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Inproceedings Reference Symbiotic interactions challenged by environmental stress in aquatic transitional habitats
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2024
Article Reference Sympatric Dreissena species in the Meuse River: towards a dominance shift from zebra to quagga mussels
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications
Article Reference Synergistic effects of dual parasitism in Daphnia magna under nutrient limitation
Located in Associated publications / Belgian Journal of Zoology / Bibliographic References
Article Reference Synergy between polar-orbiting and geostationary sensors: Remote sensing of the ocean at high spatial and high temporal resolution
Ocean colour sensors have been capturing the state of the world's oceans for over a decade. They are typically installed on polar-orbiting satellites and cover the entire earth every 1 to 2 days. This temporal resolution is insufficient to observe oceanic processes occurring at a higher frequency, especially when taking cloud cover into account. Data from geostationary platforms can be obtained with a much better temporal resolution (images every 15 or 60 min), and thus are useful to study those processes. We show that by synergistically combining marine reflectance data from SEVIRI, a geostationary sensor, and MODIS Aqua, a polar orbiter, the resulting product is an improvement over both data sources. The synergy approach takes the reflectance from MODIS, with high quality and high spatial resolution, and modulates this over the day by the temporal variability of the SEVIRI reflectance, normalized to the SEVIRI reflectance at the time of MODIS overpass. The temporal frequency of the synergy product is much better than that of MODIS, and by using the latter's high quality data, the limited spatial and radiometric resolution of SEVIRI is enhanced. As the SEVIRI data is limited to a single broad red band (560-710 nm), the applications of the synergy product are limited to parameters that can be derived from this band, such as suspended particulate matter (SPM), turbidity (T) and the diffuse attenuation of photosynthetically available radiation (Kpar) in turbid waters. A geostationary ocean colour sensor over Europe will provide invaluable data concerning our marine environment. The cost of increasing the spatial resolution of a geostationary sensor is very high, and this study illustrates that a lower resolution geostationary ocean colour sensor combined with a high resolution polar orbiting sensor, can provide a high frequency synergetic product with high spatial resolution. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc All rights reserved.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications
Article Reference Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), excluding Bulimulidae
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2016
Techreport Reference System-to-system interface between the EMSA CleanSeaNet service and OSERIT: the potential synergies between remote sensing and modelling in case of marine pollution
The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) develop and operate together a system-to-system interface between the EMSA’s CleanSeaNet service and OSERIT, the Belgian Oil Spill Evaluation and Response Integrated Tool. This interface is meant to provide CleanSeaNet users with a support tool for early and automatic oil drift and fate simulation results of any satellite-detected oil spills reported by the CleanSeaNet service in the North Sea and the English Channel. In view of the automatic forecast and backtrack simulations results, CleanSeaNet users have the possibility to further refine this early risk assessment either by activating their own national decision support system or by requesting new, advanced simulations through the CleanSeaNet GIS viewer. This interface is currently passing the final acceptance tests. However, the system has already been used by RBINS for the oil pollution event subsequent to the Flinterstar sinking at 8km off the port of Zeebruges on the 6th of October 2015. This event perfectly illustrates the potential synergies of remote sensing and modelling in case of marine pollution and their integration in risk assessments that must be performed for any significant pollution of the marine system.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2016
Article Reference Systematic Design of a Natural Sciences Collections Digitisation Dashboard
This paper describes the design and build of a pilot Natural Sciences Collections Digitisation Dashboard (CDD). The CDD will become a key service for the Distributed System of Scientific Collections Research Infrastructure (DiSSCo) and aims to improve the discoverability of natural science collections (NSCs) held in European institutions, both digitised and undigitised. Furthermore, it will serve as a dynamic visual assessment tool for strategic decision-making, including the prioritisation of digitisation. The CDD pilot includes high-level information from nine European NSCs, covering the number of objects, taxonomic scope, storage type, chronostratigraphy (Earth Science Collections), geographical region and level of detail in digitisation. This information is structured through a standardised Collection Classification Scheme, which uses high-level categorisation to describe physical natural science collections.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2024 OA
Inproceedings Reference Systematics and biogeography of the Western Ghats-Sri Lankan land-snail genus Corilla
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2023 OA
Article Reference Systematics and phylogeny of Chalcinotrematinae (Digenea: Haploporidae): Erection of a new genus and description of two new species from South America through integrated analyses
The subfamily Chalcinotrematinae (Haploporidae) comprises an understudied group of digenean parasites infecting freshwater and brackish water fishes across the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Its systematics have rarely been investigated using molecular data, with DNA sequences available for only a few species representing two of the six recognised genera. We collected chalcinotrematine trematodes from freshwater fishes in the Jari River, Amazon Basin, Brazil, and in Misiones, Argentina. Specimens from Brazil were characterised through an integrative approach combining morphological examination with molecular data (partial 28S and ITS2 rDNA sequences), whereas those from Argentina were analysed morphologically. As a result, we describe two new species from Brazil: Chalcinotrema arleneae sp. nov. from Leporinus friderici and Laemolyta proxima, and Unicoelium gerardoi sp. nov. from Hypostomus plecostomus. This study provides the first molecular data for both Chalcinotrema and Unicoelium, expanding the phylogenetic framework of Chalcinotrematinae. Paralecithobotrys brasiliensis is recorded from Argentina in Megaleporinus obtusidens, extending its geographical range. We reassessed the generic limits of Saccocoelioides, the most species-rich genus within the subfamily. Based on combined morphological, molecular, host, and distributional evidence, we propose taxonomic revisions, establishing Neosaccocoelioides gen. nov. for several South American species formerly assigned to Saccocoelioides: N. antonioi comb. nov., N. bacilliformis comb. nov., N. elongatus comb. nov., N. magnus comb. nov., N. miguelmontesi comb. nov. (type species), and N. szidati comb. nov. Additionally, N. platense comb. nov., previously placed in Chalcinotrema, is transferred to the new genus. Saccocoelioides chilkaensis and S. lizae are considered species inquirendae; and S. guaporense is considered incertae sedis. These findings refine Chalcinotrematinae relationships and highlight the need for expanded molecular datasets to resolve systematic and biogeographical uncertainties.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2025
Techreport Reference T2.3-2.6 A Competency Based Curriculum for Natural History Collections Management
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications