ProteusWatch vLab is planned to be developed as an e-services access to infrared videos and images captured in the karst underground habitat of Proteus anguinus, the largest European cave amphibian, endemic to Slovenia and the entire Dinaric Karst range. The IR video and images will be a precious resource to be processed via machine learning analysis tools in order to understand the ecology of this secretive endangered cave vertebrate. The vLab will be set by Tular Cave Laboratory in collaboration with Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU in the famous Planina Cave, the world hotspot for the largest population of proteus and the highest number of subterranean biodiversity.

More on the ProteusWatch vlab:

https://lifewatch.zrc-sazu.si/proteuswatch-vlab/

Round Table Session at the 4th International meeting "SOS Proteus": CONSERVATION OF PROTEUS AND ITS HABITAT FACING CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGES, Research and conservation of Proteus and protection of karst water resources and climate change prospective, Trieste Italy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMZhYyK2AoU.

ALJANČIČ, Magdalena, ALJANČIČ, Gregor, MILOTIĆ, Tanja, MACHIDON, Octavian-Mihai, MACHIDON, Alina Luminita, CASAER, Jim, PIPAN, Tanja. Karst groundwater biodiversity and habitats : building in-situ virtual laboratories to assess the ecology of Proteus anguinus and its subterranean habitat throughout data platforms . V: ŠVARA, Astrid (ed.), ZUPAN HAJNA, Nadja (ed.), GABROVŠEK, Franci (ed.). Speleology: 29th International Karstological School Classical Karst : abstracts & guide book: Postojna, 2022. 1st ed. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2022. Str. 118. ISBN 978-961-05-0649-2 https://iks.zrc-sazu.si/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/29IKS-SPELEOLOGY_book_cmyk.pdf