The cluster "Biodiversity & LTER" visualises the existing know-how and collaboration opportunities of publicly visible research infrastructures in Austria. The research infrastructures presented offer expertise in ecological and socio-ecological long-term studies (LTER) and make a significant contribution to biodiversity research in Austria and Europe.
Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung
Abteilung V/3 – Grundlagenforschung (MINT) und Forschungsinfrastrukturen
Referat V/3e (Umwelt- und Erdsystemwissenschaften inkl. Klimaforschung)
Dr. Karolina Begusch-Pfefferkorn
Teinfaltstraße 8/1/130, 1010 Wien
karolina.begusch-pfefferkorn@bmbwf.gv.at
University of Salzburg
The "AGILENT 7900 ICP-MS" device is a quadrupole mass spectrometer for elemental analysis of aqueous,...
University of Salzburg
The Core Facility enables the determination of temperature-related ages from sedimentary rocks, igneous rocks or...
University of Salzburg
The "Alphachron" device essentially consists of an infrared laser (wavelength 914 nm), a sample chamber,...
Natural History Museum Vienna
In addition to the microCT, several 3D printers and hand-held 3D scanners (Artec Space Spider,...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The collections of the Botany Department at NHM Vienna are among the most important worldwide....
Natural History Museum Vienna
The Main Zoological Library of the Natural History Museum Vienna currently comprises around 7,000 items...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The Hymenoptera collection of the Natural History Museum consists of more than one million specimens,...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The Diptera collection (mosquitoes and flies, two-winged insects) at the Natural History Museum contains around...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The Coleoptera (beetle) collection of the Natural History Museum has just over 6 million dry-mounted...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The collection "Neuropterida and affiliated collections" of the Natural History Museum comprises a large number...
IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
IIASA is an international scientific institute that takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine the complex...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
The Austrian Society for Long-Term Ecological Research - LTER-Austria - was founded in 2002. Since...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
Hohe Tauern NP was established more than 40 years ago as one of the biggest...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
The Hallstätter Glacier is the largest glacier in the northern Limestone Alps. It is oriented...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
The LTER site Kaunertal reaches from the glaciated peak of the Weißseespitze (3600 m) to...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
The site is located at the main Alpine ridge in Silvretta group right at the...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
Institutional Structure: The LTSER Neusiedler See Seewinkel is located at the "Biological Station Lake Neusiedl"...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
The Petzenkirchen HOAL (Hydrology Open Air Laboratory) catchment is situated in the western part of...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
The Sonnblick Observatory is located in the Austrian Central Alps at an elevation of 3100...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
The LTSER platform ‘Tyrolean Alps’ was formally installed only in 2010. However, ecological – and...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
The Gesäuse Nationalpark was founded in 2002 and is located in Styria, in the Center...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
The Interuniversity Centre for Aquatic Ecosystem Research, WasserCluster Lunz Biologische Station GmbH (WCL), is located...
CCCA - Climate Change Centre Austria
The CCCA is a contact point for researchers, politicians, the media, and the public for...
Natural History Museum Vienna
With ca. 20,000 lots and 2,000 type series, the myriapod collection of the Naturalhistory Museum...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The herbarium of phanerogams at the Department of Botany at NHM Vienna houses an estimated...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The collection of cryptogams at the NHM Vienna, Department of Botany archives an estimated 1.5-2...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The fruit and seed collection at NHM Vienna, Department of Botany contains some 30000 dried...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The wood collection of the NHM Vienna, Department of Botany contains about 6500 wood samples...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The spirit collection at NHM Vienna, Department of Botany contains about 2000 samples of higher...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The beginnings of the Collection Mollusca date back to the 18th century. Franz Stephan of...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The collection Evertebrata varia of the Natural History Museum Vienna includes most invertebrate groups not...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The collection Crustacea (crustacean) of the Natural History Museum Vienna (NHMW) houses ~ 30,000 inventoried...
Natural History Museum Vienna
In addition to the arachnids (spiders, scorpions, mites, harvestmen, pseudoscorpions, whip spiders, whip scorpions, etc.),...
Natural History Museum Vienna
Entomology deals with the study of insects. The Natural History Museum Vienna houses one of...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The 3. Zoological Department encompasses the invertebrate collections with the exception of insects in the...
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU)
Automated system for the estimation of greenhouse and trace gases exchange rates between the soil...
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU)
RIEGL VZ-600i terrestrial laser scanner for 3D data acquisition of forest environments. The raw product...
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU)
Gas analyzer based on cavity ring down spectroscopy technology for the estimaton of nitrous oxide...
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU)
High-quality, real-time isotopic analyzer, designed for measurements of delta-18O and delta-D from liquid water, matrix-bound...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
The LTSER platform Eisenwurzen represents both a natural space and a historically developed social and...
ABOL (Austrian Barcode of Life) Coordination
ABOL is a network of experts and institutions which aims to record the genetic diversity...
ABOL (Austrian Barcode of Life) Coordination
The ABOL data base serves several functions: 1. as a working database for project partners...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The DNA and tissue collection of the NHM Vienna has existed since 1993 and currently...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The scanning electron microscope offers several analysis and imaging methods, to investigate a huge variety...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The heart of the NHM 3D-Lab within the Central Research Laboratories of the NHMW is...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The electron probe micro analyzer offers well established analysis and imaging methods for the investigation...
