Jonatan Nilsson
Arbeider med
Post doc in the NRC funded Strategic Institute Project PHYSBEWEL - "Physiological and behavioural indicators of welfare assessment for aquaculture and fisheries”
My major research interest is fish behaviour and welfare, with main focus on learning and cognitive abilities of fish. I am currently working with the question how learning influences the ability to cope with new environments and procedures in aquaculture, and also how environmental stress affects the cognitive abilities of fish.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
PhD, September 2008: University of Bergen/Institute of Marine Research. Title of thesis: "Learning and anticipatory behaviour in cod and halibut"
Cand. Scient. (M.Sc.) in marine biology, June 2004. University of Bergen/Institute of Marine Research. Research project: “Acoustic behaviour of spawning cod (Gadus morhua L.)”.
Cand. mag. with main field of the study in biology – aquatic ecology, December 2001, University of Tromsø
Publications in scientific journals and books
Fernö, A., Huse, G., Jakobsen, P.J., Kristiansen, T.S., Nilsson, J., in press. Fish Behaviour, Learning, Aquaculture and Fisheries. In: Brown, C., Laland, K., Krause, J. (Eds.) Fish cognition and behavior 2nd ed., Blackwell, Oxford.
Bratland, S., Stien, L. H., Braithwaite, V. A., Juell, J.-E., Folkedal, O., Nilsson, J. Oppedal, F., Fosseidengen, J. E. & Kristiansen, T. S. 2010. From fright to anticipation: using aversive light stimuli to investigate reward conditioning in large groups of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Aquaculture International 18: 991-1001
Folkedal, O., Torgersen, T., Nilsson, J. & Oppedal, F. 2010. Habituation rate and capacity of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) parr to sudden transitions from darkness to light. Aquaculture 307: 170–172
Nilsson, J. & Torgersen, T. 2010. Exploration and learning of demand-feeding in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua). Aquaculture 306: 384-387
Nilsson, J., Kristiansen, T. S., Fosseidengen, J. E., Stien, L. H., Fernö, A. & van den Bos, R. 2010. Learning and anticipatory behaviour in a “sit-and-wait” predator: The Atlantic halibut. Behavioural Processes 83: 257–266
Nilsson, J., Kristiansen, T. S., Fosseidengen, J. E., Fernö, A. & van den Bos, R. 2008. Sign- and goal-tracking in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua). Animal Cognition 11: 651–659
Nilsson, J., Kristiansen, T. S., Fosseidengen, J. E., Fernö, A. & van den Bos, R. 2008. Learning in cod (Gadus morhua): long trace interval retention. Animal Cognition 11: 215–222
