Excellent day at the @woodyroots.bsky.social conference with super interesting talks, important discussions among our Woody Root community and nice people.

Great to be at the Woody Roots IX conference in Como. If you could not join, tune in tomorrow 04.06.2026 at 9.30 am CEST for my online 🧪 keynote talk illustrating the effects of species interactions / 🍁 forest diversifcation on #root #traits. Zoom link: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series

Indeed a fun, exciting, exhausting, successful secondment to the heart of Apple ancestors. Highly recommend for your next hiking adventure (and scientific excursions)

This gorgeous installation is a perfect segue to the excitement tree root scientists are feeling for the upcoming 9th Woody Roots meeting to be held in Como, Italy in a couple weeks! Definitely a tough gig.... www.uninsubria.eu/about-us/our... @borisrewald.bsky.social

#PostDocAlert! PhD in #Ecology and expertise in macroecology, functional ecology, processing & analysis of high-volume data sets and spatial ecology? Our Macroecology group is offering a #PostDoc position in macroecology and biome mapping: apply.refline.ch/273855/1857/... #Sciencejobs

Always very insightful talks on 🍁 tree stress resistance and resilience in Central 🇪🇺 by Christoph Leuschner, U Göttingen... highly recommend 🧪 seminar... This Wednesday May 6th, 2026 at 4 pm CEST via zoom. See you online.

Bad news Monday 🧪 RIP Peter Raven. news.mongabay.com/2026/04/pete... news.mongabay.com/2007/03/biod... is a good interview from several years back. 🧪

1ST project meeting to realize a 'Stormwater-ready constructed #wetland for sustainable (waste) water retention in BiH.' Thanks to canton Sarajevo for engaging, UNSA for organizing... To build a Willow CW or macrophyte dominated demonstrator ... That's the question

Beneath our feet lies a living world that sustains ecosystems, regulates climate, and supports all life above ground. This #UnderEarthDay, let’s recognize the hidden biodiversity of soils and the critical role of underground ecosystems in a changing world. Protecting what we don’t see! @spun.earth

Tree characteristics change in mixed forests, leading to more wood production than in single-species plantations🌳 buff.ly/GcBwwGA 🧪🌍️

The "Scientific Café" of the Spring Secondees of the EuAsiaN-ROOT Network, consisting of staff from #MULS #Mongolia, #KU #Thailand, and #MENDELU #Czechia. It was a productive day to reflect on the achievements of the 1. year and discuss the tasks ahead. Thanks @excellentia.bsky.social for organizing

#Soil #moisture is strongly depth-dependent—and so is plant water supply. Across ecosystem we (Marian Schönauer / me) highlight: #SMAP L4, #ERA5-Land shows substantial divergence vs in situ observations across #depths. Moving beyond surface estimates ... #SoilMoisture #Ecohydrology #Root

🚨Join us on Wednesday, 1. April 2026, 16:00 CET (Prague) for🧪 #forest🍁#ecology #seminar. Welcome Richard Norby, U Tennessee 🌳🌲'The AmazonFACE experiment is about to start! Hypotheses generated from previous #FACE experiments' ZOOM: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/SEMINAR-SERIES

Great guy, important topic ... Lars Vesterdal, University of Copenhagen - 🧪🍁 Soil and ecosystem carbon sequestration over 50 years in resampled oak and Norway spruce afforestation chronosequences on former cropland. -When: Wednesday 11 February 16.00 CET. ZOOM: cesnet.zoom.us/j/9212345086...

🚨Join us on Wednesday, 11. February 2026, 16:00 CET (Prague) for🧪 #forest🍁#ecology #seminar. Welcome Lars Vesterdal, U Copenhagen 🌳🌲'Soil and ecosystem C sequestration over 50 years in resampled oak and Norway spruce afforestation chronosequences ...' ZOOM: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/SEMINAR-SERIES

🚨EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION EXTENDED until 15. FEBRUARY🚨 for the 9th International 🧪 Symposium on Woody Root Research! 🌳🍁 Please register/submit at wrix.favmeeting.it, conference website www.uninsubria.eu/woody-roots-ix Abstract deadlines: 31. March for oral (selected), 30. April for posters!

We appreciate the scientific clarity from @markuseichhorn.bsky.social 🌳 Evidence matters when scaling forest restoration approaches, this review is a valuable contribution. Read more forestry science in the Journal of Forestry Research: link.springer.com/journal/11676 #Forestryresearch #JFR 🍁🌺🌱🌿

🚨Alpine #peatlands 🚨 punch above their extend for #carbon & #biodiversity, but many are degraded. 🧪Using Sentinel-1/2 + terrain data, we map peatlands in the #European-Alps and flag hotspots where maps and nodels diverge, guiding targeted monitoring. Read preprint at doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

🚨Join us on Wednesday, 21. January 2026, 16:00 CET (Prague) for🧪 #forest🍁#ecology #seminar. Welcome our own @borisrewald.bsky.social (MENDELU) 🌳🌲'Mixed #tree #plantations: the good, the plastic and the uncertain' - with a lot of #root #plasticity... ZOOM: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/SEMINAR-SERIES

Seasonal Greetings!

