LifeWatch Belgium,
supporting your biodiversity
& ecosystem research
LifeWatch Belgium,
supporting your biodiversity
& ecosystem research
LifeWatch Belgium,
supporting your biodiversity
& ecosystem research
LifeWatch Belgium,
supporting your biodiversity
& ecosystem research
User stories
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Patterns in nature: WoRMS images in a unique design book 
Patterns in nature: WoRMS images in a unique design book
The book Coding, Shaping, Making combines inspiration from architecture, mathematics, biology, chemistry, and other fields to look towards the future of architecture, design and art. It presents ongoing experiments in the search for fundamental principles of form and form-making. This enables us to...
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Visualising EU fisheries agreements with Maritime Boundaries for the European Parliament 
Visualising EU fisheries agreements with Maritime Boundaries for the European Parliament
Members of the European Parliament are being brought up to speed on upcoming votes with background materials prepared by the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS). In recent EPRS publications concerning EU fisheries agreements, MarineRegion’s Maritime Boundaries are being used to visualise...
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Understanding mass mortality in saiga antelope population 
Understanding mass mortality in saiga antelope population
The Saiga antelope is an endangered species that lives in Central Asian steppes and semi-arid regions. Scientists around the world are working tirelessly to prevent it from becoming completely extinct. Every year, they migrate approximately 500 km from north to south, and back. In 2015, roughly 60%...
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There’s no plaice like an offshore wind farm 
There’s no plaice like an offshore wind farm
Offshore wind farms are built at a high rate in European waters to make the transition towards more green energy sources. Their development takes up marine space that is often not available anymore to other users such as the fisheries sector. This while knowledge on the ecological effects of wind...
Innovative approaches
Data & services
Biogeographic services
Biodiversity Observatory automation services
LifeWatch ERIC
LifeWatch ERIC is the European Research Infrastructure Consortium providing e-Science research facilities to scientists investigating biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services in order to support society in addressing key planetary challenges.
LifeWatch Belgium, also called the National Distributed Centre for LifeWatch Belgium combines the regional and federal LifeWatch contributions from Belgium.
Latest news
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EurOBIS celebrates its 20th anniversary with a super-harvest! 
EurOBIS celebrates its 20th anniversary with a super-harvest!
Over its 20 years’ existence, EurOBIS formed alliances with European initiatives as a supporting infrastructure and network. Major milestones include EurOBIS serving as the data backbone of the European Marine Observations and Data Network Biology (EMODnet Biology) since 2009 and being part of the central Species Information Backbone of LifeWatch since 2014. -
Closing the WoRMS 15th anniversary celebrations with an opinion paper 
Closing the WoRMS 15th anniversary celebrations with an opinion paper
In follow-up of the 10th anniversary paper on WoRMS, the Data Management Team is proud to present a paper celebrating the 15th anniversary of WoRMS: "The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) through the looking glass: insights from the Data Management Team in light of the crystal anniversary of WoRMS". -
Ocean Census' search for 100,000 new species will boost WoRMS 
Ocean Census' search for 100,000 new species will boost WoRMS
A new Ocean Census plans major expeditions in all corners of the ocean over the next 10 years, aiming to discover 100,000 new species. In time, the new species will also boost the World Marine Species Register (WoRMS). -
Global Cyperaceae Database now online 
Global Cyperaceae Database now online
Through the iSedge project, the Cyperaceae now have their dedicated online portal on the Aphia platform.
Events
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World Conference on Marine Biodiversity 2026 
17 Nov 2026World Conference on Marine Biodiversity 2026
The seventh edition of the World Conference will fly the UN Ocean Decade flag, as it has been end
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BioSpace25 - Biodiversity insight from Space 
10 Feb 2025BioSpace25 - Biodiversity insight from Space
BIOSPACE25 is the first international conference exclusively dedicated to the application of Sate
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Biodiversity Monitoring in Luxembourg 
18 Oct 2024Biodiversity Monitoring in Luxembourg
From the onset of biodiversity monitoring in Luxembourg around 15 years ago, field data have been