Saying ‘ants’, most people think of those small insects that need to be chased out of the kitchen. However, many people do not know that ants make essential contributions to…

The landscape of South Tyrol has undergone significant changes in recent decades, unfortunately at the expense of native biodiversity. In this presentation, Erich Tasser gives an overview of the landscape…

As throughout the Alps, rivers and streams in South Tyrol have undergone heavy modifications during agricultural development to protect crops from flooding and landslides. Rivers and streams have been straightened…

A large part of the biodiversity of a forest consists of species that live “under the bark” of old or decaying trees, the so-called “saproxylic” species. These are organisms that,…

Landraces are traditional varieties that have developed over time through environmental selection and conscious or unconscious breeding by farmers in a given place. In South Tyrol, systematic collection of landraces…

The analysis of environmental DNA (eDNA) is revolutionizing biodiversity monitoring as it allows to assess organismic diversity at large scale and unprecedented taxonomic detail. In this research, the researcher is…