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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
Visit from Montenegro
In June the working group Alpine Land Snails (NHM Vienna) was glad to welcome Prof. Vladimir Pešić and Prof. Vesna Vukašinović-Pešić in Vienna to discuss the progress of our joint OeAD-WTZ (Project No. ME 10/ 2016) project on the rock dwelling door snail species...
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Black Nerite (Theodoxus prevostianus) reintroduction
In a recently published paper (Fehér et al. 2017) we have reported on the successful reintroduction of a rare and endangered species, the Black Nerite, Theodoxus prevostianus (C. Pfeiffer, 1828). This is a freshwater neritid species , occurring in hypothermal springs...
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Montenegro excursion – April 2017
Members of the working group Alpine Land Snails of the NHM have visited Montenegro recently in the frame of a co-operation project with the University of Montenegro funded by the OeAD-WTZ (Project No. ME 10/ 2016). Under supervision of Prof. Vladimir Pesic we...
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