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  • LifeWatch and JERICO-NEXT join forces
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    LifeWatch and JERICO-NEXT join forces

    Though plankton communities are omnipresent in our oceans, their wavering dynamics remain obscure. The international collaboration of the LifeWatch and JERICO-NEXT projects enabled to study plankton in the southern North Sea with state-of-the-art infrastructure at an optimal coverage.

  • Patterns in nature: WoRMS images in a unique design book
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    Patterns in nature: WoRMS images in a unique design book

    The book Coding, Shaping, Making combines inspiration from architecture, mathematics, biology, chemistry, and other fields to look towards the future of architecture, design and art. It presents ongoing experiments in the search for fundamental principles of form and form-making. This enables us to...

  • To settle or not to settle? Oyster larvae settlement cues investigated
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    To settle or not to settle? Oyster larvae settlement cues investigated

    The inclusion of ecosystem engineers in coastal planning is an approach being considered to mitigate coastal erosion in different environments worldwide. Oysters are reef building and can alter and improve their habitat acting as a barrier for coastal protection by sediment stabilization and wave...

  • WoRMS featured in Blue Planet II
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    WoRMS featured in Blue Planet II

    "Covering almost three-quarters of the Earth's surface, the world’s great oceans are home to an incredibly diverse web of life. The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) currently lists just under a quarter of a million species, with new ones being identified all the time. But even as we begin to...

  • Reef Life Pro App
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    Reef Life Pro App

    "The sea, once it casts its spell, it holds one in its net of wonder forever." (Jacques-Yves Cousteau). Take some time to go online and learn about many of the species families. Reef Life Pro is a great tool to learn about their anatomy, as well as some ID features. (Source: Reef Life Apps)

  • Finding Ocean Health in a sea of data
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    Finding Ocean Health in a sea of data

    Ever wondered how the Ocean Health Index gets data for its global assessment of the entire ocean? There's more to it than you'd guess! And Marine Regions is part of the answer!

  • The Big Seashell Survey
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    The Big Seashell Survey

    Before the Big Seashell Survey started, there was little quantitative information on the species and numbers of shells that wash ashore at the Belgian coast. However, beached shells can say a great deal about climate change, environmental pollution, impact of human activities at sea and changes in...

  • Identifying African bushmeat for sale in Brussels using DNA
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    Identifying African bushmeat for sale in Brussels using DNA

    Bushmeat is often defined as the meat derived from wild animals, including terrestrial mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, harvested for subsistence or trade, most often illegally. It is a freely accessible source of food that can be captured rather than bred and often represents both the...

  • Visualising EU fisheries agreements with Maritime Boundaries for the European Parliament
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    Visualising EU fisheries agreements with Maritime Boundaries for the European Parliament

    Members of the European Parliament are being brought up to speed on upcoming votes with background materials prepared by the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS). In recent EPRS publications concerning EU fisheries agreements, MarineRegion’s Maritime Boundaries are being used to visualise...

  • Assessing the state of the oceans
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    Assessing the state of the oceans

    The second World Ocean Assessment – WOA II – is a global exercise by hundreds of marine scientists to evaluate trends and identify knowledge gaps in the world ocean. Two chapters of WOA II have made use of several components of the LifeWatch Species Information Backbone.