The special exhibition „Hotspot Mur. Concealed emeralds“ in the Natural History Museum in Graz presents a wide variety of partly quite rare species of animals and plants. All of them inhabit the waters, banks and floodplains of the River Mur. An exciting example of the tremendous biodiversity of the river is the discovery of the “emerald-Gressling”, a fish species known exclusively from the River Mur.… Read more
Dear ABOL community,
this year´s ABOL meeting will take place on 06-07 of December 2018 at the Natural History Museum Vienna. On Thursday 06 of December we want to organize a workshop on “eDNA and metabarcoding”, which is aimed at stakeholders. On Friday, scientific talks address the professional audience and the interested public.… Read more
Reflecting the transition from the pilot phase into the Austria-wide ABOL Initiative our website now shines in a new splendor.
Our relaunch shows many running projects under the option ABOL Initiative. The assignment to organism-specific clusters is meant to ease your search for certain projects.… Read more
M. SonnleitnerAutumnal ABOL BioBlitz in the Karawanks1. October, 2025 - 12:59On September 19 and 20, the GEO Day of Biodiversity, originally scheduled for July, took place on the northern flank of the Mittagskogel in the Karawanks. For many species groups, the peak in species abundance is certainly already over by this time, but others, such as fungi, benefit from this, or different species are found than in summer.… Read more
M. SonnleitnerABOL-BioBlitz at Hohe Tauern National park28. July, 2025 - 16:39Fortunately, the weather in the Hohe Tauern was kind to us this year, from July 18-20, 2025. At the National Park’s Day of Biodiversity, in the Gradental and Gartltal valleys in Carinthia, not only was the weather record-breaking, but so was the number of participating experts, with almost 100 registrations.… Read more
N. FialABOL at the ÖEG Insect Camp in the Nature Park Hohe Wand14. July, 2025 - 15:39For the fourth time (in a row), ABOL participated in the 11th ÖEG Insect Camp from June 26th to 29th with a BioBlitz. This time, the trip took us to the Hohe Wand Nature Park in Lower Austria – a biogeographically highly interesting region on the northeastern edge of the Alps, where the Pannonian and Alpine climates converge, enabling a great diversity of species.… Read more