A warm welcome to Sonja Wipf who has joined our team as a Postdoc!
Sonja brings a lot of experience in alpine plant ecology. She will be working on the #AsMi project to explore assisted migration as a conservation measure for threatened mountain plant species🌼↗️🏔️
It's great to have you in the group!😊

At our science #retreat yesterday we discussed applications & pitfalls of various #AI tools for our work, from writing to species ID'ing. A great opportunity to learn from each other, develop a common understanding, & connect across the team!
And to go out for some birdwatching during lunch break 🦆

Happy Birthday #GLORIA! 25 years monitoring mountain summit flora, and counting 🏵️🏔️

It was so nice to celebrate together at @imc2025.bsky.social in Innsbruck. Here's to many more decades!

📷 Feline Peters

We had a great time at #Jungfraujoch during our yearly team outing! Got a fascinating tour of the meteorological & research station (est. 1931), and really enjoyed the trip with the iconic railway (construction finished already in 1912!). We'll have to come back for a better view, though 😉🏔️❄️🧪🚞

Yet, we do not know to what degree non-native species are already present in undisturbed habitats, which species & drivers pose the largest threats, and how natural mountain ecosystems are already impacted by non-native plant species that have become invasive.

#Mountain ecosystems to date remain relatively untouched and are home to a large diversity of specialised plant species. However, this unique biodiversity could be threatened by the arrival of #non-native species, which are already becoming increasingly common in disturbed sites such as along roads.

Yet, we do not know to what degree non-native plants are already present in undisturbed habitats, which species & drivers pose the largest threats, and how natural mountain ecosystems are already impacted by non-native plant species that have become invasive.

#Mountain ecosystems to date remain relatively untouched and are home to a large diversity of specialised plant species. However, this unique biodiversity could be threatened by the arrival of #non-native species, which are already becoming increasingly common in disturbed sites such as along roads.

Three exciting positions at the new Landscape Ecology Group led by Alejandra Morán‐Ordóñez at the University of Basel

Technician (50%): bit.ly/4hogX1F
Research assistant (50%): bit.ly/3FlrVrC
PhD position: bit.ly/3R0C6nT

#jobs #PhDposition #ecology #fieldwork #conservation