YEAH! 🎉
Today #BEN-EAF kick-offs as collaboration of Eurac Research, South Tyrol (#AlpSoil_Lab) and the James Hutton Institute (#EnB group), Scotland.

We will identify alpine #SoilFauna in the Highlands using traditional and modern #eDNA methods.

Stay tuned!
https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.18172.50561

#SoilBiodiversity #MountainSoils #MountainsSoilBiodiversity #Scotland #AlpineSoils #SoilMacroFauna #SoilMesoFauna

#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 ✌️

#AlpSoil_Lab #SoilBiodiversity #MountainSoilBiodiversity #Mountains #Alps #EuropeanAlps #SouthTyrol #Italy #Vinschgau #ValVenosta #Schnals #Senales #HighAlpine #SoilMacrofauna #SoilMesofauna #GLORIA

Nice tip from Charlene Janion-Scheepers, #SoilMesofauna expert from #SouthAfrica during their great talk at the #ICSZ2024 #Conference:

"BUY" one hectare of Marion Island (sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean) to save the island's #seabirds from a mice invasion.

Check out here: https://mousefreemarion.org/donate/

What an intensive week of #alpine #SoilBiodiversity sampling. Despite being holidays in 🇮🇹, we climbed up #mountains in 🇦🇹 in the #NationalParkHoheTauern for our #SnowBeds project (w/ @uniinnsbruck & @unibern).

Such a great view 😎

#AlpSoil_Lab #EuracResearch #NPHT #AlpFor #SoilFauna #SoilMesofauna #AlpineEcology

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

Heads up #SoilBiodiversity & #SoilZoology people --> #SafeTheDate submit an abstract and register for:

- XIX International Colloquium of Soil Zoology (ICSZ)
- XVI International Colloquium of Apterygota (ICA)

Where? Cape Town, #SouthAfrica
When?: 26-30 August 2024
Info?: http://www.icsz2024.org/

📬 #AbstractSubmission Deadline is 30 April!!! Send them in now! ✏️

#SoilFauna #SoilScience #Collembola #Acari #Myriapoda #Coleoptera #Nematodes #SoilMacroFauna #Earthworms #SoilMesoFauna #SoilMicrofauna

Did you know that springtails come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes? Here are some lovely representatives of the four springtail Orders (clockwise from top left): Symphypleona, Entomobryomorpha, Poduromorpha and Neelipleona!

#SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #SoilEcology #SoilMesofauna #Springtail #Collembola #MacroPhotography

Did you know that as well as being completely adorable, springtails have super-smart skin?

The structures of their exoskeletons are so amazingly effective at repelling water, dirt and microbes that materials scientists are trying to reverse-engineer their surfaces to improve water filters, streamline ships' hulls and even make smudge-proof smartphone screens!

More info in a university article here here: https://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=39286

#SoilFauna #SoilBiodiversity #Collembodon #Collembola #Springtail #SoilMesofauna #MacroPhotography #SoilEcology #Soil