In situ spores of marattialean ferns from the Triassic in Central and Northern Europe
Hendrik Nowak, Evelyn Kustatscher, Guido Roghi, Johanna H.A. Van Konijnenburg-van Cittert
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The Middle to Upper Triassic successions of Europe have yielded several rich and well-preserved palaeofloras in which fertile fronds of marattialean ferns with con...
The freshwater mussels Unionidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionida) of the Lakes of Monticolo/Montiggl and Caldaro/Kaltern (Province of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy)
Massimo Morpurgo, Elsa Froufe, Manuel Lopes-Lima & Nicoletta Riccardi
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The freshwater bivalves Unionidae are in dramatic decline globally. Due to wide shell variability, only the genus can be determined by traditional morphological me...
Fischbesatz in Südtirol während der letzten 30 Jahre: konstante Priorisierung nicht-heimischer Arten
Georg H. Niedrist, Andreas Hilpold & Petra Kranebitter
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Fish stocking is a common practice to support endangered fish species or to promote local fisheries, also in South Tyrol, but current species protection and the ma...
Neufunde von Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) für Südtirol und Italien aus dem Obervinschgau
Michael Steinwandter, Julian von Spinn, Barbara Thaler-Knoflach & Julia Seeber
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Here we report four spider findings that are new for the Province of South Tyrol (northern Italy), with two of them being new for Italy. All spider species were fo...
Vegetation shapes alpine ground-dwelling macro-invertebrate communities: A case study from the Stilfserjoch/ Stelvio National Park (Martell/Martello, South Tyrol, Italy)
Michael Steinwandter, Helene Blasbichler & Julia Seeber
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There are few studies on ground-dwelling invertebrates from alpine ecosystems, often with only one or a few samplings per growing season. However, to get a most co...
Checkliste der Lebensräume Südtirols – zweite überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage
Thomas Wilhalm, Simon Stifter, Ulrike Gamper, Joachim Mulser, Brigitta Erschbamer, Kurt Kußtatscher, Mauro Tomasi, Cesare Lasen & Andreas Hilpold
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The checklist of the habitats of South Tyrol has become an important tool in the biodiversity documentation of South Tyrol as well as in nature conservation practi...
The state of knowledge of the genus Alchemilla in South Tyrol was highly incomplete until the end of the 20th century. This was true for the species inventory as w...
Plant communities along elevational and temporal gradients at the GLORIA sites in the Dolomites
Nils Bertol, Lena Nicklas, Martin Mallaun & Brigitta Erschbamer
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Climate warming can be regarded as the main factor for changes occurring in alpine ecosystems. As high elevation species in the Alps are considered to be particula...
Pezotettix giornae (Rossi, 1794) (Insecta, Acrididae), ein Neufund für die Fauna Südtirols
Andreas Hilpold & Elia Guariento
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In the framework of the ongoing project Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol a hitherto unknown orthoptera species was newly recorded for the fauna of South Tyrol: ...