The Geoecology Group aims at understanding ecosystem functioning across scales and time. More specifically, our research aims at identifying physical, chemical and biological parameters that control ecosystem carbon turnover on the landscape scale. We pay particular attention to vegetation and soils, as they are proxies for present and past ecosystem conditions. To achieve this, our research employs methods from soil science, ecophysiology and micrometeorology in a geography context. At present most of our projects focus on peatland carbon cycling at various field sites in Austria, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Sweden.

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Geoecology is now a member of Green Labs Austria in order to share its vision of sustainable research in the laboratory and to exchange ideas with...

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Barbara Lanthaler and Nidal Aga from our Geoecology group participated with two different interpretations of a peatland. The “peatland-tiramisu” won...

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He is a PhD student who has recently joined the GeoEcology and Environmental Geophysics groups to collaborate on the PEAT-FLUX project.

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On September 26, 2025, the first workshop on LIFE AMooRe work package 4.4 took place in Gumpenstein. The University of Vienna and the research team at...

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