#BEEHOLD, the bees are coming 🐝

Here is a glimpse to the #WildBees of #SouthTyrol
👉 https://beehold.eurac.edu/en

with #EuracResearch press and the Institute for #AlpineEnvironment

#MacroPhotography #Bees #Hymenoptera #Südtirol #AltoAdige #Biodiversity #EuracResearch #AlpEnv #Italy #Italia #WildLife

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

#MountainMonday: happy to share our recent #AlpSoil_Lab paper on soil fauna in #mountain meadows and mixed forests.

As agricultural areas are limited in mountain regions, they need to be used efficiently and therefore #grasslands often are embedded in #forests with no buffer zones (field margins).
--> well separated #SoilFauna communities, but the missing ecotones impede their exchange.

#OpenAccess paper in #SoilOrganisms --> https://soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO/article/view/338/325

#EuracResearch #AlpEnv #SoilBiodiversity