Tag Archives: biodiversity

The spirit of Antarctic invasions future?

Posted on 21 Apr, 2020 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol during a change in how Victorian England viewed the Christmas holiday. It’s clearly not Christmas … and certainly isn’t a jolly time. But, taking some artistic liberty from how Dickens outlined the five chapters of … Continue reading →

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Metabarcoding for every body, every habitat, every time

Posted on 19 Jul, 2018 by Laetitia Wilkins

The immediate reason why I wanted to write about Boosting DNA metabarcoding for biomonitoring with phylogenetic estimation of operational taxonomic units’ ecological profiles is its usefulness for the scientific community and the effort of the authors to make their study reproducible. … Continue reading →

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What’s in a name? A review of cryptic species and species concepts

Posted on 2 Mar, 2018 by Kelle Freel

It is a contentious can of worms. Species concepts are both essential to understand and at the same time incredibly difficult to define. Species names allow us to discuss fundamental units of biodiversity in any ecosystem and study genome evolution, … Continue reading →

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Algae bring life to the world – species, microbiomes and biodiversity

Posted on 25 Sep, 2015 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

The first European Phycological Congress was held in Cologne, Germany in 1996. In the last 20-odd years, the meeting has been held every four years from Italy, to Northern Ireland, to Spain and Greece. This year the meeting was held … Continue reading →

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