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What exactly do we survey in the terrestrial part of the Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol? How do our surveys work? Where in the province do we survey and in which…
ONLINE Colloquium of the Platform Biodiversity: Botanical Documentation and Research at the Museum of Nature South Tyrol
The Colloquium will take place on February 10th at 6pm ONLINE. South Tyrol has a long botanical tradition. Thanks to the great achievements of Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre and Ludwig…
2 February: World Wetland Day and 50 years of the Ramsar Convention
Today, 2 February, is World Wetland Day, the international day for wetland habitats. The day was chosen because the Ramsar Convention, signed in the Iranian city of Ramsar, on 2…
ONLINE Colloquium of the Platform Biodiversity: Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol, Review of the first two survey seasons
The Colloquium will take place on January 13th at 6pm ONLINE. On the initiative of the South Tyrolean government, Eurac Research started the Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol in 2019, in collaboration…
Extensive meadows and pastures: last habitats for threatened bird species
In recent decades, the number of bird species that are tied to extensive meadows and pastures has declined significantly. Some of them have even disappeared altogether. In 2020, experts from…
International Mountain Day themed Biodiversity: Mountain ecosystems of exceptional importance
On the occasion of the International Mountain Day (11 December), the Alpine Association South Tyrol (AVS), together with the Center for Global Mountain Safeguard Research (GLOMOS) and the Biodiversity Monitoring…
The woodland brown: extinct in South Tyrol?
The woodland brown butterfly, which is endangered throughout Europe, has not been recorded in South Tyrol for 20 years. In a special project of the Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol, a…
ONLINE Colloquium of the Platform Biodiversity: The ecological niche 2.0: movements and constraints of animals in the anthropocene
The Colloquium will take place on November 11th at 6pm ONLINE. Animals are distributed in space not by chance, but to acquire resources and to carry out interactions with other…
Talk ‘Biodiversity in the city’ on October 22nd
Our cities are not only home to people, but also to many animals and plants. Some even occur almost exclusively here. The lecture gives an overview of nature in the…
Botany meets art
Herbarium is a term that most people have heard of. But only a few have a real idea of what it is. At most, one or the other has collected…