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Community Meeting Recording: the Role of Community Science in DNA-Based Biodiversity Monitoring
Carolina Corrales (Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change) presents the paper "The Role of Community Science in DNA-Based Biodiversity Monitoring," which distinguishes between Contributory and Collaborative Citizen Science, provides related examples, and discusses the benefits and challenges of...
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Community Meeting Recording: BGE reference library curation pipeline and tool
Today, we are publishing the recording of the presentation in which Ben Price (Natural History Museum of London) and Stephan Kuehbandner (Bavarian State Collections of Natural History) presented the reference library curation pipeline and tool developed within the BGE project...
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Community Meeting September 2026
The next Community Meeting t0ook place on Monday, 28 September, between 15:30 and 16:45 CEST. We started the meeting with Nikolaus Szucsich (Natural History Museum of Vienna), who shared insights into the organisational, infrastructural, and scientific developments of ABOL –...
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Course: Sampling for reference DNA barcodes
Thank you for your interest. The registration for this training is now closed, but similar trainings will be held in the future, so follow us and BGE+ on social media to ensure that you won't miss any announcements related to...
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Community Meeting Recording: MEDFORGEN
This time, we are publishing the recording of the presentation that Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat (European Forest Institute – EFI) gave at our community meeting in May 2026 about MEDFORGEN – the Mediterranean Forest Genetic Resources Network. MEDFORGEN is an...
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Paper: Evolving ABOL – Reflections on a Decade of Coordinating a National Biodiversity Initiative
The Austrian Barcode of Life (ABOL) initiative was founded in 2014 to systematically document all animal, plant, and fungal species occurring in Austria using DNA barcodes. From the beginning, the coordination of this nationwide initiative has been anchored at and...
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