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The freezing waters surrounding the Antarctic continent, with water temperatures as low as -1.9 ˚C, are dominated by a single group of fishes – fishes of the suborder Notothenioidei – that represent up to 95% of the Antarctic fish fauna. Surprisingly, however, this group of fishes is evolutionarily rather young, with an age of only […]

We continue our surveys of hyper saline habitats on the island of Mallorca. The island is blessed with a few endemic species of aquatic beetles, and yet, its hyper saline coastal Rockpool habitats remain mostly unexplored. Our work, in cooperation with local authorities and researchers, also covers inland water habitats with species related to the […]

In November 2023, we visited Barranquilla to provide a training course and mini conference at the Universidad del Atlántico, with 38 participants from 4 Colombian institutions / departments and Germany. We provided a lecture event as well as open discussion sessions for in depth training and project management. German lecturers were Michael Balke and Adrian Villastrigo (SNSB-ZSM Munich) […]

Aquatic insects are not usually found in marine habitats. Some species of minute moss loving beetles of the family Hydraenidae can however be found in hypersaline marine rockpools, only centimetres above the intertidal. Incredibly, these tiny pools can not only support thousands of these ca. 2 mm long beetles, but also different species with adaptations […]