Human survival depends on healthy ecosystems, wild areas with many interacting species. Conservation of this ‘biodiversity’ often aims at preserving particular species of plant or animal, while the microorganisms that…

After an intensive season from June to September, the field work in the first year of the LUZALP project was successfully completed. In total, researcher Valentin Heimer collected nearly 3000…

Orchard meadows are a remarkable form of agriculture. Researchers from Eurac Research 2021 have studied how the biodiversity of intensive orchards differs from that in scattered orchards. The preliminary results…

Initiative Baumgart awards the prize of the orchard meadow championship 2022 The Baumgart Initiative organized the first orchard meadow championship in South Tyrol in 2022. All owners of orchards meadows,…

On the one hand, permanent meadows are habitats for a large number of animal and plant species and, on the other hand, an essential basis for livestock farming. The more…

The Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol has set itself the goal not only to study the biodiversity in the most important habitats of South Tyrol, but also to inform the public…

The capercaillie, the important role it plays in its community and the threats it faces will be the subject of a colloquium organized by the Platform Biodiversity South Tyrol on…

The alpine landscape is facing major alterations due to environmental changes. Major threats to alpine biodiversity include land use change marked by urbanization and intensification of agriculture in valley bottoms…