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🌳 New of leaf diversity established for a critically endangered Greek oak species, Quercus trojana subsp. euboica, which was severely impacted by catastrophic wildfires in Euboea in 2021: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1994…
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🌊 Over two decades of research in Antarctica's Ross Sea has yielded the first comprehensive checklist of pelagic organisms accidentally captured by sediment traps, documenting over 210,000 individuals representing 68 species. Read more: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1970…
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🪰 The adult stage of the mayfly Otamanthellus unicutibius has been studied for the first time, revealing evolutionary adaptations that shed light on how male reproductive structures have changed across mayfly lineages over millions of years: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e2118…
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🕷️ A new trapdoor spider species belonging to the genus Raveniola has been discovered in Jinggangshan National Nature Reserve, marking the first formal record of the Nemesiidae family from Jiangxi Province, China: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e2117…
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🐝 A global group of parasitoid wasps belonging to the genus Aximopsis has been under renewed scientific scrutiny, with molecular studies revealing that the current taxonomic classification does not accurately reflect the wasps' evolutionary relationships: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e2067…
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New data from the LIFE SNAILS project on Santa Maria Island surveys arthropod communities in mixed forests as habitat-quality indicators, supporting conservation of three endemic molluscs - two land snails and a semi-slug: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e2031…
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🦅 Anton Stamenov: "Foraging and parental behaviour of a Saker falcon pair raising five fledglings: implications for territory quality and prey demand".
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🎤 Two brilliant talks today at #SMCC2026!
🐿️ Yana Andonova: "Reintroduced Saker Falcons are dependent on European ground squirrels during the breeding period in Bulgaria".
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🌊 Another great talk today at #TDWG2026 - our senior editorial board member Daniel Mietchen on river basin naming.
✨ It's truly been a fantastic day of talks here at #TDWG2026.
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👏 Huge thanks to Olaf Banki for this fantastic talk at #TDWG2026 - an author and reviewer in our open-access journal.
📚 Read Banki's recent article on harmonising scientific name usage here: bdj.pensoft.net/article/1848…
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📚 Delighted to attend this fascinating talk at #TDWG2026 on liberating biodiversity knowledge from scientific literature.
🧬 Heartfelt thanks to Donat Agosti for these insightful perspectives!
➡️ Read one of Agosti's articles in our journal: bdj.pensoft.net/article/1530…
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🎤 It was also a pleasure to attend Nedko Nedyalkov's presentation today at #SMCC2026, where they discussed the strong decline of the distribution and abundance of Cricetus cricetus and Mesocricetus newtoni in Bulgaria.
📝 Nedyalkov is notably a subject editor in our journal!
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Still at #TDWG2026 in Oslo? Don't miss our new article on GBIF's incredible 25-year journey! 📊 Read the full piece in our open-access journal: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e2085…
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📍 We're featured at @Pensoft's booth at #SMCC2026, running this week in Sofia!
📚 Come and find out more about the scope of our journal and how we can support your research in small mammal conservation.
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🌊 Data-intensive science meets marine conservation at the EGI Conference in Ghent this week!
📚 Visit the @Pensoft booth to learn more about how our journal can support your research.
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🗺️ At #TDWG2026 we attended an excellent presentation by Sabine von Mering: "Here, There, and Everywhere: Modelling Research Expeditions in Wikidata".
🔗 Sabine is also an author in our journal: bdj.pensoft.net/article/1144…
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📍 We're featured at @Pensoft's booth at #TDWG2026, running this week in Oslo!
📚 Come and find out more about the scope of our journal and how we can support your research.
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🎉 25 years of @GBIF! As #TDWG2026 continues in Oslo, we celebrate our longstanding partnership.
🤔 Did you know @BioDataJournal + 25 other journals from @Pensoft's portfolio run their own GBIF-hosted data portals?
🔗 Article: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e2085…
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🎤 We were delighted to attend Quentin Groom's presentation at #TDWG2026 on reducing lag in biodiversity information systems.
