Anita Eschner | Alpine Land Snails Working Group

Mag. Anita Eschner

Website: https://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/en/anita_eschner_

Natural History Museum Vienna
3rd Zoological Department

Anita Eschner is the curator of the Mollusc Collection of the NHMW and thus contributed to all projects of the working group. Specifically, she is a leading scientist in the Helicopsis project and the project "Barcoding of Austrian molluscs" a pilot study within the ABOL (Austrian Barcode of Life) initiative.

Publications and Congress Contributions on Alpine Land Snails

Baumgartner, G., Eschner, A., Baminger, H., Sattmann, H., Eder, S., & Singer, E. (2000). Aktivität und Aufenthaltsorte von Arianta arbustorum (LINNAEUS, 1758) und Arianta chamaeleon (L. PFEIFFER, 1842) in den Karnischen Alpen (Kärnten, Österreich). In H. Sattmann, D. Kleewein, & H. Kothbauer (Eds.), Arianta III - Berichte der Arbeitsgruppe Alpine Landschnecken. Wien: Naturhistorisches Museum. Cite

Jaksch, K., Eschner, A., & Haring, E. (2014). Genes in museum collections. Presented at the Workshop Alpine Land Snails 2014, Johnsbach, Austria. Cite

Duda, M., Jaksch, K., & Eschner, A. (2014). (Re)colonisation in a snail’s pace: biodiversity monitoring of land gastropods in the “Biosphärenpark Wienerwald.” Presented at the Workshop Alpine Land Snails 2014, Johnsbach, Austria. Cite

Eschner, A., Bieringer, G., Duda, M., Gobets, G., Jaksch, K., & Mrkvicka, A. (2014). Small steppe land species - big questions: First attempts to clarify the situation of Helicopsis striata and ssp. in Eastern Austria. Presented at the Workshop Alpine Land Snails 2014, Johnsbach, Austria. Cite

Jaksch, K., Fehér, Z., Haring, E., & Eschner, A. (2014). Treasured genes in museum collections. Presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of NOBIS-Austria, Munich, Germany. Cite

Jaksch, K., Eschner, A., Rintelen, T. V., & Haring, E. (2016). DNA analysis of molluscs from a museum wet collection: a comparison of different extraction methods. BMC Research Notes, 9, 348. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-016-2147-7 Cite

Duda, M., Schindelar, J., Macek, O., Eschner, A., & Kruckenhauser, L. (2017). First record of Trochulus clandestinus (Hartmann, 1821) in Austria (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Hygromiidae). Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, 16, 37–43. Cite

Duda, M., Mason, K., Haring, E., Mrkvicka, A. C., Kruckenhauser, L., Bieringer, G., & Eschner, A. (2017). Taxonomic revaluation of the Austrian endemic Helicopsis austriaca (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Hygromiidae) in the light of Natura 2000. Presented at the Euromal – 8th European Conference of Malacological societies, 10-14. September, Krakau, Polen, Kraków, Poland. Cite

Kruckenhauser, L., Duda, M., Schindelar, J., Macek, O., Reier, S., & Eschner, A. (2017). DNA Barcoding of Austrian molluscs. Presented at the 8th European Conference of Malacological societies, 10-14. September, Krakau, Polen, Kraków, Poland. Cite

Kruckenhauser, L., Duda, M., Schindelar, J., Macek, O., Reier, S., & Eschner, A. (2017). DNA Barcoding of Austrian molluscs - challenges and success. Presented at the 7th INTERNATIONAL BARCODE OF LIFE Conference; 20.-24.11.2017, Kruger National Park, South Africa, South Africa. Cite

Haring, E., Pinsker, W., Duda, M., Mason, K., Aschberger, M., Baumgartner, G., … Sattmann, H. (2018). Snails on the rocks. Arianta, 6, 31–40. Cite

Duda, M., Haring, E., Sattmann, H., Macek, O., Schindelar, J., Schnedl, S., … Kruckenhauser, L. (2018). Malacological excursion to Vorarlberg (Austria) in the course of the Austrian Barcode of Life Project. Arianta, 6, 47–52. Cite

Duda, M., Haring, E., Bieringer, G., Eschner, A., Mrkvicka, A., & Mason, K. (2018). Taxonomic reassessment of Helicopsis austriaca Gittenberger, 1969 and its relationships to H. striata (O.F. Müller, 1774) and H. hungarica (Soos & H. Wagner, 1935) (Eupulmonata: Helicoidea). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 84(4), 432–450. https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyy044 Cite