Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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Les restes archéobotaniques (pollen, graines et fruits) datés du Moyen Âge en Wallonie : un bilan
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Les prélèvements des restes bioarchéologiques : manuel de terrain
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An historical ecology of the Neolithic to Medieval Periods in the southern French Alps: A reassessment of ‘driving forces’
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Analyse palynologique des zones 2 et 3 du site archéologique romain de Baelen Nereth 2
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Note on Monophorus amicitiae Romani, 2015 (Gastropoda, Triphoridae), extension of its distribution to the Central Mediterranean Sea
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How well are the northern whelks known? The genus Anomalisipho Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1912 (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) in the North Atlantic Ocean
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Addition au catalogue des Dynastinae de Thaïlande avec le signalement de Trichogomphus rongi Dechambre & Drumont (Insecta, Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)
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Co-introduction success of monogeneans infecting the fisheries target Limnothrissa miodon differs between two non-native areas: the potential of parasites as a tag for introduction pathway
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Integrative species delimitation and phylogeny of the branchiate worm Branchiodrilus (Clitellata, Naididae)
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Scaldiporia vandokkumi, a new pontoporiid (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the Late Miocene to earliest Pliocene of the Westerschelde estuary (The Netherlands)
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The proportion of flatfish recruitment in the North Sea potentially affected by offshore windfarms
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L’abri des Oullas (Saint-Paul-sur-Ubaye, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence). Approche intégrée d’un site de passage
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DNA barcoding of earthworms (Eisenia fetida/andrei complex) from 28 ecotoxicological test laboratories
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New euprimate postcrania from the early Eocene of Gujarat, India, and the strepsirrhineehaplorhine divergence
- The oldest primates of modern aspect (euprimates) appear abruptly on the Holarctic continents during a brief episode of global warming known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, at the beginning of the Eocene (~56 Ma). When they first appear in the fossil record, they are already divided into two distinct clades, Adapoidea (basal members of Strepsirrhini, which includes extant lemurs, lorises, and bushbabies) and Omomyidae (basal Haplorhini, which comprises living tarsiers, monkeys, and apes). Both groups have recently been discovered in the early Eocene Cambay Shale Formation of Vastan lignite mine, Gujarat, India, where they are known mainly from teeth and jaws. The Vastan fossils are dated at ~54.5 Myr based on associated dinoflagellates and isotope stratigraphy. Here, we describe new, exquisitely preserved limb bones of these Indian primates that reveal more primitive postcranial characteristics than have been previously documented for either clade, and differences between them are so minor that in many cases we cannot be certain to which group they belong. Nevertheless, the small distinctions observed in some elements foreshadow postcranial traits that distinguish the groups by the middle Eocene, suggesting that the Vastan primatesdthough slightly younger than the oldest known euprimatesdmay represent the most primitive known remnants of the divergence between the two great primate clades.
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First mammal species identified from the Upper Cretaceousof the Rusca Montana Basin (Transylvania, Romania)
- Multituberculate mammals are scarce in the Late Cretaceous of Europe, being recorded exclusively from the Maastrichtian terrestrial deposits of the Hateg and Transylvanian basins, in Romania. Moreover, they all belong to the endemic and primitive cimolodontan family Kogaionidae. Here, we report multituberculate teeth originating from the Maastrichtian fluviatile sediments of the Rusca Montana Basin (Occidental Carpathians, Poiana Rusca Mountains). This is the westernmost occurrence of these Cretaceous mammals in Romania. These teeth are assigned to Barbatodon oardaensis, the smallest Cretaceous kogaionid species. This study presents the first occurrence of this species outside the Metaliferi sedimentary area (southwestern Transylvania, Romania). The distribution of Romanian Maastrichtian kogaionids is also discussed.
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Addressing the “taxonomic impediment” in partner countries of the Belgian Development Cooperation through the Belgian National Focal Point to the Global Taxonomy Initiative within CEBioS
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The MRV capacity-building approach to promote the use of biodiversity data for decision-making
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Bridging the science-policy gap in a megadiverse and fragile country: policy-relevant monitoring of biodiversity in DR Congo
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The Antarctic Epimeria species flock: a systematic Pandora box revealed by DNA analysis and illustrated by stacking photography
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Origin, dispersions and diversification dynamics of Epimeriidae and Iphimediidae (Amphipoda, Crustacea) from the Antarctic shelf
