We are pleased to announce that under the lead of the University of Graz (Dr. Stephan Koblmüller) in cooperation with the Universalmuseum Joanneum (Mag. Wolfgang Paill) and the Ökoteam as economic partner (Dr. Werner Holzinger) another ABOL project has started. In the BRIDGE-1 project BIO-PLANBAR (FFG, BMVIT) the use of DNA barcoding for more efficient […]
Dear ABOL community and biodiversity enthusiasts, As we have already announced, this year’s ABOL meeting will take place on 6th and 7th of December at the Natural History Museum Vienna. The first day of the conference (6.12.) is dedicated to the practice this year. Two workshops will be held – in the morning we want […]
Dear ABOL community and interested people! the registration for our annual ABOL meeting, which takes place on December, 6th and 7th at the Natural History Museum Vienna, is now open. Please send an e-mail to abol@nhm-wien.ac.at. This year talks and poster can be submitted. Please send your abstract to abol@nhm-wien.ac.at. On Thursday, 6th, a workshop […]
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. Information on the new structure of ABOL, as well as Information on the team […]
Our this year´s annual meeting ABOL4 took place on October 20th, 2017 under a number of lucky stars! Firstly, good news from the Federal Ministry of Research, Science and Economy came just in time: The coordination of ABOL is going to be funded for the next three years! Thus, co-ordination of the numerous currently running […]
The ABOL coordination team offers workshops to learn how to use the ABOL database. The workshops are designed for beginners, thus previous knowledge about the database software specify or databases in general is not required. Details The first ABOL database workshop took place on the 6th of November. The next workshops will be held at […]
Dear ABOL friends and colleagues interested in biodiversity, the ABOL meeting will take place in two weeks! With pleasure we announce the final program. Some changes concerning the speakers had to be made. Unfortunately, Paul Hebert had to cancel his attendance. But, we are happy to welcome Sujeevan Ratnasingham (Univ. of Guelph, Chief Architect of […]
Dear ABOL community & all interested people, the preliminary program of the this year´s ABOL meeting is now available and can be downloaded here: program-abol-meeting2017 The meeting takes place on 20th of October 2017 at the Natural History Museum of Vienna. We are happy to announce a keynote-lecture of Prof. Paul Hebert (University of Guelph, Canada), the […]
Dear ABOL community & all interested people, to avoid synchrony with the ÖEG Fachgespräche (October 21st, 2017, BOKU) the ABOL meeting will take place on October 20th, 2017 from 9:00 to ca. 20:00. We will start with talks, a panel discussion and a poster session. In the afternoon two public talks will be followed by […]
Dear ABOL community & all interested people, we would like to remind you that this years´ABOL meeting takes place on 20th and 21st of October in the Natural History Museum Vienna. We will look back at the past 3 years of the initial phase and especially look forward to the future of the ABOL-Initiative. Two public talks will […]
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 […]
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. Many were already out in […]
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 […]