Natural History Museum Vienna
Besides a large laboratory room for all standard procedures around DNA analysis, the Laboratory of...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The Central Research Laboratories at the Natural History Museum Vienna comprise the Research Laboratory of...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
The University forest is about 1000 ha, covered with all major tree species and forest...
University of Salzburg
The server infrastructure comprises 16 high-performance computers with multi-core processors (up to 3 GHz): 8...
University of Salzburg
The Core Facility Molecular Biodiversity Lab processes RNA, DNA and hormone samples using molecular biological...
University of Salzburg
The FEI ESEM XL30 is a scanning electron microscope with variable pressure control and X-ray...
University of Vienna
The facility supports users and their projects with a wide range of imaging modalities from...
University of Vienna
Confocal laser scanning microscope with a continuous white light laser and six solid laser lines...
University of Vienna
The UC7 is a high-precision microtome to efficiently cut semi-thin, thin and ultra-thin resin sections...
University of Vienna
Scanning Electron Microscope for low vacuum mode. Detectors: Secondary and back scatter detectors for high...
University of Vienna
Rapid cryo-immobilisation of samples up to 300 µm resulting in vitrified probes followed by accelerated...
University of Vienna
Confocal Laserscanning Microscope with a 6-line Ar-Laser equipped with 3 PMTs (plus T-PMT ) and...
University of Vienna
Using UV light nearly doubles the achievable resolution of the microscope. The UV sensitive camera...
University of Vienna
High-resolution transmission electron microscope for biological samples (research and service).
University of Vienna
Confocal Laserscanning Microscope
University of Vienna
Scanning Electron Microscope including secondary and backscatter electron detectors as well as elemental analysis /mapping...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The library of the Karst and Caves Working Group of the Natural History Museum Vienna...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The library of the Department of Botany of the Natural History Museum Vienna currently comprises...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The library of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Education of the Natural History Museum...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The library of the Department Archive for the History of Science of the Natural History...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The Archive for the History of Science is divided into five collections according to its...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The Lepidoptera collection of the Natural History Museum in Vienna houses one of the largest...
Natural History Museum Vienna
In 1992 the Hemiptera Collection was split off from a large collection of heterogeneous insect...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The 'First Zoological Department (Vertebrates)', owing to its scientific collections – the Mammal, the Bird,...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The comparative scientific collection comprises about 210,000 objects the majority (more than 200,000) are preserved...
Natural History Museum Vienna
Currently, the mammal collection comprises more than 100,000 specimens. Its annual increment amounts to around...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The Bird Collection at the NHM dates back to 1793 and represents the only scientific...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The main taxidermy laboratory of the 1st Zoological Department is manufacturing and renovating all dry...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The Fish Collection of the NHM Vienna belongs, based on its historical value, to the...
Natural History Museum Vienna
The Archaeological-Zoological collection is an interdisciplinary institution combining aspects of zoology and prehistoric/early history livestock...
Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
The 3" ice core drill is a portable core drill that allows drilling in cold...
University of Salzburg
The Core Facility serves the controlled culture of biomodels and organisms for biomedical and ecological...
University of Salzburg
The herbarium SZU is a curated natural history collection hosting ca. 130.000 vouchers of vascular...
University of Salzburg
CF genomics comprises a combination of devices for performing genome-wide expression, genome and methyloma analyses;...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
Biologische Station Neusiedler See is situated at Lake Neusiedl in Illmitz (Austria) and is a...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
The Neusiedler See - Seewinkel National Park is the first cross-border National Park in Austria...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
The WegenerNet climate station network Feldbach region is a pioneering weather and climate observation experiment...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
The site was established in 2000 and is situated in Waldviertel (northern Lower Austria), the...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
The LTER grassland sites in the Stubai Valley are situated near the village of Neustift...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
The Pürgschachen Moor is located on the bottom of the Styrian Enns valley, about 1.5...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
The Rutzendorf Experimental Station is an agricultural research site of the University of Natural Resources...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
The Grabenegg Field Station (Alpenvorland), Lower Austria, is an agricultural research site of the Austrian...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
In the Rofental (Ötztal Alps) a consortium of the three institutions, and open to research...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
Piburger See is a small mountain lake in the Eastern Alps (Austria) and was part...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
Obergurgl lies about 1930 m a.s.l., very much at the head of the Ötz-valley (municipality...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
LTER site Oberes Stubachtal is a long-range research site with a main focus on the...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
The Mondsee Limnological Institute site is a Natura 2000 area in Upper Austria. Connected to...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
The Zöbelboden was established in 1992 as the only Integrated Monitoring station in Austria under...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
Landslides (translational and rotational slides, debris flows, rock avalanches, rock falls, etc.) rank among the...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
The site Murau is part of the European Level II Forest Monitoring System in the...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
The site Klausen-Leopoldsdorf is part of the European Level II Forest Monitoring System in the...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
The alpine site is located in East Styria, the current stand is a Norway spruce...
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
The mountainous Gossenköllesee is located in the Stubaier Alps at an elevation of 2,417 m....
LTER-Austria - Austrian Society for Long-term Ecological Research
GLORIA Target region The site lies in the alpine zone of Hochschwab in the NE-Alps....