We are looking to join a consortium evaluating adaptive and multifunctional forest-management strategies across different forest types and environmental conditions.

UNICAM can assess how management, restoration and risk-reduction practices affect soil biodiversity, biological activity and ecosystem functioning. Our methods include eDNA metabarcoding, bacterial and protist community profiling, QBS-ar and QBS-e indices, bait-lamina tests, soil enzyme activity assays and ecotoxicological bioassays.

We can contribute to harmonised, multi-taxon monitoring protocols for baseline assessment, cross-site comparison and evaluation of management outcomes. These protocols can generate ecological evidence on soil food webs, microbial processes, ecosystem condition and resilience, supporting the comparison, transferability and adaptive refinement of management options. The team has experience in field monitoring under contrasting land-management practices, protected areas, protocol standardisation and international soil-biodiversity networks.

Research group:
https://darwin.unicam.it/research/research_ID.php?lang=EN&ID=77

ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1244-1503

The University of Camerino (UNICAM) is a public research university in central Italy. The participating team is based at the School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine and operates across field, controlled-experiment and laboratory settings.

It can support sampling design, harmonised protocols, biological sample processing, molecular and functional analyses, indicator calculation and ecological interpretation. The team has led work packages and research tasks in European transnational, and national projects, collaborating with universities, research organisations, environmental authorities and protected-area managers.