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Marco Mina

@marco-mina.bsky.social
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Forest science & more • Senior Researcher @Eurac Research • Alum at CEF-UQAM (Canada), WSL Birmensdorf and ETH Zurich (CH) • Italian style

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Michael ヘビ Steinwandter @msteinwandter.eurosky.social · 10/03/2026
Our in-house press team at Eurac Magazine published an article about the soil biology research of @jseeber.bsky.social and myself where we focus on alpine environments. Check it out: www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/... (available in German, Italian, and English) #SoilBiodiversity #SoilScience #SoilFauna
Screenshot of the article by Eurac Magazine about the vast universe of soil biodiversity beneath our feet.
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Increase of forest disturbances in Europe in the 21st century 🔥🌲🪲 New paper out in @science.org on continental-scale simulations trained on local models shows that disturbances like fire, wind and beetle will likely double by 2100 with implications for biodiversity and services Thread below 👇👇
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
New freshly published paper led by @micheletorresani.bsky.social comparing spectral satellite with field data to better estimate tree species diversity 🛰️ 🌲🌳 Happy that our forest inventory data across South Tyrol gets used for more studies! 👇🏻👇🏻📝
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Find the seedling 🌱 #forestdisturbances #post-barkbeetle #forest-dynamics
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
First inspection to potential study sites in Norway spruce forests in the Dolomites for a new research project 🏔️🌲Stay tuned for updates soon! #ALPFOR-CSF @euracalpenv.bsky.social @forwards-project.bsky.social
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Great time at the Integrate Network Workshop in Zurich! A good refresh of forestry concepts for biodiversity conservation and field trials to adapt forests to climate change 🌳🌡️🪲
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Michele Torresani @micheletorresani.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
🌿 Field season has officially started for MAP-Rezia project! Great to finally meet all partners in the forest instead of just on screen! We kicked off our data collection, discussed next steps, and set the ground for linking what we see on the ground🌲 with remote sensing data🛰️
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
#deadwood #dendromicrohabitats #forestbiodiversity
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
In our latest study we used the iLand model to explore the possible future expansion in the forest treeline ecotone in the Eastern Alps 🌲🌱⛰️🖥️ Enjoy the paper below 👇👇
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WSL-Eawag Biodiversity Center @wslbiodiversity.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
📌 New publication by #BAFU & @wslresearch.bsky.social: 🌳 Forest Report 2025 Heat, drought, storms, and pests have hit Swiss forests hard over the past decade. We need to boost their resilience to climate change to keep them thriving for people and nature. www.wsl.ch/en/news/fore...
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Forest Report 2025: Swiss forests under pressure to adapt
Climate change is visibly affecting the forest, as shown by the 2025 Forest Report published by the FOEN and WSL.
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Two productive days discussing concrete ideas for research collaborations for Alpine forests - w/ B. Keeton, R.Aszalos et al 💡📝🌲🏔️
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Alpine Environment - Eurac Research @euracalpenv.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Our researchers @msteinwandter.bsky.social, @chiarapaniccia.bsky.social & @eliaguariento.bsky.social have found three specimens of the Eurasian pygmy shrew in South Tyrol at over 3,000 meters a.s.l.. This #discovery marks a European #record! 🏆 📰: eurac.edu/de/press/eur... Foto: Giacomo Gaudenzi
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
When a tree is dying, life explodes around it 🌲🦇🪶🪵 We analyzed the relationship between the amount of dead wood and the diversity of its birds and bats in the Italian Alps. Now the research is featured in our magazine “The echo of death”: www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...
Photo by Andrea di Giovanni (Eurac Research)
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Exciting to kick-off our new #MAP-Rezia project under the programme Interreg IT-CH! It will contribute to monitor biodiversity, herbivores and assess climate change impacts in the cross-border area of the Swiss and Stelvio National Parks 🌲⛰️🦌🛩️📶🌳 Cool collaboration in the next 2 1/2 years!
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 27/01/2025
Rural communities in Québec are embracing ‘mushroom tourism’ to boost local economies
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Rural communities in Québec are embracing ‘mushroom tourism’ to boost local economies
Mycotourism (mushroom tourism) merges nature, culinary experiences and rural traditions. Quebec’s growth in this niche is notable, yet it remains relatively unknown.
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
How does variation in ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity affect tree growth? What are the knowledge gaps to more fully answering this question? See my review out today in Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
A red Amanita fruiting with leaf litter around
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
🌲 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀: Session FS 3.191 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 – 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗜𝗠𝗖 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱! 🌲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: IMC 2025 – International Mountain Conference 📍 Innsbruck, Austria Deadline: 20 feb 2025 imc2025.info/imc25/sessio...
