Conference - Luxembourg's Caves and Their Fauna
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Wildlife
In addition to many sandstone caves, Luxembourg also has some limestone caves. Historical mining of copper, antimony, dolomite, gypsum, slate, and particularly iron ore mining in the Minette region has left numerous underground cavities. Who would have thought that this seemingly inhospitable environment forms the basis of life for a variety of animal species?
The speaker presents underground life, from species that hibernate in caves to morphologically specially adapted species that cannot live on the surface.
Speaker: Dr. Dieter Weber
Dieter Weber has been involved with cave fauna in Central Europe since he was 16, particularly in Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, and Luxembourg. He wrote several books on cave animals, including the one on the cave fauna of Luxembourg, available as a PDF online. Since 2007, he has been a freelance collaborator at the National Museum of Natural History in Luxembourg. He was a scientific collaborator in the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology at the Free University of Brussels and is a guest researcher at the Senckenberg German Entomological Institute in Müncheberg. He completed a PhD on the systematics of cave amphipods and shares his extensive species knowledge in numerous trainings and workshops.
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Speaker: Dr. Dieter Weber. Freelance collaborator at the National Museum of Natural History in Luxembourg.
Automatically translated from German.
Where does it take place?
National Museum of Military History (MNHM) Asbl
25 Rue Münster
2160 Grund Luxembourg
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