2) These findings reveal how widespread pharmaceutical use can create chronic risks for keystone scavengers and highlights the importance of expanded monitoring open data sharing and collaborative science to support effective vulture conservation. πŸ”Ž

πŸ”— https://gbif.link/vulture-data-use

#DataUseSummary #ResearchImpact #BiodiversityData

Keep calm and carrion: data models predict vulture exposure risk to contaminants

Widespread use of veterinary pharmaceuticals results in persistent, low-level toxic exposure in vultures

The Global Spore Sampling Project

Novel method for sampling and characterizing airborne fungal spores, capturing samples yielding 27,954 species-level operational taxonomic units from 47 locations worldwide

Introducing the Global Spore Sampling ProjectπŸ„

This project collected airborne spore samples across 47 sites around the world, resulting in 2,768 extracted #DNA samples over two years. 🧬 Researchers identified 27,945 species-level taxonomic units from these samples. πŸ”Ž

The resulting dataset was mobilized to GBIF using the GBIF Metabarcoding Data Toolkit, with support from #GBIFFinland!

πŸ”—https://gbif.link/spore-dataset

See the GBIF #DataUseSummary: πŸ”— https://gbif.link/GSSP