OBJECTIVE: Documenting mussel biodiversity against the background of European freshwaters.

TASKS:

  1. Collating existing spatial data into one, harmonised, continuously developing database to prepare a Pan-European map: “Bivalves and Their Habitats”. Identification of gaps, biodiversity hotspots, evolutionary and management units, prioritising species and populations for conservation.
  2. Distribution and population modelling for both threatened native and invasive species based on collated data, considering large-scale processes (e.g. global warming, urbanisation ‘contagion’)

List of the Working Group members

You can find a list of members belonging to Working Group 1 – Diversity (according to COST declarations) below:

NameCountry
Dr Fundime MiriAlbania
Mr Clemens GumpingerAustria
Mr Daniel DaillAustria
Dr Grégory MotteBelgium
Dr Amra KazićBosnia & Herzegovina
Dr Milcho TodorovBulgaria
Dr Teodora TrichkovaBulgaria
Dr Lajtner JasnaCroatia
Dr Karel DoudaCzechia
Dr Ondřej CudlínCzechia
Dr Fabio ErcoliEstonia
Dr Vincent PrieFrance
Dr Karl-Otto NagelGermany
Dr Katharina Stöckl-BauerGermany
Dr Sebastian BeggelGermany
Dr Dimitrios KaragiannisGreece
Dr ILIAS CHALIGIANNISGreece
Dr IOANNIS KARAOUZASGreece
Dr THEOFILOS PAPADOPOULOSGreece
Dr Evelyn MoorkensIreland
Dr Camilla Della TorreItaly
Dr daniele nizzoliItaly
Dr Nicoletta RiccardiItaly
Dr Vanessa ModestoItaly
Dr Halil IbrahimiKosovo
Dr Agnija SkujaLatvia
Dr Gražina StanevičiūtėLithuania
Dr Romualda PetkevičiūtėLithuania
Dr Virmantas StunžėnasLithuania
Dr Vytautas RakauskasLithuania
Dr Frankie ThielenLuxembourg
Dr Munjiu OxanaMoldova
Mr Frank CollasNetherlands
Dr Valentina Slavevska StamenkovicNorth Macedonia
Dr Jon Hamner MagerøyNorway
Dr Marie-Pierre GosselinNorway
Dr Adam ĆmielPoland
Dr Agnieszka WośPoland
Dr Anna CichyPoland
Dr Anna LipińskaPoland
Dr Anna ŁabęckaPoland
Dr Cecylia WardakPoland
Dr Dariusz HalabowskiPoland
Dr Iga LewinPoland
Dr Katarzyna ZajacPoland
Dr Maciej WyrębekPoland
Dr Malgorzata OzgoPoland
Dr Marcin CzarnoleskiPoland
Dr Monika MioduchowskaPoland
Dr Amílcar TeixeiraPortugal
Dr Duarte GonçalvesPortugal
Dr Eduardo EstevesPortugal
Dr Elsa FroufePortugal
Dr Joaquim ReisPortugal
Dr Manuel Lopes LimaPortugal
Dr Martina IlarriPortugal
Mr Andre SantosPortugal
Dr Ana Maria Benedek-SîrbuRomania
Dr Ioan SîrbuRomania
Dr Ira SimionovRomania
Dr Aleksandra MiloskovicSerbia
Dr Aleksandra PetrovicSerbia
Dr Jelena TomovićSerbia
Dr Maja RakovićSerbia
Dr MOMIR PAUNOVICSerbia
Dr Simona Đuretanović (born Kovačević)Serbia
Dr Gorazd UrbanicSlovenia
Dr Miguel ClaveroSpain
Dr Noé Ferreira RodríguezSpain
Dr Paz ONDINASpain
Dr Rafaela AmaroSpain
Dr Martin ÖsterlingSweden
Dr Alexandra Anh-Thu WeberSwitzerland
Dr Arzu FIRAT ERSOYTurkey
Dr Emel ZERAY ÖZTÜRKTurkey
Dr FUSUN AKGULTurkey
Dr Şebnem AtasaralTurkey
Dr Ümit KEBAPÇITurkey
Dr Alexandra ZieritzUnited Kingdom
Dr Molly GraceUnited Kingdom 
Dr Caryn VaughnUnited States
Dr Jan Pawlowski