Salmo trutta) from Lake Mjøsa, Norway

scientific article published on 28 May 2020

Magnetic compass orientation in the European eel.

scientific article

Marine protected areas rescue a sexually selected trait in European lobster

scientific article published on 22 May 2020

Marine survival and distribution patterns of two Puget Sound hatchery populations of coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch) and chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) salmon

Mating patterns and determinants of individual reproductive success in brown trout (Salmo trutta) revealed by parentage analysis of an entire stream living population

scientific article published in August 2010

Microgeographical variation in brown trout reproductive traits: possible effects of biotic interactions

scientific article published in 2003

Mismatch between fishway operation and timing of fish movements: a risk for cascading effects in partial migration systems.

scientific article published on 10 March 2016

Modularity Facilitates Flexible Tuning of Plastic and Evolutionary Gene Expression Responses During Early Divergence

scientific article published on 23 December 2017

Morphological differences between two ecologically similar sympatric fishes.

scientific article published in December 2009

No short-term effect of salinity on oxygen consumption in threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) from fresh, brackish, and salt water

scientific article published in 2012

Ongoing niche differentiation under high gene flow in a polymorphic brackish water threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) population

scientific article

Osmoregulatory disturbances in Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L., caused by the monogenean Gyrodactylus salaris.

scientific article published on 23 August 2012

Pathogen-induced rapid evolution in a vertebrate life-history trait

scientific article published on 28 July 2010

Pathogens trigger top-down climate forcing on ecosystem dynamics.

scientific article

Permanent impairment in the feeding behavior of grayling (Thymallus thymallus) exposed to methylmercury during embryogenesis

scientific article published on 01 June 1998

Plastic and Evolutionary Gene Expression Responses Are Correlated in European Grayling (Thymallus thymallus) Subpopulations Adapted to Different Thermal Environments

scientific article published on 21 August 2015

Population-level variation in juvenile brown trout growth from different climatic regions of Norway to an experimental thermal gradient

Probabilistic maturation reaction norms assessed from mark-recaptures of wild fish in their natural habitat

scientific article

Proteomic profiling of early life stages of European grayling (Thymallus thymallus).

scientific article published on September 2010

Quantifying the ocean, freshwater and human effects on year-to-year variability of one-sea-winter Atlantic salmon angled in multiple Norwegian rivers

scientific article

Quantitative genetic parameters for wild stream-living brown trout: heritability and parental effects

scientific article published on 28 May 2010

Reproductive biology of stream-spawning roach, Rutilus rutilus

Resource partitioning of roach Rutilus rutilus and bleak Alburnus alburnus in two eutrophic lakes in SE Norway

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Selection for small body size favours contrasting sex-specific life histories, boldness and feeding in medaka, Oryzias latipes.

scientific article published on 19 June 2019

Severe food stress has no detectable impact on developmental instability inDaphnia magna

scientific article published in 2004

Sex- and size-selective harvesting of corkwing wrasse (Symphodus melops)—a cleaner fish used in salmonid aquaculture

scientific article published in 2016

Short-term genetic changes: evaluating effective population size estimates in a comprehensively described brown trout (Salmo trutta) population.

scientific article

Sibling-size variation in brown trout Salmo trutta in relation to egg size and stream size.

scientific article published in April 2009

Six decades of pike and perch population dynamics in Windermere

article

Size- and stage-dependence in cause-specific mortality of migratory brown trout

scientific article published on 29 May 2020

Small changes in gene expression of targeted osmoregulatory genes when exposing marine and freshwater threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) to abrupt salinity transfers

scientific article

Small-scale dispersal and population structure in stream-living brown trout (Salmo trutta) inferred by mark–recapture, pedigree reconstruction, and population genetics

article

Stage-specific biomass overcompensation by juveniles in response to increased adult mortality in a wild fish population.

scientific article published in December 2011

Stoichiometric consequences of size-selective mortality: An experimental test using the Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes)

scientific article published on 24 March 2020

Strong and consistent natural selection associated with armour reduction in sticklebacks.

scientific article published on 28 March 2011

Strong gene flow and lack of stable population structure in the face of rapid adaptation to local temperature in a spring-spawning salmonid, the European grayling (Thymallus thymallus).

scientific article

Survival of brown trout during spring flood in DOC-rich streams in northern Sweden: the effect of present acid deposition and modelled pre-industrial water quality

scientific article published on May 2005

Temperature-driven regime shifts in the dynamics of size-structured populations

scientific article published in February 2011

The Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly of European Grayling Reveals Aspects of a Unique Genome Evolution Process Within Salmonids

scientific article published on 07 May 2019

The EASIN Editorial Board: quality assurance, exchange and sharing of alien species information in Europe

article

The Grayling Genome Reveals Selection on Gene Expression Regulation after Whole-Genome Duplication

article

The ideal free pike: 50 years of fitness-maximizing dispersal in Windermere

scientific article published in December 2006

The major threats to Atlantic salmon in Norway

scientific article published in 2017

The potential influence of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar and brown trout Salmo trutta on density and breeding of the white-throated dipper Cinclus cinclus.

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

The significance of water ionic strength on aluminium toxicity in brown trout (Salmo trutta L.)

article

The temporal window of ecological adaptation in postglacial lakes: a comparison of head morphology, trophic position and habitat use in Norwegian threespine stickleback populations

scientific article

Timing and pattern of annual silver eel migration in two European watersheds are determined by similar cues.

scientific article published on 23 June 2017

Toxicity of acid aluminium-rich water to seven freshwater fish species: A comparative laboratory study

article

Trade-off between growth rate and aggression in juvenile coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch

Trait changes in a harvested population are driven by a dynamic tug-of-war between natural and harvest selection.

scholarly article

Variation in Lateral Plate Quality in Threespine Stickleback from Fresh, Brackish and Marine Water: A Micro-Computed Tomography Study.

scientific article

When phenology matters: age-size truncation alters population response to trophic mismatch

scientific article published in October 2014