GBIF 🌱Sep 12, 2024

An overnight refresh to data from Observation.org has pushed the #GBIF index past #3billion occurrence records!

With *just* under 100 million records (wait till next week!), this 🇳🇱-based NGO is also a formal #GBIF Participant, whose massive #CitizenScience contributions often go overlooked.

Hartelijk gefeliciteerd en bedankt to Dylan Verheul & the whole Observation.org team!
https://www.gbif.org/publisher/c8d737e0-2ff8-42e8-b8fc-6b805d26fc5f/metrics

@Naturalis #NLBIF #Natagora #Natuurpunt #Zostera

Observation.org

Observation.org is a non-profit organisation recording and presenting international plant, animal and fungi observations. Our vision is that actively engaging people with nature creates understanding, inspires conservation and supports scientific research. Observation.org provides observers everywhere with best-of-industry technology to collect, validate and share high quality fieldwork data. The vast majority of users on Observation.org are citizens who enjoy spending time recording observations. Our platform is both accessible for beginners and versatile enough for professional use. The obse…

CellBioNewsJul 23, 2023

How #eelgrass spread around the world.

#genomics #nuclear #chloroplasts #phylogenomics #zostera #biodiversity

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-eelgrass-world.html

How eelgrass spread around the world

Seagrasses evolved from freshwater plants and use sunlight and carbon dioxide (CO2) for photosynthesis and are able to thrive in depths down to 50 meters. In contrast to algae, they possess roots and rhizomes that grow in sandy to muddy sediments. The grass-like, leaf-shoots produce flowers and complete their life cycle entirely underwater. Seeds are negatively buoyant but seed-bearing shoots can raft, thus greatly enhancing dispersal distances at oceanic scale.

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Anders LanzénJul 6, 2023

Subsampling #sediment cores from Basque #seagrass (#Zostera noltii) meadows and saltmarshes for #environmental #DNA and #ancient #eDNA analyses (for #prokaryotes, #fungi #meiofauna, and maybe #plant #community analysis)

#MicrobialEcology #metabarcoding #environmentalmicrobiology #EnvironmentalGenomics #BlueCarbon #wetlands #SaltMarsh #seagrassmeadows #sedaDNA

Hagen GrafDec 27, 2022
In the shallow water on the beach there are seagrass meadows. Sometimes it looks like it has just been mown 😀If you need some fresh and #glutenfree #seagrass - there's plenty here

#zostera #mediterranean #sea #omega6 #omega9 😀