82nd Annual Meeting of the German Society of Mammalogy Vienna, 14 to 18 September 2008: Abstracts of Oral Communications and Poster Presentations

Jena

2008

Bandaufführung

12599S

204901

After 1964 and 1994 the Annual Meeting of the German Society of Mammalogy will be held in Vienna for the third time. Vienna is still the heart of mammal research in Austria, where it is in focus at three universities, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and at the Natural History Museum. In 1994 Friederike Spitzenberger raised the hope that the annual meeting would help to boom mammalogy in Austria and foster the exchange between mammalogists of Eastern and Western Europe. A prerequisite of increased communication on an international scale is English as the scientific language. As a consequence, this annual meeting is the first one in the history of the German Society of Mammalogy which has English as the official language although it takes place in a German speaking country. We see this decision as a strategy to increase the internationality of our society and to attract colleagues from abroad. This is in line with the fact that the German Society of Mammalogy has numerous members on all continents which do not speak German...