Greece – iBOL Europe https://iboleurope.org European node of the International Barcode of Life Mon, 25 May 2026 11:45:12 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 GrBOL – Greek Barcode of Life https://iboleurope.org/projects/grbol-greek-barcode-of-life/ Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:44:43 +0000 https://iboleurope.org/?post_type=project&p=6053
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  • Geographical region(s): Greece and surrounding regions
  • Ecosystem(s) coverage: Freshwater, Marine, Terrestrial
  • Taxonomic group(s): Arthropods (insects), Arthropods (non-insects), Fungi and Lichens, Plants
  • Host institute(s): Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  • Timespan: 2024 – ongoing
  • Description: GrBOL is a national network of various biodiversity institutions in Greece, coordinated by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. GrBOL partners provide their professional taxonomic expertise and existing infrastructure (collections/biobanks, databases, bioinformatics platforms and laboratories) for the comprehensive collection, recording, description and sequencing of animal, plant and fungal species in Greece. The sequences and metadata generated within GrBOL will be integrated into the global barcode reference database “BOLD”.
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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.
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