Our patch of forest is now part of a global program sampling insect biodiversity. Over the next year we will be collecting hundreds of flying insects for DNA analysis. Some will be species we know wel...

Vacancy at Department of Biology - Genetics, Ecology and Evolution, Aarhus University

The mutual interest in nature by the general public and scientists has led to many collaborations, past and present. Community science shows great potential for monitoring species occurrences and dis...

Environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis is a rapid, non-invasive, cost-efficient biodiversity monitoring tool with enormous potential to inform aquatic conservation and management. Development is ongoing, w...

As the urgency to monitor and protect aquatic biodiversity intensifies, the need for reliable and interoperable DNA-based data infrastructures becomes increasingly vital. The eDNAqua-Plan project sets...

Metabarcoding of DNA extracted from community samples of whole organisms (whole organism community DNA, wocDNA) is increasingly being applied to terrestrial, marine and freshwater metazoan communitie...

Aquatic eDNA-based technologies offer the potential for universal and standardized biodiversity monitoring. In this Perspective, Altermatt et al. discuss how these technologies can help to achiev...

A total of 25 species of aquatic mites have been identified, and of these 23 are endemic to Madeira. Aquatic mites are important regulators of invertebrate populations in freshwater systems, have enor...

Job title: Associate Professor in evolutionary genomics of vertebrates (279638), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, May 25, 2025

Job title: PhD Candidate in Arctic alien plant genomics (278168), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Friday, May 9, 2025

Discovering, describing and cataloguing global species diversity remains a fundamental challenge both for biodiversity research and for the management and conservation of biodiversity. Among animals,...

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The first Community Meeting of the year will take place on 27 January 2025 from 15:30 to 17:00 CET on Zoom! This time, the meeting will be chaired by Michał Grabowski (University of Łódź). Kasia Fant...