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.
World List of Tardigrada launched
The World List of Tardigrada is now available!
New EMODnet Biology Blog
A new EMODnet biology blog has been launched. The blog will be used to share thoughts and ideas on the products EMODnet biology is developing. The first post is about the gridded zooplankton time series of the North Atlantic.
LifeWatch support in 2015-2016 made it possible to make WoRMS more complete
In 2015-2016, LifeWatch funded several activities directly leading to the improvement and further completion of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). LifeWatch has invested in data grants, meetings and workshops, leading to the addition of thousands of new names to WoRMS, a revision of (tens of) thousands already available names, and the development of new portals and tools, helping the user and editor community in accessing and utilizing WoRMS.