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Arachnologische Mitteilungen Arachnologische Mitteilungen E u Arachnology 2012 o 2.9.-7.9.2012 Ljubljana, Slovenia p www.european-arachnology.org e a n Heft 45 Karlsruhe, Juni 2013 ISSN 1018 - 4171 www.AraGes.de/aramit Herausgeber: Arachnologische Gesellschaft e.V. Arachnologische URL: http://www.AraGes.de Mitteilungen Schriftleitung: Theo Blick, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Terrestrische Zoologie, Projekt Hessische Naturwaldreservate, Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325 Frankfurt/M., E-Mail: [email protected], [email protected] Dr. Sascha Buchholz, Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Ökologie, Rothenburgstr. 12, D-12165 Berlin, E-Mail: [email protected] Gast-Editor für Artikel 2 - 4: Dr. Matjaž Kuntner, University of Ljubljana, Institute of Biology, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Novi trg 2, P. O. Box 306, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia, E-Mail: [email protected] Redaktion: Theo Blick, Frankfurt Dr. Sascha Buchholz, Berlin Dr. Jason Dunlop, Berlin Dr. Ambros Hänggi, Basel Dr. Hubert Höfer & Stefan Scharf, Karlsruhe (Satz und Repro, E-Mail: [email protected]) Wissenschaftlicher Beirat: Dr. Elisabeth Bauchhenß, Wien (A) Dr. Christian Komposch, Graz (A) Dr. Peter Bliss, Halle (D) Dr. Volker Mahnert, Douvaine (F) Prof. Dr. Jan Buchar, Prag (CZ) Prof. Dr. Jochen Martens, Mainz (D) Dr. Oliver-David Finch, Rastede (D) Dr. Dieter Martin, Waren (D) Prof. Peter J. van Helsdingen, Leiden (NL) Dr. Uwe Riecken, Bonn (D) Dr. Peter Jäger, Frankfurt/M. (D) Prof. Dr. Wojciech Staręga, Warszawa (PL) Erscheinungsweise: Pro Jahr 2 Hefte. Die Hefte sind laufend durchnummeriert und jeweils abgeschlossen paginiert. Der Umfang je Heft beträgt ca. 50 Seiten. Erscheinungsort ist Karlsruhe. Auflage 450 Exemplare Druck: Druckerei Isensee, Oldenburg. 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Rehbinder Arachnologische Mitteilungen 45: 1-53 Karlsruhe, Juni 2013 Arachnologische Mitteilungen 45: 1-3 Karlsruhe, Juni 2013 Preface to the section of the Proceedings of the 27th European Congress of Arachnology, Ljubljana, 2012 Sept. 2-7 (pp. 4-20) doi: 10.5431/aramit4501 Almost four years ago, du- ring the 2009 congress in Greece, I was called away from the Russian party only to be cornered by the esteemed colleagues of the ESA council and be asked the unnerving question, to which, of course, a negative response was not an opti- on: “Matjaž, how would you feel about organizing a future European con- gress”? Three years later, in September 2012, not only European arachnologists, but also many overseas col- leagues came to Ljubljana with huge expecta- organizing team. Thank you Matjaž Gregorič, tions from me and my crowd of enthusiastic, Ren-Chung Cheng, Nina Vidergar, Klemen yet inexperienced, sidekicks, of which only one Čandek, Urška Pristovšek and Miha Pipan, who was a professional researcher, and the rest were made the impossible things work, with further graduate or undergraduate students. 2012 was a help coming from Olga Kardoš, Martin Turjak, recession year, and with hundreds of our letters Tea Knapič, Klavdija Šuen and selected student asking for sponsorship of this “unique and pres- grantees. I am also indebted to the wonderful tigious scientific event” ignored (though with a scientific committee, Drs. Simona Kralj-Fišer, handful of exceptions, see below), we had to pull Ingi Agnarsson, Christian Kropf, Daiqin Li the event off on a shoestring. We did, however, and Miquel Arnedo. These colleagues helped keep the fees low for numerous colleagues to be me select and invite four outstanding plenary able to attend, and in addition we sponsored an speakers from around the World. We were pri- unprecedented number of students that would vileged to welcome and listen to the lectures of otherwise be unable to attend the meeting; no Jason Bond (Auburn University, USA) on inte- fewer than 30 lucky international students were grative approaches to delimiting species and ta- thus awarded grants that in addition to waived xonomy, Fiona Cross (University of Canterbury, fees also covered their accommodation. New Zealand) on olfaction based behaviour of a And so we (EZ lab) hosted, at the Scientific mosquito-eating, and thus