Marco Mina
@marco-mina.bsky.social
Forest science & more • Senior Researcher @Eurac Research • Alum at CEF-UQAM (Canada), WSL Birmensdorf and ETH Zurich (CH) • Italian style
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Marco Mina
@marco-mina.bsky.social
· Dec 12
Research South Tyrol | Special Mention 2023: Marco Mina
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A short reportage about our research activities on forest ecology, modelling and biodiversity at the Institute for Alpine Environment at Eurac Research 🌲⛰️🌡️🌱📈
youtu.be/3rPcKzOmFgI?...
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👉for German see youtu.be/hzcI0rflJas?...
youtu.be/3rPcKzOmFgI?...
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New freshly published paper led by @micheletorresani.bsky.social comparing spectral satellite with field data to better estimate tree species diversity 🛰️ 🌲🌳
Happy that our forest inventory data across South Tyrol gets used for more studies! 👇🏻👇🏻📝
Happy that our forest inventory data across South Tyrol gets used for more studies! 👇🏻👇🏻📝
New paper out! 🤘
Can we estimate forest biodiversity using spaceborne #EnMAP data? 🛰️
Turns out, yes — spectral heterogeneity from EnMAP can estimate tree species diversity in Alpine forests 🌲🌳🏔️
Especially in the NIR region, with area-weighted pixels and canopy cover > 70%.
🔓 lnkd.in/eWKGeGfs
Can we estimate forest biodiversity using spaceborne #EnMAP data? 🛰️
Turns out, yes — spectral heterogeneity from EnMAP can estimate tree species diversity in Alpine forests 🌲🌳🏔️
Especially in the NIR region, with area-weighted pixels and canopy cover > 70%.
🔓 lnkd.in/eWKGeGfs
November 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
New freshly published paper led by @micheletorresani.bsky.social comparing spectral satellite with field data to better estimate tree species diversity 🛰️ 🌲🌳
Happy that our forest inventory data across South Tyrol gets used for more studies! 👇🏻👇🏻📝
Happy that our forest inventory data across South Tyrol gets used for more studies! 👇🏻👇🏻📝
July 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
First inspection to potential study sites in Norway spruce forests in the Dolomites for a new research project 🏔️🌲Stay tuned for updates soon! #ALPFOR-CSF @euracalpenv.bsky.social @forwards-project.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
First inspection to potential study sites in Norway spruce forests in the Dolomites for a new research project 🏔️🌲Stay tuned for updates soon! #ALPFOR-CSF @euracalpenv.bsky.social @forwards-project.bsky.social
Great time at the Integrate Network Workshop in Zurich! A good refresh of forestry concepts for biodiversity conservation and field trials to adapt forests to climate change 🌳🌡️🪲
June 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Great time at the Integrate Network Workshop in Zurich! A good refresh of forestry concepts for biodiversity conservation and field trials to adapt forests to climate change 🌳🌡️🪲
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🌿 Field season has officially started for MAP-Rezia project!
Great to finally meet all partners in the forest instead of just on screen! We kicked off our data collection, discussed next steps, and set the ground for linking what we see on the ground🌲 with remote sensing data🛰️
Great to finally meet all partners in the forest instead of just on screen! We kicked off our data collection, discussed next steps, and set the ground for linking what we see on the ground🌲 with remote sensing data🛰️
May 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
🌿 Field season has officially started for MAP-Rezia project!
Great to finally meet all partners in the forest instead of just on screen! We kicked off our data collection, discussed next steps, and set the ground for linking what we see on the ground🌲 with remote sensing data🛰️
Great to finally meet all partners in the forest instead of just on screen! We kicked off our data collection, discussed next steps, and set the ground for linking what we see on the ground🌲 with remote sensing data🛰️
March 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
In our latest study we used the iLand model to explore the possible future expansion in the forest treeline ecotone in the Eastern Alps 🌲🌱⛰️🖥️
Enjoy the paper below 👇👇
Enjoy the paper below 👇👇
📢New study on forest-grassland ecotone expansion in the Eastern #Alps! 🌲
Using the iLand model💻, we explore how land-use abandonment & #climatechange impact #forests, disturbances & species shifts.
🔗 @marco-mina.bsky.social @edfm-tum.bsky.social @wernerrammer.bsky.social @unibz.bsky.social
Using the iLand model💻, we explore how land-use abandonment & #climatechange impact #forests, disturbances & species shifts.
