Dear supporters of ABOL! Complementing our current projects on fungi and animals we are happy to announce the start of two associated projects on DNA-barcoding in plants. A project at the University of Salzburg, headed by Andreas Tribsch, generates DNA barcodes in spring gentians, a morphologically challenging group. DNA barcodes will allow to identify juvenile […]
Dear ABOL community, we would like to remind you that this years´ABOL meeting will take place on 3rd and 4th of December in the Schlossmuseum Linz. We are pleased to announce an additional talk of Bettina Thalinger (University of Innsbruck). The updated agenda can be downloaded here: Programm ABOL-Tagung 2016 Please register until the 20th […]
Dear ABOL-partners, dear biodiversity community, the agenda for this year´s ABOL meeting is ready and can be downloaded here: Programm ABOL-Tagung 2016 The meeting focuses mainly on applied aspects of DNA barcoding. The meeting starts at the 3rd of December 2016 at 18:00, directly after the NOBIS-meeting (2nd and 3rd of December) with registration and […]
Dear biodiversity community, Wild bees enjoy increasing awareness in general public, due to several campaigns in the recent past. Austria is known as a biodiversity hotspot of wild bees and many species are especially worthy of protection because of their narrow food spectrum and/or restricted distribution area. Therefore we are pleased to announce two new […]
Dear ABOL community, this years´ ABOL meeting will take place on 4th of December again in the Schlossmuseum Linz. Please save the date! It will be directly after the NOBIS meeting (2nd & 3rd of December 2016, Schlossmuseum Linz.)
Dear ABOL Community, It was 2004 when Christian & Szeptycki revealed the Leopoldsberg to be the worldwide biodiversity hotspot of Protura, reporting 23 species from the soil of a very dry slope. Applying DNA barcoding to re-assess the diversity of these very small and blind soil dwellers at the genetic level reported 4 additional species […]
Recently a new associated project joined ABOL – DNA barcoding of Central European Orthopterans A first transnational cooperation between GBOL, SwissBOL and ABOL adresses the genetic diversity of many species of Central European grasshoppers. The project funded by the Verein der Freunde des Naturhistorischen Museums will be extended by further national projects. Read more…
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 […]
…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 […]
Metabarcoding-Symposium 202624. September, 2026 - 10:33Launch of an Austrian eDNA Community The Metabarcoding Symposium, held on 17 and 18 September 2026 at the Natural History Museum Vienna, was not only a platform for professional exchange, but also marked the beginning of an Austrian eDNA community (provisionally: OeDNA). The symposium was organised by the ABOL coordination team together with Bettina Thalinger […]
A decade of ABOL – new paper!24. September, 2026 - 09:36Looking Back on a Decade of ABOL: Coordinating a National Biodiversity Initiative How can a country’s biological diversity be systematically documented – and what does it take to turn a research initiative into a sustainable, long-term network? Since 2014, the Austrian Barcode of Life (ABOL) Initiative has been dedicated to systematically documenting Austria’s animal, plant, […]
ABOL-BioBlitzes 2026 – from the river plain to the summit27. July, 2026 - 15:44A look back at a successful ABOL field season 2026! Since 2019, the ABOL coordination team has been actively involved in the various Days of Biodiversity, conducting ABOL BioBlitz surveys. These surveys generate DNA barcodes and familiarize experts with this methodological approach. This year’s Days of Biodiversity were once again very popular. Thanks to the […]