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  • City Nature Challenges in Austria

    • Universität für Weiterbildung Krems
    • Tanja Lumetsberger
    • Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Str. 30, 3500 Krems
    • 004327328932344
    • Topic: Plants, Animals, Mushrooms
    • https://www.citynaturechallenge.at
    • Activity: photography, identifying, observing
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    Every observation counts!The City Nature Challenge (short: CNC) is an annual nature competition between regions that takes place in spring (usually at the end of April, beginning of May) and is held simultaneously in various cities and regions worldwide. On four consecutive days, people around the world document the diversity of wild animal, plant and fungi species in their region using photos and sound recordings and share them on iNaturalist. Together with others the observations are then...

  • pilzdaten-austria.eu

    • Österreichische Mykologische Gesellschaft, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna
    • Irmgard Krisai-Greilhuber
    • Rennweg 14 1030 Wien
    • (+43) 1 / 4277 - 54050
    • Topic: Food, Mushrooms
    • https://pilzdaten-austria.eu
    • Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, Offline participation
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    The project Pilzdaten-Austria.eu aims at a comprehensive documentation of the occurrence and distribution of fungi in Austria, and to present and evaluate the available data. It is an Austria-wide cooperation of numerous mycologists, citizen scientists and institutions, which collect distribution data of fungi or hold collections of fungal specimens, coordinated by the Austrian Mycological Society.The freely accessible online database Pilzdaten-Austria.eu continues the previous Bio-Office...

  • Frog in a drop of water

    Frog in a drop of water
    • University of Innsbruck, Institute of Zoology
    • Corinna Wallinger
    • Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck
    • +43 512 507 51888
    • Topic: Animals, Land use, Water
    • https://www.uibk.ac.at/projects/frosch-im-wassertropfen/
    • Activity: photography, taking care, observing, experimenting
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    State-of-the-art DNA technology and citizen science - "Frog in a drop of water" unleashes new prospects for amphibian researchDetective work for amphibian protection - for the first time, amphibian screening is being carried out throughout Austria by detecting their DNA traces in water - and everyone can take part. Amphibians - including frogs, toads, toads, salamanders and newts - are strictly protected in Austria. Nevertheless, populations are continuously and in some cases dramatically...