#SoilBON
Start of #SoilBON sampling in our alpine grassland sites ⛰️
@soilbon.bsky.social, @euracalpenv.bsky.social, @msteinwandter.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Sampling soils and soil fauna for the SoilBON initiative @soilbon.bsky.social in the Swiss National Park with @chrisrossi90.bsky.social and other extremely helful collaborators! #soil #biodiversity #collaboration #alpine_grasslands 🍄🦠🐛🕷🪱 😃
July 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Fieldwork DONE! ✅ #LTERSlovenia partners (Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU & @tularcavelab.bsky.social) successfully completed soil sampling for the #SoilBON project!

@soilbon.bsky.social tracks soil biodiversity & ecosystem changes, with triennial sampling. Next up: 2028! @elter-ri.eu
June 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Three years after, we came back to the same two paired-sites inside and outside of protection areas in Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 for the 2nd #SoilBON sampling campaign @soilbon.bsky.social ! And this time, instead of #teabags, we also buried wood sticks to study litter decomposition #soilhealth #soilbiodiversity
March 5, 2026 at 9:09 AM
What a day to kick of this seasons @soilbon.bsky.social sampling !

So nice to be back in the field after a long winter at the desk.

Collaborative effort by @maynoothuniversity.ie and @UCD making sure 🇮🇪 is represented as part of this Global initiative! #teamwork 💪

#soilbon #soilbonfoodweb #soil
May 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
And additionally some @mebnetwork.bsky.social soil temperature data readout (former #SoilTemp) at 3000m sites at our #LTSERmatsch/ #LTSERmazia outdoor lab.

Quite some snow left this year, also in this dry inner-Alpine valley.
#SouthTyrol #Vinschgau #EuracResearch #MEB #SoilBON #SoilBONfoodweb
June 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This week we retrieved the woodsticks for #SoilBON sampling from our high alpine sites. At 3000 and 2500 m they were easy to find and were still quite intact, so obviously a very slow decomposition. @soilbon.bsky.social @euracalpenv.bsky.social
June 28, 2026 at 2:09 PM
#Soil sampling activities within the #SoilBon project to monitor soil #biodiversity in the #LTERITALY site of Collelongo-Selvapiana: deims.org/9b1d144a-dc3...

10 sticks have been placed to study organic matter decomposition in the soil.

#eLTERCommunity @elter-ri.eu
August 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I have some work on earthworms, soil health and contributor to SoilBON, could you please add me? Thanks!
November 17, 2024 at 9:28 PM