Publication on hydrobioids of the Kalkalpen national park

The MoFA award winner of 2021 Hannah Schubert MSc has recently published the results of her master thesis together with colleagues, in which hydrobioids of the NP Kalkalpen are also compared with others from Austria.

BIG THANKS again to all collectors!!!

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Schubert, H., Duda, M., Eschner, A., Weigand, E., & Kruckenhauser, L. (2023). DNA barcoding as a tool to monitor the diversity of endangered spring snails in an Austrian National Park. Biodiversity Data Journal, 11, e91496. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e91496 Cite