The European tracking network through time: united efforts to advance aquatic conservation in Europe
Jan Reubens, Kim Aarestrup, David Abecasis, Pedro Afonso, Josep Alós, Eneko Aspillaga, Kim Birnie-Gauvin, David Casals, Peter Desmet, Jena E. Edwards, Pieter Huybrechts, Robert J. Lennox, Ross McGill, Claudia Meneses, Christopher T. Monk, Danielle L. Orrell, Lotte Pohl, Marie Prchalova, Inge van der Knaap, Pieterjan Verhelst, David Villegas-Ríos, Stijn Vermaere · 2026
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Description
Jan Reubens and twenty-one colleagues tell the story of the European Tracking Network, the collaboration that follows tagged fish and other aquatic animals across a continent. Published in 2026, the account explains how Europe lagged North America and Australia in coordinated tracking infrastructure until the network formed as a grassroots effort in 2017.
It has since grown into a durable system with a central database, shared dashboards, and partners deploying receivers nationally while feeding one platform built on open data principles. The network supports cross-border studies of movement, habitat links, and behaviour, while wrestling with familiar strains: patchy funding, incompatible gear, false detections, and ownership questions. The authors position it within a coming global aquatic observatory.
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| CREATOR | Jan Reubens, Kim Aarestrup, David Abecasis, Pedro Afonso, Josep Alós, Eneko Aspillaga, Kim Birnie-Gauvin, David Casals, Peter Desmet, Jena E. Edwards, Pieter Huybrechts, Robert J. Lennox, Ross McGill, Claudia Meneses, Christopher T. Monk, Danielle L. Orrell, Lotte Pohl, Marie Prchalova, Inge van der Knaap, Pieterjan Verhelst, David Villegas-Ríos, Stijn Vermaere |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 83407 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |