We want to point out that the ABOL webpage is updated and extended continously. For some time we have started to restructure the website with regard to the future overall project. Major modifications concern the items “About us” and “Project”.
In particular we want to point out the new page “Professional collecting” to be found in the “Experts” menu.… Read more
…is already some days old, therefore it is high time to send the best wishes to all members of the biodiversity community!
Your ABOL team
Just before the end of the old year fortunately a new associated project joined the steadily growing ABOL community.
The project of Dr. Wolfram Graf and colleagues aims at recording of the genetic diversity of the Austrian caddisfly fauna comprising some 310 species. Caddisflies, especially their larval stage, are important bioindicators in freshwater ecology.… Read more
Our new project: ABOL-RefDat23. January, 2024 - 11:20We are very pleased that the ABOL-RefDat project, funded by the Biodiversity Fund, started at the beginning of the year!
Our goal? The creation of at least 5,000 DNA barcodes for at least 1,500 Austrian species of animals, plants and fungi, as well as closing data gaps in Austria!… Read more
Christoph Gruber | BOKU-ITThese were the Days of Biodiversity 202320. November, 2023 - 15:58“Together on the way out of the biodiversity crisis” was the title of the Biodiversity Days 2023 from November 8th to 10th, which took place at BOKU Vienna.
In 9 sessions, different aspects of the biodiversity crisis and different actors were addressed.… Read more
M. SonnleitnerDNA barcoding workshop at the University of Zambia 2.019. October, 2023 - 15:02Due to last year’s great success, the 2nd DNA barcoding workshop took place in September at the University of Zambia (UNZA) in the capital Lusaka.
As part of the OeAD project “Inventorying biodiversity in the tropics: Establishing a DNA-barcoding pipeline for characterizing and monitoring Zambia’s biodiversity” led by the University of Graz (Stephan Koblmüller and Lukas Zangl) and participation by ABOL and Prof.… Read more