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The Social Secrets Behind Migration – and What They Mean for Conservation
A new modelling framework developed within BIOcean5D captures how social dynamics shape migration, revealing critical environmental and human pressures and offering valuable insights to inform conservation and ecosystem management.
Static Protection for a Dynamic Ocean? Rethinking Marine Conservation
Multidisciplinary research conducted within BIOcean5D aims to strengthen marine conservation by advancing ecosystem-based approaches that reflect the ocean’s dynamic nature.
BIOcean5D General Assembly 2026
The BIOcean5D consortium recently convened for its third General Assembly (GA), hosted at the Ifremer station in Sète, France, from 2 to 4 February 2026.
Strengthening Plankton Taxonomy: Highlights from the BIOcean5D Course
The recent BIOcean5D Taxonomy Course brought together an international, multidisciplinary group to strengthen plankton taxonomy skills through hands-on training, fostering lasting expertise and collaboration.
In remembrance of Peer Bork
The recent passing of our Project Coordinator, Peer Bork, leaves a deep void within BIOcean5D and in the many lives and fields of research he influenced.
The diversity conundrum: Why do oceans shelter fewer species than land?
A recent publication by researchers from AZTI, CNRS, the Technical University of Denmark and Ikerbasque, co-funded by BIOcean5D, explores the paradox of why the oceans – despite covering 71% of Earth’s surface and having supported life for far longer than land – harbour fewer extant species than terrestrial environments.
TREC Symposium 2025
Presentations by BIOcean5D colleagues at the EMBL TREC Symposium 2025 showcased how the expedition’s one-of-a-kind dataset is helping to advance our understanding of marine biodiversity across space, time and human impact.
Capturing diversity through traits
A recent BIOcean5D publication describes a novel approach to better capture plankton diversity in biogeochemical (BGC) models – an important step towards more accurate and realistic simulations of ocean ecosystems.