🌍 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 #SPNHC2026

🌏 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 #Biodiversity #Phuket

Pensoft Sponsors Student Awards at 5th International SAGE Congress in Phuket

The 5th International Congress on Southeast Asian Gateway Evolution (SAGE 2026) is currently under way in Phuket, Thailand, running from 3 to 7 August 2026 at the Phuket Royal City Hotel. Organised un...

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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. Built under HiQBioDiv to support evidence-based conservation planning aligned with EU Biodiversity Strategy goals: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

🏗️ 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...

👋 Yesterday we welcomed one of our journal's authors, Rosa Celia Poquita-Du, to the @pensoft.net stand at #IAL10! 👉 Check out her co-authored paper here: bdj.pensoft.net/article/11407/ #IAL2026 #IAL10Trieste #IALichenology

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. Full data paper: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

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.... #newspecies

🔔 Just a reminder - we're at #IAL10 in Trieste until the end of the week. Come find us at the @pensoft.net stand! 📚 Swing by to chat with the team and learn about publishing with us. There is still time to say hello! #IAL2026 #IAL10Trieste #IALichenology

🙌 It was a pleasure to welcome Juri Nascimbene to the @pensoft.net stand at #IAL10 today! ➡️ Professor Nascimbene is an author in our journal - you can access his co-authored paper here: bdj.pensoft.net/article/53720/ #IAL2026 #IAL10Trieste #IALichenology

Samples collected from the Rayda Reserve in Saudi Arabia's Asir Province yielded a species new to science, Palpita digitalis. The discovery adds new information on the jazmine moth genus Palpita from the southern Arabian Peninsula. Learn more: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

An updated checklist confirms Calabria, Italy is home to 363 #bird species, 43 more than the 1993 list. The region remains a stronghold for threatened #raptors like the Critically Endangered Egyptian Vulture, and a crossroads for Mediterranean migration. Read more: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

First-ever benthic study of Chrysi & Mikronisi Islands, Greece shows that this #Natura2000 #marine area boasts Posidonia oceanica beds & rocky reefs, yet had never been surveyed. New research examines soft-bottom #macrobenthic communities, key indicators of environmental health in the Mediterranea:

Soft-bottom macrobenthic communities of the coastal marine ecosystem of Chrysi Island (southeast coast of Crete, Greece)

Chrysi Island, an area also including the island of Mikronisi, is located in the southeast of Crete (Greece, eastern Mediterranean). It is a protected ecosystem within the Natura 2000 network (GR43200...

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🌱 @pensoft.net's open-access, peer-reviewed journals will be presented at #SERE2026! Find us at the Pensoft stand, 24-28 August in Brest, France, to learn more about publishing #openaccess with us 📖 🔗 bdj.pensoft.net/news/1370

Pensoft to participate in the SERE2026 conference

Pensoft will participate in the 15th European Conference on Ecological Restoration (SERE2026), taking place from 24 to 28 August 2026 in Brest, France.The conference is organised by the University of ...

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👋Say "Hi" to our team at Booth #204 at #ESA2026! We're at the annual meeting of the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social through the end of the week. Stop by to chat with us about our diverse open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly portfolio - and take part in our quiz game for a chance to win some prizes!

@pensoft.net is heading to the 4th BioSyst EU meeting in Uppsala, Sweden (17-19 Aug)! Visit the publisher's stand to chat about their open-access journal portfolio, new journal titles, and the @arphahub.com platform: bdj.pensoft.net/news/1352 #BioSystEU2026 #Taxonomy #OpenAccess

Pensoft to attend the 4th BioSyst EU meeting in Uppsala, Sweden

Between 17-19 August 2026, Pensoft will exhibit at the 4th BioSyst EU meeting, taking place in Uppsala, Sweden. The conference is organized by the Swedish Systematics Association.The three-day confere...

