Alien Eel ‘19437’ detected by Belgian LifeWatch acoustic receiver network

A silver eel from the dutch project ‘Ruim baan voor vissen’ was detected by the Belgian LifeWatch acoustic receiver network, approximately six weeks after being tagged at Delfzijl, northern Holland.

23 winters of waterbird counts published as open data

LifeWatch INBO just published another core data system of the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) as open data: Watervogels - Wintering waterbirds in Flanders, Belgium.

FreshGEN: the Freshwater Gastropods of the European Neogene – a new thematic database

The FreshGEN database contains species information on Neogene freshwater Gastropoda and has kindly offered to share its information with both MolluscaBase and WoRMS. Through this, MolluscaBase is taking an excellent start regarding the fossil component of the database, as no less than 4.360 new taxa were added.

Dag van de Wetenschap - Open house at VLIZ/LifeWatch laboratories

VLIZ opens, for the first time, the doors of its Marine Station Ostend for the public at large.

NeMys – the World Database of Free-Living Marine Nematodes – has joined forces with WoRMS

NeMys has recently been integrated into the World Register of Marine Species. In addition to all the WoRMS-functionalities, it also holds a number of online identification keys.

Belgian Biodiversity Platform Newsflash n°58

The Biodiversity Newsflash n°58 has just been published

WoRMS goes viral!

The goal of WoRMS is to deal with all marine organisms and – up till now – viruses have been completely overlooked. In collaboration with members of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), WoRMS has leaped into the world of these fascinating tiny creatures and has made available the names of 129 marine virus species, including the link with their host organisms.

LifeWatch @ Taverna workshop

VLIZ is hosting a technical developers workshop in the framework of BioVel.

LifeWatch at the EMBS49

Different aspects of the Belgian LifeWatch infrastructure were presented at the 49th European Marine Biology Symposium at St. Petersburg, Russia.

Major update of the Ostracoda in WoRMS

Recently, over 38.000 new Ostracoda species names have been added to WoRMS, and more than 7.000 existing species names have been updated and verified.