🔗 @marco-mina.bsky.social @edfm-tum.bsky.social @wernerrammer.bsky.social @unibz.bsky.social
Future expansion of upper forest-grassland ecotone under land-use and climate change in the Eastern Alps - Landscape Ecology
Context Across Alpine landscapes, a combination of land-use abandonment and climate change is driving forest expansion and promoting the upward migration of trees on grasslands. Yet, it remains unclea...
link.springer.com
March 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
In our latest study we used the iLand model to explore the possible future expansion in the forest treeline ecotone in the Eastern Alps 🌲🌱⛰️🖥️
Enjoy the paper below 👇👇
Enjoy the paper below 👇👇
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📌 New publication by #BAFU & @wslresearch.bsky.social:
🌳 Forest Report 2025
Heat, drought, storms, and pests have hit Swiss forests hard over the past decade. We need to boost their resilience to climate change to keep them thriving for people and nature.
www.wsl.ch/en/news/fore...
🌳 Forest Report 2025
Heat, drought, storms, and pests have hit Swiss forests hard over the past decade. We need to boost their resilience to climate change to keep them thriving for people and nature.
www.wsl.ch/en/news/fore...
Forest Report 2025: Swiss forests under pressure to adapt
Climate change is visibly affecting the forest, as shown by the 2025 Forest Report published by the FOEN and WSL.
www.wsl.ch
March 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
📌 New publication by #BAFU & @wslresearch.bsky.social:
🌳 Forest Report 2025
Heat, drought, storms, and pests have hit Swiss forests hard over the past decade. We need to boost their resilience to climate change to keep them thriving for people and nature.
www.wsl.ch/en/news/fore...
🌳 Forest Report 2025
Heat, drought, storms, and pests have hit Swiss forests hard over the past decade. We need to boost their resilience to climate change to keep them thriving for people and nature.
www.wsl.ch/en/news/fore...
Two productive days discussing concrete ideas for research collaborations for Alpine forests - w/ B. Keeton, R.Aszalos et al 💡📝🌲🏔️
March 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Two productive days discussing concrete ideas for research collaborations for Alpine forests - w/ B. Keeton, R.Aszalos et al 💡📝🌲🏔️
Reposted by Marco Mina
Our researchers @msteinwandter.bsky.social, @chiarapaniccia.bsky.social & @eliaguariento.bsky.social have found three specimens of the Eurasian pygmy shrew in South Tyrol at over 3,000 meters a.s.l.. This #discovery marks a European #record! 🏆
📰:
eurac.edu/de/press/eur...
Foto: Giacomo Gaudenzi
📰:
eurac.edu/de/press/eur...
Foto: Giacomo Gaudenzi
February 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Our researchers @msteinwandter.bsky.social, @chiarapaniccia.bsky.social & @eliaguariento.bsky.social have found three specimens of the Eurasian pygmy shrew in South Tyrol at over 3,000 meters a.s.l.. This #discovery marks a European #record! 🏆
📰:
eurac.edu/de/press/eur...
Foto: Giacomo Gaudenzi
📰:
eurac.edu/de/press/eur...
Foto: Giacomo Gaudenzi
When a tree is dying, life explodes around it 🌲🦇🪶🪵
We analyzed the relationship between the amount of dead wood and the diversity of its birds and bats in the Italian Alps. Now the research is featured in our magazine “The echo of death”: www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...
We analyzed the relationship between the amount of dead wood and the diversity of its birds and bats in the Italian Alps. Now the research is featured in our magazine “The echo of death”: www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...
February 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
When a tree is dying, life explodes around it 🌲🦇🪶🪵
We analyzed the relationship between the amount of dead wood and the diversity of its birds and bats in the Italian Alps. Now the research is featured in our magazine “The echo of death”: www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...
We analyzed the relationship between the amount of dead wood and the diversity of its birds and bats in the Italian Alps. Now the research is featured in our magazine “The echo of death”: www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...
Exciting to kick-off our new #MAP-Rezia project under the programme Interreg IT-CH! It will contribute to monitor biodiversity, herbivores and assess climate change impacts in the cross-border area of the Swiss and Stelvio National Parks 🌲⛰️🦌🛩️📶🌳
Cool collaboration in the next 2 1/2 years!
Cool collaboration in the next 2 1/2 years!
🌿 Kick-off for the #MAP-Rezia Project! 🌿
Excited to launch MAP-Rezia (~€1M, #InterregItaliaSvizzera) to monitor biodiversity in #ParcoNazionaledelloStelvio & #SchweizerischerNationalpark! We'll use remote sensing to map ecosystems, track herbivores & assess forest scenarios under climate change. 🚀🌍
Excited to launch MAP-Rezia (~€1M, #InterregItaliaSvizzera) to monitor biodiversity in #ParcoNazionaledelloStelvio & #SchweizerischerNationalpark! We'll use remote sensing to map ecosystems, track herbivores & assess forest scenarios under climate change. 🚀🌍
February 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Exciting to kick-off our new #MAP-Rezia project under the programme Interreg IT-CH! It will contribute to monitor biodiversity, herbivores and assess climate change impacts in the cross-border area of the Swiss and Stelvio National Parks 🌲⛰️🦌🛩️📶🌳
Cool collaboration in the next 2 1/2 years!