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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 10/01/2025
Are you/do you know a student interested in biodiversity and ecology and with strong data-handling skills? Apply for our summer trainee position at @luke.fi: valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/trai... (DL 31.1) Many other great trainee and seasonal worker positions also now open in Luke!
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Trainee, data science ("big data" and geo-spatial data) - Natural Resources Institute Finland
Open job: Trainee, data science ("big data" and geo-spatial data), Natural Resources Institute Finland - Find all jobs in Valtiolle.fi
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
We are looking for a motivated intern with experience in taxonomy of fungi in mountain forests to support us on fungal diversity survey in late summer/fall in South Tyrol 🍄🌲⛰️ Deadline is January 20th eurac.onboard.org/jobs/7G6noEG...
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Internship fungal diversity survey in forests of South Tyrol
Eurac Research · Bozen/Bolzano
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WSL Umweltforschung @wslresearch.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
By chance, two artists living in Zurich have discovered the bioluminescence of a fungus. Together with a mycologist from WSL, they are describing the poorly understood phenomenon. wsl.ch/en/news/glow... #biodiversity #biodiversity #mushrooms #forest 📷Baggenstos/Rudolf
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Glowing mushrooms: an intrigue for artists and scientists alike
Two artists from Zurich team up with a WSL mycologist to look into the newly discovered green glow of a mushroom.
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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds | PNAS
Research funding systems fundamentally influence how science operates. This paper aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding fr...
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
A short reportage about our research activities on forest ecology, modelling and biodiversity at the Institute for Alpine Environment at Eurac Research 🌲⛰️🌡️🌱📈 youtu.be/3rPcKzOmFgI?... 👉for English turn on Auto generated captions 👉for German see youtu.be/hzcI0rflJas?...
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Research South Tyrol | Special Mention 2023: Marco Mina
YouTube video by Provincia Bolzano
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Publishing a paper takes time (too long! imho). But preprints are a good options to share research results in real time. Have a look at our preprint on canopy photography methods for forest ecology and biodiversity studies 🌲📷🌱 @euracalpenv.bsky.social
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Monica G. Turner @monicagturner.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Conveying results of #simulationmodels is tricky. We produced a video to help folks understand how #climatechange and #fire could affect the iconic landscape of Greater #Yellowstone. Would love to see this used for ecology classes and outreach. @ttkeller.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIp7...
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Future landscapes of Greater Yellowstone
YouTube video by UW-Madison Campus Connection
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Brian Rolek @brols.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
🚨New publication🚨 Forest management affects the functional traits of birds and mammals differently. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... First author and awesome researcher Dr. Gabi Dri is doing amazing work! I'm grateful for the opportunity to collaborate on this one. #ecology
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Forest management affects the functional traits of birds and mammals differently
Our work used large-scale data to understand how bird and mammal communities respond to timber harvest practices in temperate forests of the northeastern USA. We found that niche breadth (diet), morp...
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Done with #TwiXXer social. I wont post any more content here. Moved to 👇👇 🦋 marco-mina.bsky.social
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WSL-Eawag Biodiversity Center @wslbiodiversity.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Our first starter pack is here! A list of members and alumni of @wslresearch.bsky.social working on biodiversity research and outreach. It will updated as more people join. Let us know if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/3Gzw93e
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Escaping from Twitter/X! 🙂 As a first post, have a look at our initiative on monitoring fungal diversity in the Alps 🍄🌲⛰️ www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Blog post by @Frances90179642 on our recent results on the application of canopy photography in forests of the Alps to capture differences in forest types and studying the relationship with understory plants🌳 📸🌲 @Cost_BottomsUp t.co/CgmQ55kW3k
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
Intense days for @EuracAlpine forest ecologists busy at the #IUFRO2024 conference in Stockholm 🌲 🌳 🇸🇪 Lot’s of ideas exchanges, great talks and setting the basis for new research collaborations.
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 28/05/2024
Kicking off the 1st sampling season of fungal diversity in South Tyrol´s forests 🍄 Looking forward to survey many sites to cover the most representative forests in the Eastern Alps 🌲🌳🏔️ @EuracAlpine #BiodiversityMonitoringSouthTyrol Special thanks -> Ass. Micologica Bresadola
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
What is the role of forest structural attributes 🪵🌲on bat and bird abundance and diversity? 🦇🐦 Very proud of this new @EuracAlpine paper w/ @Cost_BottomsUp @Frances90179642 led by F.Rigo and @paniccia_chiara 🚨Published now 🔓in Forest Ecol & Manag sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Happy to have opened the forest modelling session at the #AEET23 Congress in Almeria. And glad to meet so many familiar faces here in Andalucia 🇪🇸 Thanks @msuamun @fjbonet for the invitation!
