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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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: ...

Among the documents of Georg Gasser’s legacy, the archives of the Museum of Nature South Tyrol preserve a series of manuscripts of a work named “Über die Wund...