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Julia Seeber

@jseeber.bsky.social

Soil ecologist @EuracAlpine #AlpSoil_Lab @uniinnsbruck with special interest in #earthworms, mum of four

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Soil biodiversity effects on ecosystems Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 12 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00123-zSoil biodiversity is poorly studied compared to aboveground biodiversity, but is an important driver of ecosystem functioning. This Review discusses advances in research into the relationships between soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, highlighting that integrative and causal study approaches will be needed to fill the gaps in our understanding.

ICYMI: New online! Soil biodiversity effects on ecosystems

19.01.2026 01:37 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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How did research on soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning progress over the past decade? Read our new paper in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com, led by Nico Eisenhauer @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social and Marie Sünnemann @msoil.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

12.01.2026 17:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In our latest paper, just published in @natcomms.nature.com we show that soil conditions, landscape structure & land-use change shape global soil pathogenic fungal diversity. Landscape complexity and crops increase diversity, while grass and tree cover reduce it www.nature.com/articles/s41...

12.01.2026 12:21 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Three #postdoc positions available in my lab @unibz.bsky.social focusing on #genomics of #eriosoma #aphids #psyllids and #phytoplasma please repost

05.01.2026 08:34 — 👍 2    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Great paper, happy to see this out and to have contributed!

10.12.2025 08:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Interns wanted! - Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol

Want to work on biodiversity in the Alps? ⛰️

We are offering several internship positions for the upcoming spring and summer in collaboration with the Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol 🕷️🦋🦇🐜🌼🦗🪱

biodiversity.eurac.edu/interns-want...

09.12.2025 08:30 — 👍 20    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 0
OniscidBase: A call for contributions to a global database to advance terrestrial isopod research | Soil Organisms

📢 Call for Collaborators!

Interested in Isopods? Check out this call in Soil Organisms by Konstantin Gongalsky and colleagues @msteinwandter.bsky.social @soilscholar.bsky.social

soil-organisms.org/SO/article/v...

09.12.2025 12:17 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

congrats, Martin!

06.12.2025 05:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Happy World Soil Day! 🌍🪱 A handful of soil holds more organisms than Earth has people. These invertebrates keep ecosystems functioning and our planet alive. Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol (BMS) is financed by Province of Bolzano & Land Südtirol. www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...

05.12.2025 14:10 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Stellen für Akademisches Personal | Allgemeine und angewandte Entomologie (Prof. Schuler Hannes) Kompetenzzentrum für Pflanzengesundheit: Vergleichendes Bewertungsverfahren für 1 Stelle/n als „Tecnologo“ erster Ebene mit befristetem Arbeitsvertrag (A)

We are looking for a postdoc to establish our Cell imaging laboratory for investigating plant stress factors. The postdoc will develop and optimize #CLSM technologies including fluorescence lifetime measurements and life imaging @unibz with @simonjunterholzner.bsky.social
Please repost

05.12.2025 16:48 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Paris: Bettwanzen im Kino - oe3.ORF.at <ul><li>Zwei Jahre nach der Aufregung um Bettwanzen in Frankreich schrecken die Parasiten in Paris erneut die Menschen auf</li><li>Das altehrwürdige französische Filminstitut schließt seine Kinosäle w...

oe3.orf.at/stories/3051...
Das Foto ist ja schön, aber Bettwanze ist das keine 🤦🏼‍♀️

29.11.2025 15:26 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Explore how soil food webs withstand droughts and heatwaves, and what this means for tree regeneration in Swedish forests! 🌲🪱🌳🍄Become a PhD student in the WIFORCE Research School and work with us at SLU-Uppsala @mycopat.bsky.social #climate #forest #microbes #nematodes

www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

26.11.2025 16:46 — 👍 22    🔁 19    💬 3    📌 1
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How are Pacific NW mountain birds responding to climate change?

