Referat Geologie, Mineralogie, Sedimentologie
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Grabung jungtertiäre Wirbeltierfundstelle Höwenegg (Hegau)
Seit dem Jahre 2003 werden wieder Grabungen an der jungtertiären Wirbeltierfundstelle Höwenegg durch die Geowissenschaftliche Abteilung des Staatlichen Museums für Naturkunde Karlsruhe in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Staatlichen Museum...[more]
Internal anatomy of therapsid skulls (Forerunners of Mammals)
The oldest mammals are known from the Late Triassic and evolved from a group of more primitive land-living vertebrates, the therapsids. Because therapsids were already particularly mammal-like, they are essential for the...[more]
Biomechanics of Mustelids
Mustelid carnivores show an enormous variety of locomotion modes that are reflected in anatomical features. It is the aim of the project to correlate locomotion modes and anatomical features in order to find compliances that are...[more]
Plant-Arthropod interactions in the Late Palaeozoic
Since the first land plants in the Ordovician appeared preconditions for terrestrial animal life were given. As a consequence in the Devonian and Carboniferous the first forests in earth history evolved housing already a number...[more]
Fossils from the 'Mauerer Sande' - inventory, revision on molars of Elephantidae and palaeocology
Beside the famous mandible of Homo heidelbergensis found in the year 1907, the sand pits around the towns of Mauer and Bammental yielded more than 5.000 fossil remains of a diverse mammalian faunal assemblage. Based on the...[more]
Flora und vegetation of abandoned clay pits and of urban areas
Succession research allows us to witness how species communities emerge and are replaced again. Initial »settlers« arrive where – by natural processes or human impact – open soil, wounded bark, blank rock surface (… or also...[more]
Indicator values and functional traits
In (Central) Europe, research on both topics is carried out since quite a long time, there are comprehensive summaries and data bases. However, many unresolved issues still remain, e.g., in the application of existing concepts...[more]
Fallowland project (Offenhaltungsversuche) of Baden-Württemberg
The Fallowland project of Baden-Württemberg is addressing the question how species-rich agricultural land can be kept open and species-rich using minimum (financial, personal, and technical) effort, which is done by comparing...[more]
Exotische Gehölze und Diversität der Ektomykorrhiza-Pilze im urbanen Grünflächenbereich
Ektomykorrhiza-Pilze sind mit Bäumen zum beiderseitigen Vorteil verbunden. Sie haben in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten einen starken Rückgang im Stadtgebiet von Karlsruhe erfahren. Als wichtiger Grund gelten die anteilig zunehmenden...[more]
Die Großpilzflora des Ballungsraums Karlsruhe und ihre Veränderung
In dem zweijährigen Forschungsvorhaben wird weltweit erstmalig und exemplarisch für andere Ballungsräume in SW-Deutschland die Großpilzflora (Basidiomycota/Ständerpilze, Morchellaceae/Morchel-Verwandte) des Stadtkreises Karlsruhe...[more]
BiNHum - Biodiversity Network of the Humboldt-Ring
Access and format of existing digital object data, alignment of established database systems and development of a joint data portal.[more]
Barcoding of German spiders
In the GBOL Project (GBOL - German Barcode of Life) a consortium of several collection holding and biodiversity research institutes has started to characterize the species of animals, fungi and plants occurring in Germany...[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]
Taxonomie und Phylogenie der asiatischen Schlankkräuselspinnen
Die in Südostasien verbreiteten Spinnen aus der Familie der Psechridae (Schlankkräuselspinnen) waren bis 2009 taxonomisch nur mangelhaft bearbeitet und daher schwierig zu charakterisieren und zu identifizieren. Im Rahmen eines...[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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
