CIPRA

News

Claire Simon takes up post as CIPRA Executive Director

(18.4.2013) CIPRA International is getting a new Executive Director. Claire Simon, 35, holds dual French-German nationality and is the first woman in 60 years to lead the organisation. Nor is that the only first. More

What counts for the diversity of Alpine species

(12.3.2013) An international team of researchers has decided on the 50 most important questions for the connecting of habitats in the Alpine regions. Research, support and projects should thus now all be singing in unison. What really counts for the Alpine space? More

Events

Plant Science Expeditions

(24.4.2013 - 21.7.2013) different places
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Kiku. International Mountain Summit - IMS

(17.10.2013 - 22.10.2013) Brixen/Bressanone
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Publication

The application of the Shorezone Functionality Index on italian, austrian and slovenian lakes within the SILMAS project

Year of Publication: 2013

While most of earlier indices were characterized by a particular analysis, for example to the water itself (chemical analyses) or to the biotic environment (biological extended index), the lake Shorezone Functionality Index (SFI) looks at the overall status of the lacustral environment and assists in the identification of the causes of deterioration, zooming out from the waterbody itself to also include all the surrounding territory and watershed topography. More