Three years after, we came back to the same two paired-sites inside and outside of protection areas in Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 for the 2nd #SoilBON sampling campaign @soilbon.bsky.social ! And this time, instead of #teabags, we also buried wood sticks to study litter decomposition #soilhealth #soilbiodiversity

Beech forest in the Long Term Ecological Research site of Collelongo-Selvapiana, Italy

One of the monitoring stick placed to collect data about organic matter decomposition in soil

Sampling activities showing three researchers placing the sticks to collect data about organic matter decomposition in soil

Sampling activities in the Collelongo-Selvapiana beech forest

#Soil sampling activities within the #SoilBon project to monitor soil #biodiversity in the #LTERITALY site of Collelongo-Selvapiana: deims.org/9b1d144a-dc3...

10 sticks have been placed to study organic matter decomposition in the soil.

#eLTERCommunity @elter-ri.eu

A selfie showing a laptop and #MEB soil temperature logger in an alpine environment at 3000m.

Panoramic view of a mountain ridge in the upper Vinschgau valley in South Tyrol, Italy

And additionally some @mebnetwork.bsky.social soil temperature data readout (former #SoilTemp) at 3000m sites at our #LTSERmatsch/ #LTSERmazia outdoor lab.

Quite some snow left this year, also in this dry inner-Alpine valley.
#SouthTyrol #Vinschgau #EuracResearch #MEB #SoilBON #SoilBONfoodweb

SoilBON kit

Sampling of bulk soil.

Start of #SoilBON sampling in our alpine grassland sites ⛰️
@soilbon.bsky.social, @euracalpenv.bsky.social, @msteinwandter.bsky.social

Fieldwork DONE! ✅ #LTERSlovenia partners (Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU & @tularcavelab.bsky.social) successfully completed soil sampling for the #SoilBON project!

@soilbon.bsky.social tracks soil biodiversity & ecosystem changes, with triennial sampling. Next up: 2028! @elter-ri.eu

What a day to kick of this seasons @soilbon.bsky.social sampling !

So nice to be back in the field after a long winter at the desk.

Collaborative effort by @maynoothuniversity.ie and @UCD making sure 🇮🇪 is represented as part of this Global initiative! #teamwork 💪

#soilbon #soilbonfoodweb #soil