👉 Groom is notably an author in our open-access journal. You can access one of their articles here: bdj.pensoft.net/article/1416…
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📚 When the Biodiversity Heritage Library faced an uncertain future in 2025, the global community stepped up. Now, celebrating 20 years as an independent consortium, BHL is stronger than ever.
🎤 Thank you to Nicole Kearney for sharing this inspiring journey at #TDWG2026!
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🎤 We were thrilled to hear Ramona Walls speak at #TDWG2026 on ontologies and standards for AI-ready biodiversity data.
👉 Walls is a BDJ author & reviewer! Read their paper on insect natural history data here: bdj.pensoft.net/article/3330…
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🕷️First checklist of Linyphiidae spiders from Guiyang, China: 17 species recorded, including one new to science - Lenis guiyang.
The study includes a distribution map, habitus photos and COI data: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e2101…
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Check out the largest visual #biodiversity survey yet of an abyssal-hadal system: Nova Canton Trough, Central Pacific, 3000-8000m. ~30,000 organisms, 325 morphotaxa with new #hadal records, establishing a biodiversity baseline for the area: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e2044…
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This new study reveals two new #frog species - Zhangixalus liui and Zhangixalus orlovi: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e2040…
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Camera trap survey (97 cameras, 71,879 trap-days!) in Zhejiang's Xianxialing Nature Reserve reveals 12 mammal species, led by Reeves' Muntjac & Masked Palm Civet. Nocturnal species favored lower elevations in winter - likely for thermoregulation: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e2087…
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🦈 New open #dataset compiles 177,000+ events (2003-2021) documenting 86 chondrichthyan species ( #sharks, #skates, #rays, #chimaeras) in French waters - the most threatened marine vertebrate group. Expert-vetted & freely available on @GBIF.
➡️Full study: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1916…
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🌱 We've touched down in Brussels for #NeoBiota2026 - the 14th International Conference on Biological Invasions! Here through 11 Sept.
Come chat with our team about Pensoft Publishers' publishing portfolio - journals, books & conference services. We'd love to connect 🤝
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🦋 First description of the female subimago of #mayfly Behningia baei, previously known only as a nymph in Thailand. Based on reared specimens from sandy rivers, the study also documents burrowing behaviour, adding new insight into this rare genus.
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Study on the #deepsea starfish Podosphaeraster toyoshiomaruae reveals a rare mitochondrial gene rearrangement and unique internal skeletal structures via micro-CT, offering fresh insight into its puzzling evolutionary placement: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1940…
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🐛Giant African #millipedes are popular in US zoos & education programs, but many come from poorly-documented sources like the exotic trade. See why this makes things complicated: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1966…
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🐝🌸New study on Korean Calanthe #orchids: despite 73 visits from 17 insect species, only certain bees (not flies or moths) actually carried pollinaria on C. discolor. One Eucera bee visit on C. striata hints at possible pollinator sharing between species: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e2015…
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Meet the @pensoft.net team at the 15th European Conference on #Ecological Restoration #SERE2026 in Brest, France, through August 28! 👋
Our team is on the road again and would love to share more about our work, and connect with fellow researchers & practitioners.
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3,652 #scorpion specimens from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, spanning 11 families, 56 genera and 117 species across 59 countries, now standardised to Darwin Core and published as open data. Collection dates run from 1872-2023.
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🦆Five cases of duck/teal #hybridisation in captive mixed collections, from 2011-2025, are described, crossing genera like Spatula, Aythya, Aix, Amazonetta, Callonetta, Sibirionetta, Mareca and Anas.
Full study: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1979…
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It was great attending Sabine Stöhr's talk at #BioSyst2026! She presented the analysis of ophiuroids fromBIOICE, a project that ran for 25 years: 580 Icelandic sites, ~200,000 specimens, 64 species ID'd - incl. 19 new records for Iceland. 🌊⭐
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🗣️Great to hear Visotheary Ung present the Flora of Cambodia project at #BioSyst2026!
🌿The initiative aims to deliver a curated, multilingual #checklist of Cambodia's vascular #plants, building on a long history of floristic research dating back to 1907.
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New open dataset presents the first full annual-cycle waterbird survey of Beijing's Miyun Reservoir, a key East Asian-Australasian Flyway stopover.
