Short Description
Hohe Tauern NP was established more than 40 years ago as one of the biggest protected areas in Central Europe to protect at long-term wide areas of the Austrian main-ridge of the Alps. The 1.856 square kilometre Hohe Tauern National Park is split into a 1.213 square kilometre core zone and a 643 square kilometre buffer zone and stretches over three provinces. The altitudinal belts from the valleys to the summits of the three-thousand-metre-tall mountains represent an exceptional biodiversity.
Contact Person
Angelika Riegler
Research Services
The main activities are: biodiversity research, biotope mapping, multidisciplinary highly standardised long-term monitoring of terrestrial ecosystems, long-term monitoring of high elevation aquatic ecosystems.
Methods & Expertise for Research Infrastructure
Nature protection (ecosystems/Natura2000 habitats) and species conservation projects play a big role in the work and history of Hohe Tauern National Park.