Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Captive Hippos (Hippopotamus amphibius), Belgium
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A modelling tool to assess dispersal abilities of Antarctica species
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The cicada genus Megapomponia Boulard, 2005 from Laos, with description of a new species (Hemiptera: Cicadidae)
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Een scheepshouten kadeplatform in de laatmiddeleeuwse haven te Hoeke (W-VI.).
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Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft der Geoarchäologie.
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Fluvial activity of the Lateglacial to Holocene "Bergstraßenneckar" in the Upper Rhine Graben near Heidelberg, Germany – first results.
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Distribution of the invasive Caprella mutica Schurin, 1935 and native Caprella linearis (Linnaeus, 1767) on artificial hard substrates in the North Sea
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A pragmatic at-sea solution to comply with the multisource multibeam backscatter conundrum
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Au fond du fossé. Les céramiques de la fin du Second Âge du Fer du site de Latinne "Les Grandes Pièces" (Braives)
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GEMAS: Cadmium distribution and its sources in agricultural and grazing land soil of Europe - original data versus clr-transformed data
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Arthropods Associate with their Red Wood ant Host without Matching Nestmate Recognition Cues.
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First official detection of invasive tropical fire ant, Solenopsis geminata (Fabricius, 1804) (Hymenoptera; Formicidae) from Côte d'Ivoire (West Africa).
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The use of low cost compact cameras with focus stacking functionality in entomological digitization projects.
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Diversity of Ants and Termites of the Botanical Garden of the University of Lomé, Togo.
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Iguanian lizards (Acrodonta and Pleurodonta) from the earliest Eocene (MP7) of Dormaal, Belgium: The first stages of these iconic reptiles in Europe
- We here report on iguanians (both new and the previous record) from the earliest Eocene (MP 7) of the Dormaal locality in Belgium, from the time of the warmest global climates of the past 66 million years. Today iguanians are distributed mainly in the New World (Pleurodonta) and Old World (Acrodonta), having complicated biogeographic histories. Both lineages co-existed in Dormaal 56 Ma. Iguanians here document the presence of thermophilic faunas during greenhouse conditions in the northern mid-latitudes (above 50° north, the latitude of southern England). The complete maxilla of the agamid Tinosaurus europeocaenus is described and figured for the first time, being distinctive and furnishing a number of diagnostic characters. The dentary coronoid process of this species is also observed for the first time. Our morphological analysis supports the previous observation that Tinosaurus is similar to Leiolepis, but also differs from it by several distinguishing features. Some jaw character states present in T. europeocaenus are shared with the Indian T. indicus, Chinese T. doumuensis, and American Tinosaurus sp., but several differences among them are observed. Besides the wellknown Geiseltaliellus, we here erect and describe a new pleurodontan taxon. The new taxon is represented by a maxilla with a unique and peculiar tooth crown morphology: the central cusp is bifurcated, markedly split into two distinct and wellseparated “prongs.” This morphology likely indicates a high specialization on feeding sources. This might cause a higher extinction risk relative to generalists, because terrestrial ecosystems in Europe changed substantially during the Paleogene.
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Nouvelle donnée de Molorchus umbellatarum (Schreber, 1759) dans le département français du Calvados (C oleoptera, Cerambycidae Cerabycinae)
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Pression de chasse sur Petrodromus tetradactylus tordayi (Thomas, 1910: Mammalia) dans six villages des environnants de la Réserve Forestière de Yoko (Province de la Tshopo, RD Congo)
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Reproduction et structure des populations des Sciuridae (Rodentia, Mammalia) de la réserve forestière de Yoko (Ubundu, RD Congo)
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Phylogeny and phylogeography of Altolamprologus: ancient introgression and recent divergence in a rock-dwelling Lake Tanganyika cichlid genus
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Data sharing tools adopted by the European Biodiversity Observation Network Project
