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Guðbjörg Ásta Ólafsdóttir - Director
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Guðbjörg Ásta Ólafsdóttir
Íslenska
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Utan H.Í.
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University of Iceland Research Centre in Westfjords Region
Website
http://www.vest.hi.is
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2814-9160
Research portal – Guðbjörg Ásta Ólafsdóttir
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
2024
Gaps in legislation and communication identified as stakeholders reflect on 30×30 policy in Icelandic waters
Marine Policy
Temperature and body size affect movement of juvenile Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) and saithe (Pollachius virens) at nearshore nurseries
Journal of Fish Biology
Let’s talk aliens - Stakeholder perceptions of an alien species differ in time and space
NeoBiota
Discriminating populations of Atlantic herring mixing in the Norwegian Sea feeding ground using single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)
Marine Ecology Progress Series
2023
Personality in juvenile Atlantic cod ecotypes and implications for fisheries management
Ecology and Evolution
Genetic assignment predicts depth of benthic settlement for 0-group Atlantic cod
PLoS ONE
Detection and distribution of the North Atlantic capelin (Mallotus villosus) using environmental DNA—comparison with data from the main fishery management survey
Environmental DNA
2022
Activity vs exploration
Behavioural Processes
Laboratory measures of boldness correlate with ecological niche in threespine stickleback
Ecology and Evolution
Fishing for DNA? Designing baits for population genetics in target enrichment experiments
Molecular Ecology Resources
2021
Evidence of unidirectional hybridization and second-generation adult hybrid between the two largest animals on Earth, the fin and blue whales
Evolutionary Applications
A millennium of trophic stability in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)
Scientific Reports
2020
The genetic composition of feeding aggregations of the Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) in the central north Atlantic
ICES Journal of Marine Science
First record of niche overlap of native european plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) and non-indigenous european flounder (platichthys flesus) on nursery grounds in iceland
Aquatic Invasions
From DNA to biomass
ICES Journal of Marine Science
Hreiðurgerð og hrygningaratferli hornsíla í Þingvallavatni
Náttúrufræðingurinn
Archaeological sites as Distributed Long-term Observing Networks of the Past (DONOP)
Quaternary International
2019
Change in Atlantic cod migrations and adaptability of early land-based fishers to severe climate variation in the North Atlantic
Quaternary Research
Trophic dynamics of anadromous brown trout and Arctic charr in NW Iceland and their correlation to salmon lice infection
Polar Biology
2018
Plasticity in activity and latency to explore differs between juvenile atlantic cod gadus morhua across a temperature gradient
Journal of Fish Biology
International interlaboratory study on taqman real-time polymerase chain reaction authentication of black seabream (Spondyliosoma cantharus)
Journal of Food and Nutrition Research
Biological Invasions in Conservation Planning: A Global Systematic Review
Frontiers in Marine Science
DNA barcoding revealing mislabeling of seafood in European mass caterings
Food Control
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
2015
More rapid shift to a benthic niche in larger Gadus morhua juveniles
Journal of Fish Biology
2014
Divergence in social foraging among morphs of the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Genetic structure of the lumpfish Cyclopterus lumpus across the North Atlantic
ICES Journal of Marine Science
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
2013
Twenty-two novel microsatellite loci for lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus)
Conservation Genetics Resources
Habitat complexity affects how young of the year Atlantic cod Gadus morhua perceive predation threat from older conspecifics
Journal of Fish Biology
Isolation and characterization of thirty microsatellite loci for Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus L.)
Conservation Genetics Resources
2012
Reaching the limit
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
A note on a mother-foetus pair and alleged father match in the Atlantic fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) off Iceland
Journal of Cetacean Research and Management
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
Fourteen new microsatellite markers for Atlantic herring Clupea harengus
Journal of Fish Biology
2011
Detection and mapping of mtDNA SNPs in Atlantic salmon using high throughput DNA sequencing
BMC Genomics
Evolutionary origins of widespread small benthic charr (Salvelinus alpinus (L.)) in Iceland
Heredity
Myndun tegunda og afbrigðamyndun íslenskra ferskvatnsfiska
2010
Tegundamyndun
2009
Immune response against equine gammaherpesvirus in Icelandic horses
Veterinary Microbiology
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
Report of the 3rd Havemeyer workshop on allergic diseases of the Horse, Hólar, Iceland, June 2007
Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology
2007
Morphological and genetic divergence of intralacustrine stickleback morphs in Iceland
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Postglacial intra-lacustrine divergence of Icelandic threespine stickleback morphs in three neovolcanic lakes
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
2002
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