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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
One day meeting in Edinburgh (UK) on “DNA Sequencing Natural History Specimens Using New Sequencing Platforms and Protocols”
Highlights, MeetingsDear all
Pete Hollingworth of the Royal Botanical Garden in Edinburgh is organizing a Meeting on “Sequencing Natural History specimens using NGS”.
It will take place on Tuesday 11th July 2017 with many reknown speakers from various DNA-Barcoding initiatives.
The Meeting is free – registrition is open till 05th of July.… Read more
ABOL HRSM-Artikel in der Unizeit (Uni Graz) und im Webradio
HighlightsZum Hochschulraumstrukturmittel (HRSM) Projekt “Aufbau von universitären DNA-Barcoding-Pipelines für ABOL” ist ein Artikel in der Unizeit, dem Forschungsmagazin der Uni Graz, erschienen. Zu lesen unter diesem Link.
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ABOL meeting 2017 – Save the date!
Highlights, MeetingsDear ABOL community,
this year´s ABOL meeting will take place on 20th and 21st of October 2017 at the Natural History Museum Vienna. The meeting marks the transition from the pilot phase to the overall project.
Please save the date! Further information will be given in time.… Read more
ABOL goes facebook
HighlightsFor all of you who are familiar with social media, we recently initiated a facebook page for ABOL!
https://www.facebook.com/AustrianBarcodeOfLife/
We cordially invite you to contribute and comment frequently. We aim at announcing news about ABOL, along with other postings of general relevance for biodiversity.
Enjoy our page!… Read more
HRSM project start on March 1st 2017
Highlights, ProjectsWith March 1st the HRSM (Hochschulraumstrukturmittel) project has been launched. The project is funded with 1 Million Euro by the Ministry of Science, Research and Economy and aims at developing DNA barcoding pipelines for ABOL at universities. Commendably, the University of Graz has taken the leadership.… Read more
Butterflies: leading role in ABOL extended
HighlightsDear ABOL community,
it is about time, to announce many new projects which have been launched recently!
In butterflies, the showcase group of ABOL, four new projects have been initiated. Two of them, “Butterflies of Vorarlberg” and “Nocturnal butterflies of the Koblacher Ried” address the lepidopteran fauna of the most western Austrian province, Vorarlberg.… Read more
ABOL meeting Linz 2016
Highlights, MeetingsDear ABOL community,
this year again our ABOL meeting took place at the Schlossmuseum Linz – we would like to thank the people from the Upper Austrian State Museums for hosting! We are very happy, that so many of you joined the meeting. A special thank to all the speakers for the interesting talks concerning this year’s main topic “Applied aspects of DNA barcoding”.… Read more
Major study on species delimitation in Lepidoptera via DNA barcodes
Highlights, PublicationsA fascinating recent publication deals with the potential of species delimitation in Lepidoptera via CO1. An international cooperation, with the participation of experts from the Tyrolean State Museums, could show that DNA barcoding is an efficient approach to determine the vast majority of European Lepidoptera.
Every determination is eased by reciprocal monophyly between species.… Read more
Increase of international comparability by DNA-Barcoding
HighlightsAs representatives of a DNA-Barcoding-Initiative in Austria we are often asked for the value of barcoding Austrian individuals in species where DNA-Barcodes from other countries are available. The best answer is given by two papers on moths, recently published by the team around Peter Huemer at the Tiroler Landesmuseum.… Read more
Pushing the borders in our biodiversity assessment – the first associated projects on plants
Highlights, ProjectsDear 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.… Read more