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Article Reference Old concepts in a new semantic perspective: introducing a geotemporal approach to conceptual definitions in geology
Geological units are the fundamental building blocks that help understand regional geological history and architecture. Classifying these correctly is therefore crucial, as is acknowledging how they relate to each other. This is where traditional definitions fall short, which is increasingly becoming evident with the ongoing effort of setting up advanced knowledge systems that rely on semantic grounding. In exploring the way forward for fundamental improvements, we use the foreland basin and related concepts to introduce a geotemporal conceptual approach of defining geological units with relative limits in time and space. This approach closes the semantic gap between definitions in thesauri and formal instantiation in ontologies.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2024
Article Reference On a new species of Thia Leach, 1815 from the tropical eastern Atlantic (Decapoda, Brachyura, Portunoidea, Carcinidae, Thiinae)
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Article Reference On the genus Lagenopolycystis Artois and Schockaert, 2000 (Platyhelminthes, Kalyptorhynchia, Polycystididae)
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Article Reference On the identity of Euthria fernandesi Rolan, Monteiro & Fraussen, 2003 (Gastropoda: Tudiclidae), with the description of Euthria lindae sp. nov.
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Article Reference On the presence of Calliostoma inopinatum Dautzenberg, 1911 (Gastropoda: Calliostomatidae) off the south coast of Crete (Greece)
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Article Reference Optical dating of charcoal kiln remains from WWII: A test of accuracy.
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Article Reference Ordovician (Darriwilian–Katian) brachiopods from the southeastern margin of Avalonia (Condroz Inlier, Belgium)
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Article Reference Overview of myrmecological studies and a checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Democratic Republic of Congo
The production of species checklists is fundamental to setting baseline knowledge of biodiversity across the world and they are invaluable for global conservation efforts. The main objective of this study is to provide an up-to-date extensive checklist of the ants of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the largest country in sub-Saharan Africa, based on available literature to serve as a foundation for future research and ant faunistic developments. We gathered the literature available to us, most of it compiled from the Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics (GABI) Project and treated the data to province level when possible. We also offer insight into who, when and where contributions have emerged to the current knowledge of the ants of the DRC and each of its 26 provinces. The current list is restricted to valid species and subspecies, discarding morphospecies and some misidentified taxa. The list comprises eight subfamilies, 64 genera and 736 species, the highest species diversity for a country located within the Afrotropical realm.
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Article Reference Oxygen and sulfur stable isotope ratios of Late Devonian vertebrates trace the relative salinity of their aquatic environments
Late Devonian aquatic environments hosted the fin-to-limb transition in vertebrates. Upper Devonian (ca. 365–360 Ma) strata in Pennsylvania, USA, preserve a diversity of fishes and tetrapods in coastal marine to fluvial depositional environments, making this region ideal for investigating the ecology and evolution of Late Devonian vertebrates. A key unresolved issue has been reconstructing the specific aquatic habitats that hosted various vertebrates during this period. Specifically, the salinity of environments spanning fresh to shallow marine water is difficult to discern from sedimentological and paleontological analyses alone. Here, we analyze rare earth elements and yttrium (REY) as well as stable oxygen and sulfur isotope compositions (δ18O, δ34S) in fossil vertebrate bioapatite from late Famennian (ca. 362–360 Ma) strata of the Catskill and Lock Haven formations in the Appalachian Basin, USA, to determine the relative salinity of their aquatic environments. These results confirm the ecological euryhalinity of several taxa (Bothriolepis sp., tristichopterids, and Holoptychius sp.). Our results are the first demonstrating that some early tetrapod species occupied unequivocally freshwater habitats by late Famennian time (ca. 362–360 Ma). Our study shows that integrating sedimentological and paleontological data with combined oxygen and sulfur isotope analysis allows precise tracing of the relative salinity of vertebrate habitats deep in the past.
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Inproceedings Reference Paleogenomic insights into the dispersal of domestic cats into Europe and selection patterns over time
Zooarchaeological and genetic evidence from the last two decades demonstrated that domestic cats originated from the North African and Near Eastern wildcat, Felis lybica lybica. The commensal relationship between humans and cats started about 11 thousand years ago in the Neolithic Levant. Recent paleogenomic evidence showed that cats were introduced to Europe several millennia later, in the Roman era. Yet, archaeozoological and ancient mitochondrial DNA data from northwest Europe suggest that domestic cats were already present in this region in the 1st millennium BCE, in Iron Age settlements. Until now, only three cats from Europe dated to this period have been analysed at the nuclear level, thus leaving uncertainty on the times and circumstances of the human mediated dispersal of domestic cats into Europe. To address that, we analysed the DNA of 30 cat remains dated from the Bronze Age to the Roman era from northern and western Europe. We built double-stranded genomic libraries and generated low-coverage genome-wide data via shotgun sequencing. The temporal transect of genomic variation that we reconstructed made it possible to refine the timing of the introduction of the domestic cat to Europe. In addition, to investigate patterns of selection in the history of cat domestication, we show here the preliminary results of the analysis of cat phenotypic variants across time and place, with a particular focus on the sex-linked orange coat colour.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2025