plants

Vielfalt bewegt! Alpenverein from young to old

Project lead: Brigit Kantner
"Österreichischer Alpenverein" - Department of Spatial Planning-Nature Conservation
Address: Abteilung Raumplanung-Naturschutz, Olympiastr. 37, A-6020 Innsbruck
Telephone: +43/512/59547-15
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Topic: Plants, Animals
Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://vielfaltbewegt.alpenverein.at/

This project of the Austrian Alpine Association - a biodiversity monitoring above the timberline - increases our knowledge about alpine animal and plant species, their habitats and about the interrelationships of our actions and the effects on this sensitive living environment. The collected data on the 20 animal and plant species contribute to scientific questions on biodiversity in the Alps.MessageWhich animals live and which plants grow in our mountains? Within the framework of "Vielfalt...

Homegrown

Project lead: Christian R. Vogl
Institut für Ökologischen Landbau Universität für Bodenkultur Wien
Address: Institut für Ökologischen Landbau, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien Gregor Mendel Straße 33 1180 Wien
Telephone: +43 (0)1 47654 93312
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Participation: Closed participation
Project link: https://boku.ac.at/nas/ifoel/arbeitsgruppen/ag-wissenssysteme-und-innovationen-agwi/projekte/homegrown

“Homegrown - There is nothing like a homegarden”Project descriptionWith their variety of plant species and the experience of the gardeners, rural home gardens constitute an integral component of the cultivated landscape in the Lienz district, East Tyrol. Together with pupils of the BG/BRG Lienz school (and biology, math/physics and English teachers), scientists are investigating rural home gardens, including stocks of plant species and the use of plants. These results will be compared with...

Heavy Metal City-Zen

Project lead: Andrea Watzinger
Institute of Soil Research - Department of Forest- and Soil Sciences - University of Natural Ressources and Life Sciences Vienna
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Topic: Food, Plants
Activity: measuring, taking care, experimenting
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://heavymetalcityzen.com/

We invite urban community gardens, garden projects or similar garden initiatives to take part in this project and research alongside us. The goal of this project is to scientifically assess the potential risk of heavy metal contamination in crop plants in Vienna’s city gardens.BackgroundUrban gardening has become increasingly popular over the last two decades. However, gardeners are often concerned about their crops being contaminated by heavy metals.Plant access to heavy metals is...

PolliDiversity 2.0

Project lead: Verena Mayer
HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein Stabstelle für Akquisition
Address: Altirdning 11 8952 Irdning-Donnersbachtal
Telephone: 0676/9232306
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Topic: Plants, Animals
Activity: photography, counting, identifying, taking care
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://raumberg-gumpenstein.at/schule/schule-aktuelles/citizen-science-zum-ersten-mal-an-der-hblfa-raumberg-gumpenstein-mit-dem-projekt-pollidiversity.html

Compared to PolliDiversity, PolliDiversity 2.0. is still about creating habitats for insects, but the tasks of the citizen scientists have changed somewhat due to usability. The project was offered for the first time at the Citizen Science Award in 2021. In 2022, the second round took place in a modified form. Due to career changes of the project participants, the project will not be offered in 2023, but further project runs are planned for the future.The aim of PolliDiversity 2.0. is to...

Looking for Cowslips

Project lead: Sabrina Träger
Department of Biology / Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Telephone: +49 345 55 26412
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Topic: Plants, Land use
Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://cowslip.science/

In spring, scientists invite everybody around Europe to take part in the biggest cowslip observation campaign “Looking for Cowslips”. The aim of the project is to examine the patterns of flower morphological traits (i. e. heterostyly) in cowslip populations all across Europe using a citizen science approach. The citizen science project “Looking for Cowslips” was carried out already in 2019 and 2020 in Estonia and Latvia. Within the frames of this campaign, we obtained heterostyly data from...

C.S.I. PhänoBiota

Project lead: Martin Gebeshuber
Natur- und Geopark Steierische Eisenwurzen
Address: Markt 35 8933 St. Gallen
Telephone: 0664/1338236
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Topic: Plants
Activity: measuring, observing, experimenting
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.eisenwurzen.com/mein-natur-und-geopark/csi-phaenobiota-forschen-mit-pflanzlichen-neuankoemmlingen-aus-aller-welt/

Research with new plant aarivals from all over the worldDURATION: 01.05.2020 - 30.04.2023In a first-of-its-kind approach in Europe, pupils in the district of Liezen are researching and documenting the phenological development of invasive neophytes under the influence of climate change. With the help of experts, they develop and test modern, multilingual field research instruments and educational tools, thus laying the foundation for a long-term, nationwide Citizen Science network. The...

Market garden centres

Project lead: Martin Stadlbauer
Bio Austria Oberösterreich
Address: Theresianumgasse 11, 1040 Wien
Telephone: +43 676 842 214-212
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Topic: Food, Plants, Land use
Activity: photography, discussing, taking care, observing, experimenting
Participation: Closed participation
Project link: https://www.marktgärtnerei.info/

Innovation to strengthen the Austrian fresh vegetable supplyMarket garden centres work according to so-called bio-intensive methods. This means utilising the maximum possible natural yield potential on the land. This yield potential results from the respective location, the climatic conditions (temperature, precipitation, wind, etc.), the production methods and, to a large extent, the soil itself. Beside the type of soil and texture, the thickness of the individual...

