Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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Cis de strandjutter: Zeeschildpadden in de Noordzee.
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Actieplan zeehond van defensief naar offensief milieubeleid in de Noordzee.
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Environmental monitoring of offshore renewable energy installations : A plea for timely knowledge sharing.
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Facilitating a closer international collaboration throughout the North Atlantic Region. Targeted monitoring in offshore wind farms. The need to understand cause-effect relationships in the marine benthos.
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Brucella ceti infection in a harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), Proceedings of the 2nd Scientific meeting of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Liège, 19 October 2012.
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Kaart van het gebruik van de Belgische zeegebieden - Carte de l'usage des espaces marins belges.
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The magnitude of global marine species diversity.
- The question of how many marine species exist is important because it provides a metric for how much we do and do not know about life in the oceans. We have compiled the first register of the marine species of the world and used this baseline to estimate how many more species, partitioned among all major eukaryotic groups, may be discovered.
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New species in the Old World: Europe as a frontier in biodiversity exploration, a test bed for 21st century taxonomy.
- The number of described species on the planet is about 1.9 million, with ca. 17,000 new species described annually, mostly from the tropics. However, taxonomy is usually described as a science in crisis, lacking manpower and funding, a politically acknowledged problem known as the Taxonomic Impediment. Using data from the Fauna Europaea database and the Zoological Record, we show that contrary to general belief, developed and heavily-studied parts of the world are important reservoirs of unknown species. In Europe, new species of multicellular terrestrial and freshwater animals are being discovered and named at an unprecedented rate: since the 1950s, more than 770 new species are on average described each year from Europe, which add to the 125,000 terrestrial and freshwater multicellular species already known in this region. There is no sign of having reached a plateau that would allow for the assessment of the magnitude of European biodiversity. More remarkably, over 60\% of these new species are described by non-professional taxonomists. Amateurs are recognized as an essential part of the workforce in ecology and astronomy, but the magnitude of non-professional taxonomist contributions to alpha-taxonomy has not been fully realized until now. Our results stress the importance of developing a system that better supports and guides this formidable workforce, as we seek to overcome the Taxonomic Impediment and speed up the process of describing the planetary biodiversity before it is too late.
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The ‘rotiferologist’ effect and other global correlates of species richness in monogonont rotifers
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An integrated impact assessment of trammel net and beam trawl fisheries - WAKO II. Final Report. Science for Sustainable Development.
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Macrofaunal sediment selectivity considerations for beach nourishment programmes.
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Differentiating between underwater construction noise of monopile and jacket foundations for offshore windmills: A case study from the Belgian part of the North Sea.
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The return of Don Quixote? Challenges to and opportunities for Begian offshore wind farms.
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Offshore intertidal Hard substrata : a New Habitat Promoting Non-indigenous Species in the Southern North Sea.
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Towards a List of Available Names in Zoology , partim Phylum Rotifera
- Many, mostly older, names of animal species are nomenclaturally problematic, either because their orthography is unstable, or they cannot be linked reliably to a taxonomic identity, due to the lack of recognisable descriptions and/or types. Yet, they represent available (sensu International Code of Zoological Nomenclature) names and must be taken into account in zoological works. This situation, with available senior, yet dubious names confounding nomenclature, is undesirable. It creates uncertainties at a time when molecular approaches are revolutionizing our concepts of species diversity, and fails us when the current extinction crisis calls for efficient, accurate, and constructive approaches to document, monitor, and conserve biodiversity. The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (The Code) provides a means to address this issue by restricting availability, application and orthography of names to those included in the List of Available Names in Zoology (LAN). The Code (Art. 79) allows an international body of zoologists in consultation with the Commission to propose a candidate part of the LAN for a major taxonomic field. We explore this possibility for 3570 species-group names of Phylum Rotifera (of which 665 are problematic), by presenting such a candidate Rotifera part of the LAN. The web site of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (http://www.iczn.org) will hold both the candidate list and a forum to facilitate consultation on the candidate list, while the list itself also can already be freely downloaded from three other Internet sites: http://fada.biodiversity.be, http://rotifer.ansp.org/LAN, and www.hausdernatur.at/rotifera. We give here an overview of the general approach and procedures applied in preparation of the candidate list, and anticipate that our effort will promote the process as well as result in a standard list of names for use in taxonomy, the Global Names Architecture and other biodiversity information initiatives.
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Assessing the Transboundary Environmental Impacts of Offshore Wind Farm Development in the Belgian part of the North Sea.
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Offshore windfarms in the Belgian part of the North Sea: early environmental impacts and selected findings.
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Offshore intertidal Hard substrata : a New Habitat Promoting Non-indigenous Species in the Southern North Sea.
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Assessing the environmental impact of offshore wind farms in the Belgian part of the North Sea.
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The guide of the non-indigenous species of the Belgian part of the North Sea and nearby estuaries.
