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Julia Seeber
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Soil ecologist @EuracAlpine #AlpSoil_Lab @uniinnsbruck with special interest in #earthworms, mum of four
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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....
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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🪱🐜 🐛 🪳 🐌 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! 🪱🐜 🐛 🪳 🐌
November 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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🌍 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
September 25, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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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....
September 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Are you at #IMC25? Then come and join our session, we have great talks about mountain #soil #biodiversity ! imc2025.info/imc25/sessio...
#IMC25 - FS 3.139: Mountain soil biodiversity
imc2025.info
September 15, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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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...
Klimakrise: Es ist alles gesagt. Oder?
Was kleine süße Hündchen mit der Regenbogenflagge und Taylor Swift zu tun haben? Nichts. Dies ist ein plumper Versuch, Interesse an einem weiteren Artikel über die Klimaerwärmung zu wecken. Wie sonst....
www.eurac.edu
September 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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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
September 1, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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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
August 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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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
Protection of the woodsticks from nosy cows 🐮
August 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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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...
August 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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A few days left to apply!
June 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Start of #SoilBON sampling in our alpine grassland sites ⛰️
@soilbon.bsky.social, @euracalpenv.bsky.social, @msteinwandter.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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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
Deficits, needs, solution attempts and transfer formats for implementing a “Soil Biodiversity Awareness” in Germany: – This paper is part of the special collection ‘Faktencheck Artenvielfalt’ ...
doi.org
May 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It was quite a ride, but finally our review on #mountain #SoilBiodiversity is online 🥳 👇🏻
NOW ONLINE at Biological Reviews!

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

Free read and download at doi.org/10.1111/brv....

Here, a short thread 🧵 (1/4)

#UIBK #EuracResearch #UniGraz #GMBA
May 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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📣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... 👈
May 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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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...

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April 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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🪱 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...
Soil pilot: Second year report
The second-year report from the soil monitoring pilot compares traditional vs. eDNA methods at a transnational scale...
www.biodiversa.eu
April 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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❄️ "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/...
doi.org
April 19, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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📢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
April 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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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
April 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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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
April 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM