RIO Journal

06/01/2025

📝 Survey amongst informally trained members of the public engaged in scientific endeavours reveals the majority - especially younger & non-white participants - preferred the term 'community' over 'citizen' science.

👥 The reserachers received a total of 638 responses from people involved in the programmes at Field Museum and Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, practitioners involved with Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections and partner organisations.

📄 Find more in the Forum Paper, openly accessible in our journal at: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e137412.

30/12/2024

📚 Recently, the BESTMAP project consortium added several project deliverables to their open-science collection in our scientific journal.

The Horizon 2020 project BESTMAP has concluded, yet already 50 of the project's outcomes are permanently accessible & easy to discover at 👉 https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.coll.148

27/12/2024

💬 "Introducing heritable rabies immunity into North American red fox populations 🦊 through gene drive represents a strategy to both battle rabies and adjust the ecology of (sub)urban environments."

🔗 Research Idea: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e134189

11/12/2024

Hosted at the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes - ce3c, the Biodiversity Assessments at Small Scales (BASS) project is to study how microclimatic conditions (e.g. solar radiation) influence biodiversity dynamics (e.g. species occurrence, biotic interactions) within a Mediterranean context.

To do this, the team established a network of 16 fixed sampling points across the Lisbon University field station - Herdade da Ribeira Abaixo (HRA), Grândola (South Portugal).

📄 Find more in the team's Research Idea, openly published with us at: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e138341

27/11/2024

🍃 The federico nut (Cycas micronesica) used to be quite abundant on the island of Guam 🇺🇸 for thousands of years prior to the invasion of the cycad aulacaspis scale in 2003.

⚠️ According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the gymnosperm is currently an endangered species.

📈 However, recently, the plant's population began to show promising signs of a steady recovery.

🧐 In their new Research Idea, a research team from The University of Utah and the Philippine Native Plants Conservation Society Inc. propose five experiments to find out why is that.

📄 See more: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e131260

19/11/2024

🆕 The #7 project outcome added to NaturaConnect's open-science collection provides permanent & free access to a *milestone* mid-term report.

👍 The Horizon Europe-funded project is to design a resilient & coherent Trans-European Network for Nature & People.

👉 See the report: https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e140771

📚 To keep up with the major outcomes from the NaturaConnect project, keep tabs on their collection in our journal at: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.coll.247 📌, as additional scientific outputs emerge!

18/11/2024

Leveraging the EuroHPC LUMI supercomputer infrastructure and data & expertise from GBIF: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility, eLTER, DiSSCo & LifeWatch ERIC, the BiodiversityDT (BiodiversityDigitalTwin) project demonstrates how the Digital Twin concept can be applied to biodiversity.

👉 See more: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e133474

❓ What is BioDT about? Find in brief on the Pensoft Publishers blog: https://blog.pensoft.net/2024/10/03/the-biodiversity-digital-twin-to-help-understand-our-planets-life/

🔍 ... then go explore more project outputs from BioDT in the project's outcomes collection in our open-science journal: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.coll.240

📌 BioDT project receives funding by Horizon Europe.

12/11/2024

A holistic, yet realistic approach with tangible goals facilitates the maturation of a DNA collection in an efficient, durable manner. One way to carry out this approach is to use this key to bringing DNA collections to the next level, by the DiSSCo Flanders project: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e135978

12/11/2024

A participatory workshop on managers' perceptions of ecosystem services in Portuguese Biosphere Reserves proved to be a powerful tool to foster collaboration towards a more holistic promotion of the reserves' sustainable governance. See the report by researchers of Universidade de Coimbra here: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e139777

11/11/2024

🆕 Latest addition to the REST-COAST project collection provides permanent & free access to a booklet, which reports on application of project insights to the Black Sea region & discusses transfer of strategies.

👉 Check it out at: https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e140142

🗒️ Explore the full collection as it develops on: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.coll.211

08/11/2024

🐟 Ecologists at 京都大学（Kyoto University）explore the potential of environmental protein (eProtein) analysis to monitor aquatic organism health, disease dynamics & reproductive cycles; and support aquaculture management.

➡️ See more in their Research Idea published with us: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e127927

Kyoto University International Students' Group Kyoto University

06/11/2024

🧐 Explore ✔️18 research articles, ✔️6 data papers, ✔️8 project reports, ✔️a policy brief & ✔️ the Showcase Project grant proposal in the project's outcomes collection in our journal at:
https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.coll.149 to learn how biodiversity can become part of farming practices.

Wageningen University & Research Scienseed

05/11/2024

📌 Practices around designing data science curriculum

📌 Strategies for achieving gender equity in data science education

📌 Addressing new tech challenges in education

📌 Fostering multidisciplinary approaches to data-science education

- were all on focus at the 2023 DSAIL-GeJuSTA Data Science Education Workshop, hosted at the Dedan Kimathi University of Technology (Kenya) and also online.

🧐 Find more in the Workshop Report published in our journal at: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e138833

👍 Supported by a grant from the IDRC / CRDI.

30/10/2024

🗺️ Detailed step-by-step guide to develop species distribution maps & preliminary ecological niche models using the open-source QGIS, Rstudio & MaxEnt.

🌱 The Methods paper: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e129578 uses rare bryophytes from Illinois 🇺🇸 as a case study.

Botany Field Museum DePaul University UC Berkeley Arizona State University Northeastern Illinois University University of Illinois Chicago

29/10/2024

🆕 Two project reports were recently added to the NaturaConnect collection: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.coll.247 in our open-science ournal!

🇪🇺 The Horizon Europe-funded project supports the development of the Trans-European Nature Network (TEN-N) through transdisciplinary research.

👌 Having started in 2022 and set to continue until 2026, NaturaConnect seeks to develop data, analytical tools, and knowledge to support solutions —namely, the blueprint for TEN-N configurations.

👍 The project is to also analyse best practices for governance of area-based conservation measures and potential funding mechanisms to provide the European Commission and Member States with a comprehensive set of planning and implementation support tools.

28/10/2024

🇧🇷 Brazil's National Forest Inventory provides public access to biotic (plants), abiotic (soil & carbon) AND socio-environmental data collected over 10+ years & covering ~58% of the country's.

🌳 Read more in this Correspondence paper: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e138413

USP - Universidade de São Paulo UnB - Universidade de Brasília Instituto Mamirauá

24/10/2024

🥳 Happy Open Access Week 2024! 🎉

👍 As an open-science journal, we wish to remind scientists that their work is much more than what goes into traditional research papers; deserves immediate visibility, discoverability & shall be recognised for its societal valued & impact!

👉 More about the background of our rationale and background on Pensoft Publishers' blog:

Five years on, the Open Science-driven journal Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) published an editorial that looks back on the 300 research ideas and research outcomes it has published so far. Since its early days, RIO has enjoyed quite positive reactions from the open-minded academic community for....

22/10/2024

Earlier this year, scientists & communicators from the Leibniz Association (Leibniz-Gemeinschaft) gathered at the “Perspectives on science communication” conference at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.

👉 Find the summary of the event in this Workshop Report, openly published in our journal: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e136750

Technische Universität Berlin Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research Senckenberg Falling Walls HTW Berlin