#alpsoil_lab — Public Fediverse posts

Counting, sorting, identifying. 🤓
Time to check all the collected #alpine #SoilFauna from soil samples and pitfall traps from the Ben Avon plateau in the #CairngormsNationalPark in #Scotland .
After a nice sampling season, I am sitting in the soil labs of the #JamesHuttonInstitute in #Aberdeen . Very promising first results already! 🤞

#AlpSoil_Lab #BEN_EAF #SoilMesofauna #SoilBiodiversity #MountainSoilBiodiversity

Field work seems to be over for now in our #BEN_EAF outgoing mobility project in the #Cairngorms, #Scotland.

We did sample soil for #eDNA #metabarcoding and collected our pitfall traps.

It was a great and quite warm weather! 😎

Next: do some invertebrate identification in the labs of the #JamesHuttonInstitute .

#AlpSoil_Lab #Highlands #ScottishHighlands #SoilFauna #SoilBiodiversity #MountainSoilBiodiversity

Here we go: now pitfall traps are collecting critters on the ground at the #alpine plateau of Ben Avon, in the #CairngormsNationalPark in the Scottish #Highlands. 🕷️🪲🐛

Four habitat types, three pitfall traps each: looking forward!
Maybe we can find some new records of soil invertebrates? The chances are high, as alpine soil fauna studies are rare in the UK.

Thanks to Andrea Britton and Debbie Fielding from #jameshuttonInstitute for helping do field work! ✌️

#BEN_EAF #AlpSoil_Lab #MountainSoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #Scotland

Here some good news for the #MEB network (microclimate ecology & biogeography, former #SoilTemp).
New #TOMST soil temperature and soil humidity loggers are now installed in alpine habitats of the #ScottishHighlands, in the #Cairngorms National Park. 🌡️

#BEN_EAF #SoilTemperature #Microclimate #Biogeography #JamesHuttonInstitute #AlpSoil_Lab #SoilHumidity

While samplings of #alpine beasties in the #Cairngorms #NationalPark for my #BEN_EAF project at the #JamesHuttonInstitute are still in the preparation, here some impressions of the critters I've found while hiking.
As temperatures go up, so more activity is expected, right?
? 🤓🕷️🐛🪱🧬

#NatureScot #ScottishHighlands #Highlands #AlpineSoils #AlpSoil_Lab #SoilFauna #SoilBiodiversity

YEAH! 🎉
Today #BEN_EAF kick-offs as collaboration of Eurac Research, South Tyrol (#AlpSoil_Lab) and the James Hutton Institute (#EnB group), Scotland.

We will identify alpine #SoilFauna in the Highlands using traditional and modern #eDNA methods.

Stay tuned!
https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.18172.50561

#SoilBiodiversity #MountainSoils #MountainsSoilBiodiversity #Scotland #AlpineSoils #SoilMacroFauna #SoilMesoFauna

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.

Details and links will follow soon.
Thanks to everyone who made this possible, and have a Happy Easter holiday ✌️

#AlpSoil_Lab #GMBA #AlpineSoils

NEW EUROPEAN RECORD 🎉

We were able to detect the Pygmy Shrews (Sorex minutus) in the high #alpine up to 3,300 m a.s.l. in #SouthTyrol #Italy, 780 metres higher than known before 🐁

New short note in #Hystrix (w/ #ChiaraPaniccia & @Eliag from https://bsky.app/profile/euracalpenv.bsky.social )

📄 https://doi.org/10.4404/hystrix-00760-2024

#PygmyShrew #Shrews #SmallMammals #Hystrix #Südtirol #AltoAdige #EuropeanAlps #BiodiversityMonitoringSouthTyrol #GLORIA #Mountains #MountainPeaks #SoilFauna #SoilBiodiversity #Monitoring #AlpSoil_Lab #Glaciers #OetztalAlps #Sesvenna

Some time ago, we #AlpSoil_Lab at #EuracResearch|s Institute for Alpine Environment published a paper for kids and all people in a simple language. Thanks to @soilbio_comm these articles were translated in many languages!

