Projects
Active projects
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Assessing food web dynamics to improve biocontrol of pests
Oskar Rennstam Rubbmark (PI) and Michael Traugott -
Food-driven movements of birds in urban landscapes
Marion Chatelain (PI) and Michael Traugott - Monitoring of animals via eDNA
- Salamander project
- Crayfish project
- Makrozoobenthos project
- BioAWARE: Could Biodiversity Assure Weed regulAtion for Resilient Ecosystem service provision? ERA-net project
Veronika Neidel, Corinna Wallinger, Michael Traugott (PI), http://c-ipm.org/research/bioaware/ - eDNA-Alpfish: Assessing alpine fish species using environmental DNA
Bettina Thalinger, Christian Moritz, Richard Schwarzenberger, Michael Traugott (PI), FFG-BRIDGE 1 - Vector Detect: Detection and Quantification of vectors and their associated pathogens in host tissue
Daniela Sint, Gernot Walder & Michael Traugott (PI), FFG-BRIDGE 1 - ElatPro: Predicting wireworm activity in top soil for integrated pest management in arable crops
Christiane Zeisler, Michael Traugott (PI), http://c-ipm.org/research/elatpro/ - New Approaches to control wireworms in potatoes
Christiane Zeisler, Michael Traugott (PI), BMLFUW, https://www.global2000.at/arge-drahtwurm - Trophic assessment of ecosystem services provided by carabid beetles in agricultural land
Yasemin Guenay, Corinna Wallinger (PI) and Michael Traugott (Co-PI) - Effects of fertilization type on biocontrol of pests
Oskar Rubbmark, Daniela Sint (Co-PI) and Michael Traugott (PI) - Sparkling Science: The effect of fertilization type on invertebrates and plants in cereal fields
Corinna Wallinger, Michael Traugott, Johannes Rainer, Ulrike Traugott-Priester, Gabriele Pallua, Andrea Illmer-Zotlöterer, Ute Hiederer-Willi, Daniel Nigg, Daniela Sint (PI)
Previous projects
- Frosch im Wassertropfen - Citizen Science - 350 years University of Innsbruck anniversary project
- Structure, strength and invasibility of aphid food webs (APHIWEB)
Nicolas Desneux (coordinator) and Michael Traugott (PI Austrian project part) - Impact of biotic invasion on food web interactions: Tracking predation on native and invasive earthworms by molecular techniques
Daniela Straube and Anita Juen (PI) - Indigenous natural enemies of the invading maize pest Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)
Anita Juen (PI) - The feeding ecology of cormorants
Johannes Oehm, Bettina Thalinger, Andreas Zitek, Thomas Prohaska and Michael Traugott (PI) - APPEAL: Assessment and valuation of Pest suppression potential through biological control in European Agricultural Landscapes
Mattias Jonsson (coordinator & PI), Josef Settele (PI) and Michael Traugott (PI) - The importance of natural enemy diversity and food-web structure for biological control
Mattias Jonsson (PI), Cory Straub, Barbara Ekbom and Michael Traugott - Agricultural intensification and aphid-parasitoid food webs
Zhengpei Ye, Ines Vollhardt (PI) and Michael Traugott (PI) - Promoting pest movement to enhance biological control of potato leafhopper
Michael Traugott and Cory Straub (PI)
- Feeding ecology of an endangered Australian moth
Anett Richter, Will Osborne (PI) and Michael Traugott (co-PI) - Sustainable potato pest management in the Hindukush-Himalaya region
Johannes Oehm, Bettina Thalinger and Michael Traugott (PI) - Invertebrate food webs in recently deglaciated alpine areas
Daniela Sint, Lorna Raso, Rüdiger Kaufmann (co-PI) and Michael Traugott (PI) - Litter decomposition and humus formation in high alpine soils
Julia Seeber (PI) and Michael Traugott - Molecular assessment of herbivory in soil invertebrates
Karin Staudacher, Klaus Schallhart, Anita Juen, Corinna Wallinger and Michael Traugott (PI) - The genetic diversity of earthworm species
- New approaches to regulate wireworms
- Birds as predators of white grubs: a new molecular method to identify prey in bird faeces
- The influence of sown wildflower strips in biological cabbage fields on the parasitism rate of cabbage pests
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Aphid parasitoids in organic and conventional farming systems (A cooperation with Dr. Jane Memmott & Dr. Sarina Pearce, School of Biological Sciences, Bristol University)
- The importance of birds as natural control agents of white grubs in grassland systems
- Assessing arthropod predation on parasitized hosts by molecular approaches
- The importance of scarab and non-pest prey for generalist predators: molecular assessment of a below-ground food web in an alpine grassland ecosystem
- The diet of wireworms in arable land and its relationship to soil environmental conditions: a stable isotope analysis
- Molecular identification of white grub predators
- A DNA-based approach to detect key parasitoids of lepidopteran pests
- Evaluation of electrophoretic techniques to identify the prey of Coccinella septempunctata larvae
- The influence of Bt maize on the arthropod fauna
- The influence of the entomopathogenous fungus Beauveria brongniartii on representing non-target-organisms
- The prey-spectrum of Cantharis-species in agricultural land