Dear members and friends of CBSS, we invite you to the General assembly of CBSS on June 8th, 2020 at 20:00, at the address Savski kuti, Lomnička 3 in Zagreb (right next to the office of the CBSS). Agenda: A welcoming word from the CBSS president Secretariat’s Report Cashier’s Report Supervisory board Report Change of

Bats do not spread COVID-19 In several regions of the world various communities and governmental authorities have been culling bats in a misplaced effort to combat the disease COVID-19. We are sharing here notification of the Secretariats of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), the Agreement on the Conservation

Research in the Barać Caves We spent the last weekend of February exploring the Barać caves as part of the project "Inventarisation of cave fauna, defining of conservation measures and guidelines development for the monitoring", which you can read about here.

Lecture "Cave spiders of the Dinarides - DNA, biogeography and ecological modeling in the light of climate change" Lecturer: Martina Pavlek Spiders are one of the most numerous groups of invertebrates in the caves of the Dinarides, and as apex predators, they play an irreplaceable role in maintaining the stability of the cave ecosystem. Although

Presentation of the book PROTEUS "PROTEUS" is the first monograph on olm (Proteus anguinus), published in Croatian and English. The presentation of the book will be held at Hrvatski novinarski dom, Perkovčeva ulica 2,  Zagreb, on Monday, January 27th, 2020 at 6 pm. You can find more information here.

Lecture "Egypt" Lecturers: Tatjana Vujnović and Helena Bilandžija If you are interested in where the whales in the Sahara come from, how the ancient Egyptians knew that a flood was coming, how Sinai is both the most dangerous and the safest place in the Middle East, how to bargain unsuccessfully with a charioteer in Luxor,

Lecture "Bat research in Nietoperek (Poland) and the Lokrum island" Lecturers: Daniela Hamidović and Boris Krstinić Two research will be presented: the census of bats in Nietoperek (Poland, 2019) and the film "Telemetry of bats on the Lokrum island" (2017). "Nietoperek" is the 8th largest bat hibernation location in Europe according to EUROBATS. The large

Lecture "Troglophilic cave crickets in Croatia: problems of taxonomy, distribution and ecology" Lecturer: Nikola Tvrtković, PhD In addition to an overview of troglophilic crickets of the Rhaphidophoridae family (crickets of the genus Dolichopoda and four species of cave horses of the genus Troglophilus), you will find out about their phylogeny and phylogeography, ecology, and degree

Understanding species richness patterns of subterranean fauna How large are the species ranges of subterranean fauna in Dinarides? How the sizes of these ranges are related to biodiversity hotspots? The article, based on subterranean beetles and amphipods is available at the link.

Lecture "Predation, Sex, and Cave Colonization by Gammarus minus" Sexually mature body sizes among groundwater resurgence or spring populations of the amphipod crustacean Gammarus minus are the result of a balance between size-selective predation by sculpin fishes (Cottus sp.) favoring small size and intra-sexual selection favoring large size. In springs with sculpins, small mature females