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An eDNA Platform for Community-Powered LA River Restoration
An eDNA analysis platform let community groups without bioinformatics expertise measure how river channelization shapes biodiversity.
Ryan Martin ↗
A collaborative perspective on a globally standardised river basin name database
Freshwater biodiversity data need a global, multilingual, collaboratively maintained river basin naming system, and TDWG, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap could build it together.
Daniel Mietchen ↗
A species-level taxonomic catalog of Neotropical freshwater insects: building a consensus reference for occurrence data integration and conservation planning
Without a reliable species-level checklist, Neotropical freshwater insect occurrences, distribution models and conservation arguments cannot be built.
Alejandra Correa-Bedoya ↗
Biodiversity data at your fingertips: open-access freshwater biodiversity information systems for South Africa and Africa
Co-designed, open and interoperable freshwater information systems like FBIS turn fragmented records into decision-ready information, and multi-tenancy helps keep them sustainable.
Helen Dallas ↗
Catalogue of Life and Freshwater species data
Catalogue of Life pledges to model and expose freshwater designations within a year, fed by FADAtims and WoRMS, finally allowing freshwater species and occurrences to be identified via GBIF.
Olaf Banki ↗
How does human impact change species diversity and composition in 50 types of inland water habitats?
Human pressures erase the natural distinctness of freshwater habitat types, making their biological communities converge on degraded states with fewer characteristic species.
Anne Lyche Solheim ↗
Not just another database: building the future of freshwater taxonomy with FADAtims
FADAtims turns the dormant FADA checklists into a living, expert-curated and interoperable freshwater taxonomic infrastructure, but its future depends on sustaining experts and systems.
Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber, Geraldine Mertens ↗
The FIPbio data portal: towards an integrated freshwater biodiversity data ecosystem
FIPbio aims to make freshwater data publishing and analysis easier by combining FADA taxonomy, GBIF occurrences, site context, abiotic and remote-sensing data, and automated catchment annotation.
Vanessa Bremerich ↗
Traits Thesaurus: toward semantic harmonization of FAIR trait-based data on aquatic organisms
A community-validated SKOS thesaurus of aquatic trait terms and units can make open trait data genuinely interoperable across taxa.
Jessica Titocci ↗