Cool collaboration in the next 2 1/2 years!
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Rural communities in Québec are embracing ‘mushroom tourism’ to boost local economies
Rural communities in Québec are embracing ‘mushroom tourism’ to boost local economies
Mycotourism (mushroom tourism) merges nature, culinary experiences and rural traditions. Quebec’s growth in this niche is notable, yet it remains relatively unknown.
theconversation.com
January 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Rural communities in Québec are embracing ‘mushroom tourism’ to boost local economies
Reposted by Marco Mina
How does variation in ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity affect tree growth? What are the knowledge gaps to more fully answering this question?
See my review out today in Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
See my review out today in Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
January 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
How does variation in ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity affect tree growth? What are the knowledge gaps to more fully answering this question?
See my review out today in Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
See my review out today in Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
🌲 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀: Session FS 3.191 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 – 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗜𝗠𝗖 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱! 🌲
𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: IMC 2025 – International Mountain Conference
📍 Innsbruck, Austria
Deadline: 20 feb 2025
imc2025.info/imc25/sessio...
𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: IMC 2025 – International Mountain Conference
📍 Innsbruck, Austria
Deadline: 20 feb 2025
imc2025.info/imc25/sessio...
January 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
🌲 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀: Session FS 3.191 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 – 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗜𝗠𝗖 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱! 🌲
𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: IMC 2025 – International Mountain Conference
📍 Innsbruck, Austria
Deadline: 20 feb 2025
imc2025.info/imc25/sessio...
𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: IMC 2025 – International Mountain Conference
📍 Innsbruck, Austria
Deadline: 20 feb 2025
imc2025.info/imc25/sessio...
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Are you/do you know a student interested in biodiversity and ecology and with strong data-handling skills? Apply for our summer trainee position at @luke.fi: valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/trai... (DL 31.1)
Many other great trainee and seasonal worker positions also now open in Luke!
Many other great trainee and seasonal worker positions also now open in Luke!
Trainee, data science ("big data" and geo-spatial data) - Natural Resources Institute Finland
Open job: Trainee, data science ("big data" and geo-spatial data), Natural Resources Institute Finland - Find all jobs in Valtiolle.fi
valtiolle.fi
January 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Are you/do you know a student interested in biodiversity and ecology and with strong data-handling skills? Apply for our summer trainee position at @luke.fi: valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/trai... (DL 31.1)
Many other great trainee and seasonal worker positions also now open in Luke!
Many other great trainee and seasonal worker positions also now open in Luke!
We are looking for a motivated intern with experience in taxonomy of fungi in mountain forests to support us on fungal diversity survey in late summer/fall in South Tyrol 🍄🌲⛰️
Deadline is January 20th
eurac.onboard.org/jobs/7G6noEG...
Deadline is January 20th
eurac.onboard.org/jobs/7G6noEG...
Internship fungal diversity survey in forests of South Tyrol
Eurac Research · Bozen/Bolzano
eurac.onboard.org
January 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
We are looking for a motivated intern with experience in taxonomy of fungi in mountain forests to support us on fungal diversity survey in late summer/fall in South Tyrol 🍄🌲⛰️
Deadline is January 20th
eurac.onboard.org/jobs/7G6noEG...
Deadline is January 20th
eurac.onboard.org/jobs/7G6noEG...
Reposted by Marco Mina
By chance, two artists living in Zurich have discovered the bioluminescence of a fungus. Together with a mycologist from WSL, they are describing the poorly understood phenomenon. wsl.ch/en/news/glow...
#biodiversity #biodiversity #mushrooms #forest 📷Baggenstos/Rudolf
#biodiversity #biodiversity #mushrooms #forest 📷Baggenstos/Rudolf
Glowing mushrooms: an intrigue for artists and scientists alike
Two artists from Zurich team up with a WSL mycologist to look into the newly discovered green glow of a mushroom.
wsl.ch
January 7, 2025 at 7:52 AM
By chance, two artists living in Zurich have discovered the bioluminescence of a fungus. Together with a mycologist from WSL, they are describing the poorly understood phenomenon. wsl.ch/en/news/glow...
