Data freaks, this is for you. Need long-term data on lakes? Well does IISD's Experimental Lakes Area have a deal for you!

https://www.iisd.org/ela/researchers/our-data/

#Lake #CanadianShield #LTER #Data #Limnology

#newPaper out with colleagues from UFZ, Environmental Agency Austria and Research Centre Jülich. We analysed in which regions of Europe the sites of the new eLTER infrastructure are underrepresented and how to adapt this to current and future environmental conditions simultaneously:

Ohnemus et al. (2025): Fitness for future: eLTER RI’s representation of climate and land use change. Ecol. Indic. 171 , art. 113159

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113159

#eLTER #LTER #newPublication
#xp

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

Glacier melt and its consequences

A fascinating article by the @BBC shows that the melting of Alpine glaciers can have unexpected consequences on site as well far away from the ice masses.
For her research, the author visited the Bella Vista refuge within LTER Rofental and interviewed colleagues from the LTER Austria network monitoring the glacier retreat. Read the article here: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241213-climate-change-how-melting-alpine-glaciers-are-redrawing-europes-borders.
#LTER, #alpine_research, #LTER_Austria, #oeaw, #lfu, #uibk, #BBC

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

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