About Us
The “Alpine Land Snails Working Group” is primarily located at the Natural History Museum of Vienna. It was founded in the course of projects carried out in the 1990ties on Alpine land snails, and a comprehensive FWF-project performed between 2007 and 2011. While in the first period the genera Arianta and Cylindrus were in the focus of our research, several other taxa were included in the course of the FWF-project centered on East Alpine species of the genera Cylindrus, Orcula, Trochulus, Petasina, Clausilia, Vertigo, Pyramidula and Cochlostoma.
Our Team
Our team currently consists of about 20 people. The photo shows part of the group on an excursion to the Austrian mountain Schneeberg in the year 2010 (from left to right):
Luise Kruckenhauser
Elisabeth Haring
Katharina Mason
Laura Zopp
Michael Duda
Josef Harl
Helmut Sattmann
Partners and Supporters
Museum of Natural History, Vienna
FWF Austrian Science Fund
Friends of the Natural Museum of History
We are grateful to all our colleagues and friends who supported us with material, ideas and enthusiasm. We also thank all institutions who provided financial support and infrastructure.
From our Blog
Do rock-dwelling land snail species avoid their congeners?
This was the question of a recently finished study of our workin group. An Open Access paper, "Range-constrained co-occurrence simulation reveals little niche partitioning among rock-dwelling Montenegrina land snails (Gastropoda: Clausiliidae)", was recently published...
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Save the date – Alpine Land Snails workshop Johnsbach 2018
This year we celebrate a special anniversary of the “Alpine Landsnails workshop” in Johnsbach! It will take place Sunday August 19th to Thursday 23rd. (The arrival might be changed to Monday, thus the official programme will start on Monday 20th ). Some of us consider...
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A new paper on Caucasotachea vindobonensis
“Pub Science” (“Wissenschaft im Wirtshaus”) in Johnsbach 2017
"Pub Science" ("Wissenschaft im Wirtshaus") which will focus on the biology and ecological needs of rock dwelling animals and plants. This public event will take place on Sunday, August 20th, the research activities will last until August 26th. Download program:...
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Alpine Land Snails Workshop 2017 – On the rocks
The Workshop "Alpine Land Snails 2017" will traditionally take place again in Johnsbach, Styria, Austria. Austrian biologists and colleagues from Germany, Russia, Slovenia, Greece, Montenegro and Hungary will gather in this extraordinary place in Gesäuse to perform...
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Solving the Cylindrus riddle – two new papers are out
From our Galleries
Alpine Land Snails extended – Workshop 2016: Photos
After a one year break we were happy to meet again at the restaurant Kölblwirt in Johnsbach for the Workshop “Alpine Land Snails extended” which took place from 1.-5. August 2016. Read more on our...
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Field trip in Albania – June, 2016
The first Albanian field trip of 2016 took place in June. The members of the team were Zoltán Erőss, Zoltán Fehér, Jozef Grego, Maros Grego and Miklós Szekeres. Our primary aim was to find Montenegrina chiasma in the Mt. Dajti (central Albania) and Montenegrina...
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“Schnecken checken” students as Citizen Scientists
View of the Korab Mountains from the bank
of Drin River near Fushë-Muhurr, Albania