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The author shows global bifurcation phenomena in the \(L^2\)-framework, associated with the following nonautonomous nonlinear Sturm-Liouville problem \[ u''(x)= k(x)u(x)^p- \mu u(x), \quad u(x) <0,\;x\in I=(-1,1),\quad u(-1)= u(1)=0,\tag{1} \] with \(p>1\), \(\mu \) is a real eigenvalue parameter, \(k\in C^1 (\overline I)\), and satisfies \(k(x)>0\), \(k(x)= k(-x)\), \(x\in I\), \(k'(x)\leq 0\), \(x\in(0,1)\). A solution is a pair \((\mu,u_\mu) \in\mathbb{R} \times W_0^{1,2} (I)\) satisfying (1). The author gives an asymptotic formula for \(\| u_\mu \|_{L^2}\) as \(\mu \to +\infty\), generalizing a recent result of the author for autonomous problems.