Freshwater – iBOL Europe

PolBOL – Polish Barcode of Life

Gabriela Dankova — Fri, 31 May 2024 12:08:23 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Poland, Mediterranean Basin, Balkan Peninsula, Carpathian Arch
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater, Marine, Terrestrial
Taxonomic group(s): Arthropods, Chordates, Other metazoa
Host institute(s): Department of Invertebrate Zoology & Hydrobiology, Faculty of Biology & Environmental Protection, University of Lodz
Time span: Ongoing
Description: PoLBOL is a national iBOL-BIOSCAN node and an initiative coordinated at UniLodz, aiming to (i) document the biodiversity in Poland at a molecular level and provide reliable, comprehensive DNA barcode libraries for biomonitoring activities, (ii) improve, at an international scale, the DNA barcode libraries and document biodiversity in understudied European biodiversity hotspots (e.g. Carpathian Arch, Balkan Peninsula, Mediterranean Basin), (ii) promote DNA (meta)barcoding as a handy tool in biodiversity studies and conservation activities.

Gabriela Dankova — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 13:28:08 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Italy
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater, Marine, Terrestrial
Taxonomic group(s): All
Institute(s): Bringing together over 1,500 researchers belonging to 48 partner organisations (Universities and Research institutes) working on biodiversity topics.
Time span: Ongoing
Description: Builds a genetic/genomic platform that will also include DNA barcoding data from all the flora and fauna of Italy.

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:56 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Turkey
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater, Marine, Terrestrial
Taxonomic group(s): Arthropods (insects), Arthropods (non insects), Chordates, Plants, Fungi & lichens, Other metazoa
Host institute(s): Ankara University (Turkey)
Time span: Ongoing
Description: DNA barcoding and eDNA metabarcoding of terrestrial and aquatic species from microorganisms to mammals.

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:55 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Trans boundary
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater, Marine, Terrestrial
Taxonomic group(s): Arthropods (insects), Arthropods (non insects), Chordates, Plants, Fungi & lichens, Other metazoa, Protista, Others
Host institute(s): CETAF
Time span: Ongoing
Description: Provision of new mechanisms and tools to transfer taxonomic fundamental knowledge to other societal and scientific actors.

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:54 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Norway, Trans boundary
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater, Marine, Terrestrial
Taxonomic group(s): Arthropods (insects)
Host institute(s): NTNU University Museum (Norway)
Time span: Ongoing
Description: Using a variety of molecular markers, including DNA barcodes, we investigate species delimitation, diversity and evolutionary relationships in chironomids.

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:52 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Malta
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater, Marine
Taxonomic group(s): Arthropods (non insects), Chordates, Others
Host institute(s): University of Malta (Malta)
Time span: Ongoing
Description: The IOIKIDS Spot the Jellyfish initiative aims to increase awareness, especially among the younger generations, about the local diversity of jellyfish species, through a hands-on exercise involving the reporting of sightings of jellyfish that often swarm close to our shores and beaches. In so doing the initiative would be supplying useful data for local marine scientists and tourist authorities, through a citizen science approach… and aid to avoid those stinging jellies!

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:51 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Malta
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater, Marine
Taxonomic group(s): Arthropods (non insects), Chordates, Others
Host institute(s): University of Malta (Malta)
Time span: Ongoing
Description: The Spot the Alien citizen science campaign was launched in 2019 and is the third national citizen science campaign coordinated by Prof. Alan Deidun, Dr. Adam Gauci, Mr. Johann Galdies and Mr. Martin Galea De Giovanni. It aims to promote the submission of reports of Non-Indigenous Species (NIS), commonly known as ‘alien species’, spotted within Maltese waters by citizen scientists. Whilst the Spot the Alien Fish campaign (launched in 2017) focuses on alien fish species, the Spot the Alien campaign focuses on all other alien species. This campaign is supported financially by the International Ocean Institute (IOI) through annual grants and is providing an unparalleled contribution to Malta’s international alien species monitoring obligations as well as alien species scientific monitoring efforts.

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:47 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Greece, Bulgaria, N. Macedonia
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater, Terrestrial
Taxonomic group(s): Plants
Host institute(s): University of Thessaly (Greece)
Time span: Finished
Description: Plants are essential for many aspects of our daily lives as they provide food, medicines, and construction materials. Plants also affect us negatively through pollen and resulting allergies, poisonous species in gardens and pastures and as adulterants in herbal medicines, and as invasive aliens in marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments. Understanding and valorising botanical biodiversity requires accurate, modern and rapid assessment approaches. Plant diversity worldwide is under threat from destruction of natural habitats due to human population growth related consequences as well as climate change impacts on sensitive ecosystems. It is in our capacity to study, map and describe this diversity, and plant systematics and taxonomy has suffered from a loss of research and institutional funds as research has become more competitive and taxonomy was considered too descriptive to compete with emerging fundamental research.

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:46 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Trans boundary
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater
Taxonomic group(s): Protista
Host institute(s): INRAE Carrtel (France)
Time span: Ongoing
Description: (e)DNA tools for the biomonitoring of freshwater phytoplankton: – A web-based application (Phytool) developed with ShinyApp (Rstudio) aims to make the harmonisation of taxonomy easier and in a more efficient way, using a complete and up-to-date taxonomy reference database for freshwater microalgae. – Phytool barcode libraries : selected specific barcodes within the two marker genes (rRNA16S and rRNA23S) allow to target the entire freshwater phytoplankton community. These barcode libraries will be enriched in the next releases of the application.

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:45 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Cyprus
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater, Marine
Taxonomic group(s): Arthropods (insects), Arthropods (non insects), Protista
Host institute(s): Cyprus University of Technology (Cyprus)
Time span: Ongoing
Description: The project aims to design and validate DNA metabarcoding methodology for European benthic diatoms identification and to develop a DNA-based analytic test for its standard application in biodiversity assessments of European rivers. The project’s main output will be a low-cost product, a unique and fast DNA-based tool for routine application.