Dear 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.comRead more

Dear 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

Dear 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

Dear 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

Dear 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

Italienische Schönschrecke (Calliptamus italicus)

Recently 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

We 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

…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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Just 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

It 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