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  • Phänologie - Naturkalender - Phenowatch

    Phänologie - Naturkalender - Phenowatch
    • Project lead: Kerstin Haslehner
    • GeoSphere Austria
    • Address: Hohe Warte 38, 1190 Wien
    • Telephone: 01360262211
    • Topic: Food, Plants, Animals, Weather, Health
    • Activity: photography, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.phenowatch.at
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    Since 1851, we have been researching the changes in weather, climate and nature and what this means for us humans by observing plants and animals. These phenological observations help, for example, in climate research, agriculture and pollen forecasting in order to better deal with climate change.What are the aims of the project?Plants act as an integrating measuring instrument for a variety of environmental factors such as weather conditions in the past and current vegetation...

  • Nature conservation monitoring

    • Project lead: Barbara Steurer
    • "Österreichisches Kuratorium für Landtechnik und Landentwicklung" (ÖKL)
    • Address: Gußhausstraße 6, 1040 Wien, Austria
    • Telephone: +43 (0)1/5051891-17
    • Topic: Plants, Animals, Land use
    • Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, taking care, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.naturschutzmonitoring.at/
    We take care of our meadows and alpine pastures!For more than a decade, hundreds of farmers have been saying "We look at our meadows and alpine pastures!".The regular observations of the more than 700 participants impressively show that on more than 80 % of the monitoring plots in extensive grassland the number of individuals of the species observed has remained the same or even increased.By observing the animals and plants every year, the perspective with which the farmers...

  • Herpetofauna

    Herpetofauna Amphibians and reptiles under observation in AustriaImportance and evaluability of databases increase with the extent, the precision and the currency of the data stored.The Natural History Museum Vienna, one of the largest non-university research institutions in Austria, houses more than 30 million objects from the fields of biology, earth sciences and human sciences. Since 1982, the Amphibian and Reptile Collection has also been collecting data on the historical and recent...

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