New PhD position! 🎓
We are looking for a motivated ecologist to work on:
- the amazing wood ants 🐜
- their myrmecophile guests 🕷️
- along ecological gradients 🏔️
Please Boost
Details: https://eurac.onboard.org/jobs/YGL7r04Z?from_career_page=true
PhD position in ecology/entomology at Eurac Research within the BIODIVERSA+ project MonitAnt
Eurac Research · Bozen/Bolzano
Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol
Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol is an ongoing survey of our inventory of nature.
RT @scb_italy
La prima conferenza italiana di
#biologiadellaconservazione si è conclusa oggi, dopo tre intense giornate di contributi scientifici che dimostrano quanto sia vivo e partecipato questo campo della ricerca in Italia!
#scbitaly #SCB #ERC #conservationbiology2nd day at the @scb_italy
#ECR conference on
#conservation.
Great talks, an honor to present yesterday our recent work on
#butterflies https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-022-02498-3
From diverse to simple: butterfly communities erode from extensive grasslands to intensively used farmland and urban areas - Biodiversity and Conservation
The severe biodiversity decline in European agricultural landscapes demands a specific evaluation of the various land-use practices. Many butterflies in Europe, as an important ecological indicator and pollinator taxon, require human interventions to sustain their populations in cultivated landscapes. However, land-use changes and management intensification are currently responsible for their decline. In this study, we compare butterfly communities occurring on 93 sites in seven widely distributed land-use types, viz. extensive meadows and pastures, semi-intensive meadows, vineyards, arable land, settlements and apple orchards. We recorded a high butterfly diversity in supposedly high nature-conservation value (HNV) grasslands (extensive meadows and pastures). All other land-use types showed significantly lower diversity, with decreasing diversity from semi-intensive meadows to apple orchards. Moreover, functional traits uncovered a general trend: extensive grasslands supported communities of more specialized and sedentary species whilst all other non-HNV land-use types showed communities characterized by mobile generalists. Community composition was driven by the land-use type and explained by plant-based indicator values for nutrients and light and temperature variables. Important life-history traits further correlated with site variables confirming the shift from specialists to generalists along increasing land-use intensity gradients and the effect of the thermal environment on phenological traits. We found supporting evidence for the effectiveness of regional Agri-Environmental Measures for butterfly conservation in European cultural landscapes and for the European conservation schemes to focus at least partly on the preservation of HNV grasslands with extensive management. Furthermore, we clearly show the poor ecological state of butterfly communities in more disturbed land-use types (including urban areas) and propose adopting measures to improve butterflies’ conservation in these environments.
On our way to
#Roma 🚄 with @paniccia_chiara @AnderleMatte to represent
#BiodiversityMonitoringSouthTyrol @EuracAlpine
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RT @scb_italy
The
#ERC Conference week is finally here!
The first conference on
#conservationbiology in Italy will be held from the 19th to the 22th of April in Rome!
#SCB #SCBItaly #Biodiversy #NatureConservation https://twitter.com/scb_italy/status/1648035991431573517
SCB Italy on Twitter
“The #ERC Conference week is finally here!
The first conference on #conservationbiology in Italy will be held from the 19th to the 22th of April in Rome!
#SCB #SCBItaly #Biodiversy #NatureConservation”
Fantastic to see our work on @BBC_Future, very well presented by @Sophiehardach
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230404-why-the-alps-are-a-haven-for-rare-butterflies?ocid=ww.social.link.twitter
@EuracAlpine @EURAC @AndreasHilpold @paniccia_chiara @julesibk @Oberluchs @uniinnsbruck
Why the Alps are a haven for rare butterflies
Humans and butterflies have lived in harmony for centuries in the Alps. As climate change threatens their populations, people are working to ensure the mountains remain a haven for rare butterflies.
While awaiting the start of the field season a fresh Pontia edusa visited @EURAC garden today 🦋
RT @marco_mina_
Please share/retweet 👇👇
We have an open trainee/internship position at @EuracAlpine on forest survey and biodiversity monitoring in mountain forests ⛰️🌲🌿
Possibility to develop a MSc thesis on the topic (and to learn a lot!)
Apply by 28/04: https://eurac.onboard.org/jobs/pGrJlAGB?from_career_page=true
Intern for forest surveys within Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol
Eurac Research · Bozen/Bolzano
RT @EuracAlpine
📢Job alert! 🚨
Join our team! We're currently hiring a Researcher for botanical and landscape surveys for the "Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol" (BMS) project.
More info 👉https://biodiversity.eurac.edu/de/we-are-hiring-researcher-for-botanical-and-landscape-surveys-wanted-3/ @EURAC
We are hiring: Researcher for botanical and landscape surveys wanted - Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol
The Institute for Alpine Environment performs problem-oriented research of mountain environments in the fields of landscape ecology, global change, biodiversity, ecosystem services and sustainable development. For the project “Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol” (BMS) we invite applications for the position of a researcher in the field of botany. Besides profound knowledge of the Alpine flora and...
RT @julesibk
Are you interested in
#soil #biodiversity #macrofauna 🪱🕷️🐌🪲, especially in mountain areas?
#AlpSoil_Lab @EuracAlpine
We are looking for an intern:
https://eurac.onboard.org/jobs/oedQ6Em2?from_career_page=true
Intern for soil ecological research in South Tyrol
Eurac Research · Bozen/Bolzano
