New freshly published paper led by @micheletorresani.bsky.social comparing spectral satellite with field data to better estimate tree species diversity 🛰️ 🌲🌳 Happy that our forest inventory data across South Tyrol gets used for more studies! 👇🏻👇🏻📝

Find the seedling 🌱 #forestdisturbances #post-barkbeetle #forest-dynamics

First inspection to potential study sites in Norway spruce forests in the Dolomites for a new research project 🏔️🌲Stay tuned for updates soon! #ALPFOR-CSF @euracalpenv.bsky.social @forwards-project.bsky.social

Great time at the Integrate Network Workshop in Zurich! A good refresh of forestry concepts for biodiversity conservation and field trials to adapt forests to climate change 🌳🌡️🪲

🌿 Field season has officially started for MAP-Rezia project! Great to finally meet all partners in the forest instead of just on screen! We kicked off our data collection, discussed next steps, and set the ground for linking what we see on the ground🌲 with remote sensing data🛰️

#deadwood #dendromicrohabitats #forestbiodiversity

In our latest study we used the iLand model to explore the possible future expansion in the forest treeline ecotone in the Eastern Alps 🌲🌱⛰️🖥️ Enjoy the paper below 👇👇

📌 New publication by #BAFU & @wslresearch.bsky.social: 🌳 Forest Report 2025 Heat, drought, storms, and pests have hit Swiss forests hard over the past decade. We need to boost their resilience to climate change to keep them thriving for people and nature. www.wsl.ch/en/news/fore...

Two productive days discussing concrete ideas for research collaborations for Alpine forests - w/ B. Keeton, R.Aszalos et al 💡📝🌲🏔️

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

When a tree is dying, life explodes around it 🌲🦇🪶🪵 We analyzed the relationship between the amount of dead wood and the diversity of its birds and bats in the Italian Alps. Now the research is featured in our magazine “The echo of death”: www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...

Exciting to kick-off our new #MAP-Rezia project under the programme Interreg IT-CH! It will contribute to monitor biodiversity, herbivores and assess climate change impacts in the cross-border area of the Swiss and Stelvio National Parks 🌲⛰️🦌🛩️📶🌳 Cool collaboration in the next 2 1/2 years!

Rural communities in Québec are embracing ‘mushroom tourism’ to boost local economies

How does variation in ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity affect tree growth? What are the knowledge gaps to more fully answering this question? See my review out today in Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...

🌲 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀: Session FS 3.191 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 – 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗜𝗠𝗖 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱! 🌲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: IMC 2025 – International Mountain Conference 📍 Innsbruck, Austria Deadline: 20 feb 2025 imc2025.info/imc25/sessio...

Are you/do you know a student interested in biodiversity and ecology and with strong data-handling skills? Apply for our summer trainee position at @luke.fi: valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/trai... (DL 31.1) Many other great trainee and seasonal worker positions also now open in Luke!

We are looking for a motivated intern with experience in taxonomy of fungi in mountain forests to support us on fungal diversity survey in late summer/fall in South Tyrol 🍄🌲⛰️ Deadline is January 20th eurac.onboard.org/jobs/7G6noEG...

By chance, two artists living in Zurich have discovered the bioluminescence of a fungus. Together with a mycologist from WSL, they are describing the poorly understood phenomenon. wsl.ch/en/news/glow... #biodiversity #biodiversity #mushrooms #forest 📷Baggenstos/Rudolf

Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A short reportage about our research activities on forest ecology, modelling and biodiversity at the Institute for Alpine Environment at Eurac Research 🌲⛰️🌡️🌱📈 youtu.be/3rPcKzOmFgI?... 👉for English turn on Auto generated captions 👉for German see youtu.be/hzcI0rflJas?...

Publishing a paper takes time (too long! imho). But preprints are a good options to share research results in real time. Have a look at our preprint on canopy photography methods for forest ecology and biodiversity studies 🌲📷🌱 @euracalpenv.bsky.social

Conveying results of #simulationmodels is tricky. We produced a video to help folks understand how #climatechange and #fire could affect the iconic landscape of Greater #Yellowstone. Would love to see this used for ecology classes and outreach. @ttkeller.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIp7...

🚨New publication🚨 Forest management affects the functional traits of birds and mammals differently. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... First author and awesome researcher Dr. Gabi Dri is doing amazing work! I'm grateful for the opportunity to collaborate on this one. #ecology

Done with #TwiXXer social. I wont post any more content here. Moved to 👇👇 🦋 marco-mina.bsky.social

Our first starter pack is here! A list of members and alumni of @wslresearch.bsky.social working on biodiversity research and outreach. It will updated as more people join. Let us know if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/3Gzw93e

Escaping from Twitter/X! 🙂 As a first post, have a look at our initiative on monitoring fungal diversity in the Alps 🍄🌲⛰️ www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...

Blog post by @Frances90179642 on our recent results on the application of canopy photography in forests of the Alps to capture differences in forest types and studying the relationship with understory plants🌳 📸🌲 @Cost_BottomsUp t.co/CgmQ55kW3k

Intense days for @EuracAlpine forest ecologists busy at the #IUFRO2024 conference in Stockholm 🌲 🌳 🇸🇪 Lot’s of ideas exchanges, great talks and setting the basis for new research collaborations.