I got up at 4:00 am for a month to find out.

but first the backstory, or "how I spent seven years telling everyone this project wasn't possible"

new paper here:
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

12.11.2025 16:21 — 👍 115    🔁 35    💬 5    📌 3

Congrats, Frank, enjoy ☺️

06.11.2025 05:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🪱🐜 🐛 🪳 🐌 Join our SOIL FAUNA session at EGU2026! Excited to team up with Dmytro Monoshyn, Marion Mittmannsgruber & Gerrit Angst. Looking forward to catching up, or getting to know you and your work! 🪱🐜 🐛 🪳 🐌

03.11.2025 13:29 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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🌍 What a great week at #IMC2025 in Innsbruck! 🏔️

Proud to showcase our institute among outstanding #mountain scientists 🧠 with talks, posters, and sessions featuring several of our projects🎤📊

@imc2025.bsky.social @jseeber.bsky.social @msteinwandter.bsky.social

25.09.2025 07:15 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Well done to @nadinepraeg.bsky.social for presenting and promoting our review of #MountainSoilBiodiversity at the #IMC2025. 👏🙏
In collaboration with @gmba-ipo.bsky.social, we compiled a wealth of information on our knowledge of alpine soil biota. 🪴🦠🪱

Openly accessible here: doi.org/10.1111/brv....

18.09.2025 16:46 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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#IMC25 - FS 3.139: Mountain soil biodiversity

Are you at #IMC25? Then come and join our session, we have great talks about mountain #soil #biodiversity ! imc2025.info/imc25/sessio...

15.09.2025 06:39 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Klimakrise: Es ist alles gesagt. Oder? Was kleine süße Hündchen mit der Regenbogenflagge und Taylor Swift zu tun haben? Nichts. Dies ist ein plumper Versuch, Interesse an einem weiteren Artikel über die Klimaerwärmung zu wecken. Wie sonst....

Das Interesse am Klimathema geht zurück. Wie kann ich jetzt als Wissenschaftler kommunizieren?
Alternativen, Kritik etc. welcome...
(Danke an @martinangler.com für die Redaktion)

www.eurac.edu/de/blogs/con...

12.09.2025 17:04 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 5
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Südtirols Artenvielfalt unter Druck Südtirol beheimatet eine außergewöhnlich vielfältige Tier- und Pflanzenwelt. Doch Klimawandel, intensive Landwirtschaft und Siedlungsdruck gefährden diesen Reichtum zunehmend. Der Ergebnisbericht über...

Der erste Biodiversitätsreport für Südtirol ist da!
www.eurac.edu/de/magazine/...

03.09.2025 08:07 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Did you know that Soil BON has a ✨YouTube channel✨? 🤩

We do! Check out the channel for instructional videos of sampling protocols and COMING SOON... behind the scenes at Soil BON with our talented staff! @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/@SoilBONGlobal

01.09.2025 06:36 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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What is living in (and on) alpine soils at 3100m in the European #Alps?

"Not too much"? Check out this sample.
A lot of critters (abundance) and also some larger larvae (Tipulidae) and some flying insects (biomass).

Very excited to sort out these #GLORIA samples from #SouthTyrol.

#AlpSoil_Lab

08.08.2025 12:29 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Julia Seeber and Michael Steinwandter found a way to protect their wood decompostion sticks for the Soil BON project from curious bovines by using poultry wire boxes. Brilliant! ✨🌱🐄✨

@jseeber.bsky.social @msteinwandter.bsky.social

08.08.2025 15:18 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Five years after VAIA:

– Norway spruce dominates regeneration (67%), but only 26% of plots meet targets.
– Browsing affects 25% of seedlings, especially Rowan, Willow, and Silver fir.

Management should promote species diversity and control browsing.

doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...

04.08.2025 18:54 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

ging uns gestern gleich….🥵

13.07.2025 12:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ours doesn’t have one, I‘m not even sure if I want to see on paper how much time we spent at admin…

27.06.2025 15:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A few days left to apply!

23.06.2025 17:35 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Newsroom | Aktuelle Meldungen der Universität Innsbruck Aktuelle Meldungen aus Wissenschaft und Forschung, Videos, Podcasts und Magazine der Universität Innsbruck. Lesen Sie mehr in unserem Newsroom!

Unser Review über "Biodiversität in Bergböden oberhalb der Baumgrenze" im Newsroom der @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social 🤓

www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/

(Original: doi.org/10.1111/brv....)

mit @nadinepraeg.bsky.social , @jseeber.bsky.social , @fundivecol.bsky.social ‬, @gmba-ipo.bsky.social , and many more

23.06.2025 12:53 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Junior Researcher to conduct passive acoustic monitoring and point count of birds Eurac Research · Bozen/Bolzano

we are hiring!!! eurac.onboard.org/jobs/yek8X8mw

18.06.2025 13:32 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
alpine soil profile

alpine soil profile

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beautiful alpine #soil at our sites at 2500 m

17.06.2025 08:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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