A Journey Through South Tyrol's Habitats - Conference

The South Tyrol Museum of Natural History is hosting a lecture on the habitats of the region. Alongside plant and animal species, habitats play a key role in the nature conservation assessment of an area or landscape – yet to be mapped and protected, they first need to be clearly defined. For this reason, a habitat mapping project has been underway in South Tyrol for several years, based on a checklist of defined and hierarchically organised habitats, now in its second edition. The lecture, held in German, provides an introduction to the concept of habitat and explores the diversity of South Tyrol's habitats through the checklist and selected examples. Admission is free.

The speakers are Simon Stifter, a researcher at the Faculty of Agriculture, Environmental and Food Sciences at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and long-time lead of the habitat mapping project, and Thomas Wilhalm, Curator of Botany at the Museum of Natural History. Both are authors of the South Tyrol Habitat Checklist.