Referat Geologie, Mineralogie, Sedimentologie
Paläontology
Information regarding research focus and projects can be found on the section´s webpage.

Artenkenntnis für alle. Die Karlsruher Taxonomie-Initiative
Ein neues Projekt ist im Herbst 2022 angelaufen: Die „Karlsruher Taxonomie-Initiative“. Ziel des Projekts ist es, in der Region die Bildung im Bereich Artenkenntnis und Taxonomie von Pflanzen, Pilzen und Tieren zu stärken. Es ist...[more]
The Adelegg - flora, vegetation and ethnobotany of a central European mountain landscape
The Adelegg with a altitude of up to 1129 m and an area of 112 km² is a mountain landscape that is mainly wooded today. Parts of the Adelegg mountain ridge belong to the 6.4 km² Adelegg fauna-flora habitat area (FFH no....[more]
Plants, lichens and bryophytes in Baden-Württemberg - taxonomy, distribution and use
Research on native plants i is also a top priority for the Botany team at the SMNK. This work has contributed to scientific research in Baden-Württemberg for decades and is reflected in a large number of extensive...[more]
Medicinal Plants and Herbal Food Ingredients in the 21st Century - Benefits and Safety
The global inventory of plant diversity consists currently of about 350,000 species, with most current estimates expecting around 420,000 plant species to exist. This tremendous diversity accounts for a wide range of...[more]
[Translate to english:] Sammlungen, Digitalisierung, Naturschutz und Globaler Wandel
Collections, digitization, nature conservation and global change A decline in botanical collections and collection interests in recent decades is highly problematic. In an era of rapid climate change, botanical and other...[more]

Stadt.Wiesen.Mensch
Ein Projekt der Forschungsabteilungen und der Vermittlung am Staatlichen Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe[more]
Large wandering spiders in Amazonian forests
Since 1992 Thierry Gasnier, Hubert Höfer and Antonio Brescovit (and others) study biology and ecology of the large wandering spiders living on the ground of Amazonian forests. Starting point of their interest in factors and...[more]

EDAPHOBASE - a soil organism data warehouse
In the second project phase the non-commercial database Edaphobase will be integrated in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) network with a node for soil organisms at the Senckenberg Museum in Görlitz. Data on...[more]
Amazon Spiders and Butterflies
An International Museum Fellowship of the German Federal Cultural Foundation allows us to reactivate an earlier cooperation between our museum and the Brazilian National Research Institution for Amazonia (INPA) in Manaus.[more]
Semantic enrichment and mobilization of data in distributed repositories for taxonomy and ecology
Solving a Gordian knot in the taxonomy of neotropical jumping spiders and trait-based ecological habitat assessment with spider assemblages[more]

Weevils of the Papuan Region
New Guinea and its lesser surrounding islands harbour an extremely diverse yet little-explored weevil fauna (Curculionoidea). It is characterized by endemism on different hierarchic scales: most species occupy restricted areas...[more]

Biodiversity of leaf litter inhabiting arthropods of natural forests in Java
Java is the most densely populated island of Indonesia with about 127 million inhabitants. So, it can not be a surprise that wide areas have been deforested and converted into agricultural land. However, many of the mountains and...[more]

Systematics and evolution of the weevil genus Trigonopterus
The flightless weevil genus Trigonopterus Fauvel (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Cryptorhynchinae) is extremely diverse in New Guinea, New Caledonia and the Pacific Islands. Currently, there exist 444 described species worldwide, but...[more]

Bläulinge an Jagst und Kocher: Verbreitung, Ökologie, Schutz
In einem faunistisch bisher nur wenig untersuchten Gebiet, dem Bereich von Jagst und Kocher im Nordosten Baden-Württembergs, wurden zehn gefährdete Bläulingsarten im Hinblick auf ihre Verbreitung und ihre regionalen...[more]

Schmetterlingsfauna Baden-Württembergs
Die Landesdatenbank Schmetterlinge Baden-Württembergs (LDS-BW) ist ein Kooperationsprojekt des Ressorts Lepidoptera im Referat Entomologie mit der Naturschutzverwaltung des Landes Baden-Württembergs (Landesanstalt für Umwelt,...[more]