🌍 What a great week at #IMC2025 in Innsbruck! 🏔️ Proud to showcase our institute among outstanding #mountain scientists 🧠 with talks, posters, and sessions featuring several of our projects🎤📊 @imc2025.bsky.social @jseeber.bsky.social @msteinwandter.bsky.social

📢 new study Species-specific thresholds boost #BirdNET ’s precision in passive acoustic monitoring of Alpine #birds. 🐦🦅 🗒️ First open list of 72 thresholds for #Europe - replicable tool for #biodiversity surveys in complex landscapes.👂 #bioacoustics #research read more: ℹ️ tinyurl.com/acustics

New #OpenAccess work in #RESAgForestEnt Exploring #hymenopteran #parasitoid communities & their hosts: comparative study of farmland & semi-natural ecotones with focus on #pentatomoids doi.org/10.1111/afe.70009 @jordancuff.bsky.social @chrisranger.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social @wiley.com

🕊️ Alpine farmland is losing its biodiversity. New research shows: ✅ Natural habitats & habitat diversity help #birds thrive ❌ Intensification fragments landscapes & harms ecosystems 🌍 #Conservation must scale across landscapes 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.je... @step-roilo.bsky.social @mattande.bsky.social

📢 Wild #bees thrive in biodiverse mountain farms! 🐝🐝 Zanini et al. found that #multidiversity boosts pollination, buffering #climate impacts. 🌤️🌱🐝 Find out more here: 🔎 doi.org/10.1016/j.ag... @mdainese.bsky.social, @mattande.bsky.social, @eliaguariento.bsky.social & more

📢 COME WORK WITH US 📢 The call for applications to the PhD program at UniTrento DICAM, which includes a position on the "Soundscape for all", is now online! ⛰️🎵🐦 lnkd.in/dr9Mnpra 🗓️Deadline: August 21, 2025, at 4:00 PM

🚨 Hiring: Biodiversity Monitoring Officer (Full-time | Bolzano) Join Biodiversa+ & @euracalpenv.bsky.social to build an EU-wide biodiversity monitoring network and work with leading institutions to bridge science & conservation policy. ⏳ Apply by 31 July! More info: eurac.onboard.org/jobs/XGJ2xrGM

We’re thrilled to share that @mattande.bsky.social has won the prestigious Stefan M. Gergely Prize! 🏆 Awarded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) for outstanding research on biodiversity and ecosystems. Big congrats, Matteo! 👏🌿 📸 ÖAW / D. Hinterramskogler

Scientific Workshop Quantification and Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Agriculture and Forestry 🌳🌱 Excellent speakers from @euracalpenv.bsky.social, FiBL, @thuenen.de & WU Vienna Join us: 27 June 2025 in Vienna and online 🫴 bab.gv.at/index.php?op... @bokuvienna.bsky.social @bmluk.gv.at

Today is #worldbeeday 🐝 Read here about the work we do on #wildbees: www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/... @euracalpenv.bsky.social

📢fresh out of the press: a first global analysis of published research on #cryptogams, #microorganisms, and #fauna in #mountain #soils above the treeline, and a structured synthesis of current knowledge. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This is the result of >2.5 years of collaborative effort led by @gmba-ipo.bsky.social mountain soil biodiversity working group lead @msteinwandter.bsky.social @nadinepraeg.bsky.social @jseeber.bsky.social @fundivecol.bsky.social @euracalpenv.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.social.uibk.ac.at.ap.brid.gy

New study on bats & agriculture in mountain ecosystems! 🦇🌄 Using passive acoustic monitoring🎧, we explore how agricultural practices impact bat diversity, with natural elements promoting richness & manure hills having a negative effect @chiarapaniccia.bsky.social @andreashilpold.bsky.social

Happy to see that a small article Elia Nalini (from @euracalpenv.bsky.social ) and I wrote for the myrmecological news blog is now finally published! 🐜 We present our @monitant.bsky.social project and also our Citizen Science approach. 🔎 blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2025/04/09/m...

📢New study on forest-grassland ecotone expansion in the Eastern #Alps! 🌲 Using the iLand model💻, we explore how land-use abandonment & #climatechange impact #forests, disturbances & species shifts. 🔗 @marco-mina.bsky.social @edfm-tum.bsky.social @wernerrammer.bsky.social @unibz.bsky.social

500 wild bee species live in #SouthTyrol. 🐝 To shed light on these winged wonders, our #interactive exhibition "BEEhold" has hit the streets of #Bolzano! 🖼️📸Pick up a map🗺️, grab some stickers & buzz your way through town as you learn more about #bee #biodiversity: beehold.eurac.edu/en

We linked canopy structure 🌲📸 (via hemispherical & cover photography) to understory #plantdiversity 🌱 in forest plots. Our findings show canopy #photography can provide key #biodiversity #indicators & insights for managing conservation forests. @marco-mina.bsky.social @andreashilpold.bsky.social,...

