Thanks to many hands the World Register for Marine Species is becoming more complete

The World register for marine species (WoRMS) aspires to contain all marine species ever described worldwide in one list. With the financial assistance of the project LifeWatch we were able to organize several data grants, meetings and workshops for experts in the course of 2016 designed to further improve this register and continue to complete it. The result? Thousands of new names added, 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.

Aristotle and marine biodiversity

Although many people are not aware of this, Aristotle has made many contributions to the field of marine biology. To celebrate his specific contributions, we are featuring 5 stories linking Aristotle's scientific contributions to taxonomy, ecology and species distributions to current day initiatives.

Big brother is watching you!

Find out more about the four Birdcams currently installed in the Belgian Marine LifeWatch Observatory

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).