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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
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
ABOL meeting 2016
Highlights, MeetingsDear 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 a conference dinner in the Schlossmuseum in Linz.… Read more
New associated projects dealing with wild bees
Highlights, ProjectsDear 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.… Read more
ABOL meeting 2016 – Save the Date!
Highlights, MeetingsDear 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.)… Read more
Heating the worldwide biodiversity hotspot of Protura: Acerentomon christiani n.sp. from the Leopoldsberg, Vienna
Highlights, PublicationsDear 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 from the same locality, one of which was new to science (Resch et al 2014).… Read more
Associated project Orthoptera
Highlights, ProjectsRecently 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
New content of the ABOL webpage
HighlightsWe 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 the “Experts” menu.… Read more
The New Year…
Highlights…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
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Austrian Caddisflies
Highlights, ProjectsJust 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 more
New associated project – Aphidinae (plant louse)
Highlights, ProjectsIt is a plesure to welcome a new associated project!
Manfred Hartbauer, Doris Reineke and Liza Nemes investigate collective defence mechanisms in non-myrmecophilous aphid species by means of various playback experiments and analysis of alarm pheromones. Additionally. the evolution of collective physical defence will be reconstructed in a phylogenetic approach encompassing different species of the subfamily of Aphidinae.… Read more