Institute for Alpine Environment - Projects - LT(S)ER: Open air laboratory Matsch/Mazia
LT(S)ER: Open air laboratory Matsch/Mazia
Long-term (socio-)ecological research in the open air laboratory Matsch/Mazia
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- Project duration: December 2013 - December 2025
- Project status: ongoing
- Funding: Public institutions (Other projects /Project)
- Website: http://lter.eurac.edu/en/
Global Change phenomena as land use change and temperature increase are well proved to have significant impacts on biodiversity, water budget and ecosystem functioning of mountain regions. However, many studies act as isolated investigations within a complex, multidimensional space and are thus limited in their significance. Hence, it is rather essential to combine a broad set of ecological investigation methods in order to obtain an integrated comprehension of the highly interlinked ecological processes in such vulnerable ecosystems.
Within this project an interdisciplinary approach is followed, where ecological measurements, manipulative experiments and modeling activities are strongly linked together in order to quantify land use and climatic change Impacts on an inner-alpine catchment. All activities are aimed to cover both the spatial Dimension from plot to landscape scale as well as the temporal component considering past, present and
future.
In order to put activities and results in a more international context, an integration of the research area in Matsch/Mazia within the LTER-network is planned. Fruthermore, soil moisture measurement will act as calibrating and validating data for the NASA SMAP-Mission.
Lembrechts JJ, van den Hoogen J, […], Della Chiesa S, Niedrist G, Seeber J, Steinwandter M, […] (2021)
Journal article
Global Change Biology
More information: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16060
Fontana V, Niedrist G, Bottarin R (2021)
CNR Edizioni
Report
More information: https://zenodo.org/record/5570272#.YfzW6JrMJPY
Obojes N (2021)
Presentation/Speech
Conference: 31 st European Dendroecological Fieldweek | Santa Maria, Müstair | 28.8.2021 - 5.9.2021
Niedrist G, Bertoldi G, Zandonai A, Della Chiesa S, Klotz J, Obojes N, Fontana V, Bottarin R, Tappeiner U (2021)
Presentation/Speech
Conference: 2nd TEAMxWorkshop | Online | 10.5.2021 - 12.5.2021
Huber L, Rüdisser J, Meisch C, Stotten R, Leitinger G, Tappeiner U (2021)
Journal article
Science of the Total Environment
More information: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142962
Palma M, Zandonai A, Cattani L, Klotz J, Genova G, Brida C, Andreatta N, Niedrist G, Della Chiesa S (2021)
Journal article
Research Ideas and Outcomes
More information: https://riojournal.com/article/63748/