Eurac Research ecologists are using a special photographic technique to study the morphology  of the forest canopy and accumulate information about South Tyrol’s woodlands. The goal: to monitor their health and predict their future.

Photographing the forest canopy can help protect it

Studying the woods through photography

**The Centralparks project promotes initiatives and legal framework in the Carpathian region to mitigate the loss of biodiversity and to increase responsible resource management by strengthening protected areas and fostering protected area networks along this vulnerable mountain system.**

The Carpathians are a center of biodiversity in Europe. And although they contain a vast amount of natural and cultural heritage, human impacts are threatening the region. Environmental lawyer Isidoro De Bortoli expounds on tackling wildlife crime and illegal logging in the area.

Cooperation key to overcoming threats in the Carpathians

Nel 2019 Eurac Research ha avviato, per conto della Provincia autonoma di Bolzano, un progetto di monitoraggio della biodiversità su scala provinciale. Si tratta di un progetto unico in Italia per estensione e diversità di habitat e specie osservate. Ma cosa vuol dire, nella pratica, monitorare la biodiversità di un territorio?

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Come funziona un monitoraggio della biodiversità?

Every year, on 21 March, the world celebrates International Forest Day. 2022’s edition is dedicated to 'Forests and sustainable production and consumption'. We all know that trees provide oxygen, resources and sustain ecosystems but did you know that wood products can replace less sustainable fossil-based ones and by doing so, also reduce the presence of C02 in our atmosphere? However, to do this , the wood must come from well-planned and sustainably managed forests. Forests are one of humanity’s most valuable resources, find out more about them here.

How wood stores Co2

Fragile and yet highly important, forests are ecosystems that are increasingly susceptible to the risks of global environmental changes: pests, droughts and more frequent and intense extreme weather. Mathematical models can now simulate these future scenarios and help us understand how forests will behave in the face of anticipated changes such as rising temperatures and enable governments to be more prepared in their response to unexpected events. 

Simulations based on mathematical models can help us understand how global environmental changes will affect woodlands

The future of forests

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Studying the woods through photography

Photographing the forest canopy can help protect it

Cooperation key to overcoming threats in the Carpathians

The Carpathians are a center of biodiversity in Europe. And although they contain a vast amount of natural and cultural heritage, human impacts are threatening the region. ...

Come funziona un monitoraggio della biodiversità?

Foto dal campo raccontano il paziente lavoro di ricercatrici e ricercatori

How wood stores Co2

Every year, on 21 March, the world celebrates International Forest Day. 2022’s edition is dedicated to 'Forests and sustainable production and consumption'. We all know that trees ...

The future of forests

Simulations based on mathematical models can help us understand how global environmental changes will affect woodlands