This issue features peer‑reviewed Short Articles, including a deep‑learning approach for population monitoring of the endangered Gladiolus illyricus and a comparative evaluation of acoustic devices for monitoring the bat Plecotus macrobullaris, providing transferable insights for method selection and field deployment. Short Notes introduce the BioDivTech Lab concept for a new biodiversity monitoring research infrastructure and TREEgital, a school‑focused digital knowledge‑transfer initiative about forests. Two Book Reviews guide readers to a comprehensive overview of Germany’s biodiversity (“Faktencheck Artenvielfalt”) and a richly illustrated field guide to the plants and other taxa of Krk.