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🌍 We're at #IAL10, the 10th Symposium of the International Association for Lichenology, in Trieste, Italy (26-31 July). 📚 Find us at our booth showcasing our plant and mycology journals! #lichenology #mycology

🐌Meet the newly discovered #snails: Cochlostoma dobrido, named after the Dobri Do Plateau, which lies between the peaks of Durmitor National Park, and “Cochlostoma komarnica, named after the stunning but unprotected Komarnica Canyon, south of Durmitor in Montenegro👉 doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

🐸 Boulenophrys elongata has long had its sexual dimorphism left unclear. 🔬 Fresh field surveys at its type locality have seen five breeding-season adults collected, allowing the species' morphological description and ecological baseline to be filled. 👉 Full study: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e201422

A new checklist reveals 874 vascular plant species in Samar Island Natural Park, the Philippines' largest protected area, including 339 Philippine endemics and 82 new island records. Read the full research here: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

🧬 Learn to use ONTOLOGY™, a game-changing platform for #DNAbarcoding & #metabarcoding, in this 3-day hands-on training (5-7 October, 2026) co-led by @nhm-london.bsky.social and CBG. 📅 Apply by 17 Aug 2026 🔗Learn more: bdj.pensoft.net/news/1347

DNA barcoding and metabarcoding training course using ONTOLOGY™

A new three-day training course will introduce researchers to ONTOLOGY™, a novel platform for distributed DNA barcoding and metabarcoding developed by the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG)....

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🌷 Detailed trait data exist for nearly all native Dutch flowering plants, but a resolved family tree was missing to test evolutionary & biogeographic theories. 🧬 This study fills that gap: a phylogeny for one of the world's best-studied floras. doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e192282

Researchers used text/data mining and NLP to extract #arthropod trait #data from taxonomic literature, combining curated dictionaries with trained models for entity and relationship extraction. Find out more: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

From literature to biodiversity data: mining arthropod organismal traits with machine learning

The fields of taxonomy and biodiversity research have witnessed an exponential growth in published literature. This vast corpus of articles holds information on the diverse biological traits of organi...

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🌿 We are delighted to welcome Naim Berisha, author in our open-access journal, to the @pensoft.net booth at the 21st Eurasian Grassland Conference! ➡️ Check out his co-authored article published in our journal here: bdj.pensoft.net/article/1817... #EGC2026 #IAVS #GrasslandResearch

Corixoidea are the only #waterbugs (Heteroptera, Nepomorpha) that aren't strictly predatory. In the Neotropics, two families occur: Corixidae and Micronectidae (three genera). Read the full #openaccess article: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

The rare tropical #amphipod Scina nana has been recorded for the first time in the Mediterranean, off Syria's Latakia coast. Its appearance suggests a recent non-indigenous arrival, possibly linked to warming waters and shifting thermohaline conditions: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

The rare tropical #amphipod Scina nana has been recorded for the first time in the Mediterranean, off Syria's Latakia coast. Absent from all prior Mediterranean records, its appearance suggests a recent non-indigenous arrival, possibly linked to warming waters and shifting thermohaline conditions 👇

First record of Scina nana Wagler, 1926 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Hyperiidea) in Mediterranean Sea from the northern coastal waters north of Syria (eastern Mediterranean)

Global biodiversity repositories, including GBIF, OBIS and the authoritative taxonomic database WoRMS, consistently indicate that Scina nana is a globally rare holoplanktonic amphipod. None of these d...

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Ahead of planned side-arm reconnection along the Danube near Draž, Croatia, researchers documented baseline #riparian and aquatic vegetation. This pre-intervention dataset offers a crucial reference for evaluating how hydrological reconnection will reshape habitat and plant communities. See more 👇

The GfI-Fischartenatlas is a new open web portal compiling fish distribution #data for Germany, Austria, and marine areas of the Netherlands/Denmark. It aims to support #fish conservation, research, and education: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

New faunistic survey out on cleptoparasitic #bees in protected rural areas near Rome (Latium, Italy) 🐝 417 individuals, 44 species, 10 genera, 3 families, 5 species newly recorded for the region. Read the #openaccess study here: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

A year-long camera-trap study in South Korea tracked 4 wild ungulate species, including the long-tailed goral, across 82 stations, revealing how they share space and time. The open dataset (4,600+ sightings) can support future wildlife research. Full data paper here: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

A year-long camera-trap dataset for assessing spatial occurrence and diel activity of sympatric ungulates in South Korea

Understanding how ecologically similar species share space and time is central to community ecology and can provide information for conservation and management in multi-species systems. Camera-trap da...

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