Søren MøllerRoskilde University · Science and Environment
Søren Møller
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March 1991 - June 1992
June 1981 - present
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January 1988 - February 1991
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Scoping reviews, in which the literature on a given topic is systematically collated and summarized, aid literature searches and highlight knowledge gaps on a given topic, thus hastening scientific progress and informing conservation efforts. Because much research and conservation is targeted at the species level, ornithology and bird conservation...
Citizen science (CS) projects are part of a new era of data aggregation and harmonisation that facilitates interconnections between different datasets. Increasing the value and reuse of CS data has received growing attention with the appearance of the FAIR principles and systematic research data management (RDM) practises, which are often promoted...
Aquaculture research contributes to development of the industry, and practitioners depend on effective and understandable information about research findings. A bottleneck for increased diversification and efficient farming of larvae of marine finfish is lack of sufficient quantities of high quality live feed, that is, copepods. Number of scientifi...
Plastic pollution is considered one of today's major environmental problems. Current land-based monitoring programs typically rely on beach litter data and seldom include plastic pollution further inland. We initiated a citizen science project known as the Mass Experiment inviting schools throughout The Danish Realm (Denmark, Greenland and the Faer...
While collating contributions and comments from 36 researchers, the coordinating authors accidentally omitted Dr. Suzanne Carrière from the list of contributing co-authors. Dr. Carrière's data are described in Tables 1 and 3, Figure 2 and several places in the narrative.The new author list is thus updated in this article.
The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) and the gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) are top avian predators of Arctic ecosystems. Although existing monitoring efforts are well established for both species, collaboration of activities among Arctic scientists actively involved in research of large falcons in the Nearctic and Palearctic has been poorly coord...
The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) and the gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) are top avian predators of Arctic ecosystems. Although existing monitoring efforts are well established for both species, collaboration of activities among Arctic scientists actively involved in research of large falcons in the Nearctic and Palearctic has been poorly coord...
Denmark being a country with only a few suitable steep nesting cliffs has only harboured a small population of Peregrine Falcons (Falco peregrinus) in historic time. In the previous century, the population gradually declined due to persecution, egg and young collection, and pollution. The last breeding attempt in the 20 th century occurred in 1972...
The DDT-induced effects, eggshell thinning and breeding failure in Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) populations were reverted with restrictions on the use of the compound from the 1970s, and in most studied populations, the eggshell thickness is back to normal. In Greenland, a previous study of eggshell thinning in Peregrines found that shells h...
In order to better understand the potential effects of climate change on the Peregrine Falcon, we investigated the relationship between extreme weather events and Peregrines’ breeding success in South Greenland. We defined three variables – number of days with extremely low temperatures, extreme precipitation, consecutive rainy days – and an additi...
A suite of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) and polychlorinated naphthalenes (PCNs) were determined in 41 peregrine falcon eggs collected in South Greenland between 1986 and 2014. Median concentrations of perfluorinated sulfonic acids (ΣPFSA) and perfluorinated carboxylic acids (ΣPFCA) were 303 ng/g dry weight (dw) (58 ng/g wet weight, ww) and 100...
This report presents the results of the Data Management i Praksis (DMiP) project (in English: Data Management in Practice). The project was funded by Denmark’s Electronic Research Library (DEFF), the National Danish Archives and the participating main Danish libraries. The following partners participated in the project: Aalborg University Library,...
This collection of supplementary files relate to the report: “Data Management in Practice Results and Evaluation”. The report presents the results of the Data Management i Praksis (DMiP) project (in English: Data Management in Practice). The project was funded by Denmark’s Electronic Research Library (DEFF), the National Danish Archives and the par...
Median levels of regulated flame retardants, i.e. polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), brominated biphenyl (BB) 153 and hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) in 33-48 eggs of peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus) from Greenland were 1900, 359 and 5.98 ng/g lipid weight (lw) and generally intermediate to levels in North America and Europe. Unregulated fla...