blood-sucking, jum- Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of ping spider from Africa, Eileen Hebets (Univer- Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) in Ljubljana, sity of Nebraska, USA) on interacting traits and between 2nd and 7th September 2012, 156 col- secret senses in arachnids, proposing them as leagues from 39 countries. The participants re- model organisms in studying behavioural evo- presented most European countries, and those lution and Fritz Vollrath (University of Oxford, from further afield came from Brazil, Uruguay, UK), who spoke of the secrets of silk. These lec- Mexico, USA, Algeria, India, Pakistan, Japan, tures were all fascinating and of high scientific China, Taiwan, Singapore and Australia. As value. Most of them can be viewed online at people told us, the congress was a lot of fun. http://videolectures.net/ eca2012_ljubljana/. The event would never have been possib- We grouped the presentations into logical le without the amazing help from my EZ Lab sessions, some of which had to be parallel, with 2 M. Kuntner non-overlapping presentations of the students Academy of Sciences and Arts (http://www.zrc- competing for awards. With the help of Wolf- sazu.si/) and its EZ Lab (http://ezlab.zrc-sazu. gang Nentwig we also organized a symposium si/), the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and on DNA barcoding, where longer introductory Arts (http://www.sazu.si/en/o-sazu.html) and talks by Miquel Arnedo, Ingi Agnarsson and the Slovenian Research Agency (http://www. Jeremy Miller introduced the concepts and re- arrs.gov.si/en/dobrodoslica.asp). Further gene- cent practices in discovering, delimiting and in- rous sponsorships came from Pensoft (http:// ventorying species using DNA barcodes, while www.pensoft.net/), Bioform (https://www.bio- more specific presentations introduced recent form.de/), the British Arachnological Society European barcoding initiatives. There were also (http://britishspiders.org.uk/), the American two poster sessions, and many social events. Arachnological Society (http://americanarach- We congratulate again those students who won nology.org/) and the Arachnologische Gesell- awards, kindly provided by our sponsors, alt- schaft (http://arages.de/). hough the selection amongst many high quality Finally, although the congress saw nume- student presentations was difficult. Within the rous talks and posters (the Abstract book can broad category “Systematics and Evolution”, be downloaded at http://ezlab.zrc-sazu.si/ the awarded oral presentations were those of eca2012#abstracts), the future of the proceedings Henrik Krehenwinkel (1), Elisabeth Lipke (2) from the European Congress of Arachnology and Marija Majer (3), the awarded posters were may be bleak, as no more than five manuscripts those of Jana Plíšková (1), Susanne Meese (2) in total were submitted from the Ljubljana con- and Cheng-Ya Chang (3). Within the catego- gress, of which three withstood peer review and ry “Ecology and Behavior” the awards for oral were evaluated as appropriate for publication. presentations went to Katrin Kunz (1), Shazia Perhaps it’s time for the society to reconsider Quasin (2) and Reiner Neumann (3), while the future of publishing presentations from the those for posters went to Urška Pristovšek (1), congresses in manuscript form, but rather move Hsien-Chun Liao (2) and Klaas Welke (3). towards publishing and indexing only presenta- The main congress sponsors in addition to tion abstracts. the European Society of Arachnology were the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Matjaž Kuntner, Ljubljana Preface 1 Paul Selden - 2 Ren-Chung Cheng - 3 Nina Vidergar - 4 Seok Ping Goh - 5 Ingi Agnarsson - 6 Shichang Zhang - 7 Roman Bucher - 8 Tingting Zhang - 9 Susanne Meese - 10 Liana Lasut - 11 Leila Gurtner - 12 Christian Kropf - 13 Fiona Cross - 14 Holger Frick - 15 Ivan Franco - 16 Alberto Chiarle - 17 Mauro Paschetta - 18 Giulio Gardini - 19 František Šťáhlavský - 20 Dmitri Logunov - 21 Boris Zakharov - 22 Marco Isaia - 23 Theo Blick - 24 Arnaud Henrard - 25 Charlotte De Busschere - 26 Robert Bosmans - 27 Wolfgang Merten - 28 Jasmin Ruch - 29 Gabriele Uhl - 30 Hannah Wood - 31 Jeremy Miller - 32 Eileen Hebets - 33 Jason
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