Check: https://idiv-biodiversity.de/de/young-minds/languages.html

Check: https://www.eurac.edu/en/institutes-centers/institute-for-alpine-environment/news-events/belowground-mountaineers-a-scientific-publication-for-children-and-young-people

#iDIV #FrontiersXoungMinds #MountainSoilBiodiversity #SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #Mountains #MountainEcology

Hey you? Yes you!
Are you doing #research on #SoilBiodiversity in #mountains ? 🪱🦠🏔️

Then submit your #abstract to our #IMC2025 session, and tell us about your newest insights on #MountainSoilBiodiversity

See here our focus session 3.139 in collaboration with the #GlobalMountainBiodiversityAssessment : https://imc2025.info/imc25/sessions-n-workshops/focus-session/fs-3-139-mountain-soil-biodiversity/

#Innsbruck #Austria #Tyrol #InternationalMountainConference #AlpineResearch #MountainResearch #Tirol #Nordtirol #Innsbrooklyn #AlpSoil_Lab #GMBA

Happy (late) #InternationalMountainDay to all of you!

I live in the #mountains, I work in the mountains, I really need mountains 😂

Protect, respect, explore, and study them!

#Alps #Alpine #Glaciers #AlpSoil_Lab #Mountain #Berge #Montagna #Dolomites

Last field work day for 2024 🤠
Snowy, not too cold but very nice view over the #LTSER area Matschertal/Val Mazia.

Replaced a #SoilTemp logger at 2500m that was destroyed by cows...
No metal cage resists a cow's rage 🐄

Further, checked on of #EuracResearch|s #AlpEnv meteo station at 2400m.

#AlpSoil_Lab #AlpineEcology #SoilBiology #SoilEcology #LTERitalia #LTERitaly #LTEReurope

Great talk of @jseeber.bsky.social at the #EuBiReCo 2024 in #Bozen / #Bolzano (#SouthTyrol).

She highlighted the efforts of the #Biodiversa+ Soil Pilot to find transnational monitoring schemes to assess #SoilBiodiversity (e.g. pitfall traps vs. eDNA).

#Euregio-TI-ST-TN #AlpSoil_Lab #EuracResearch

Marco Mina from #EuracResearch #AlpineEnvironment collecting #fungi in #forests of #SouthTyrol #Italy, using different methods and also our #AlpSoil_Lab soil corer 🤓

Here is a short video from the national broadcaster (in Italian): https://www.rainews.it/tgr/bolzano/video/2024/10/eurac-studio-biodiversita-funghi-14734f1b-749e-44a9-81e6-9186ecaaad86.html

#EuracResearch #ForestEcology #SoilEcology #Mycology

#Alpine #SoilFauna season ended with an astonishing #hike close to #glacier.

As bonus we hiked up to the Hohe Wart (Guardia Alta, 3424m), which is on the crest towards the #Similaun (3606m)

In our samplings, we found something surprising 🥳 more details will be soon published in a short notice ✌️

#AlpSoil_Lab #SoilBiodiversity #MountainSoilBiodiversity #Mountains #Alps #EuropeanAlps #SouthTyrol #Italy #Vinschgau #ValVenosta #Schnals #Senales #HighAlpine #SoilMacrofauna #SoilMesofauna #GLORIA

What an intensive week of #alpine #SoilBiodiversity sampling. Despite being holidays in 🇮🇹, we climbed up #mountains in 🇦🇹 in the #NationalParkHoheTauern for our #SnowBeds project (w/ @uniinnsbruck & @unibern).

Such a great view 😎

#AlpSoil_Lab #EuracResearch #NPHT #AlpFor #SoilFauna #SoilMesofauna #AlpineEcology

What an adventure 🤠
We as #AlpSoil_Lab from #EuracResearch set up our highest pitfall traps yet at high #alpine sites at 3300m and 3100m.
These #GLORIA sites are quite steep and challenging to reach, but I can't wait to see the #soilfauna living up there 🔍

#SoilScience #SoilBiodiversity #Alps #EuropeanAlps #SoilBiology #SouthTyrol #Italy #TexelGroup #Mountains #Mountaineering

Parallel to other #SoilEcology project, we at the #AlpSoil_Lab of #EuracResearch started with the #SnowBed project to sample #SoilMesofauna in #alpine environment.

Late this year but it is sunny up there!

