YEAH! 🎉
Today #BEN-EAF kicks off as collaboration of Eurac Research, South Tyrol (@euracalpenv.bsky.social) and the James Hutton Institute (@hutton.ac.uk), Scotland.
We will identify alpine #SoilFauna in the Highlands using traditional and modern #eDNA methods.
Stay tuned!
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Screenshot of the article by Eurac Magazine about the vast universe of soil biodiversity beneath our feet.
Our in-house press team at Eurac Magazine published an article about the soil biology research of @jseeber.bsky.social and myself where we focus on alpine environments.
Check it out: www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...
(available in German, Italian, and English)
#SoilBiodiversity #SoilScience #SoilFauna
Conceptual diagram illustrating (a) the experimental design and (b) the mass, C, N and P remaining of green and senesced litter on lawn and soil surfaces under conditions with or without soil fauna.
The #GreenLitter and senescent litter (Cinnamomum camphora) generated by #TropicalCyclones exhibit distinctly different distribution patterns on the lawn and soil microhabitats.
#UrbanForest | #EnvironmentalHeterogeneity | #LitterDecomposition | #SoilFauna
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Very helpful preprint from on "Standardised protocols for soil fauna extraction and a call for cross-lab implementation" 🪱🕷️🐞
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#SoilFauna #SoilBiodiversity #SoilLabs #Soil
【🎉Latest accepted article】
Typhoon-induced litter on lawns and soil surfaces exhibit divergent decomposition patterns
#TropicalCyclones | #UrbanForest | #EnvironmentalHeterogeneity | #GreenLitter | #LitterDecomposition | #SoilFauna
@mapjournals.bsky.social
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Photo of different sticker sets with a lot of critters (insects and soil fauna) created by Svenja Meyer.
Hey, as I do love soil animals and critters, I did support an artist who draws very nice pictures of the vast variety of #SoilBiodiversity (mainly #SoilFauna). Stickers for the kids 🤩
If you love #soil too, support @fminifera.bsky.social at smartwork.bigcartel.com
#SoilIsLife #SoilIsAlive
Figure showing the number (sizes) and distribution along global mountain regions of scientific publications that focus on alpine soil biodiversity.
(3/4) 🌍 Most publications came from Central Europe (#EuropeanAlps) & Central Asia (#TibetanPlateau).
The research focus on each global mountain region differed: an alpine #SoilFauna research hub is found in Central Europe, for #Biocrusts also in Northern Europe, and for microbiota in Central Asia.
5/ Therefore, this work underscores how climate and biodiversity jointly shape ecosystem functioning, and why #SoilFauna communities and #SoilBiodiversity in general deserve more attention in global change ecology. 🌍🪱
Figure 1 in Phillips et al. (2025): "The five earthworms native to Canada that were assessed using the IUCN-based Red List Assessment. (a) Arctiostrotus fontinalis, (b) Arctiostrotus perrieri, (c) Arctiostrotus vancouverensis, (d) Sparganophilus tamesis and (e) Toutellus oregonensis (photographs from Reynolds 2022; with permission)"
New publication: The applicability of regional red list assessments for soil invertebrates: first assessment of five native #earthworm species in Canada. #speciesatrisk #soilfauna #extinctionrisk #soil #biodiversity #climatechange #landuse
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Can we please have more of such #ecology #zoology project videos? 😉
Here they are combining #research on #arthropods in mountain areas, #ElevationalGradients, and #DNAsequencing to assess the #SoilFauna in 🇿🇦, old and new one.
📺 https://buff.ly/3CHMe0X
#SoilBiodiversity
@nordicoikos @wileyecolevol #predator #nitrogencycling #soilfoodwebs #temperateforests #groundbeetle #soilfauna
#ThinsSectionThursday
Fecal pellets or droppings of #Oribatid mites (Od) and #Collembola (Cd) observed in a zoOH horizon of a Moder Humus or #Humipedon in Luxembourg.
#soilfauna #soil #humus #micromorphology #Thinsection
New publication: #Globalchanges and their environmental stressors have a significant impact on #soil #biodiversity - A meta-analysis, by @wimvanderputten and others. #environmentalchange #globalchange #soilbiology #soilfauna...
Our highest pitfall traps so far at 3300m close to glaciers.
A small cross depicts the summit of Hohe Wart (Guardia Alta) at 3424m in the Central European Alps.
#Alpine #SoilFauna season ended with an astonishing #hike close to #glacier.
As bonus we hiked up to the Hohe Wart (Guardia Alta, 3424m), which is on the crest towards the #Similaun (3606m).
In our samplings, we found something surprising 🥳 more details will be soon published in a short notice ✌️
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
Advertisement banner of the International Colloquium on Soil Zoology held in August 2024 in Cape Town, South Africa.
#SoilZoology people: one last week to go to register for the #ICSZ2024 #ICA2024 #conference in Cape Town, South Africa!
Be there - in person or virtually 🪱🕷️🪲🦗🐌🐜🦟
--> www.icsz2024.org
#SoilBiology #SoilScience #SoilFauna #SoilIsLife #SoilIsAlive
Picture with the content of the 2nd EUSO Young Researcher Forum
Young #SoilScience people, on your keyboards and register to the 2nd edition of the Young Soil Researchers Forum of the #EuropeanSoilObservatory (#EUSO).
I participated in 2021 and it was a cool experience ;)
esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/euso/2nd-you...
#Soil #SoilBiology #SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna
Photo of Nadine Praeg, an Austrian soil microbiologist presenting her research at the conference of the International Union of Soil Sciences.
Today @nadinepraeg.bsky.social rocked the floor at the #IUSS2024 #SoilScience #Conference speaking about the #microbiome in #soils and different organisms interacting with soil such as #SoilFauna and mammals.
A collaboration of @euracalpenv.bsky.social, @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social , & #FEM (Trentino)
Figure 2 of the publication entitled: "Community composition (in percent) of ground-dwelling macro-invertebrates from an intensively managed hay meadow and an extensively managed dry pasture at the LT(S)ER area ‘Val Mazia/Matschertal’, South Tyrol, Italy."
Nice Christmas present every year 🤓 (with @jseeber.bsky.social )
We publish data on #SoilFauna and #spiders in dry mountain #grasslands from the #LTER area Matsch (#SouthTyrol).
Find it openly here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
#OpenScience #SoilBiodiversity #Arachnida
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L'étudiant du Master 2 @DuarteHec fera son stage avec Simoneta Negrete Yankelevich, dans @Inecol_mx. Son stage portera sur l'évaluation des effets de différentes pratiques agroécologiques sur stabilité du sol au travers d'indicateurs biologiques.
#soilfauna
Héctor @HctorDu99075402 faira son stage avec Jérôme Cortet, dans @cefemontpellier @univpaulvalery. Son stage portera sur l'évaluation des effets d’un gradient de pollution métallique sur les communautés taxonomiques et fonctionnelles de collemboles et d'acariens #soilfauna 6/7
