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Guðbjörg Ásta Ólafsdóttir - Director
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Þjónustustofnanir
Guðbjörg Ásta Ólafsdóttir
Íslenska
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gaol [at] hi.is
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Rannsóknasetur HÍ á Vestfjörðum
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http://www.vest.hi.is
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2814-9160
Research portal – Guðbjörg Ásta Ólafsdóttir
Under construction throughout the autumn semester 2023
Education
2005
,
Ph.D.
,
The University of St Andrews
,
Biology
2000
,
BSc
,
University of Iceland
,
Biology
Professional Experience
2007 -
,
Director,
Vestfirdir Research Centre
2005 -
2007,
Postdoctoral fellow,
University of Iceland Institute of Biology
Published works
2023
Personality in juvenile Atlantic cod ecotypes and implications for fisheries management
Ecology and Evolution
2022
Fishing for DNA? Designing baits for population genetics in target enrichment experiments: Guidelines, considerations and the new tool supeRbaits
Molecular Ecology Resources
Personality in juvenile Atlantic cod ecotypes and implications for fisheries management.
Laboratory measures of boldness correlate to ecological niche in threespine stickleback
Laboratory measures of boldness correlate with ecological niche in threespine stickleback
Ecology and Evolution
Activity vs exploration: Locomotion in a known and unknown environment differs in Atlantic cod juveniles (Gadus morhua)
Behavioural Processes
2021
A millennium of trophic stability in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua): transition to a lower and converging trophic niche in modern times
Scientific Reports
Fishing for DNA? Designing baits for population genetics in target enrichment experiments: guidelines, considerations and the new tool supeRbaits
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2019
Change in Atlantic cod migrations and adaptability of early land-based fishers to severe climate variation in the North Atlantic
Trophic dynamics of anadromous brown trout and Arctic charr in NW Iceland and their correlation to salmon lice infection
Polar Biology
2018
Archaeological sites as Distributed Long-term Observing Networks of the Past (DONOP)
Quaternary International
Biological Invasions in Conservation Planning: A Global Systematic Review
Frontiers in Marine Science
Plasticity in activity and latency to explore differs between juvenile Atlantic cod Gadus morhua across a temperature gradient.
Journal of fish biology
2017
A millennium of north-east Atlantic cod juvenile growth trajectories inferred from archaeological otoliths
PLOS ONE
2016
Interactions between boldness, foraging performance and behavioural plasticity across social contexts
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Interactions between boldness, foraging performance and behavioural plasticity across social contexts.
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology
2015
More rapid shift to a benthic niche in larger Gadus morhua juveniles
Journal of Fish Biology
2014
Historical DNA reveals the demographic history of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in medieval and early modern Iceland (vol 281, 20132976, 2014)
Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
Historical DNA reveals the demographic history of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in medieval and early modern Iceland
Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
Correction to ‘Historical DNA reveals the demographic history of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in medieval and early modern Iceland’.
Proceedings. Biological sciences
Divergence in social foraging among morphs of the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
2013
Habitat complexity affects how young of the year Atlantic cod Gadus morhua perceive predation threat from older conspecifics
Journal of Fish Biology
2012
Reaching the limit: Constrained behavioural flexibility of juvenile Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) at current coastal temperatures
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Parasites and parallel divergence of the number of individual MHC alleles between sympatric three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus morphs in Iceland
Journal of Fish Biology
2011
Evolution of adaptive diversity and genetic connectivity in Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) in Iceland
Heredity
2009
Parallels, nonparallels, and plasticity in population differentiation of threespine stickleback within a lake
Biological journal of the Linnean Society.
Parallels, nonparallels, and plasticity in population differentiation of threespine stickleback within a lake
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
2008
Correlated pedigree and molecular estimates of inbreeding and their ability to detect inbreeding depression in the Icelandic sheepdog, a recently bottlenecked population of domestic dogs
Conservation Genetics
2007
Postglacial intra-lacustrine divergence of Icelandic threespine stickleback morphs in three neovolcanic lakes
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Morphological and genetic divergence of intralacustrine stickleback morphs in Iceland: a case for selective differentiation?
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Parallel evolution? Microsatellite variation of recently isolated marine and freshwater three-spined stickleback
Journal of Fish Biology
2006
Positive assortative mating between recently described sympatric morphs of Icelandic sticklebacks
Biology Letters
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