Productive days in ΔeskΓ© BudΔjovice with @jiri-tuma.bsky.social and @eliaguariento.bsky.social, focusing on all aspects of camera traps for the MonitAnt project. We even squeezed in a wonderful trip to Ε umava National Park.
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Want to work on biodiversity in the Alps? β°οΈ
We are offering several internship positions for the upcoming spring and summer in collaboration with the Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol π·οΈπ¦π¦ππΌπ¦πͺ±
biodiversity.eurac.edu/interns-want...
(1) So happy to share our recent work on Finish wood ants ππ§¬π₯³
"Evidence for climate-mediated range expansion of hybrid wood ants"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@helsinki.fi & @uvapress.bsky.social
This integrative project was funded by the Research Council Finland & #MSCA of the European Comission
Dragon and Damselflies communities are not limited by isolation:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Great work by Felix Puff!
π· of yesterday in the study region with an alpine lake and the Dolomites in the background
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Exciting MonitAnt meeting at the Natural History Museum, Brussels. Great discussions on fieldwork and ant ID, plus a rare glimpse of the museum after hours! ππ¦
Nature research paper: One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants
go.nature.com/45PYV6d
New paper out on community ecology of parasitoids and their hosts πͺ²ππͺ°π·οΈ
Great work led by Lisa Obwegs
@euracalpenv.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social @andreashilpold.bsky.social
π’ Wild #bees thrive in biodiverse mountain farms! ππ
Zanini et al. found that #multidiversity boosts pollination, buffering #climate impacts. π€οΈπ±π
Find out more here:
π doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...
@mdainese.bsky.social, @mattande.bsky.social,
@eliaguariento.bsky.social & more
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 π
Artificial ponds do not support the natural functional and taxonomic composition of alpine dragon- and damselfly communities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@euracalpenv.bsky.social @pro-pink.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
An specially scenic wood ant nest location.
Discovered while sampling their myrmecophile community π·οΈπͺ² along elevation ποΈ
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Mountaineers come in many shapes, quite some inhabit also alpine soils πͺ±π¦ ππ·οΈπͺ²ποΈ
Check out the brand new review about what we know and don't know about them π
Today is #worldbeeday π
Read here about the work we do on #wildbees: www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...
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We installed camera traps to investigate the use of red wood ant nest mounds by π¦ββ¬π¦‘π¦πΏοΈ
Many thanks to Alberto Masoni!!
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@euracalpenv.bsky.social
New butterfly sampling season started today π¦
This spring we searched on the plants where we observed ovideposition last summer
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
It took some failed surveys before we finally spotted what we think is the caterpillar of the π¦ endemic to dry alpine valleys: Kretania trappi
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@europebutterfly.bsky.social
π’1 PhD position (3 yrs) @UniTrento on acoustic environments in mountains πΆποΈIn collaboration with @EuracResearch & @UCL IEDE (London) β part of the βSoundscape for Allβ project, funded by HEAD-Genuit-Stiftung. Stay tuned & reach out if interested!
#PhDposition #Soundscape #Bioacoustics #Mountains
What a team πͺ
We are going continental with wood π research π§
Happy to see that a small article Elia Nalini (from @euracalpenv.bsky.social ) and I wrote for the myrmecological news blog is now finally published! π We present our @monitant.bsky.social project and also our Citizen Science approach. π
blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2025/04/09/m...
Screenshot from the cover page of the paper
A map of the world showing fly migration study locations and estimated routes
A close up photo of Eristalinus taeniops the stripey eyed hoverfly on a yellow flower in Cyprus
A close up photo of the locust blowfly Stomorhina lunata on a rock. My favourite fly
It's published!
The largest research work I've ever undertaken:
Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important
Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
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Have a look at this beautiful outreach project using the #wildbees collected by PhD Student Lisa Obwegs π
beehold.eurac.edu/en
If you want to know more π www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...
Spring is coming to the Alps π
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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! π
π°:
eurac.edu/de/press/eur...
Foto: Giacomo Gaudenzi
Screenshot of the paper's title and authors, with information on the link and the journal.
Photo of a high alpine sampling site close to glaciers at 3,300 m a.s.l. in the mountains of South Tyrol (Italy), where the new European record for detecting the pygmy shrew was set.
NEW EUROPEAN RECORD π
We found Pygmy Shrews (Sorex minutus) in the high #alpine (3,300 m a.s.l. !) in #SouthTyrol #Italy, 780 metres higher than known before π
Short note in #Hystrix (w/ @chiarapaniccia.bsky.social @eliaguariento.bsky.social of @euracalpenv.bsky.social)
π doi.org/10.4404/hyst...
Interested in doing a PhD on #insect #migration or #conservation at @monashuniversity.bsky.social i in #Melbourne, #Australia? If so, please feel free to email me. For international students, the application deadline is late March. shawanchowdhury.com/join-us/
Today Alberto visited our lab! Lots of wood π research planed πͺ
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Tracking pieces of the local Biodiversity Crisis (South Tyrol):
1. Drastic loss of traditional extensive meadow orchards π π www.nature.com/articles/s41...
2. Intensive apple orchards host a fraction of biodiversity π³ π www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
So happy to see my 2n thesis chapter published in Diversity and Distributions π₯³π₯³ How does local climate influence ecological communities? Answer: #Thermophilisation caused by #colonisation and local #extinction of mountain butterflies π¦ #ClimateChange #Refugia Small thread belowβ¬οΈ
#FreeTagliamento - let one of Europe's last big natural river flow freely.
Sign here and get all the info at https://www.freetagliamento.org/it_IT/home-eng/
#Petition #SignHere #NatureProtection #RiverProtection #Biodiversity
