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 
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 )
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
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/
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!
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.
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
#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
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 
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 
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!
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)
#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.
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
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? 
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/
Dear #Lab people: how many of you have a Shake-ira? 
#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
