A new study in @nature.com shows that abrupt changes to Antarctica’s currents, ice and glaciers are already underway – and likely to significantly intensify in the future, with global impacts for generations to come.🧪🌏

Read more in @theconversation.com 

🌍 Why countries need GBIF: lessons from Belgium

A recently published policy brief provides details how Belgium has leveraged GBIF to support sustainable development, conservation and innovation for effective #biodiversity governance.

🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

This Lesser Sunda Islands pit viper is a testament to nature's beauty!

While this species is not threatened, many snakes are. Your support helps us protect snakes globally by funding education & conservation efforts.

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💡 Think carefuly about the analytical choices made when relating #eDNA #concentrations to species #abundance and #density!

⚠️ We show that a variety of (suboptimal) methods are used to investigate these relationships, and that these problematic statitiscs lead to flawed outcomes

👇 #OA article below

Wolfgang Wüster nails it: species delimitation is still too often based solely on mtDNA. Robust delimitation requires NGS data, and researchers should tread carefully with concatenated trees. A lot of the common pifalls are discussed in his recent paper.

Script that automates visualization of several biodiversity metrics with some neat features: github.com/thesnakeguy/.... Largely relying on the #obisindicators package.

We are excited to present our first scientific publication on Project RattleCam! 1/5

The article is available for free download here:
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

I combined my love for snakes🐍 with data science to study climate change impacts on the snake diversity in Europe. Cold‐adapted snakes and W. Europe will be impacted the most. Protecting refuges & resilient habitats is key. Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...