Kicking off the 1st sampling season of fungal diversity in South Tyrol´s forests 🍄 Looking forward to survey many sites to cover the most representative forests in the Eastern Alps 🌲🌳🏔️ @EuracAlpine #BiodiversityMonitoringSouthTyrol Special thanks -> Ass. Micologica Bresadola

What is the role of forest structural attributes 🪵🌲on bat and bird abundance and diversity? 🦇🐦 Very proud of this new @EuracAlpine paper w/ @Cost_BottomsUp @Frances90179642 led by F.Rigo and @paniccia_chiara 🚨Published now 🔓in Forest Ecol & Manag sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Happy to have opened the forest modelling session at the #AEET23 Congress in Almeria. And glad to meet so many familiar faces here in Andalucia 🇪🇸 Thanks @msuamun @fjbonet for the invitation!

Timely review on climate change impacts on protection forests! Must read, together with our paper focusing on the Italian Alps - part of the same Special Topic 🧾 x.com/AnaStritih/sta… frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

How will climate change affect the dynamics of protection forests in the Italian Alps? 🌲🏔️🪨❄️ See here 👇our latest paper where we applied a forest dynamic model to asses future protective effects against rockfall and avalanches frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Great time at the @ECEM_2023 in Leipzig! Happy to have contributed for @EuracAlpine with talks, co-org of a cool session with @ForEco_ETH and discussions for future cooperation in forest modelling🌲🌳💻📈

We keep saying that we need more diverse forests for resilience to global change. But how can the timber industry cope with such wood diversification and adapt to future forest outputs? 🌲🪓🌳🪚🪵 These concepts in our latest paper published in @PNASNexus doi.org/10.1093/pnasne…

Three wonderful days across forests of South Tyrol with @ale_bottero @ForEco_ETH 🇨🇭 discussing forest management, ecology and biodiversity! 🌲🪓⛰️🪲 Thanks @klaus_obojes @paniccia_chiara @AndreasHilpold & more for the company

A fresh start of the forest structure’s fieldwork 2023 for Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol by @EuracAlpine in a nice mixed beech stand between a thunderstorm and another ⛈️🌳🌲

Today C.Hoffmann and I represented @EuracAlpine and @EURAC_RegDev at the #woodpassage in Bolzano, a temporary art installation made to increase the awareness of people on the sustainable use of wood for #timber construction to store CO2 🪵 From 🌲 to 🏠 proholz.at/en/woodpassage

Post-disturbance hike&bike in Asiago Plateau: slow dynamics after 2015 winter subalpine wildfire in Cima Portule and 2018 windthrow Vaia stands - the latter already showing first signs of recovery 🌲 🌱

I visited Port Renfrew and its giant trees back in 2019. I will never forget the feeling being in those old-growth forets - which deserve only to be preserved. Nice article in Canadian Geographic canadiangeographic.ca/articles/big-t…

New paper alert 🚨 Open Access 🔓 What is the future for planted pine forests in Mediterranean mountains under climate change? 👉Active management can promote mixed and climate-adapted ecosystems in shorter time scales than forest succession alone doi.org/10.1007/s10980…

Driving to Davos, Switzerland, to spend a few days visiting the @SLF_MountEcosys group 🏔️ 🌲 Scenic drive at zero emissions 🔌 🚗 Feels good.

Where the ‘Wood-Wide Web’ Narrative Went Wrong undark.org/2023/05/25/whe…

Forest management is NOT an alternative to cutting carbon emissions to counteract climate change. Full stop. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

How to move without legs or wings: Helping trees migrate to new regionsvia @LaConvCA theconversation.com/how-to-move-wi…

Misleading the ‘Mother Tree’ 👉No significant evidence that trees benefit from sharing nutrients through mycorrhizal networks 👉No peer-reviewed evidence that mature trees send nutrients to their kin through fungal networks saltwire.com/atlantic-canad…

A couple of days left to submit your abstract for the @ECEM_2023 in Leipzig on Sept 4-8 We have a dedicated session on dynamic forest models as tools to support forest management 🌲🪓📈🖥️ Submissions here: ecem23.eu/callforabstrac…

Please share/retweet 👇👇 We have an open trainee/internship position at @EuracAlpine on forest survey and biodiversity monitoring in mountain forests ⛰️🌲🌿 Possibility to develop a MSc thesis on the topic (and to learn a lot!) Apply by 28/04: eurac.onboard.org/jobs/pGrJlAGB?…

Today I represented @EURAC and @EuracAlpine at the congress ‘Destination Landscape’. Little time to enter into details but I hope I could remark the importance of forests 🌳 🌲 and their strategic management within our landscapes destinationlandschaft.it

No doubt that globally we are contributing to habitat reduction for biodiversity. But careful with bold, conclusive statements for the whole World: blaming forestry everywhere would be erroneous. My opinion on @guardian on a recent global study theguardian.com/environment/20…