#soilbiodiversity — 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

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

NOW ONLINE at Biological Reviews!

Global review on "Biodiversity in mountain soils above the treeline" by @nadinepraeg.bsky.social and me with many great #SoilBiodiversity researcher.

This is the first time such global information on #alpine soil microbiota, soil fauna, and (soil) biocrusts were synthesised.
Read and download it for free at http://doi.org/10.1111/brv.70028

Here, a short thread 🧵 (1/4)

#UIBK #EuracResearch #UniGraz #GMBA

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

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

#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

The #IUSS2024 #SoilScience #conference in #Florence is huuuuge 😯 Thousands of people!

But where ade the posts about it? Not even on Twixxer... Are soil scientist not that active?

That needs to be changed 🤓

#IUSS #Soil #SoilBiology #SoilBiodiversity #MountainSoilBiodiversity
#SoilIsLife #SoilIsAlive #Firenze #Italia #Toscana

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

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