What is the difference in the soundscape of the Gulf of Tribugá in Colombia and the Belgian Part of the North Sea?
A new LifeWatch paper compares two different soundscapes: the Gulf of Tribugá in Colombia and the the Belgian Part of the North Sea (BPNS). This study is of great importance as a general marine soundscape baseline in order to map possible future disturbances of port construction or to evaluate whether policy measures taken are effective. The comparison shows that biophony dominates the Gulf ot Tribugá while anthropophony is dominant in the BPNS.
WoRMS endorsed as a Project Action under the Ocean Decade
Last week, WoRMS received endorsement by the Ocean Decade as a Project Action, entitled “Above and Beyond – Completing the World Register of Marine Species (ABC WoRMS)”.
New versions of the Bio-Oracle dataset v2.2 and the R package sdmpredictors v2.10.0 are available
Bio-Oracle provides environmental data of the world ocean for present and future climate change scenarios. These data are mainly used by Lifewatch users to link biodiversity occurrence data to environmental conditions and predict the future distribution of marine species. Recently, this dataset is improved and offers better quality for the end users.
MarineRegions Exclusive Economic Zones now featured as essential map on MarineTraffic.com
An important dataset from MarineRegions (LifeWatch Belgium) is integrated in MarineTraffic.com and helps to improve the experience of millions of users on a monthly basis.
LifeWatch to the (data) rescue: More than 90 historical datasets available!
Collected once, ready to be used many times!
Streamlining of the environment flags on all higher taxonomic levels
Although the environment flag in Aphia was quite complete on species level already, there were still some gaps on the higher taxonomic levels. This has now been improved, representing a major update for the Aphia related services and downloads.