Claudia Melis, PhD
Dept of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Dr Claudia Melis is a researcher in animal ecology with a wide range of interests. She did her MSc on moon orientation of a crustacean and her PhD on spatial ecology of roe deer. Since then she has been working on ungulates and carnivores interactions, browsing effects of ungulates on diversity of insects, carrion ecology, dispersal of alien species, and population genetics of dogs and water vole. Now she is mainly working on raccoon dog invasion ecology and Lundehund genetics.
Selected Publications
Kropatsch R, C Melis, AV Stronen, H Jensen & JT Epplen. 2015. Molecular genetics of sex identification, breed ancestry and polydactyly in the Norwegian Lundehund breed. Journal of Heredity 2015 (doi: 10.1093/jhered/esv03)
Melis C, A Borg, H Jensen, E Bjørkvoll, TH Ringsby, & B-E Sæther . 2013. Genetic variability and structure of the water vole Arvicola amphibius across four metapopulations in northern Norway. Ecology and Evolution 3: 770-778.
Melis C., Borg Å.A., Espelien I.S. & Jensen H. 2013. Low neutral genetic variability in a specialist puffin hunter: the Norwegian Lundehund. Animal Genetics 44: 348-351.
Melis C., Holmern T., Ringsby T.H. and Saether B.E. 2011. Who ends up in the eagle owl pellets? A new method to assess whether water voles experience different predation risk. Mammalian Biology 76: 683-686.
Melis C., Basille, M., Herfindal I., Linnell J.D.C., Odden, J., Gaillard, J.-M., Høgda K.-A. & Andersen R. 2010. Roe deer population growth and lynx predation along a gradient of environmental productivity and climate in Norway. Ecoscience 17: 166-174.
Melis C., Herfindal I., Kauhala K., Andersen R. & Høgda K-A. 2010. Predicting animal performance through climatic and plant phenology variables: the case of a carnivore hibernating species in Finland. Mammalian Biology 75: 151-159.
Melis C., Jędrzejewska B., Apollonio M., Bartoń K.A., Jędrzejewski W., Linnell J.D.C., Kojola I., Kusak J., Adamic M., Ciuti S., Delehan I., Dykyy I., Krapinec K., Mattioli L., Sagaydak A., Samchuk N., Schmidt K., Shkvyrya M., Sidorovich V. E., Zawadzka B., Zhyla S. 2009. Predation has a greater impact in less productive environments: variation in roe deer Capreolus capreolus population density across Europe. Global Ecology and Biogeography 18: 724-734.
Melis C, A Borg, H Jensen, E Bjørkvoll, TH Ringsby, & B-E Sæther . 2013. Genetic variability and structure of the water vole Arvicola amphibius across four metapopulations in northern Norway. Ecology and Evolution 3: 770-778.
Melis C., Borg Å.A., Espelien I.S. & Jensen H. 2013. Low neutral genetic variability in a specialist puffin hunter: the Norwegian Lundehund. Animal Genetics 44: 348-351.
Melis C., Holmern T., Ringsby T.H. and Saether B.E. 2011. Who ends up in the eagle owl pellets? A new method to assess whether water voles experience different predation risk. Mammalian Biology 76: 683-686.
Melis C., Basille, M., Herfindal I., Linnell J.D.C., Odden, J., Gaillard, J.-M., Høgda K.-A. & Andersen R. 2010. Roe deer population growth and lynx predation along a gradient of environmental productivity and climate in Norway. Ecoscience 17: 166-174.
Melis C., Herfindal I., Kauhala K., Andersen R. & Høgda K-A. 2010. Predicting animal performance through climatic and plant phenology variables: the case of a carnivore hibernating species in Finland. Mammalian Biology 75: 151-159.
Melis C., Jędrzejewska B., Apollonio M., Bartoń K.A., Jędrzejewski W., Linnell J.D.C., Kojola I., Kusak J., Adamic M., Ciuti S., Delehan I., Dykyy I., Krapinec K., Mattioli L., Sagaydak A., Samchuk N., Schmidt K., Shkvyrya M., Sidorovich V. E., Zawadzka B., Zhyla S. 2009. Predation has a greater impact in less productive environments: variation in roe deer Capreolus capreolus population density across Europe. Global Ecology and Biogeography 18: 724-734.
