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  • Talitraits: Feeding the Talitridae species in WoRMS with a variety of ecological information
    Talitraits: Feeding the Talitridae species in WoRMS with a variety of ecological information

    Talitraits: Feeding the Talitridae species in WoRMS with a variety of ecological information

    Last week - on May 30 and 31st – 8 thematic experts on Talitridae came together for the first time during a LifeWatch-WoRMS sponsored workshop. The workshop took place at the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research in Crete, where it was organized back-to-back with the 8th International Sandy Beaches Symposium (ISBS). The group focused on identifying relevant traits for the Talitridae, and adding this data through the Amphipoda Species Database.
  • WRiMS: reporting introduced species in WoRMS 2.0
    WRiMS: reporting introduced species in WoRMS 2.0

    WRiMS: reporting introduced species in WoRMS 2.0

    On 23 April 2018, a number of editors of the World Register of Introduced Species (WRiMS) started a three day workshop in the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ). These three days were used to evaluate, complete and improve the content of this WoRMS thematic register (TSD).
  • Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of WoRMS with another publication: general insights and experiences from the DMT
    Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of WoRMS with another publication: general insights and experiences from the DMT

    Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of WoRMS with another publication: general insights and experiences from the DMT

    Earlier today, PLoS One published a new Open Access paper in their WoRMS collection, entitled ‘A decade of the World Register of Marine Species – general insights and experiences from the Data Management Team’. The paper was written on occasion of the 10-year celebration of WoRMS, to highlight what WoRMS has been able to accomplish in the last decade and where we wish to go in the future …
  • High-tech LifeWatch observatory unravels marine life in North Sea
    High-tech LifeWatch observatory unravels marine life in North Sea

    High-tech LifeWatch observatory unravels marine life in North Sea

    LifeWatch Belgium, as a part of the European LifeWatch infrastructure, can be considered as a virtual laboratory for biodiversity research. With the support of Flanders to LifeWatch, VLIZ has a.o. developed a Marine Observatory. It aims to collect scientific data with innovative technology in an automated manner, and to make these data freely available to all potential users. On the one hand, several innovative devices to map phytoplankton (Flow Cytometer) and zooplankton (Video Plankton Recorder) are used during monthly campaigns in the Belgian part of the North Sea. On the other hand, four passive networks register and detect the presence of larger organisms (birds, porpoises, bats and fish) with a minimal human effort.