Costa Rica

Tropical rainforests are the most biodiverse ecosystems on earth, play an important role in the global carbon cycle and offer the opportunity to study complex ecological systems. While they are lost at an alarming rate, they also have the capacity to recover rapidly. In Costa Rica, BOKU students investigated the different ecological strategies of tropical trees, and monitored how these forests can recover by natural succession as well as by human assistance.

We are looking forward to a lecture by Peter Hietz!