A bit sad to leave beautiful Vancouver Island after #GSB2026. Thank you @lindolab.bsky.social and @carlosbarreto.bsky.social for an amazing conference!

YEAH! 🎉 Today #BEN-EAF kicks off as collaboration of Eurac Research, South Tyrol (@euracalpenv.bsky.social) and the James Hutton Institute (@hutton.ac.uk), Scotland. We will identify alpine #SoilFauna in the Highlands using traditional and modern #eDNA methods. Stay tuned! doi.org/10.13140/RG....

Here the authors use a large dataset of stable isotope observations to analyse how soil animal trophic diversity varies across climates and land-use types and identify potential biotic mechanisms 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨As we finalize the scientific programme for #GSB2026, we invite volunteers to serve as moderators (chairs) for regular oral sessions. Moderators play a critical role in ensuring sessions run smoothly, professionally, and on time. forms.gle/rxCNKdBA75sj...

Greater trophic diversity of soil animal communities under agricultural land use and tropical climate. Just out in @natecoevo.nature.com led by Zheng Zhou and @antoncollembola.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐

Our in-house press team at Eurac Magazine published an article about the soil biology research of @jseeber.bsky.social and myself where we focus on alpine environments. Check it out: www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/... (available in German, Italian, and English) #SoilBiodiversity #SoilScience #SoilFauna

📢 An ✨ONLINE FIRST✨ Call for Collaborators! Xin Sun & colleagues seek collaborators in #eDNA of #urban #soil Check out the call HERE ⬇️ soil-organisms.org/SO/article/v...

ICYMI: New online! Soil biodiversity effects on ecosystems

How did research on soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning progress over the past decade? Read our new paper in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com, led by Nico Eisenhauer @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social and Marie Sünnemann @msoil.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

In our latest paper, just published in @natcomms.nature.com we show that soil conditions, landscape structure & land-use change shape global soil pathogenic fungal diversity. Landscape complexity and crops increase diversity, while grass and tree cover reduce it www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Three #postdoc positions available in my lab @unibz.bsky.social focusing on #genomics of #eriosoma #aphids #psyllids and #phytoplasma please repost

Want to work on biodiversity in the Alps? ⛰️ We are offering several internship positions for the upcoming spring and summer in collaboration with the Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol 🕷️🦋🦇🐜🌼🦗🪱 biodiversity.eurac.edu/interns-want...

📢 Call for Collaborators! Interested in Isopods? Check out this call in Soil Organisms by Konstantin Gongalsky and colleagues @msteinwandter.bsky.social @soilscholar.bsky.social soil-organisms.org/SO/article/v...

Happy World Soil Day! 🌍🪱 A handful of soil holds more organisms than Earth has people. These invertebrates keep ecosystems functioning and our planet alive. Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol (BMS) is financed by Province of Bolzano & Land Südtirol. www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...

We are looking for a postdoc to establish our Cell imaging laboratory for investigating plant stress factors. The postdoc will develop and optimize #CLSM technologies including fluorescence lifetime measurements and life imaging @unibz with @simonjunterholzner.bsky.social Please repost

oe3.orf.at/stories/3051... Das Foto ist ja schön, aber Bettwanze ist das keine 🤦🏼‍♀️

Explore how soil food webs withstand droughts and heatwaves, and what this means for tree regeneration in Swedish forests! 🌲🪱🌳🍄Become a PhD student in the WIFORCE Research School and work with us at SLU-Uppsala @mycopat.bsky.social #climate #forest #microbes #nematodes www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

How are Pacific NW mountain birds responding to climate change? I got up at 4:00 am for a month to find out. but first the backstory, or "how I spent seven years telling everyone this project wasn't possible" new paper here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🪱🐜 🐛 🪳 🐌 Join our SOIL FAUNA session at EGU2026! Excited to team up with Dmytro Monoshyn, Marion Mittmannsgruber & Gerrit Angst. Looking forward to catching up, or getting to know you and your work! 🪱🐜 🐛 🪳 🐌

🌍 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

Well done to @nadinepraeg.bsky.social for presenting and promoting our review of #MountainSoilBiodiversity at the #IMC2025. 👏🙏 In collaboration with @gmba-ipo.bsky.social, we compiled a wealth of information on our knowledge of alpine soil biota. 🪴🦠🪱 Openly accessible here: doi.org/10.1111/brv....

Are you at #IMC25? Then come and join our session, we have great talks about mountain #soil #biodiversity ! imc2025.info/imc25/sessio...

Das Interesse am Klimathema geht zurück. Wie kann ich jetzt als Wissenschaftler kommunizieren? Alternativen, Kritik etc. welcome... (Danke an @martinangler.com für die Redaktion) www.eurac.edu/de/blogs/con...

Der erste Biodiversitätsreport für Südtirol ist da! www.eurac.edu/de/magazine/...