Peregrine falcon eggs were collected in South Greenland between 1986 and 2003 and analysed for 6 congeners of toxaphene and 5 chlordane-related pesticides (cis-chlordane, trans-chlordane, cis-nonachlor, trans-nonachlor and oxychlordane). Oxychlordane had the highest median concentration of 1448ng/g lipid weight (lw) or 79ng/g wet weight (ww) of all...
ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
Eggshell thickness is commonly used as an indicator of habitat quality and effects of environmental pollution on avian reproduction. We present the first data available on eggshell thickness for Red-legged Partridge (Alectoris rufa) in Spain. We compared eggshell thickness between eggs collected in an agricultural area (wild eggs) and eggs from gam...
Thirty-seven addled peregrine falcon eggs collected in South Greenland between 1986 and 2003 were analysed for their content of the organochlorine compounds polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dichlorodiphenyl tricloroethane (DDT) and its degradation products, hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) isomers and hexachlorobenzene (HCB). PCBs and DDT (including me...
The title compound (DPB) was investigated by FT-IR spectroscopy in liquid solutions and by FT-IR linear dichroism (LD) measurements on samples aligned in stretched polyethylene. The LD data provided experimental assignments of molecular transition moment directions and vibrational symmetries for more than 40 vibrational transitions. The observed IR...
Temporal trends of mercury (Hg) in West Greenland gyrfalcons, peregrine falcons, and white-tailed eagles were determined over 150 years from 1851 to 2003. Hg was measured in the fifth primary feather. Results showed that Hg increased in the order gyrfalcon (lowest) < peregrine falcon (intermediate) < white-tailed eagle (highest). All species showed...
Temporal trends of mercury (Hg) in West Greenland gyrfalcons, peregrine falcons, and white-tailed eagles were determined over 150 years from 1851 to 2003. Hg was measured in the fifth primary feather. Results showed that Hg increased in the order gyrfalcon (lowest) < peregrine falcon (intermediate) < white-tailed eagle (highest). All species showed...
Thickness of eggshell fragments and whole eggs from the Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus collected in South and West Greenland between 1972 and 2003 was measured and compared to shell thickness of pre-DDT eggs, also collected in Greenland. Linear regression yields a significant increase in the average thickness of eggshells over the period of 0.19...
A time trend between 1986 and 2003 was found for brominated flame retardants in peregrine falcon eggs from South Greenland, with significantly increasing concentrations of the polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) 99, 100, 153, 154, and 209. For BDE-99 and -100, the concentration increased approximately 10% per year. The concentrations of PBDEs we...
Quantum chemical calculations performed on anthralin (1,8-dihydroxy-9(10H)-anthracenone) predict the possibility of an excited-state intramolecular proton transfer process. Fluorescence excitation and emission spectra of the compound dissolved in n-hexane at ambient temperature results in an unusually large fluorescence Stokes shift of 10500 cm-1....
Quantum chemical calculations performed on anthralin (1,8-dihydroxy-9(10H)-anthracenone) predict the possibility of an excited-state intramolecular proton transfer process. Fluorescence excitation and emission spectra of the compound dissolved in n-hexane at ambient temperature results in an unusually large fluorescence Stokes shift of 10500 cm−1....
The breeding ecology of the Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis and the Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla in the high Arctic was studied in relation to the occurrence of the northeast water polynya in northeasternmost Greenland (80 degrees N). Mean laying dates were 31 May in the Fulmar and 18 June in the Kittiwake; the total nesting season for the Fulmar just matc...
A small seabird community depends on the resources of the Northeast Water (NEW) polynya. In spring, at least 1000 King Eiders and 2500 Common Eiders form pre-breeding congregations at Ob Bank before dispersing in mid June to breeding areas. The most abundant species is the Fulmar, which breeds in six colonies with a total of 2550 “apparently occupi...
