DiSSCo Prepare Project: Increasing the Implementation Readiness Levels of the European Research Infrastructure [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2023 The Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) is a new world-class Research Infrastructure (RI) for Natural Science Collections. The DiSSCo RI aims to create a new business model for one European collection that digitally unifies all European
Dimitrios Koureas +4 more
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A long-read amplicon approach to scaling up the metabarcoding of lichen herbarium specimens [PDF]
MycoKeys, 2022 Reference sequence databases are critical to the accurate detection and identification of fungi in the environment. As repositories of large numbers of well-curated specimens, herbaria and fungal culture collections have the material resources to ...
Cécile Gueidan, Lan Li
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Beyond collective intelligence: Collective adaptation [PDF]
Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2022 We develop a conceptual framework for studying collective adaptation in complex socio-cognitive systems, driven by dynamic interactions of social integration strategies, social environments and problem structures. Going beyond searching for ‘intelligent’ collectives, we integrate research from different disciplines and outline modelling approaches that
Mirta Galesic +19 more
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Avian Research, 2021 Background Bird nests are an important part of avian ecology. They are a powerful tool for studying not only the birds that built them, but a wide array of topics ranging from parasitology, urbanisation and climate change to evolution. Despite this, bird
Tonya M. Haff +5 more
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Collaborative Conservation by Botanical Gardens: Unique Opportunities for Local to Global Impacts
Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens, 2022 Conservation organizations with common missions can find strength and synergy in collaboration. Collaboration can also be challenging, especially finding the right partnerships or organizations to lead.
Aireona B. Raschke +4 more
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Language Matters: How Baker Library is Working Towards Conscious and Inclusive Description
Ticker, 2021 Inclusive and conscious archival description can support consistency in researching and describing marginalized groups and can serve to provide context and a counter-narrative reflecting the perspective of the documented community.
Christine Riggle, Mary Samouelian
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At the edge of extinction: a first herpetological assessment of the proposed Serra do Pingano Rainforest National Park in Uíge Province, northern Angola [PDF]
Zoosystematics and Evolution, 2020 We systematically assess the herpetofaunal diversity of the Serra do Pingano Forest Ecosystem (SPFE) and additional localities throughout the northern Angolan province of Uíge during four independent Rapid Assessment (RA) field campaigns held between ...
Raffael Ernst +3 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Ammonium is a fundamental nutrient for phytoplankton growth in seawater and is a key component of the microbial loop. Ammonium measured in parallel with other nutrients is crucial in understanding the small temporal scale changes in oceanographic ecology.
Christine Rees +9 more
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Complete mitochondrial genome and phylogenetic analysis of the Atrato slider, Trachemys medemi (Testudines, Emydidae) [PDF]
ZooKeysThe mitochondrial genome of three Trachemys medemi was sequenced and annotated for the first time. The mitochondrial genome is a circular DNA molecule of 16,711–16,810 bp in size, with 60.9% AT content. It includes 13 protein-coding genes, two rRNA genes,
Sebastián Cuadrado-Ríos +3 more
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Vascular plants of east-central Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada: an annotated checklist of a mid-Arctic flora [PDF]
PhytoKeysBaffin Island in the eastern Canadian Arctic is the largest island in Canada and the fifth largest in the world. East-central Baffin Island, a spectacular mountainous area covering over 57,000 km2, with long fiords, deep U-shaped valleys, glaciers, and ...
Lynn J. Gillespie +2 more
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