Research Interests Systematics, biogeography and ecology of Tiger Beetles (Cicindelinae); biogeography and ecology of Central European Ground Beetles (Carabidae); systematics and biogeography of the…

Memberships International Society of Hymenopterists (ISH)   http://www.hymenopterists.org Entomologischer Verein Stuttgart (EVS) …

Research interests I am broadly interested in the mechanisms driving speciation and the role of biogeography in shaping biodiversity. My research integrates evolutionary biology, museomics, and…

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Research framework Research departments The Natural History Museum Stuttgart combines excellent scientific expertise and internationally networked research in entomology, botany, zoology,…

Research projects Team Biodiversity Monitoring Networks At the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, our Department is dedicated to exploring how genetic and phenotypic variation within…

Team Botany Botany Collection The research of the Botany Department is centred on current topics in the ecology, systematics, and evolutionary biology of plants and fungi (including lichens).…

Entomology Collection Entomological research encompasses the largest group of animals with more than one million described species. Research at the SMNS focuses on Coleoptera (beetles),…

Team Paleontology Paleontology Collection The study of fossil vertebrates and invertebrates profits from the rich fossil lagersätten of Baden-Württemberg to a special degree. Currently,…

Dr. Wolfgang Rähle – volunteer work – Malakozoologie (2004 - † 2019)  Zoology Collection By means of integrative approaches we pursue projects on the systematics, biogeography,…