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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
ABOL-Meeting Linz 2015
Highlights, MeetingsLiebe ABOL-Gemeinschaft!
Wir freuen uns, dass Sie bei der diesjährigen ABOL-Tagung wieder so zahlreich teilgenommen haben. Ein großes Dankeschön an alle Vortragenden, die von vielfältigen Seiten den diesjährigen Schwerpunkt „Sammlungen und Sammeln“ vor allem im Hinblick auf DNA-Barcoding und der damit verbundenen Qualitätssicherung beleuchtet haben.
Wir hoffen, dass die Tagung gut und ausgiebig für Meinungsaustausch und Netzwerken genützt werden konnte.… Read more
New “Join-us-page” on our website!
HighlightsThe planned main project of ABOL intends to record the entire Austrian biodiversity. Such an ambitious objective can only be achieved by a cooperating network of experts/ volunteers/ working groups/ and institutions.
The new “Join-us-page” provides information on our growing network along with contact possibilities.
All persons able and willing to participate are cordially invited to contact us!… Read more
NEW! Database on Barcoding literature online!
Highlights, PublicationsA selection of scientific and popular publications on the topic of DNA barcoding in general and ABOL in particular can be accessed via the link
https://www.zotero.org/groups/abol_literatur.
The main page of the Zotero literature-database displays recent additions. By activating the link „Group Library“ the structure of the database (hierarchic folders) will be opened with the entire content.… Read more
Final agenda for the ABOL meeting 2015
Highlights, MeetingsWe are glad to present the final agenda for this years´ ABOL meeting!
Many thanks to all participants which agreed to give a talk at the meeting.
We look forward to a well attended and inspiring meeting as well as numerous poster presentations. Please register as soon as possible per e-mail to abol.msonnleitner@gmail.com… Read more
ABOL meeting 2015 – preliminary agenda
Highlights, MeetingsDear ABOL community,
the preliminary agenda for this year´s ABOL meeting which will be jointly organized with ZooBot (Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Österreich) and NOBIS Austria (Network of Biological Systematics Austria) is now available and can be downloaded here. Minor changes in schedule and talks still can occur.… Read more
Three new publications on DNA-Barcoding of butterflies
Highlights, PublicationsDear barcoding-community,
we would like to point out three papers already published in 2015 concerning Barcoding of Austrian Lepidopterae:
Early in the year P. Huemer and P.D.N Hebert presented a Barcode library containing 1489 species of butterflies from Vorarlberg. 36 species were new to the province of Vorarlberg, while two species were newly recorded for Austria.… Read more
A new fish species recorded for the Upper Mur River
Highlights, PublicationsDuring samplings in 2014, scientists of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences of Vienna caught several specimens of a gudgeon-like fish in the Mur River, which differentiated from sympatric Gobio obtusirostris through their large fins, elongated body shape and habitat use. Morphological studies showed that these specimens did not belong to any of the three Romanogobio species native in Austria.… Read more
Neuer ABOL Folder 2015
HighlightsDer neue ABOL-Folder ist fertig. Wir bedanken uns ganz herzlich bei Josef Muhsil für die Layoutarbeit, und bei allen KollegInnen, die uns Fotos zur Verfügung gestellt haben. Man kann den Folder jederzeit als pdf unter “Public Outreach/Folder & Logos” oder hier herunterladen.
ABOL Folder 2015web… Read moreNew associated project – DNA-Barcoding of palaeoarctic Apioninae (Curculionoidea, Coleoptera)
Highlights, ProjectsThe project operated by Harald Letsch and Sven Winter aims at unravelling phylogenetic relationships within this morphologically difficult group in addition to DNA-Barcodes. Despite a recent restructuring of the genus Apion based on feeding plants and morphology still some taxonomic uncertainties remain. Preliminary Barcoding data suggest the existence of cryptic species in some groups.… Read more
ABOL-Meeting 2015, Save the Date
Highlights, MeetingsThis year again an ABOL-Meeting will be organized. It will take place from 5. to the 6. of November 2015, in the Schloßmuseum in Linz. We thank all people from the OÖ Landesmuseum for housing this years meeting and are looking forward to two days full of interesting and inspiring presentations and discussions.… Read more