Find out more: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e2032…
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Geometric morphometrics on 177 shells across 5 abalone species (incl. H. discus hannai from wild/cultured stocks) shows PCA+CVA can reliably tell species apart and separate wild from cultured H. discus hannai. Read more: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e2015…
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🎤 We are happy to have attended Rachel Haderlé's talk at #BioSyst2026 on TRIDENT, a new tool that combines molecular similarity, taxonomic hierarchies and biogeographic occurrence data to improve and speed up species-level taxonomic assignments in eDNA metabarcoding.
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🎉 We loved meeting Oleksandr Holovachov at #biosyst2026!
Holovachov is a reviewer for @ZooKeys_Journal, as well as a subject editor and author in our journal - you can access one of their papers on the genus Campylaimus: bdj.pensoft.net/article/4654…
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🎉 We were delighted to welcome Oleksandr Ordynets to the @Pensoft booth at #biosyst2026!
👉 Access their paper on aphyllophoroid fungi in the insular woodlands of eastern Ukraine, published in our journal: bdj.pensoft.net/article/2242…
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First record of the nudibranch Dendrodoris arborescens in the northern Yellow Sea (Dalian, China). Confirmed via morphology + COI barcoding, this extends its known range ~800 km north from Jeju Island, South Korea - likely aided by the Kuroshio Current: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1997…
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A new #beetle species, Microdaccus birgitae, has been described from Oman's Hajar Mountains, extending the genus's known range to the southern Arabian Peninsula.
Find out more: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1850…
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🧬 #iBOL2026 is heading to Bangkok, Thailand, from 2 to 6 November!
⏰ Early bird registration has been extended to 14 August, so register now to save.
🔗 Find out more by visiting our latest news announcement: bdj.pensoft.net/news/1429
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Nitella gracilis, a rare charophyte #alga once thought regionally extinct in Slovakia, has been rediscovered - first confirmed records in over 45 years.
Found in a forest pool and 23 road-puddle sites near Sklené. Learn more about its Red List status: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1974…
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A new survey of Tanjung Datu National Park in Malaysian Borneo recorded 226 #primates across 8 species, including the Critically Endangered Bornean banded langur. The findings offer a valuable baseline for conservation management. Read more here:
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New dataset #maps Myristicaceae (nutmeg family) diversity in Acre, Brazil 🌳 - 34 species, 9 new state records, ~31% of the family's Amazonian richness. Distribution differs by watershed, echoing patterns seen in birds & vines. Full study: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1965…
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🌍 The 41st SPNHC Annual Meeting is coming to the African continent for the first time! Join natural history professionals in Cape Town, South Africa, from 7 to 11 September 2026.
➡️ Check out our latest news announcement for further details: nhcm.pensoft.net/news/1404
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🌏 The 5th International Congress on Southeast Asian Gateway Evolution - #SAGE2026 - is now underway in Phuket!
🔬 Bringing together global researchers to showcase the latest breakthroughs in systematics, ecology, and evolutionary biodiversity science: bdj.pensoft.net/news/1387
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New research #dataset for Latvia comprises of 162,186 expert-filtered species occurrences across 464 taxa, plus a framework for habitat suitability modelling.
Full open-access article here: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1945…
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🏗️ A single white stork nest on a Bulgarian utility pole was discovered to be a massive high-rise ecosystem containing 151 smaller sparrow nests.
🦅 Read more: bdj.pensoft.net/article/1842…
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👋 Yesterday we welcomed one of our journal's authors, Rosa Celia Poquita-Du, to the @Pensoft stand at #IAL10!
👉 Check out her co-authored paper here: bdj.pensoft.net/article/1140…
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Coastal #wetlands in Fujian, China a key stopover on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, hosted a Feb 2006 waterbird survey across 21 wetlands & 191 points. This yielded data of 108,125 birds, 64 species, incl. threatened Black-faced Spoonbill & Swan Goose doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1970…
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Meet two new species of soldier #beetles - Taiwanocantharis flavipesand and T. liangi from Yunnan, China.
Photos and illustrations available here: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1923…
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