Behaviour and life history in the guppy Poecilia reticulata:

• Effects of selective fishing on fish behaviour, supervision by Beatriz Diaz Pauli and Mikko Heino.

We want to find out whether fishing selects certain behaviours from the population, leaving others behind, and what are the consequences for the population.

• Can fishing affect fish cognition? , supervision by Beatriz Diaz Pauli and Mikko Heino.        

We want to know whether selective fishing affects to cognitive ability of fish. Have fishes adapted to high fishing mortality (i.e., maturing early and with higher fecundity) worse cognition abilities?

• Effect of oxygen of guppy behaviour, supervision by Beatriz Diaz Pauli and Mikko Heino.     

Juvenile development under different oxygen concentrations leads to changes in life history traits (maturation and growth). We want to test whether oxygen concentrations affects also fish behaviour.

• Effect of fishing in reproductive in male guppies, supervision by Beatriz Diaz Pauli, Anne Christine Utne Palm, and Mikko Heino.

Selective removal of bigger fish leads to life history changes in the population. Are those changes in size also affecting the reproductive strategy of males?

Life history and evolutionary ecology of the goby Sufflogobius bibarbatus in the  Benguela ecosystem off Namibia:

• Search for the molecular "trick" to survive in the sea with little oxygen in Benguela, supervision by Anne Gro Vea Salvanes and Anders Goksoyr

Life-history evolution in Daphnia pulex:

• Consequences of selective harvesting for maturation, supervision by Ingrid Wathne and Mikko Heino

Studies of fjord populations of grenadier:

• Population structure of grenadiers in Masfjorden, supervision by Jennifer Devine and Anne Gro Vea Salvanes
• Vertical migration behaviour of grenadiers in Masfjorden, supervision by Jennifer Devine and Anne Gro Vea Salvanes

Cod, evolution and bioeconomics:

• The cost of evolution – what value is lost when fish evolve to smaller sizes, and how does this affect optimal harvest strategies?, supervision by Fabian Zimmermann and Mikko Heino

Population ecology of North Sea fish stocks:

• Changes in growth and distribution of North Sea saithe, two Master projects, supervision by Jennifer Devine and Irene Huse:

1. Determine if change in saithe growth may be driven by changes in prey abundance
2. Determine if the distribution of saithe has changed over time and if observed changes are related to spatio-temporal changes in prey abundance