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...