Technician for The Biodiversity Monitoring South

Updated: May 01, 2024 11:27 PM GMT

Company: Eurac Research

Bolzano, Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol

Bozen/Bolzano
full-time

Alpine Environment

Short description of the position:
BMS is an ongoing survey of biodiversity that serves as basic research, but it is also intended to provide a scientific base for political decisions concerning spatial planning, agriculture, and nature conservation. BMS surveys animal and plant groups that react sensitively to climate and/or land-use changes, at habitat and landscape level. These surveys occur in 320 terrestrial and more than 100 aquatic sites distributed over the entire province of South Tyrol (7400 km²), including a large share of the diversity of habitats in the region. For details, please consult our webpage biodiversity.eurac.edu
• *Tasks**:

- Installing and regular emptying of pitfall traps, soil core sampling
- Support of field work for survey of running water (macrozoobenthos, set of water abiotic parameters)
- Heat extraction of the soil core samples
- Identification of major soil invertebrate groups
- Processing soil samples and... More Detail