Other metazoa – 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 13:08:49 +0000

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Geographical region(s): North East Atlantic Ocean Mediterranean Sea Macaronesia Iberian Peninsula
Ecosystem coverage: Marine
Taxonomic group(s): Arthropods (non insects), Chordates, Other metazoa
Host institute(s): University of Minho (Portugal)
Time span: Ongoing
Description: Building DNA barcode reference libraries for marine life (mostly fish, crustaceans, annelids and molluscs).

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:43 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Norway, Trans boundary
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater, Marine, Terrestrial
Taxonomic group(s): Arthropods (insects), Plants, Fungi & lichens, Other metazoa
Host institute(s): NTNU University Museum (Norway)
Time span: Ongoing
Description: NorBOL primary goal is building barcode reference library of all multicellular species in Norway as well as education, dissemination to stakeholders and public outreach.

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:42 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Norway, Trans boundary
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater, Marine, Terrestrial
Taxonomic group(s): Arthropods (insects), Arthropods (non insects), Chordates, Plants, Fungi & lichens, Other metazoa, Protista
Host institute(s): Norwegian institute for nature research – NINA (Norway)
Time span: Ongoing
Description: NINA conducts a general monitoring of terrestrial insects in Norway since 2020, on behalf of the Norwegian Environmental Agency (https://www.miljodirektoratet.no/). As of 2021, the monitoring is limited to the ecosystems “Forest” and “Semi-natural land”.

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:40 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Basque coast, North Sea, global / Transboundary
Ecosystem coverage: Marine
Taxonomic group(s): Arthropods (non insects), Other metazoa, Protista, Others
Host institute(s): AZTI (Spain)
Time span: Ongoing
Description: The primary objective is to develop and validate accurate, cost-efficient and standardised tools for the assessment of ecological status including multiple environmental impacts, based on routine biodiversity assessments using metabarcoding of meio- and microbenthos.

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:39 +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
Time span: Ongoing
Description: iBOL is working to establish an earth observation system that will reveal species, their dynamics, and interactions using DNA barcoding.

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:37 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Trans boundary
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater, Marine, Terrestrial
Taxonomic group(s): Arthropods (insects), Arthropods (non insects), Plants, Fungi & lichens, Other metazoa
Host institute(s): IBIOM-CNR – Institute of Biomembranes, Bioenergetics and Molecular Biotechnologies – Italian National Research Council (Italy)
Time span: Ongoing
Description: The institute has a long history in Bioenergetics and Biomembranes research at both national and international levels. Among the many scientific activities, molecular biodiversity constitutes one of the main research objectives. This includes the development of experimental methods using High Throughput Sequencing (HTS) technologies to implement DNA barcoding and metagenomics (amplicon-based and shotgun) approaches. Another research area relevant to the consortium regards the setup and the development of computational pipelines compatible with big data analyzes, database curation and building and data integration focused on barcoding studies and on Omics data in general.