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Jun 12
🕐 A statistical tool used by ecologists to study when animals are active - and whether their activity patterns overlap in time - has been made freely available by being rebuilt for R, one of the most widely used scientific programming languages: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1763…
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Jun 11
🌎 The Swiss National Park HQ in Zernez has welcomed OBSGESSION’s consortium for its Annual Meeting!
🙌 We are delighted that materials from our journal have been featured at the stand.
➡️ Find out more about the OBSGESSION project here: obsgession.eu/
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Jun 11
🏆 The FIFA World Cup kicks off today, and so does @Pensoft's Biodiversity Cup!
🗳️ Head to their Instagram story right now and vote for the species you think deserves to win this round: instagram.com/pensoft/
#WorldCup2026 #FIFAWorldCup2026
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Jun 10
🌍 Diospyros abyssinica has been recorded as part of an ongoing botanical survey of Akagera National Park in Rwanda, contributing to a broader national effort to produce a comprehensive and checklist of the country's native vascular flora.
📚 See more: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1898…
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Jun 9
🌊 Driven by a comparison between protected forests and polluted zones, the functional structure of over 19,000 aquatic insects was analysed across four Algerian wadis.
➡️ Read more: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1926…
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Jun 8
We are delighted that research published in our journal on spider webs serving as natural collectors of fungal material in agricultural ecosystems has been covered by @LindaFStewart in The Microbiologist - @AMIposts: the-microbiologist.com/news/…
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Jun 5
🕷️ #LLMs helped organise data from the extensive body of work by arachnologist Christa Deeleman-Reinhold (1930–2025), thereby making this high-quality primary #data on #biodiversity more easily accessible to other taxonomists and researchers in the field: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1647…
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🎉Fri-yay! Two of our articles got featured in BBC #Wildlife this week!
🕷️Theridion himalayana - a Himalayan "happy-face" #spider with 32 smiley morphs from @EvolSystematics
🐸West Siberia's #amphibians - mapped for #conservation from @BioDataJournal
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🐸 West Siberia's #amphibians - mapped for conservation from @BioDataJournal was covered by Sophie Ellis 👉discoverwildlife.com/environ…
📗Full #datapaper: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e8243…
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Jun 4
Two new species of #Hydropsyche have been discovered in the Middle East and Caucasus. Meet H. hindrajab (found in Azerbaijan, Iran & Türkiye) and H. fitesa (Iran) were identified using a mix of morphology and #DNA barcoding: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1910…
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👉Alternatively, check out @Pensoft's blog to learn more: blog.pensoft.net/2026/06/04/…
#newspecies #taxonomy #biodiversity #caddisfly
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Jun 3
🌿 That’s a wrap on the 11th Conference of the European Committee for the Conservation of Bryophytes in Cagliari!
🏆 Huge congratulations to Dr. Alberto Aleffi for winning Pensoft Publishers' Best Oral Presentation competition at the event.
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Jun 3
🕸️ A surprising variety of fungi was recently discovered living on spider webs in Thai rice fields, demonstrating that these silk structures can be used as natural collectors of environmental data.
➡️ Our blog post: blog.pensoft.net/2026/05/27/…
➡️ Full study: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1870…
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🎉 Delighted to have joined #ESP26Europe in Prague last week! As an open-science publisher deeply embedded in environmental research, Pensoft actively joined the week's dialogues on a nature-positive future.
🔗 Our conference highlights:
blog.pensoft.net/2026/06/02/…
@ESPartnership
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May 27
Researchers have described a new laurel #tree species, Aiouea altomacaensis, endemic to the mountains between Nova Friburgo and Petrópolis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Read the full official description here: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1938…
#biodiversity #newspecies
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May 27
A new longhorn #beetle, Perissus jianfenglingensis, has been described from Hainan Province, China. The genus Perissus now comprises 99 species and subspecies across the Palaearctic, Oriental and Australian regions: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1949…
#Coleoptera #NewSpecies #Taxonomy
ALT Perissus jianfenglingensis
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May 26
Two eriophyoid #mite genera have been recorded for the first time in Saudi Arabia, including a new species, Cosetacus javanicus, collected from Aerva javanica. Two further species are also newly reported for the country's mite fauna. Find out more here: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1946…
ALT Cosetacus javanicus
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May 25
🦐 A new inventory of 300 #amphipod species from Italian seas, Adriatic, Tyrrhenian & Ionian, maps their distribution and #biodiversity, including 11 non-indigenous species. Dataset on @GBIF.
#OA article here : doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1892…
@Pensoft's blog: blog.pensoft.net/2026/05/25/…
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May 22
👉 Check out this updated #herpetofauna list providing 28 new #amphibian and reptile records from Ba Vi National Park, Vietnam, bringing its known species total to 94.
See all the details in our #OA journal: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1782…
#Herpetology #Biodiversity
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