🚨REGISTRATION & ABSTRACT SUBMISSION OPEN 🚨 for the 9th International 🧪 Symposium on Woody Root Research! 🌳Please register/submit at wrix.favmeeting.it. Early bird registration ends on 1. February 2026. Abstract deadlines: 31. March for potential oral presentations (selected), 30. April for posters.

🚨New paper in Geoderma🚨 Across 9 #TreeDivNet 🧪experiments in Europe, we show that mixed-species 🍁 #forests 🌳🌲store ~9% more #soilcarbon than monocultures. Gains are strongest on cool, <fertile, #climate stable sites, and linked to >fungal richness. #soilcarbon 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

Excited to be participating in the conference 'Soil Cities' on #soil-sensitive architecture and #urban planning. #greeninfrastructure #urbandevelopment, 20–21 November 2025, Altes Fundamt, Bremen. We'll explore how #healthy #soils can shape #climate-resilient #cities. See you at: www.soilcities.org

A look back at the very engaging and productive💧🏙️SPONGE-City BiH conference bit.ly/47apbZx where we brought together experts from MendelU CZ and UNSA BiH on #Water Manag. & #Urban #Blue-Green 🌳 Infrastr. for #Sponge Cities. Thank you to all who participated & special thanks to Prof. Emira Hukic🧪

🚨Join us on Wednesday, 5 November 2025, 16:00 CEST (Prague) for🧪 #forest🍁#ecology #seminar. Welcome Francis M. Martin @fmartin54.bsky.social (INRAE Nancy) 'Into the Heart of Darkness - #Genomics🧬 #Saptrotrophy-to-Symbiosis 🌳Forest #Soil #Fungioom' 🍄 ZOOM: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/SEMINAR-SERIES

Big 🧪milestone for #EuAsiaN-ROOT 🌍🌳 We built a #Eurasia wide #forest-soil research #network—28 core sites (18 running) + satellite plots across CZ, DE, IT, KZ, MN, TH, with shared protocols & FAIR data to unlock #belowground insights at AM/EM #mycorrhiza #root contrast. euasianroot.ldf.mendelu.cz

🚨Publication ALERT🚨 #Root #phenology in mixed 🍁 #forests 🧪2-yr study (oak, hornbeam, lime, maple): roots start > leaves; maple, hornbeam peak < oak, lime; #mixing mirrors dominant sp; leaf–root lag; winter growth at 4.2 °C; temp link flips; Qiwen Guo et al. 2025, Funct Ecol 👉 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

🚨Publication alert🚨Across 21 #forest 🧪🍁 experiments (84k #trees, 89 spp.), productivity ⬆️ with🌳 #richness (saturating) and variability ⬇️. #Functionaldiversity mediated gains; #structuraldiversity trended ⬇️. Selection effects dominate. Acquisitive, low-WD species benefited. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

🚨Publication alert🚨 #Forest 🌳 #diversity ≠ automatic #drought resilience. Across #treedivnet 🧪🍁experiments, single-year drought growth reflected #trees’ #hydraulic safety margins & drought intensity, not richness. In consecutive droughts, div effects grew—direction varied by site. #Traits matter.

Holocaust-Überlebende weltweit gedenken den Opfern des 7. Oktober 2023. Sie trauern um zerstörte Familien, warnen vor wachsendem #Antisemitismus und hoffen trotz allem auf #Frieden – für #Israel, für die Menschen in Gaza, für die Menschlichkeit. #Erinnerung #NieWieder auschwitz.info/de/presse/pr...

📢 Hot off the press in New Phytologist! A fresh study explores the link between root traits and ecosystem functions 🌱🌍, with our very own Thom Kuyper among the co-authors! 👏 🔗 Check it out : nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨Join us on Wednesday, 8 October 2025, 16:00 CEST (Prague) for our 🧪 #forest🍁#ecology seminar, MENDELU, CZ "Landsharing: can #agroforestry enhance #biodiversity?" by Martin Lukac @mtnlkc.bsky.social, University of Reading, UK. Zoom: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series. Free. Q&A via chat

🗞️New study in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 🗞️ 🌳Diversity in resource use strategies promotes productivity across a global network of tree #diversity experiments?🌲 Read our new study led by Joel Jensen together with #TreeDivNet here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Makes me as PhD supervisor even more proud of Ilija!

