Conference - Luxembourg's Caves and their Fauna
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In addition to many sandstone caves, there are also some limestone caves in Luxembourg. Historical mining of copper, antimony, dolomite, gypsum, slate, and especially iron ore in the Minette region has left numerous underground cavities. Who would think that this seemingly hostile environment could form the basis of life for a variety of animal species? The speaker presents life underground, from species that hibernate in caves to morphologically specially adapted species that cannot live above ground.
Speaker: Dr. Dieter Weber
Dieter Weber has been involved with cave fauna in Central Europe since he was 16, especially in Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, and Luxembourg. He has written several books on cave animals, one of which, about Luxembourg's cave fauna, is available as a PDF file on the Internet. Since 2007, he has been a freelance collaborator at the National Museum of Natural History in Luxembourg. He was a scientific collaborator with the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology at the Université libre de Bruxelles and is a guest researcher at the Senckenberg German Entomological Institute in Müncheberg. He completed his doctorate on the systematics of cavern amphipods and shares his extensive species knowledge in numerous trainings and workshops.
Where does it take place?
Luxembourg National Museum of Natural History
25
rue Münster
2160 Luxembourg
Luxembourg
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