Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0065513

Zusammenfassung

In times of biodiversity, and specifically insect decline, efficient documentation of diversity is of high importance. Such documentation is traditionally done with insect collections in museums, but more recently, especially since the establishment of DNA barcoding, is supplemented by tissue and DNA banks and sequence repositories. While Western and Northern European diversity is fairly well documented in diverse types of collections, the much more diverse regions of the planet lack good collections and taxonomists. This is even true for Eastern Europe, where the Caucasus represents one of th...