City-Zen Boden

Project lead: Franz Zehetner
Institute of Soil Research, BOKU University
Address: Peter-Jordan-Straße 82 | 1190 Wien
Telephone: +43 1 47654-91118
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Topic: Food, Plants
Activity: measuring, taking care, experimenting
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://cityzenboden.com/

“Healthy Soil" research platform for Viennese community gardensAs a follow-up project to "Heavy Metal City-Zen", we are once again inviting Viennese community gardens, garden projects or similar garden initiatives to take part in this project and conduct research together with us. The aim of this project is to scientifically assess the potential risk of heavy metal contamination of crops in Viennese city gardens and to investigate the extent of soil contamination with microplastics.We...

Restore4Life

Project lead: Gabriele Weigelhofer
BOKU University
Address: Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Vienna
Telephone: +436764414590
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Topic: Plants, Animals, Land use, Water
Activity: measuring, photography, counting, identifying, locating, rating, discussing, taking care, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://restore4life.eu/citizen-science/

What can we do to protect our wetlands and floodplains in Europe? What does the water management need to implement measure for the benefit of both the environment and the human society?The Horizon Europe project Restore4Life aims at offering an online system that supports the restoration of wetlands in Europe. One important aspect is the development of easily applicable and meaningful methods to assess the state and functionality of wetlands before and after the...

ServeToPe

Project lead: Katrin Karner and Martin Schönhart
Institute for Sustainable Economic Development, BOKU University
Address: Feistmantelstraße 4, 1180 Wien
Telephone: +43 1 47654-73125
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Topic: Food, Plants, Animals, Economy, Land use, Water
Activity: photography, locating, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://servetope.boku.ac.at/

Better governance of ecosystem services at local scales in the Wienerwald region A joint research project of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) and the University of Vienna.What is ServeToPe studying and what are its goals?Society uses a variety of services that natural ecosystems provide, such as clean water, an attractive landscape for recreational purposes, food, or renewable energy sources. Many of these so-called ecosystem services...

Invasive Plants in View

Project lead: Lilia Schmalzl, Urosh Grabner
FH Kärnten (UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Management of Conservation Areas), EVTZ Geopark Karawanken mbH
Address: Europastraße 4, 9524 Villach, St. Magdalen
Telephone: +43 676 890 159 903
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Topic: Plants, Land use
Activity: photography, identifying, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/invasive-alien-species-geopark-karawanken-karavanke

Monitoring in the Karawanken UNESCO Global Geopark Together we can limit the spread of invasive species and protect the biodiversity of our mountain regions!Project descriptionOur Citizen Science project is dedicated to the spread of Invasive Alien Species (IAS) in the Geopark Karawanken. Invasive species are plants or animals that are mostly introduced by human activity into regions where they do not originally occur, for example through intercontinental trade. While most...

SoilBlitz

Project lead: Sophia Götzinger
AGES - Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety
Address: Spargelfeldstraße 191, 1220 Wien
Telephone: +43(0)50555-34134
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Topic: Food, Plants, Land use, Soil
Activity: measuring, photography, counting, identifying, locating, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.ages.at/soilblitz

A snapshot of soil healthWith the SoilBlitz, Citizen Scientists independently carried out tests to determine local soil health, collect important data and become aware of the importance of healthy soils.What are the aims of the project?In a so-called ‘SoilBlitz’, five uncomplicated and fast tests were carried out to determine soil indicators such as soil texture and colour, water infiltration rate, earthworm occurrence and vegetation cover. The measurement results for these...

Flower Power 2.0

A bumblebee on a pink flower of the Asteraceae family

Project lead: Michael Traugott
Institute of Zoology, University of Innsbruck
Address: Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Österreich
Telephone: +43 512 507 51864
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Topic: Plants, Animals, Land use, Living together
Activity: photography, identifying, writing, observing, experimenting
Participation: Closed participation
Project link: https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/zoology/forschung/applied-animal-ecology/projects/flowerpower2/

Evaluation of a Citizen Science eDNA-Approach to monitor Insect-Flower InteractionsFlower strips play an important role in agriculture in terms of insect conservation. New DNA-based methods make it possible to record the diversity of pollinators simply and efficiently, enabling different flower strips to be compared and assessed more effectively. What are the aims of the project? Evaluation of wildflower strips to develop optimised...

Ready. Steady. Buzz!

An illustration featuring a stylised flower and a magnifying glass, showing a honeybee, a wild bee and a butterfly. Below this is the title “To the flower, get set, go!”, along with the subtitle “Observe & count pollinators” and the note “Join in with a few simple steps”.

Project lead: Robert Brodschneider
University of Graz
Address: Universitätsplatz 2, 8010 Graz
Telephone: +43 (0)316 380 - 5602
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Topic: Plants, Animals
Activity: photography, counting, identifying, observing
Participation: Open participation
Family-friendly: Family-friendly
Project link: https://bienenstand.at/auf-die-bluete-fertig-los/

In the project “Ready. Steady. Buzz!”, participants record which pollinators visit flowers and how often. This generates data on flower resource use and potential overlap between honey bees and wild pollinators. What are the aims of the project? The aim of the project is to better understand which pollinators visit flowering plants, how often these visits occur, and how they differ across habitats. Participants collect simple...

city-tree-soil

Project lead: Edwin Herzberger
Austrian Research Centre for Forests
Address: Seckendorff-Gudent-Weg 8, 1131 Wien
Telephone: 01 87838 1319
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Topic: Plants, Weather, Land use, Water, Soil
Activity: measuring
Participation: Open participation
Family-friendly: Family-friendly
Project link: https://www.bfw.gv.at/stadt-baum-boden/

In the City-Tree-Soil project, the Federal Research Centre for Forestry (BFW), the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) and the University of Innsbruck are investigating the growth conditions of urban trees in Vienna and Innsbruck. Citizen scientists (schools and the general public) are responsible for recording the growth in thickness. In addition, soil carbon is being measured in both cities.What are the aims of the project?The...