Dragon and Damselflies communities are not limited by isolation:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Great work by Felix Puff!

📷 of yesterday in the study region with an alpine lake and the Dolomites in the background
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This work comes out of the excellent master thesis of Felix Puff at the University of Vienna, also under the supervision of Christian Schulze.
During fieldwork Felix discovered also the northernmost occurrence of Tritemis annulata:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

New paper out 👇
Artificial ponds do not support the natural functional and taxonomic composition of alpine dragon- and damselfly communities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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An specially scenic wood ant nest location.
Discovered while sampling their myrmecophile community 🕷️🪲 along elevation 🏔️
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We installed camera traps to investigate the use of red wood ant nest mounds by 🐦‍⬛🦡🦌🐿️
Many thanks to Alberto Masoni!!
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New butterfly sampling season started today 🦋

It took some failed surveys before we finally spotted what we think is the caterpillar of the 🦋 endemic to dry alpine valleys: Kretania trappi
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Spring is coming to the Alps 🐜
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Today Alberto visited our lab! Lots of wood 🐜 research planed 💪
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Tracking pieces of the local Biodiversity Crisis (South Tyrol):
1. Drastic loss of traditional extensive meadow orchards 🍎 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
2. Intensive apple orchards host a fraction of biodiversity 🌳 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Low elevation dry #grasslands are highly #threatened habitats in the #Alps.
This site was preserved (cleared from encroachment, not burned!) due to a local tradition of ritual fires reinvented from prehistoric traditions...I'm wondering if this could be an alternative conservation practice?

First post here!
One month ago in #alpine autumn colours with the last active orthoptera