Employee info

Kari Elsa Ellingsen
Position:    Senior Research Scientist

  Telephone: +47 412 23 760
  E-mail: kari.ellingsen@nina.no
 Department:  NINA Tromsø

Knowledge areas

Biodiversity, marine ecology, benthos communities, fish communities, human impact, impacts of climate change on ecosystems.

Key qualifications
The main part of my research activities is focused on biodiversity, its measurement, patterns and drivers, such as top predators and different types of human impact and climate change. The research done involves the use of large-scale and/or long-term datasets already collected in scientific surveys or environmental monitoring surveys. I have studied marine biodiversity patterns in different parts of the world in shallow waters, on the continental shelf and in the deep sea using data on benthos and fish communities. The work implies a large number of collaborations with scientists from Europe, New Zealand, Canada, Russia and China. With regard to the measurement of biodiversity, I have focused on beta diversity, patterns of rare and common species and, in general, on the use of multivariate analyses.

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CV for Kari Elsa Ellingsen

Norwegian Institute for Nature Research

NINA is an independent foundation for nature research and research on the interaction between human society, natural resources and biodiversity.
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