Did you know that Soil BON has a ✨YouTube channel✨? 🤩 We do! Check out the channel for instructional videos of sampling protocols and COMING SOON... behind the scenes at Soil BON with our talented staff! @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@SoilBONGlobal

What is living in (and on) alpine soils at 3100m in the European #Alps? "Not too much"? Check out this sample. A lot of critters (abundance) and also some larger larvae (Tipulidae) and some flying insects (biomass). Very excited to sort out these #GLORIA samples from #SouthTyrol. #AlpSoil_Lab

Julia Seeber and Michael Steinwandter found a way to protect their wood decompostion sticks for the Soil BON project from curious bovines by using poultry wire boxes. Brilliant! ✨🌱🐄✨ @jseeber.bsky.social @msteinwandter.bsky.social

Five years after VAIA: – Norway spruce dominates regeneration (67%), but only 26% of plots meet targets. – Browsing affects 25% of seedlings, especially Rowan, Willow, and Silver fir. Management should promote species diversity and control browsing. doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...

A few days left to apply!

Unser Review über "Biodiversität in Bergböden oberhalb der Baumgrenze" im Newsroom der @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social 🤓 www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/ (Original: doi.org/10.1111/brv....) mit @nadinepraeg.bsky.social , @jseeber.bsky.social , @fundivecol.bsky.social ‬, @gmba-ipo.bsky.social , and many more

we are hiring!!! eurac.onboard.org/jobs/yek8X8mw

Start of #SoilBON sampling in our alpine grassland sites ⛰️ @soilbon.bsky.social, @euracalpenv.bsky.social, @msteinwandter.bsky.social

What is needed to implement Soil Biodiversity Awareness in Germany? Willi Xylander and Frank Glante investigate in the latest issue of @soilorganismsj.bsky.social Please repost! 🪱🌱🍄 doi.org/10.25674/458

It was quite a ride, but finally our review on #mountain #SoilBiodiversity is online 🥳 👇🏻

📣We still have places available for the 2025 edition of the 'Lab Skills Course for Assessing Soil Functions'. 🪱🦠 A range of methods related to soil functions will be discussed and will provide practical training in a subset of measures. 🥼Link here: biosisplatform.eu/services/tra... 👈

Are #collembola #bioluminescent? They sure are!! 🤩 Can you capture this with a smart phone? You can! 😍 Atsuko Ohira & Taizo Nakamori show us in their latest paper in Soil Organisms. Check it out below! soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO... 📢 Please repost 💚

🪱 How can we improve soil biodiversity monitoring across Europe? The 2nd-year results of our pilot project are in, comparing traditional & eDNA methods: www.biodiversa.eu/2025/04/22/s...

❄️ "Glacier fleas", ice-dwelling springtails, show surprising diversity. #Prioritice ( #BiodivProtect) found 5 new species in the Alps & Apennines, with some widespread and others narrowly endemic, raising conservation concerns due to warming. doi.org/10.1155/jzs/...

📢1 PhD position (3 yrs) @UniTrento on acoustic environments in mountains 🎶🏔️In collaboration with @EuracResearch & @UCL IEDE (London) – part of the “Soundscape for All” project, funded by HEAD-Genuit-Stiftung. Stay tuned & reach out if interested! #PhDposition #Soundscape #Bioacoustics #Mountains

There are still some #GoodNews out there 🥳 It is a pleasure to accept your manuscript entitled "Biodiversity in mountain soils above the treeline" in its current form for publication in Biological Reviews. Thanks to everyone involved! Happy Easter holidays ✌️ #AlpSoil_Lab #GMBA #AlpineSoils

Just out in scientific data: StoichLife: A Global Dataset of Plant and Animal Elemental Content - 28,049 records from 5,876 species from terrestrial, freshwater, and marine realms. Led by Angelica Gonzalez and Olivier Dezerald. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @idiv-research.bsky.social #sBIOMAPS

Hi there, my student is making a survey about the use of R packages in Ecology, could you please spend two mins on filling it 🥹 Very appreciated! And if you could spread it further (RT), that would be just awesome. ❤️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Ein unaufgeregter Text, subtil, emotional berührend, nie moralisierend. Ein wirklich sehr gutes Buch ist Susanne Gregor mit "Halbe Leben" gelungen. Absolute Leseempfehlung #lesen

Interested in applying for a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship at @euracalpenv.bsky.social ?

If: - you are a #mountainbiodiversity scientist - you are working on #soils species - you have not yet submitted an abstract to present at @imc2025.info then: you have 2 days left to write up your abstract for session FS 3.139: Mountain soil biodiversity imc2025.info/imc25/sessio...

Deadline February 20, 4 p.m. 👇🏻

Tracking pieces of the local Biodiversity Crisis (South Tyrol): 1. Drastic loss of traditional extensive meadow orchards 🍎 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 2. Intensive apple orchards host a fraction of biodiversity 🌳 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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

🧬 Catch up on #eDNA for biodiversity monitoring! Our webinar recording is now available. Learn about using eDNA in soil, marine & freshwater environments! https://www.biodiversa.eu/2025/01/15/webinar-edna-in-biodiversity-monitoring/