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Sujeevan Ratnasingham

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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) @boldsystems.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

📸 Figure from Sinclair, J.S., Buchner, D., Gessner, M. et al. Effects of land cover and protected areas on flying insect diversity. Conservation Biology (2024) Paper 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/cobi... #DNABarcoding #BOLD #metabarcoding #conservation

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Effects of land cover and protected areas on flying insect diversity

Widespread insect losses are a critical global problem. Mitigating this problem requires identifying the principal drivers across different taxa and determining which insects are covered by protected...

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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) @boldsystems.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Tigers are included in our validated IUCN Red List animal reference library. Expert validation ensures error-free species detection. Use our identification engine and validated dataset to check for tiger or other species of elevated conservation concern in your samples: 🔗 buff.ly/3CksNf3

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Barcode ID – BOLD

BOLD enables researchers, students and citizen scientists to submit DNA barcode sequences for identification against a reference library that includes sequences from more than 1.2 million species.

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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) @boldsystems.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

🌿🔴 Species highlight: validated IUCN Red List animal library 🐅 Tigers (Panthera tigris) need no introduction. Did you know they occupy just 5% of their historic range (circa 1500)? Despite bans, poaching & illegal wildlife trade continue to threaten their survival. #BigCats #Biodiversity

Photo of a tiger and a tiger cub laying down on green grass. Photo by Wilma Verburg (CC BY-SA 4.0) accessed from https://portal.boldsystems.org/record/GBMA1902-09

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