#Microplastics have been found in almost all environmental spheres! In this #study, @DahmsHeinrich & the Departm. of Zoology at the Uni of Johannesburg investigated #microplastics in a transboundary river system of multiple African nations. 🌍 ➡️: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @springernature.com

Our researchers @msteinwandter.bsky.social, @chiarapaniccia.bsky.social & @eliaguariento.bsky.social have found three specimens of the Eurasian pygmy shrew in South Tyrol at over 3,000 meters a.s.l.. This #discovery marks a European #record! 🏆 📰: eurac.edu/de/press/eur... Foto: Giacomo Gaudenzi

Death is not the opposite of life, but part of it. #Decay and regeneration work hand in hand. Our newly published article examines how dead #wood is vital to life in a #forest. Read the full article here: eurac.edu/en/magazine/... Ph: A de Giovanni / Eurac Research #biodiversity

🐝Wild bees are vital for #ecosystems, but there are major knowledge gaps about their #distribution. Our latest study in @bdj.pensoft.net helps bridge this gap by adding new records for wild #bees in South Tyrol. 📊📌🐝 🔎Read more here: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

📣Save the date: LTER Austria and LTER Italy members are convening a workshop on "Strengthening long-term socio-ecological research in mountain LTSER platforms" at #imc25 from September 14-18, 2025 in Innsbruck. We are looking foreward to your contributions! For more information 👇

Der "Köstlichste" ist Streuobstsorte des Jahres 2025! 🍎 Diese traditionelle Apfelsorte, die ursprünglich im Piemont und Trentino kultiviert wurde, prägte mit ihrem süßen Geschmack und der charakteristischen rot-grünen Färbung auch den guten Ruf des Südtiroler Obstbaus.

#IMC2025📍 Innsbruck, 14-18 Sep 2025 🌍Submit abstracts for the focus session (FS 3.137) "The aquatic biodiversity of mountain waterscapes" 🌊⛰️ 📅 Deadline: 20 Feb 2025 🌐 Details: shorturl.at/yH0DT #stream #Biodiversity #Mountains #water

#IMC2025📍 Innsbruck, 14-18 Sep 2025 🌍Submit abstracts for the focus session (FS 3.149) "Mountain regions as key biodiversity observatories – challenges & solutions in times of global changes" 📅 Deadline: 20 Feb 2025 🌐 Details: shorturl.at/uL0Am #Biodiversity #Mountains @chiarapaniccia.bsky.social

Abstract submission for the International Mountain Conference in Innsbruck #IMC25 is open! Come join us for a great session on mountain soil biodiversity: imc2025.info/imc25/sessio... @msteinwandter.bsky.social @nadinepraeg.bsky.social @euracalpenv.bsky.social

📣New paper on "Short-term impact of low air pressure on plants’ #functionaltraits" 🌱🪴 by Silvia Lembo et al. conducted in the #climate #simulation center 🌐TerraXcube w/ @gniedrist.bsky.social, @nadinepraeg.bsky.social, @fwf-at.bsky.social and many more ℹ️have a read: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

📣New paper alert: Understanding the long-term dynamics of #vegetation🌱 since 1953 in high-mountain regions by @KRamskogler, @LéonLepesant, @erichtasser with #Sehag & #Nationalpark Stilfserjoch/Stelvio. 📜 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

📣 Great News: Strumigenys baudueri has been finally reported for South Tyrol! 🔎Find out more below ⬇️ and in this great article from our researchers @EliaNalini & @eliaguariento.bsky.social: www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...

Orchard meadows in South Tyrol have decreased by over 95% since the 1950s due to agricultural intensification, urbanization, and reforestation. 🌳🍎🍐 Urgent conservation measures are essential to preserve these ecosystems. 🌱 🔎Read more about the topic here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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📚 Proud to announce that our botanist Roberto Dellavedova co-authored "FLORA ENDEMICA nel Nord Italia" - the first atlas of endemic plants covering the entire Alps! Join the launch on Dec 13, 6pm at Sala Filarmonica, Rovereto. Free entry! fondazionemcr.it/events_detai...