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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

Agricultural fields in an alpine environment

#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

Ulrike Tappeiner (left) and Georg Leitinger (right)

Last field work day for 2024 🤠
Snowy, not too cold but very nice view over the #LTSER area Matschertal/Val Mazia.

Replaced a #SoilTemp logger at 2500m that was destroyed by cows...
No metal cage resists a cow's rage 🐄

Further, checked on of #EuracResearch|s #AlpEnv meteo station at 2400m.

#AlpSoil_Lab #AlpineEcology #SoilBiology #SoilEcology #LTERitalia #LTERitaly #LTEReurope

A meteorological station in the South Tyrolean valley of Matsch/Mazia. Some parts are snow covered, somewhere else the wind has kept the slopes snow-free.

Photo of a soil temperature logger in alpine environment, with view down the valley and the snow-capped high mountains of the Ortles Group.

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

A hiker going up a trail in the European Central Alps.

Photo of a snowbed with protection cages agaibst grazing sheep.

A soil ecologist taking suction samples of soil mesofauna in an alpine snowbed.

Detailed view on a suction sampling of soil mesofauna within an iron frame.

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

Figure 1 of the open 2024 data paper from Eurac Research's Institute for Alpine Environment showing an aerial overview of the LT(S)ER area Matschertal/Val Mazia (South Tyrol, Italy).

#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

A biologist hiking up a mountain slope with snowcapped mountains in the background.

A summit cross at 2500m in the Southtyrolean mountains.

A biologist hiking up a mountain slope with snowcapped mountains in the background.

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