The Geoecology Group at the University of Vienna wants to celebrate the Wetlands Day with you!
We are showing our research in wetland ecosystems and how important that is for wetland restoration!
We have a Core Facility of Long Term Wetland Ecosystem Research (LTWER) devoted to examining the ecosystem functioning of wetlands with a focus on carbon and water cycling in reed belt of Lake Neusiedl and the Alpine ombrotrophic bog Pürgschachen Moor: https://wetlands.univie.ac.at/
Here are our main wetland study sites:
- Reed belt of Lake Neusiedl near Illmitz in Austria
- Puergschachen bog in Styria in Austria
- Pichlmaier bog in Styria in Austria
Our research projects in wetlands are:
- PRINCESS (Peatland Rewetting In Nitrogen-Contaminated Environments)
- ReVersal (Restoring peatlands of the nemoral zone under conditions of varying water supply)
- Conservation and Restoration of Peatland Biodiversity in Austria
- Dissertation projects in the reed belt of Lake Neusiedl and Puergschachen bog
- PeatGOV-Austria (Tracking down Austria's peat)
Bird-eye view over the eastern reed belt of Lake Neusiedl in Austria
© Claudia Blauensteiner
Peat is fun: Raphael Müller at field work in Pichlmaier bog
© Andreas Maier
Stunning beauty of wetlands
© Raphael Müller
Prof. Stephan Glatzel and Prof. Mariusz Gałka (Univ. Lodz, Poland) at Pichlmeier bog (Styria) during their peat core sample campaign for the ReVersal project (July 2022)
© Constantin E. Pöll
Peatland vegetation of an ombrotrophic bog in „Heidenreichstein“
© Raphael Müller
Postdoc Researcher Kyle Boodoo installing a boardwalk and sampling equipment at a Typha dominated PRINCESS site in North East Germany
© Kyle Boodoo
Measuring GHG emissions from peatlands in the Netherlands
© Kyle Boodoo
Wetland Research of Pamela Baur in the reed belt of Lake Neusiedl
© Daniela Henry
Examining moss species on a quaking bog, during the field trip at the “Überlingmoos”, Tamsweg, Salzburg (August 2022) for the project „Conservation and Restoration of Peatland Biodiversiy in Austria”
© Lisa Zechmeister
Peatland research of Yujing Deng
© Raphael Müller
Experiencing deep peat on an excursion in the Lungau
© Stephan Glatzel
Close-up of Lake Neusiedl's reed belt from drone imagary with clearly visible animal tracks in the transition zone from dry to wet area
© Claudia Blauensteiner
Nasreen Jeelani at the Lake Hinuma, Ibaraki in Japan during 17th World Lake Conference
© Yajun Qiao
Wetnesday for Wetlandsday
© Andreas Maier
Postdoc Reseacher Kyle Boodoo and PRINCESS project associates (from front) Katharina Fischer, Sophia Sternath and Jonas Niese
© Kyle Boodoo
Here a further links: