How fast dead wood is decomposing in the forest depends on the climate as well as on fungi and insects. An international research team, including evolutionary biologist Jan Christian Habel from the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, has determined the annual contribution of deadwood to the global carbon cycle and, for the first time, also quantified the relevance of insects in wood decomposition. The study was published in Nature on 1 September 2021.

The state of Salzburg is offering students the opportunity to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of a special campaign in mid-September and early October.

The project, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and based at the Center for Research of the Christian East at the University of Salzburg, focuses on the role of Syrian Christians in the process of transmission of Classical Greek philosophical and scientific literature during the early medieval period.