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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
M. SonnleitnerABOL at the Day of Biodiversity in Baden bei Wien3. July, 2025 - 13:40On June 13 and 14, 2025, the Biosphere Reserve Wienerwald organized its 20th Day of Biodiversity– this year in the Lower Austrian part of the biosphere reserve around Baden bei Wien. Around 100 experts from various disciplines explored the diverse flora, fauna, and funga of the area from the Kurpark to the Lindkogel.… 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
Reminder – ABOL meeting 2016
Highlights, MeetingsDear 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 of November with an e-mail to Michaela Sonnleitner abol.msonnleitner@gmail.com… Read more