After excitation at the extreme red edge (358 nm) of the S1 ← S0 absorption band, the ambient temperature fluorescence decay of all-trans-1,4-diphenyl-1,3-butadiene (DPB) in cyclohexane is biexponential, indicating the presence of two distinct molecular species with substantially different excited-state lifetimes of 0.6 and 9 ns. The enthalpic barr...
Three northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) were tracked with satellite transmitters while they dispersed from a colony at the North East Water polynya in high-arctic Greenland after breeding failure. The longest cumulative distance recorded was 2043 km in 14 days, giving an average daily movement of 143 km, and the maximum distance covered in 1 da...
The first census of cliff-nesting seabirds dependent on the resources of the Northeast Water polynya was carried out in 1993. We made direct counts in six known colonies of the northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) and used a combination of direct and photo counts in one colony of black-legged kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla). Glaucous gulls (Larus hyp...
A combination of steady-state and dynamic spectral measurements are used to provide new insights into the nature of the excited-state processes of all-trans-1,4-diphenyl-1,3-butadiene and several analogs: 1,4-diphenyl-1,3-cyclopentadiene, 1,1,4,4-tetraphenylbutadiene, 1,2,3,4-tetraphenyl-1,3-cyclopentadiene, and E,E-diindanylidenylethane. Ground-st...
The shapes of the fluorescence emission and lowest excited singlet-state absorption spectra of all-trans-1,4-diphenylbutadiene (DPB) in hydrocarbon solvents vary with excitation wavelength when exciting on the extreme red edge of the ground-state absorption spectrum. This contrasts with the wavelength independence observed for the excited singlet-s...
We report a high-resolution excitation spectrum for 1,4-diphenyl-1,3-cyclopentadiene cooled in a supersonic expansion. The spectrum, which was obtained by the use of two-color resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization techniques, has an origin at 27 008 cm-1. The dependence of absorption and fluorescence spectra on solvent and the vapor phase absor...
Nanosecond excited state absorption spectra of all-trans-1,4-diphenyl-1,3-butadiene (DPB) and a rigid s-cis DPB analog, 1,4-diphenyl-1,3-cyclopentadiene, were obtained in several hydrocarbon solvents at room temperature and low temperatures. Analysis of the excited state absorption spectra of these two molecules suggests the presence of excited sta...
The sensitized cis-trans photoisomerization of 1,3,5-hexatriene in argon-saturated n-hexane solution at room temperature is investigated by continuous illumination and gas chromatographic analysis of product distributions. Initial quantum yields of isomerization exhibit a marked dependence on hexatriene concentration, especially for the Z --> E iso...
Time-resolved resonance Raman (RR) spectra of the lowest excited triplet state T1 of (E)-1,3,5-hexatriene, (E)-3-deuterio-1,3,5-hexatriene, and (E)-1,1-dideuterio-1,3,5-hexatriene are obtained at 183 K. The T1 potential energy surface (PES), determining energy minima, equilibrium geometries, frequencies, and normal modes of vibration, is calculated...
Theoretical and Raman spectroscopic studies are presented of the ground and lowest excited triplet states of (E)- and (Z)-2,5-dimethyl-1,3,5-hexatriene and their 3,4-dideuterio and 3-deuterio isotopomers. The T1 potential energy surface is calculated from SCF-LCAO-MO-CI theory. Energy minima and equilibrium geometries are determined in the T1 state...
Variation in the thickness of eggshells from pre-DDT Greenlandic and European Peregrine Falcons Falco peregrinus tundrius and F. p. peregrinus and European Kestrels Falco tinnuculus was investigated. No difference in shell thickness was found for the two subspecies of Peregrine Falcon. When eggs from the two subspecies were pooled, variation among...
Søren Møller Forskningsbibliotekar, RUB moller@ruc.dk For godt to år siden bragte dagbladet Børsen (med hjaelp fra DTUs analysesektion) en raekke artikler, hvor man blandt andet forsøgte at rangordne de danske universiteter ud fra deres pro-duktion af videnskabelige publikationer i 2003 1 I efteråret 2008 har Børsen (igen med hjaelp fra DTUs analys...