• Forest Centre building

    View of the forest demonstration centre

  • The measuring tower Heuberg

    The measuring tower Heuberg

  • The forest centre in winter

    The forest demonstration centre in winter

  • A view into the treetops

    A view into the treetops

  • Sunset in the Lehrforst with a view of the Rax-Schneeberg group

    Sunset in the Lehrforst with a view of the Rax-Schneeberg group

Welcome to the Rosalia forest, the lively center for teaching and research at BOKU. 

Welcome to the Lehrforst Rosalia, also known as the Forest Demonstration Centre, where we provide an vital hub for education and research at BOKU university. Spanning around 950 hectares, this forest is home to Austria´s most significant tree species and offers an ideal setting for over 20 BOKU-courses held here annually.

Our cutting-edge ecological research focuses on understanding forest ecosystem responses to global change through a combination of long-term ecological monitoring and experimental methods. Lehrforst Rosalia actively participates in several national and international initiatives and remains eager to expand its networks and foster new collaborations.

For research-related inquiries, feel free to contact Eugenio Diaz-Pines (eugenio.diaz-pines@boku.ac.at, Insitute of Soil Research, link). For technical requests, please refer to our house technician, Wolfgang Trimmel (wolfgang.trimmel@boku.ac.at ).

 

Digital infrastructure for the educational forest

Sensor control on the Heuberg measuring tower
The highly instrumented Rosalia training forest site is being developed into a cooperative digital infrastructure for ecosystem research. The modernization and digitization measures enable the Rosalia site to be included in the European eLTER RI network. This will position Austria's long-term ecological research internationally.

The educational forest at DEIMS.org

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Detailed information about the Rosalia educational forest, individual stations, metadata and data sets can be found at DEIMS.org

5th TA-RA funding call is open until 31 January 2025

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Are you a scientist working in the areas of biodiversity, biogeochemistry, hydrology or socio-ecological research? Would you like to study the natural environment at the Rosalia research site? Then apply by 31.1.2025

Management and Administration

Head

Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn.
 Karl Stampfer
Deputy

Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn.
 Martin Kühmaier

Addresses & Contact

H91700 Forest Demonstration Centre

Lehrforst Zentrum
Heuberg 82
7212 Forchtenstein

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