#biodiversity #biodiversity #mushrooms #forest 📷Baggenstos/Rudolf
#biodiversity #biodiversity #mushrooms #forest 📷Baggenstos/Rudolf
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Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds | PNAS
Research funding systems fundamentally influence how science operates. This paper
aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding fr...
www.pnas.org
December 22, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A short reportage about our research activities on forest ecology, modelling and biodiversity at the Institute for Alpine Environment at Eurac Research 🌲⛰️🌡️🌱📈
youtu.be/3rPcKzOmFgI?...
👉for English turn on Auto generated captions
👉for German see youtu.be/hzcI0rflJas?...
youtu.be/3rPcKzOmFgI?...
👉for English turn on Auto generated captions
👉for German see youtu.be/hzcI0rflJas?...
Research South Tyrol | Special Mention 2023: Marco Mina
YouTube video by Provincia Bolzano
youtu.be
December 12, 2024 at 9:53 AM
A short reportage about our research activities on forest ecology, modelling and biodiversity at the Institute for Alpine Environment at Eurac Research 🌲⛰️🌡️🌱📈
youtu.be/3rPcKzOmFgI?...
👉for English turn on Auto generated captions
👉for German see youtu.be/hzcI0rflJas?...
youtu.be/3rPcKzOmFgI?...
👉for English turn on Auto generated captions
👉for German see youtu.be/hzcI0rflJas?...
Publishing a paper takes time (too long! imho). But preprints are a good options to share research results in real time.
Have a look at our preprint on canopy photography methods for forest ecology and biodiversity studies 🌲📷🌱 @euracalpenv.bsky.social
Have a look at our preprint on canopy photography methods for forest ecology and biodiversity studies 🌲📷🌱 @euracalpenv.bsky.social
🚨New preprint: Reliability of canopy photography for forest ecology and biodiversity studies
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Last year, a MSc student did an internship at EURAC in Italy. She reworked her report into a nice manuscript that we recently submitted. 📷🌳🌲
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Last year, a MSc student did an internship at EURAC in Italy. She reworked her report into a nice manuscript that we recently submitted. 📷🌳🌲
Reliability of canopy photography for forest ecology and biodiversity studies
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
biorxiv.org
December 4, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Publishing a paper takes time (too long! imho). But preprints are a good options to share research results in real time.
Have a look at our preprint on canopy photography methods for forest ecology and biodiversity studies 🌲📷🌱 @euracalpenv.bsky.social
Have a look at our preprint on canopy photography methods for forest ecology and biodiversity studies 🌲📷🌱 @euracalpenv.bsky.social
Reposted by Marco Mina
Conveying results of #simulationmodels is tricky. We produced a video to help folks understand how #climatechange and #fire could affect the iconic landscape of Greater #Yellowstone. Would love to see this used for ecology classes and outreach. @ttkeller.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIp7...
Future landscapes of Greater Yellowstone
YouTube video by UW-Madison Campus Connection
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Conveying results of #simulationmodels is tricky. We produced a video to help folks understand how #climatechange and #fire could affect the iconic landscape of Greater #Yellowstone. Would love to see this used for ecology classes and outreach. @ttkeller.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIp7...
Reposted by Marco Mina
🚨New publication🚨
Forest management affects the functional traits of birds and mammals differently. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
First author and awesome researcher Dr. Gabi Dri is doing amazing work! I'm grateful for the opportunity to collaborate on this one. #ecology
Forest management affects the functional traits of birds and mammals differently. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
First author and awesome researcher Dr. Gabi Dri is doing amazing work! I'm grateful for the opportunity to collaborate on this one. #ecology
Forest management affects the functional traits of birds and mammals differently
Our work used large-scale data to understand how bird and mammal communities respond to timber harvest practices in temperate forests of the northeastern USA. We found that niche breadth (diet), morp...
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 18, 2024 at 8:55 PM
🚨New publication🚨
Forest management affects the functional traits of birds and mammals differently. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
First author and awesome researcher Dr. Gabi Dri is doing amazing work! I'm grateful for the opportunity to collaborate on this one. #ecology
Forest management affects the functional traits of birds and mammals differently. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
First author and awesome researcher Dr. Gabi Dri is doing amazing work! I'm grateful for the opportunity to collaborate on this one. #ecology
May 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Reposted by Marco Mina
Our first starter pack is here! A list of members and alumni of @wslresearch.bsky.social working on biodiversity research and outreach. It will updated as more people join.
Let us know if you'd like to be added.
go.bsky.app/3Gzw93e
Let us know if you'd like to be added.
go.bsky.app/3Gzw93e
November 18, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Our first starter pack is here! A list of members and alumni of @wslresearch.bsky.social working on biodiversity research and outreach. It will updated as more people join.
Let us know if you'd like to be added.
go.bsky.app/3Gzw93e
Let us know if you'd like to be added.
go.bsky.app/3Gzw93e