As climate adaptation needs increase, is this the solution to closing the finance gap?

Absorptive fine #roots drive substantial #forest #soil carbon accumulation over the long term: Substantial forest soil carbon accrual from absorptive fine roots over decadal timescales - Nature Geoscience

🚨Article collection OPEN🚨 🧪🍁 #Forest #Soils: How Harvesting Methods and Management Shape Soil Properties, Functions, and Resilience. Edited by Marian Schönauer and me at 🌲"Discover Forests". 🌳 APC currently waived, open till mid 2026 (tbd). link.springer.com/collections/... ... OA, reviews, welcome!

🚨SAVE the DATE🚨 "9th International 🧪 Symposium on 🍁Woody Root research" 3-5 June 2026, Como, Italy. www.uninsubria.eu/about-us/our.... Sessions will cover #root #ecology, #mycorrhizal dynamics, #belowground #technologies, #agroforestry applications, & #globalchange. Reserve your accomodation soon!

🧪CONFERENCE "Sustainable #Water Management and 🏙️ #Urban Blue-Green 🌳 #Infrastructure for Advancing 💧 #Sponge City Perspectives in #BiH" October 20-22, 2025, University of #Sarajevo, BiH. Free admission. Register until October 15, link at www.sfsa.unsa.ba/web/invitati...

🚨PUBLICATION ALERT🧪Soil carbon to go: #Agroforestry🌳practices including 🍁 #coffee sequester the highest amounts of #soil #C in mountainous Southern #Ethiopia. Agroforestry Systems. doi:10.1007/s10457-025-01298-2; Access: rdcu.be/eFJ90 AF systems based on coffee are key to enhancing soil C storage.

Thank you for the great atmosphere, the care you show for trees, and for providing a platform for #roots, #mycorrhiza and #soilhealth in #urban areas. Stressed city trees need us to look beneath our feet – 'Rooted Realities'. CZ National Arborist Conference: 'Tree for Life – Life for a Tree 2025'.

🚨Publication Alert🚨Root mixture analysis: methods and vision. Marco Lombardi et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.tp... - A 🧪 rational why we need (better) tools to study (crop) #root mixtures to move toward #sustainable #production of #food #feed #energy. Download 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lZUN4rGdj...

🚨Publication Alert🚨Patterns in #Root Phenology of Woody Plants Across Climate Regions: Drivers, Constraints, and Ecosystem Implications - Qiwen Guo et al. doi.org/10.3390/f160... - the 🍁study synthesizes data from ~60 🧪 studies to identify #phenological patterns of woody plants / #trees #belowground

It was a fantastic start to establishing the 1. core plot at Kasetsart University's plot near the #Sakaerat Biosphere Res. It will help us understand the effects of EM-tree admixture #Dipterocarpaceae on soil functioning in AM-dominated dry evergreen tropical #forests. #roots #mycorrhiza #soilhealth

Back from fieldwork in Thailand - studying the effects of #Dipterocarps on #forest #soil processes incl. #weathering, #decomposition and ecosystem properties (C allocation, #root traits). Big thanks to the @euasian-root.bsky.social team from #Kasetsart University and Sakaerat Research Station!

In beautiful #Thailand, eager to dig for @euasian-root.bsky.social into #roots #mycorrhiza but before a weekend treat with some big beauties 🐘 (hope they don't 💩 poop, sit, take interest on our new 🌳 dipterocarp plots though)

🎉 Congratulations to 🎓Dr. Pavel Baykalov on successfully defending his 🧪PhD thesis on "advanced #root imaging" @BOKU AND @vienna-scientific.bsky.social, 🙏funded by @horizoneu.bsky.social #MSCA Future Arctic #ATTRACT. 👏, Pavel! 🔗 www.researchgate.net/profile/Pave...

The long-term 🌳#windthrow plots are fully set up one year after the 🌀 storm. It's always surprising how much 💪 physical work #forest #ecology 🍁 fieldwork involves, but the data on soil C dynamics, microfauna and flora expected in the years to come is much needed for sound 🌲🌳 management decisions...

🌿Join us to learn about the newly published paper ‘Early overyielding in a mixed deciduous forest is driven by both above- and below ground species-specific acclimation’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Ramona Werner and co-authors. 🧵 (1/8) 👉 botany.fyi/o8pzk9 #AoBpapers #ForestDynamics

🧪 Counting #roots, #mycorrhizae and #pathogens in the #Eurasian soil transect to synthesise in-situ knowledge of "soil biology" for 🍁 #forests belowground. Great progress thanks to a highly engaged consortium! Example for Thailand: some soil data but little information on roots / mycorrhizae... dig!