Beate Strøm Johansen

Universitetet i Agder | UIA · Natural History Museum & Botanical garden

Summary Jacob, R. & Johansen, B. S. (2024). When snakes eat snakes: Smooth snake (Coronella austriaca) predate on grass snakes (Natrix natrix) and northern viper (Vipera berus) in Norway. Additional unique photographs of predation on other prey species. Fauna, 77 (3), 114-127. In Norway, three photo-documentations from 2023 and 2024 reveal smooth...

Summary Høines, G. I. & Johansen, B. S. 2023. Flere stålormer badet sammen - unikt fenomen. Fauna 76(3-4) 99-105 Several slow worms bathing together - unique fenomen. Twelve female slow worms Anguis fragilis were taking av bath in a shallow puddle at Karmøy island, southwestern Norway. Several puddles with bathing female slow worm were found durin...

S m å s a l a m a n d e r L i s s o t r i t o n v u l g a r i s o v e r v i n t r e r s o m l a r v e r m e d g j e l l e r i K r i s t i a n s a n d Summary Lissotriton vulgaris larvaes overwintered with gills in Kristiansand, Southern Norway. During March, April and May 2017 and 2018, overwintering larvaes of the smooth newt Lissotriton vulgari...

Simple Summary Populations of West European hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) are decreasing all over Europe, and we are urgently in need of more knowledge to understand the challenges they face. In the Nordic countries, the winter nest locations are of crucial importance for hedgehogs to survive the winter hibernation period. Using radio transmitter...

Summary The European badger Meles meles is an earthworm specialist – with a specialized behavior. I observed one European badger Meles meles while foraging for earthworms in my garden in the evening of the 27. of May 2018 in Kristiansand, southern Norway. It had been a warm and dry spring, but this evening it was humid and some rain. Probably the...

Starbatty, Ö.I. & Johansen, B.S. Smooth snakes Coronella austriaca climbing trees. Fauna 74 (3–4): 133–137. 27 June 2021 an adult pregnant female smooth snake Coronella austriaca was found on the ground in Kristiansand, Southern Norway. After brief handling, it was released at the same spot on the ground. The smooth snake started to move slowly up...

Summary Johansen, B.S., Sørensen, P. & Nyberg, S.O. 2022. Observations of mating activity in the smooth snake Coronella austriaca in Norway. Fauna 75 (2–4): 70–80. The smooth snake Coronella austriaca is a secretive snake species and matings are rarely observed. Due to the low number of observations, it is difficult to establish the smooth snake’s...

Summary Opsvik, D. & Johansen, B.S. 2018. Brown trout Salmo trutta ate small rodents. Fauna 71 (3–4): 82–83. During the summer in 2017, I was helping a friend to fish up as many small- and medium-sized trouts Salmo trutta as possible. The aim of the project was to keep the number of small trouts down, to increase the number of larger sized fish. Th...

Summary: Johansen, B.S. & Eeg, J.I. 2020. Pine marten Martes martes predation in tawny owl Strix aluco nest boxes. Fauna 73 (3–4): 101–103. Out of thirty nest boxes for tawny owl Strix aluco, only six nest boxes were used by nesting tawny owls in the spring of 2020. These six nest boxes contained three eggs in average (there were four eggs in one b...

Summary Johansen, B.S., Strand, L.Å. & Måseide, H.S. 2021. In search of the great crested newt Triturus cristatus in Gjerstad municipality, Agder County. Fauna 75 (1): 32–54. Amphibians are threatened and populations are declining globally. Until 2015, it was believed that the rare and threatened great crested newt Triturus cristatus did not exist...

Summary Johansen, B.S. 2020. Has the Eurasian otter Lutra lutra returned to the south of Norway? Fauna 73 (3–4): 58–64. The Eurasian otter Lutra lutra has been absent from Southern Norway since 1940–60. A recolonization is expected, and the last 20 years there are 7 undocumented reports of otter in Agder County in www.artsobservasjoner.no. On 11 Oc...

Summary Johansen, B.S., Sørensen, P. & Nyberg, S.O. 2023. Does the smooth snake Coronella austriaca pregnancy become shorter during hot summers? Fauna 76 (1–2): 19–25. Exact dates of birth in the smooth snake Coronella austriaca are difficult to determine. Only one birth has been directly observed. Despite this, we have good measures to estimate th...

Summary Johansen, B.S. & Flaatten, Ø. 2021. Smooth snake Coronella austriaca eating bird eggs from the nest. Fauna 74 (3–4): 138–141. During a public science study with the purpose to increase our knowledge of the distribution of Smooth snake Coronella austriaca in Norway, the local newspapers published a notice asking the citizens to send their Sm...

Children Book about hedgehogs (Norwegian: "Barnas bok om piggsvin") is a fact book for children and adults that incorporate results from hedgehog radio-telemetry research on hedgehogs in Trondheim, Norway, during 1994-96. Lovely illustrations and photos mostly taken by the author/researcher.

Bevanger, K., Brøseth, H., Johansen, B.S., Knutsen, B., Olsen, K.V. & Aarvak, T. 1996. Ecology and population biology of the European badger Meles meles L. in an urban-rural gradient in Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. - NINA Fagrapport 23: 1-48. Abstract: When the Directorate for Nature Management at the end of the 1980’s raised the importance of obtaining...