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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
Days of Biodiversity ´25 – a review5. March, 2025 - 09:15The Days of Biodiversity ’25, which ABOL once again has co-organized, are over. Our thanks go to our co-organizers Biodiversity Hub, BOKU, ZooBot, NOBIS, University of Vienna and NHM Vienna for the smooth cooperation. First and foremost, however, we would like to thank all participants for inspiring lectures, interactive workshops and lively discussion rounds.… Read more
V. KarglABOL at the Long Night of Museums 202426. November, 2024 - 15:18Are names written in the genes? We pursued this question at the Long Night of Museums on Saturday, October 5, 2024, until late into the night!
The ABOL coordination team and the DNA laboratory of the Central Research Laboratories presented DNA barcoding in different aspects and applications.… Read more
ABOL meeting 2018 – registration extended!
Highlights, MeetingsDear ABOL community and biodiversity enthusiasts,
This year’s ABOL meeting will take place on 6th and 7th December 2018 at the Natural History Museum Vienna.
The REGISTRATION PERIOD has been extended until 31st October 2018 !
Please register for the workshops (on 6th December) and for the scientific conference (on 7th December) via e-mail to abol@nhm-wien.ac.at… Read more
Ausstellung “Hotspot Mur. Smaragde im Verborgenen” verlängert!
HighlightsAufgrund des großen Erfolges wird die Sonderausstellung „Hotspot Mur. Smaragde im Verborgenen“ im Grazer Naturkundemuseum Joanneum bis 9.12.2018 verlängert. Die Ausstellung widmet sich den z.T. seltenen Tier- und Pflanzenarten der Mur und den dahinter liegenden Auen. Die erst kürzlich neu entdeckte und heuer erstmal publizierte Fischart Romanogobio skywalkeri (Smaragdgressling) kommt nur in einigen Abschnitten der Mur vor.… Read more
BIO-PLANBAR, a new ABOL project
Highlights, ProjectsWe 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 species identification in the context of conservation conformity of planning processes of major construction projects will be investigated.… Read more
8th International Barcode of Life Conference
Highlights, MeetingsDear ABOL community, dear biodiversity enthusiasts,
Next year the the global barcoding community is meeting in Trondheim, Norway at the 8th iBOL conference. If you are interested to join, please save the 17.-20. June 2019 in your calendar. The conference website is already online. Under you will find information about the venue and the key data for the conference.… Read more
New literatur on DNA barcoding
Highlights, PublicationsWho does not know them from the own garden, the Spanish slug? A study at the BOKU Vienna showed that Citizen Scientists can contribute to investigate the abundance of slugs of the genus Arion in private gardens. The quality of determinations could be kept high in the study by using the DNA barcoding approach.… Read more
ABOL meeting 2018 – Information on workshops
Highlights, MeetingsDear 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.… Read more
ABOL meeting 2018 – registration now open!
Highlights, MeetingsDear 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.… Read more
New exhibition in Graz: Hotspot Mur. Concealed emeralds
Highlights, MeetingsThe special exhibition „Hotspot Mur. Concealed emeralds“ in the Natural History Museum in Graz presents a wide variety of partly quite rare species of animals and plants. All of them inhabit the waters, banks and floodplains of the River Mur. An exciting example of the tremendous biodiversity of the river is the discovery of the “emerald-Gressling”, a fish species known exclusively from the River Mur.… Read more
ABOL meeting 2018 – Save the date!
Highlights, MeetingsDear ABOL community,
this year´s ABOL meeting will take place on 06-07 of December 2018 at the Natural History Museum Vienna. On Thursday 06 of December we want to organize a workshop on “eDNA and metabarcoding”, which is aimed at stakeholders. On Friday, scientific talks address the professional audience and the interested public.… Read more
Relaunch of the ABOL website
HighlightsReflecting 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.… Read more