A fiery sunset during the Palmer #LTER cruise, West #Antarctic Peninsula.

Next in our #MountainSoilBiodiversity session at the #IMC2025 is co-convener
https://bsky.app/profile/nadinepraeg.bsky.social
showing us the soil meta-communities (i.e. the sum of all #microbiota) in mountain and alpine soils in the #LTER area #Matsch in #SouthTyrol.

Finally, we can release the new information video of our platform:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/voUwjsxsMfQ?si=uS5TZxSmNJMxf4hv
#LTER, #LTER_Austria

#newPaper out with colleagues from UFZ, Environmental Agency Austria and Research Centre Jülich. We analysed in which regions of Europe the sites of the new eLTER infrastructure are underrepresented and how to adapt this to current and future environmental conditions simultaneously:

Ohnemus et al. (2025): Fitness for future: eLTER RI’s representation of climate and land use change. Ecol. Indic. 171 , art. 113159

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113159

#eLTER #LTER #newPublication
#xp

Save the date: LTSER workshop at @imc25

The International Mountain Conference 2025, held from September 14th to 18th in Innsbruck will host the workshop "Strengthening long-term socio-ecological research in mountain LTSER platforms" convened by members of LTER Austria and LTER Italy. We are looking foreward to your contributions! For more information please visit: https://imc2025.info/imc25/sessions-n-workshops/workshop/ws-3-122-developing-pathways-to-strengthen-long-term-socio-ecological-research-in-mountain-ltser-platforms/

#imc25, #eLTER, #LTER_Austria #LTER, #LTSER, #uibk, #LTER_Italy

Glacier melt and its consequences

A fascinating article by the @BBC shows that the melting of Alpine glaciers can have unexpected consequences on site as well far away from the ice masses.
For her research, the author visited the Bella Vista refuge within LTER Rofental and interviewed colleagues from the LTER Austria network monitoring the glacier retreat. Read the article here: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241213-climate-change-how-melting-alpine-glaciers-are-redrawing-europes-borders.
#LTER, #alpine_research, #LTER_Austria, #oeaw, #lfu, #uibk, #BBC

#LTSER, #LTER, #eLTER

Passing the baton

Many thanks to Ulrike Tappeiner (pictured left)! As platform spokesperson, she led LTSER-Tyrolean Alps for many years and, at the end of her term in office, initiated a generational change.
Georg Leitinger (right) will continue her path as her successor.
#ltser, #lter, #eLTER

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!

#MountainSoilBiodiversity #SoilBiology #SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #Mountains #Alps #EuropeanAlps #LTER #LTSER #LTERItalia #LTSERMatsch

Long-term data collection + high resolution + alpine habitats + #OpenAccess = GREAT! 🥳

Our colleagues from #Eurac #AlpineEnvironment published a #DataPaper in #ScientificData with a bunch of climatic data along an elevational gradient.

The data come from an LT(S)ER area in #Vinschgau, #SouthTyrol, #italy

👉 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03580-x

#LTER #LTSER #LTSERMatsch #LTERItaly #LTEREurope #LongTermData #MeteoStations #OpenData

#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.

#SoilBiology #SoilBiodiversity #LTERItalia #LTER #Mountains #Alps #EuropeanAlps

Many chironomid larvae are sensitive to environmental influences and their presence is an indicator of habitat quality.
An international team of scientists have now compared and combined molecular and morphological identification methods for chironomids of the genus Diamesa.
For more on this please read: Molecular and morphological characterisation of larvae of the genus Diamesa Meigen, 1835 (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Alpine streams (Ötztal Alps, Austria). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298367
#uibk, #LTER

Viele Zuckmückenlarven sind Indikatoren für die Gewässerqualität. Wissenschaftler:innen aus Innsbruck, Tschechien und der Slowakei haben daher molekulare und morphologische Bestimmungsmethoden für Zuckmücken der Gattung Diamesa verglichen und kombiniert.
Weitere Informationen finden Sie in: Molecular and morphological characterisation of larvae of the genus Diamesa Meigen, 1835 (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Alpine streams (Ötztal Alps, Austria). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298367
#uibk, #LTER, #Forschung

Glacial melting leads to altered sediment transport high alpine streams, with consequences for low-lying areas. Scientists from the @unipotsdam have developed a new method to estimate future sediment transport. For further information read: Schmidt, L. K., et al. (2023): Projecting sediment export from two highly glacierized alpine catchments under climate change: exploring non-parametric regression as an analysis tool. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 139–161, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-139-2024
#LTER

Nice Christmas present every year 🤓

We publish data on #SoilFauna and #spiders in dry mountain #grasslands from the #LTER area Matsch (#SouthTyrol).

Find it here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376650946

#OpenScience #SoilBiodiversity

Lake Gossenkölle is an alpine lake located at 2,416 m above sea level. The University of Innsbruck is running a research station on its shores since 1975 (https://www.uibk.ac.at/fakultaeten/biologie/alpine-forschungsstaetten/gossenkoellesee.html.en). Research tasks comprise the monitoring of water parameters and studies on ecological processes and various groups of aquatic organisms and, most recently, viruses. The research site is part of the #LTER (https://deims.org/6ba80086-3ecc-4dc6-ab2f-a225003f7ba4) and #GLEON networks (https://gleon.org/lakes/gossenkoellesee)
#alpine_research #research #uniinnsbruck

Der Gossenköllesee ist ein Hochgebirgssee auf 2.416 m Höhe. An seinem Ufer befindet sich seit 1975 eine Forschungsstation der Universität Innsbruck (https://www.uibk.ac.at/fakultaeten/biologie/alpine-forschungsstaetten/gossenkoellesee.html.de). Neben dem Monitoring von Gewässerparametern, werden diverse ökologische Prozessen und wasserlebende Organismengruppen und zuletzt auch Viren untersucht. Die Forschungsstätte ist außerdem ein Standort des #LTER (https://deims.org/6ba80086-3ecc-4dc6-ab2f-a225003f7ba4) und des #GLEON Netzwerkes (https://gleon.org/lakes/gossenkoellesee).
#alpine_Forschung @uniinnsbruck

Doing more playing in #ggplot with ice cover data from a select couple of lakes in the #NTL #LTER

Given the amazing period of record, we can explore changes in ice cover over various timesteps such as year-to-year and even decade-to-decade!! The base plot is very similar to Powers et al (2017) ... full reference in the comment below. I added a 10-year moving average and it becomes even clearer ice duration is slowly diminishing.

I've been working on a winter limnology paper for a small lake in Canada ... thankfully Northern Temperate Lakes #LTER has tons of publically available data to go through to provide some context for other lakes.

In my data analysis/viz I attempted to embrace #ggplot ... I tried but still can't embrace it, I like my #rstats base plot so much more. Here is a fun #dataviz looking at ice-on and ice-off dates for 5 different NTL LTER lakes.

New open access paper #polar #ocean #seaice #climate #antarctic #LTER

Processes driving changes in sea-ice seasonality and sea-ice thickness were explored for a ‘warm-shelf’ region along the West Antarctic Peninsula using vertically coupled sea-ice-ocean thermodynamic simulations, with and without assimilated satellite sea-ice observations and moored ocean temperature observations.

Saenz BT, McKee DC, Doney SC, Martinson DG, Stammerjohn SE (2023).
Influence of seasonally varying sea-ice concentration and subsurface ocean heat on sea-ice thickness and sea-ice seasonality for a ‘warm-shelf’ region in Antarctica. Journal of Glaciology 69(277), 1466–1482. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2023.36