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Verleihung der Ehrendoktorwürde: Am 20. Mai 2009 verlieh die renommierte Adam-Mickiewicz-Universität zu Poznán dem emeritierten Greifswalder Professor Dr. Gerd Alberti die höchste akademische Auszeichnung, den doctor honoris causa. Damit fanden nicht nur sein Engagement in der deutsch-polnischen Zusammenarbeit, sondern vor allem seine herausragenden wissenschaftlichen Ergebnisse auf dem Gebiet der Morphologie und Anatomie von Invertebraten, insbesondere Spinnentieren, eine hohe Anerkennung. ...
In diesem Jahr fand vom 11. bis 17. Juli der 18. Internationale Kongress der Arachnologen in Siedlce, welches ca. 90 km östlich von Warschau liegt, statt. Der Kongress wurde von Marek Zabka, Barbara Patoleta und unzähligen weiteren fleißigen Helferlein organisiert. Schon die Liste derjenigen die einen Hauptvortrag halten würden war vielversprechend. Dabei waren Friedrich Barth (Österreich), William Eberhard (Costa Rica), Mark Elgar (Australien), Gonzalo Giribet (USA), Rudy Jocqué (Belgien), Wayne Maddison (USA), Robert Raven (Australien), Paul Selden (USA), Gabriele Uhl (Deutschland) und Samuel Zschokke (Schweiz).
Natural history collections are fundamental for biodiversity research as well as for any applied environment-related research. These collections can be seen as archives of earth´s life providing the basis to address highly relevant scientific questions such as how biodiversity changes in certain environments, either through evolutionary processes in a geological timescale, or by man-made transformation of habitats throughout the last decades and/or centuries. A prominent example is the decline of the European flat oyster Ostrea edulis Linneaus, 1758 in the North Sea and the concomitant invasion of the common limpet slipper Crepidula fornicata, which has been implicated to have negative effects on O. edulis. We used collections to analyse population changes in both species in the North Sea. In order to reconstruct the change in distribution and diversity over the past 200 years, we combined the temporal and spatial information recorded with the collected specimens contained in several European natural history collections. Our data recover the decline of O. edulis in the North Sea from the 19th century to the present and the process of invasion of C. fornicata. Importantly, the decline of O. edulis was nearly completed before C. fornicata appeared in the North Sea, suggesting that the latter had nothing to do with the local extinction of O. edulis in the North Sea.
Though recent investigations have contributed substantially to our understanding of the Alpine-Dinaric radiation of the genus Zospeum Bourguignat, 1856, its southernmost member, Zospeum troglobalcanicum Absolon, 1916, has remained a taxonomic ghost. The assumed absence of type material, the insufficient original description, and the lack of new samples from its Western Balkan type locality have stymied further clarification. The recent discovery of a single syntype shell housed at the Natural History Museum Vienna now enables the first morphological assessment via 3D X-ray and SEM imaging. Based on this image data, different characters for assessing the southernmost members of the genus are determined and a lectotype is designated. Eleven allied species from 15 Western Balkan populations are described from museum material and recent sampling efforts: Z. amplioscutum Jochum & Ruthensteiner sp. nov., Z. biokovoense Jochum & Ruthensteiner sp. nov., Z. constrictum Jochum & Ruthensteiner sp. nov., Z. dubokidoense Jochum & Ruthensteiner sp. nov., Z. intermedium Jochum & Ruthensteiner sp. nov., Z. kolbae Jochum, Inäbnit, Kneubühler & Ruthensteiner sp. nov., Z. neuberti Jochum & Ruthensteiner sp. nov., Z. njegusiense Jochum & Ruthensteiner sp. nov., Z. njunjicae Jochum, Schilthuizen & Ruthensteiner sp. nov., Z. tortuosum Jochum & Ruthensteiner sp. nov. and Z. tumidum Jochum, Schilthuizen & Ruthensteiner sp. nov. One species, Z. kolbae, is described using DNA sequence data and one species, Z. simplex Inäbnit, Jochum & Neubert, 2021 for which DNA sequence data is already available, is supported by morphological data presented in this study. The DNA sequence dataset (COI, 16S and H3) is included here and implemented in the most recent phylogenetic reconstruction of the genus. A translation of Karel Absolon’s notes from the Balkan scientific expeditions is provided.