Next week we will be at the International Mountain Conference in Innsbruck 🏔️✨ https://imc2025.info/ Come find us across different sessions where we will share our work on: 🌱 Soil biodiversity 🌳 Forest ecosystem services 🌍 Nature-based solutions 🗺️ Identifying conservation areas in the Alps 📊 […]

👏 Gratuliere an @JohannesRuedisser und das Team von @LandscapeEco_UIBK zum neuen Nature-Paper! Sie haben ein KI-Modell entwickelt, das Schmetterlingsarten erkennen kann. Dazu nutzten sie zahlreiche Schmetterlingsfotos von Freiwilligen, mit denen die KI trainiert wurde. Bericht: 🦋 […]

📣 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐥𝐩𝐬? 🦋 Consider contributing to AlpsLife […]

Even during summer, our monthly Scientific Jour fixe keeps us active and inspired! 🦋 Friederike Barkmann shared her approach & challenges in calculating a grassland butterfly indicator for Austria. 🍄 Lucía Laorden-Camacho presented her […] [Original post on social.uibk.ac.at]

Curious what the University of Innsbruck is doing in the #alpslife project? 🌿 Our team focuses on ecosystem research and #landscape ecology to identify, analyze, and map alpine #biodiversity and urgent-need-to-act areas (UTAAs). 📽️ 👇 […]

We recently had a fantastic and insightful #AlpsLife project meeting in the stunning Schweizerischer Nationalpark 🌿 AlpsLife is an Interreg Alpine Space project that brings together partners across the Alpine region to enhance #biodiversity #conservation […] [Original post on social.uibk.ac.at]

In the Alps land abandonment of subalpine grasslands has led to the colonization by shrub species. Using a trait-based approach, we found that with shrub encroachment: 🌿 Plant communities gradually become more conservative with hard decomposable tissues […] [Original post on social.uibk.ac.at]

Tirol Heute hat über unsere Untersuchungen der #Extrembedingungen und #Biodiversität auf #Gründächern berichtet. @uniinnsbruck.social.uibk.ac.at.ap.brid.gy @oeadcitizenscience.bsky.social @LandscapeEco-UIBK.social.uibk.ac.at.ap.brid.gy tirol.orf.at/stories/3300...

#Biodiversität untersuchen auf dem Dach? Das macht ein Team von @LandscapeEco_UIBK rund um @JohannesRuedisser schon seit Jahren. Auf dem #Gründach des Logistikzentrums in Vomp ließen sich nämlich allerlei Tiere & Pflanzen nieder. 🌱🐝🐞 Ein Bericht von @ORF_Tirol […]

🦋 Butterflies are not only beautiful but play an important role as indicators for #biodiversity. Using data from the Viel-Falter butterfly monitoring and remote sensing data, PhD Student Friederike Barkmann modelled butterfly species richness and abundance […] [Original post on social.uibk.ac.at]

Sommer, Sonne, #schmetterlinge zählen! Von Mai bis Oktober können Freiwillige aus ganz #Österreich wieder beim Viel-Falter-Projekt mitmachen. Forscher:innen gewinnen dadurch wertvolle Einblicke in die #artenvielfalt der heimischen Tagfalter. 🆕 […]

👋 Hello Mastodon! We are the Ecosystem & Landscape Ecology Group at the University of Innsbruck 🌿⛰️ Our research explores #biodiversity ecosystem functions & services, land-use change, and sustainability in #mountain environments. Follow us for updates on our projects, fieldwork insights, and […]