#MountainSoilBiodiversity #SoilBiology #SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #Mountains #Alps #EuropeanAlps #LTER #LTSER #LTERItalia #LTSERMatsch

This morning at the @worldbioforum 2024 in #Davos --> small excursion day with a team of #SoilBiodiversity researchers @EisenhauerLab, #AlpSoil_Lab, #ScheuLab)

We climbed up the Büelenhorn (2512m) and Büelenberg, a quite lonely mountain ridge above Davos.
A lot of nice biodiversity to see in the #alpine zone! (and sahara sand)

#WorldBiodiversityForum #WBF2024 #WBF24 #MountainSoilBiodiversity #Mountains #Alps #EuropeanAlps #Switzerland #Graubünden

#AlpSoil_Lab field work day 🤠

Despite a rainy start, the weather was quite friendly up at 2500m at #EuracResearch's #LTSER site Matsch/Mazia in #Vinschgau, #SouthTyrol, #Italy

Checked some #SoilTemp loggers for fresh #alpine soil temperature data from our (dry) grassland spots.

#SoilBiology #SoilBiodiversity #LTERItalia #LTER #Mountains #Alps #EuropeanAlps

Today Nadine Praeg rocked the floor at the #IUSS2024 #SoilScience #Conference speaking about the #microbiome in #soils and different organisms interacting with soil such as #SoilFauna and mammals.

Collaboration of #EuracResearch, @uniinnsbruck, and #FEM (#Trentino)

Part of #MountainSoilBiodiversity research

#LTSERMatsch #SouthTyrol #Vinschgau #AlpSoil_Lab #SoilBiodiversity #SoilMicrobiology #Microbiology

Listening to #FlorenceAndTheMachine while looking at the beautiful city panorama of #Firenze 🌇

Getting ready for the #IUSS2024 (Congress of the
International Union of Soil Sciences).

Who is here too? 🙋

#SoilScience #SoilBiology #Soil #SoilBiodiversity #AlpSoil_Lab #Florence #Florenz #Italy #Toscana #EuracResearch

I am now a certified #MyGreenLab Ambassador 👨‍🔬

We are already trying to have a sustainable lab within #EuracResearch and our own #AlpSoil_Lab, but better learn every day how to reduce our professional impact on nature and climate! 💚🧪

Interested? Apply here: https://www.mygreenlab.org/ambassador-program.html

Visit: https://www.mygreenlab.org/

#greenlabs #greenlab #sustainablelabs #sustainablescience

Dear #Lab people: how many of you have a Shake-ira? 🤭

#SoilBiodiversity #SoilScience #AlpSoil_Lab #LabFun

Link not working, but our #AlpSoil_Lab is involved 😎

https://www.biodiversa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/D2.12_Soil-Biodiversity-Pilot-Midterm-Report.pdf

#SoilFauna #SoilBiodiversity

#MountainMonday: happy to share our recent #AlpSoil_Lab paper on soil fauna in #mountain meadows and mixed forests.

As agricultural areas are limited in mountain regions, they need to be used efficiently and therefore #grasslands often are embedded in #forests with no buffer zones (field margins).
--> well separated #SoilFauna communities, but the missing ecotones impede their exchange.

#OpenAccess paper in #SoilOrganisms --> https://soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO/article/view/338/325

#EuracResearch #AlpEnv #SoilBiodiversity

@MalteJochum
@idiv @EisenhauerLab @soilbio_comm
NICE! Thank you all for your effort 🤘 We as #AlpSoil_Lab really appreciate it.

Today we had our Institute #Klausur (i.e. retreat), and were discussing nice topics regarding #ScientificCareers

To relax, we took a short hike with prominent #Dolomites sceneries: #Latemar massif and #KarerSee (#carezza).

Enjoyable working day, productive and still relaxing! 😎

#EuracResearch #AlpSoil_Lab #SouthTyrol #NaturalScience

#Soil is still a neglected topic in many ways, but we were asked to talk about #microplastic 🚬🩹🛍️ in soil and #rivers of #SouthTyrol for a TV documentary.

What do we know about it?
Well... basically nothing yet 🫣

#PlasticPollution #PlasticPlanet #EuracResearch #AlpSoil_Lab

Dear #SoilEcology people, are you attending the @gfoe now in #Leipzig, #Germany? #gfoe2023

Then check out these two contributions from our institute at #EuracResearch :
- Julia Seeber from the #AlpSoil_Lab with Matteo Anderle (first pic)
- Andreas Hilpold from the #BiodiversityMonitoringSouthTyrol (second pic)

Get in touch with them 🤗