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Timely review on climate change impacts on protection forests! Must read, together with our paper focusing on the Italian Alps - part of the same Special Topic 🧾 x.com/AnaStritih/sta… frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
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Frontiers | Contrasting impacts of climate change on protection forests of the Italian Alps
Protection forests play a key role in protecting settlements, people, and infrastructures from gravitational hazards such as rockfalls and avalanches in moun...
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
How will climate change affect the dynamics of protection forests in the Italian Alps? 🌲🏔️🪨❄️ See here 👇our latest paper where we applied a forest dynamic model to asses future protective effects against rockfall and avalanches frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
Great time at the @ECEM_2023 in Leipzig! Happy to have contributed for @EuracAlpine with talks, co-org of a cool session with @ForEco_ETH and discussions for future cooperation in forest modelling🌲🌳💻📈
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 30/08/2023
We keep saying that we need more diverse forests for resilience to global change. But how can the timber industry cope with such wood diversification and adapt to future forest outputs? 🌲🪓🌳🪚🪵 These concepts in our latest paper published in @PNASNexus doi.org/10.1093/pnasne…
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A trait-based approach to both forestry and timber building can synchronize forest harvest and resilience
Abstract. Along with forest managers, builders are key change agents of forest ecosystems’ structure and composition through the specification and use of w
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 28/07/2023
Three wonderful days across forests of South Tyrol with @ale_bottero @ForEco_ETH 🇨🇭 discussing forest management, ecology and biodiversity! 🌲🪓⛰️🪲 Thanks @klaus_obojes @paniccia_chiara @AndreasHilpold & more for the company
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
A fresh start of the forest structure’s fieldwork 2023 for Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol by @EuracAlpine in a nice mixed beech stand between a thunderstorm and another ⛈️🌳🌲
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 27/06/2023
Today C.Hoffmann and I represented @EuracAlpine and @EURAC_RegDev at the #woodpassage in Bolzano, a temporary art installation made to increase the awareness of people on the sustainable use of wood for #timber construction to store CO2 🪵 From 🌲 to 🏠 proholz.at/en/woodpassage
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 19/06/2023
Post-disturbance hike&bike in Asiago Plateau: slow dynamics after 2015 winter subalpine wildfire in Cima Portule and 2018 windthrow Vaia stands - the latter already showing first signs of recovery 🌲 🌱
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 02/06/2023
I visited Port Renfrew and its giant trees back in 2019. I will never forget the feeling being in those old-growth forets - which deserve only to be preserved. Nice article in Canadian Geographic canadiangeographic.ca/articles/big-t…
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Big tree hunters: saving the last untouched areas of the planet
How a niche British Columbia-based community is working to bring attention to the importance of old-growth forests
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 30/05/2023
New paper alert 🚨 Open Access 🔓 What is the future for planted pine forests in Mediterranean mountains under climate change? 👉Active management can promote mixed and climate-adapted ecosystems in shorter time scales than forest succession alone doi.org/10.1007/s10980…
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 29/05/2023
Driving to Davos, Switzerland, to spend a few days visiting the @SLF_MountEcosys group 🏔️ 🌲 Scenic drive at zero emissions 🔌 🚗 Feels good.
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 25/05/2023
Where the ‘Wood-Wide Web’ Narrative Went Wrong undark.org/2023/05/25/whe…
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Where the ‘Wood-Wide Web’ Narrative Went Wrong
Opinion | A fascinating story about forest fungal networks has captured the public imagination in recent years. Is any of it true?
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 20/05/2023
Forest management is NOT an alternative to cutting carbon emissions to counteract climate change. Full stop. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
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Releasing global forests from human management: How much more carbon could be stored?
Even if all harvesting of forests ceased, their carbon sequestration potential would still not be enough to curb climate change.
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 05/05/2023
How to move without legs or wings: Helping trees migrate to new regionsvia @LaConvCA theconversation.com/how-to-move-wi…
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How to move without legs or wings: Helping trees migrate to new regions
The rapidly changing climate presents many challenges for the sustainability of forest ecosystems. Assisting the migration of trees is a tool to address these challenges.
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 21/04/2023
Misleading the ‘Mother Tree’ 👉No significant evidence that trees benefit from sharing nutrients through mycorrhizal networks 👉No peer-reviewed evidence that mature trees send nutrients to their kin through fungal networks saltwire.com/atlantic-canad…
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Sadly, ‘Mother Trees’ don’t act like mothers and Avatar’s tree of souls doesn't exist
It’s a consoling thought.
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 30/03/2023
A couple of days left to submit your abstract for the @ECEM_2023 in Leipzig on Sept 4-8 We have a dedicated session on dynamic forest models as tools to support forest management 🌲🪓📈🖥️ Submissions here: ecem23.eu/callforabstrac…
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Marco Mina @marco-mina.bsky.social · 30/03/2023
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: eurac.onboard.org/jobs/pGrJlAGB?…
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