The LifeWatch Wallonia-Brussels team publishes their ecotope database of the Walloon region
This prototype of object-based landscape description provides more than 80 biotic and abiotic variables for functionally homogeneous landscape units. Online navigation tools help you navigate through the integrated information layers and the database is available for ecological modelers.
Heading south or north: novel insights on European silver eel Anguilla anguilla migration in the North Sea
New publication about the LifeWatch.be Fish Acoustic Receiver Network
Nutritional Stress Causes Heterogeneous Relationships with Multi-Trait FA in Lesser Black-Backed Gull Chicks
Interesting new publication about an aviary experiment
Does rain trigger the migration of silver eels?
In order to try and answer this question, Pieterjan Verhelst tagged an additional 36 silver eels for his doctoral research as part of the Belgian LifeWatch infrastructure.
LifeWatchGreece Special Collection in Biodiversity Data Journal
The LifeWatchGreece Special Collection is now available in Biodiversity Data Journal, with a series of articles highlighting key contributions to the large-scale European LifeWatch RI.
Why was there higher than usual vegetation greenness in Italian Alps valleys?
Read all about it in the next issue of the Bulletin of Land Surface Dynamics (first half of 2016)!
New version of the Maritime Boundaries
In this new release, Marine Regions updates the global Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) (version 9), and launches the completely new datasets for Territorial Seas (TS), Contiguous Zones (CZ), Internal Waters (IW) and Archipelagic Waters (AW).
New Steering Committee, Chair and Vice-chair in place for WoRMS
Following the nominations and elections earlier this year for a number of positions within the Steering Committee (SC), the new WoRMS SC, with a newly elected chair and vice-chair is in place.