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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
msteinwandter.bsky.social
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
msteinwandter.bsky.social
Some time ago, we #AlpSoil_Lab at @euracalpenv.bsky.social l published a paper for kids and all people in a simple language. Thanks to @soilbiocomm.bsky.social these articles were translated in many languages!

Check: idiv-biodiversity.de/de/young-min...

#MountainSoilBiodiversity #SoilBiodiversity
Belowground mountaineers: A scientific publication for children and young people
Eurac Research is a private research center​ based in Bozen-Bolzano. Our researchers come from a wide variety of scientific fields and all parts of the world.
www.eurac.edu
February 14, 2025 at 8:15 AM
msteinwandter.bsky.social
You work with #SoilBiodiversity AND in #Mountains?
Perfect, come and join as at the #IMC2025 in #Innsbruck #Austria.
Send us your abstract! 📨
#AlpSoil_Lab #GMBA #InternationalMountainConference
January 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
msteinwandter.bsky.social
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!

#Alps #Alpine #Glaciers #AlpSoil_Lab #Mountain #Berge #Montagna #Dolomites #Mountaineering #Hiking #Climbing
View to the Grossvenediger glaciers in Tyrol, Austria.
December 12, 2024 at 9:59 AM
msteinwandter.bsky.social
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
Julia Seeber, soil evologist, giving a talk about the Biodiversa+ Soil Pilot study.
November 22, 2024 at 2:14 PM
msteinwandter.bsky.social
In this last days of a #GoldenAutumn, I did some readouts of our #SoilTemp sensors that are installed high up in the Southtyrolean #mountains.

Ready to be sent to @jlembrechts.bsky.social and colleagues 😎

#EuracResearch #LTSERMatsch #Vinschgau #AlpSoil_Lab #SouthTyrol #SoilScience #Südtirol
A caged SoilTemp soil temperature sensor installed in the high mountains in South Tyrol, Italy. In the background there are snowcapped peaks. A caged SoilTemp soil temperature sensor installed in the high mountains in South Tyrol, Italy. In the background there are snowcapped peaks in the sunset.
November 10, 2024 at 7:30 AM
msteinwandter.bsky.social
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.bsky.social & @unibern.bsky.social).

Such a great view 😎

#AlpSoil_Lab #EuracResearch #NPHT #AlpFor
Ecologists taking plant and animal samples in alpine snowbeds. In the background glacier-covered high mountains. Ecologists taking plant and animal samples in alpine snowbeds. In the background glacier-covered high mountains.
August 16, 2024 at 8:16 PM
msteinwandter.bsky.social
What an adventure 🤠
We as #AlpSoil_Lab from @euracalpenv.bsky.social 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
Pocture showing soil ecologists climving up a high alpine mountain to investigate soil fauna. A pitfall trap installed at 3300m to capture ground-dwelling soil fauna. In the background a snow-covered glacier. A biologist taking suction samples with a modified leaf vacuum at a 3100m mountain peak. A pitfall trap installed at 3100m in the steep slopes of a mountain peak.
August 8, 2024 at 3:39 AM
msteinwandter.bsky.social
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!

#SoilScience #SoilBiology #SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #Mountains #EuropeanAlps #LTER
Ascent to our snowbed sampling sites in the European Central Alps. One of our snowbeds at 2700m, with cages protecting the flora from grazing sheep. A soil ecologist taking suction samples to collect ground-dwelling soil mesofauna. Detailed view on the suction sampling.
August 8, 2024 at 3:29 AM
msteinwandter.bsky.social
It's alpine sampling time, and this week we did the first samplings of #SoilFauna in the #GLORIA project, where plants and animals are monitored on remote #mountain peaks every 5 years.

Here the "lower" sites, quite steep but very beautiful places to work. 🤠

#SoilScience #SoilBiology #AlpSoil_Lab
View from a mountain peak down to a small lake and the valley with a small village. A soil biologist taking suction samples om an alpine remote peak. A foggy mountain ridge as ascent to a alpine sampling point. A pitfall trap installed in alpine rocky environment to capture ground-dwelling insects and other critters. In the background high fog on a mountain ridge.
July 27, 2024 at 10:14 AM
msteinwandter.bsky.social
#AlpSoil_Lab field work day 🤠

Despite a rainy start, the weather was quite friendly up at 2500m at @euracalpenv.bsky.social 's #LTSER site Matsch/Mazia in #Vinschgau, #SouthTyrol, #Italy

Checked some #SoilTemp loggers for fresh #alpine soil temperature data from our (dry) grassland spots.
A biologist hiking up a mountain slope with snowcapped mountains in the background. A summit cross at 2500m in the Southtyrolean mountains. A small iron cage protects a soil temperature logger which is installed at 2500m.
May 30, 2024 at 6:23 PM
msteinwandter.bsky.social
Listening to #FlorenceAndTheMachine while looking at the beautiful city panorama of #Firenze 🌇

Getting ready for #IUSS2024 (Congress of the
International Union of Soil Sciences).

Who is here too? 🙋

#SoilScience #SoilBiology #Soil #SoilBiodiversity #AlpSoil_Lab #Florence #Toscana #Italia
View on the city of Florence (Italy) from the "Orti del Parnaso".
May 19, 2024 at 9:14 AM
msteinwandter.bsky.social
I am now a certified #MyGreenLab Ambassador 👨‍🔬💚🧪

We are already trying to have a #SustainableLab within @euracalpenv.bsky.social and our #AlpSoil_Lab, but better learn every day how to reduce impact on nature and climate!

Interested? www.mygreenlab.org/ambassador-p...
Visit: www.mygreenlab.org
Certificate of Completion of the My Green Lab Ambassador training.
April 12, 2024 at 9:37 AM
msteinwandter.bsky.social
Happy to share our recent #AlpSoil_Lab paper on soil fauna in #mountain meadows and mixed forests.

#OpenAccess paper in #SoilOrganisms --> soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO...

#EuracResearch #AlpEnv #SoilBiodiversity
Box-plot figure showing the activity densities of soil invertebrates along an ecological transect from mountain meadows towards mixed forests.
December 4, 2023 at 1:50 PM