🚨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!

🚨The new 🧪publication by Marian Schönauer, @borisrewald.bsky.social et al. demonstrates that #ERA5-Land data is equally well suited to modelling 🍁 #tree growth as weather station data. ERA5-Land opens up possibilities for modelling and overcomes issues of data accessibility. doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

🚨🧪SUMMER SCHOOL: THE HIDDEN HALF OF 🍁🌳ECOSYSTEMS (22 - 26 September 2025) at the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Czechia. Programm and registration: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/summer-school. Deadline for registration: 30th June 2025 (15 participants). See u soon!

Yes, we "hate" #roots and #mycorrhiza so much, we trench them as deep as possible... Just to show how soil Carbon will thrive (read: being lost) when they are not around! All 🧪power to the saprotrophs!... Two more trenches to do in CZ then it's summer secondment in 🍁Thailand! Yeah!

🧪Root sorting at full swing for @euasian-root.bsky.social project. Amazing how intermixed 🌳root systems are ... this sample was collected at a pure 🍁Acer spot (UFE, MENDLEU, CZ) but contained many Quercus roots from many meters away ... thus its not easy to discern AM vs EM effects on soil props

🚨Publication🚨🍁🧪Ecological assessment of #forest #management approaches to develop resilient forests in the face of #global_change in Central #Europe. uge collaborative effort by Huth et al. 2025 dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ba... (124 pages :))

🧪🍁 As well as being a #roots and #soils enthusiast, Pauline @pfgblue.bsky.social is Deputy Head of the School of Biological Sci, Director of the WA Biogeochemistry Centre & she leads the Ecosystems Res. Group at UWA .. highly recommended! excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series, May 14, 1 pm CEST

EGU25 🧪 talk by Marian Schönauer et al. on "Spatial variations in soil moisture in temperate 🍁 forest independent of topographic moisture indices, yet ERA5-Land retrievals accurately reflect their temporal variations". Impressive accuracy of EOS-based over fllow-accumulation-based indices.

🧪Join us on Wednesday, 2 April 2 2025, 16:00 CET (Prague) for our #forest🍁#ecology seminar, MENDELU, CZ "Spatial and temporal variation in Amazon deforestation and forest recovery" by John Healey, @bangoruniversity.bsky.social Zoom link: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series. Q&A via chat.

**CLOSING SOON** Special issue on "Multi-Organismal Approaches to Understanding Mycorrhizal Functioning Editors: David Johnson, Alan Wanke & Joanna Weremijewicz Deadline: 31st March 2025 Manuscripts welcomed, please contact us (bit.ly/JXBissues) #JXBspecialissues 🌱 🌿 🧪 #plantscience (1/2)

🧪 CONFERENCE @egu.eu 2025, Vienna (oral, on site): Join us for "Beyond Mean Reaction Norms: Trait Plasticity and Growth of 🍁 Trees under Interspecific Competition Above and Below Ground" by B Rewald, H Sandén, DL Godbold, R Werner. 🌳Thu, 01 May, 17:05–17:15, Room 2.23 🌳 doi.org/10.5194/egus...

🍁🧪PUBLICATION 🚨To log or not to log: Salvage logging of [...] spruce [...] results in direct losses of leaf litter C, stable topsoil C stocks, and shifts in enzyme stoichiometry ... unexpectedly low benefits of standing deadwood for topsoil C. Access till 7.May authors.elsevier.com/c/1knfq1L~Gw...

Dan Binkley! Mark your calenders... Nothing less than @Excellentia_HE 🧪🍁 #forest #science to be expected :) Wednesday 05.03. 4pm CET. Online (zoom). Everyone welcome, Q&A via chat.

ANOTHER PUBLICATION 🚨 (busy winter) - Difficult field work in the #DRC but Daniel Muhindo and the local team gare working hard to 🧪ly advance #rice field #phenotyping in the #Ruzizi plain with #UAV #multispectral data. dx.doi.org/10.1002/agg2... (p.s. the picture is NOT related ;) - ?? @wiley.com )

PUBLICATION 🚨 for the 🧪 #root lovers @bsky.app 😀 Read in PLSO dx.doi.org/10.1007/s111... how #SWIR imaging can help to distinguish roots by #species and #vitality ... highlighting the potential of #spectral analysis for root #phenotyping. P.S. @bsky.app -still waiting for any icon resembling a root

PUBLICATION 🚨 #forests 🍁 foster buffered microclimates, but mechanisms have rarely been 🧪 studied. Read our article to explore #temperature #regulation by (young) monoc., 2- and 4-species mixed plantations ... dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fo... ... #tree species selection can optimize thermal regulation!

🧪Growing #rice in Central #Africa? Check out our new paper on how #climatesmart #biochar x NPK application significantly improves yield and profitability - and save water! dx.doi.org/10.1002/agj2...

Great news! Two of my research projects got the funding. Two new openings (1 PhD and 1 Post doc) will be advertised in early 2025 and if you are interested in soil biogeochemistry and nutrient cycling in arid ecosystems, reach out. Please share! :)

🧪Call for Abstracts #EGU25 "Critical Zones in #urban Areas"- #Geophysical processes rocks, #soil, parks - urban #forests, grey or blue infrastructure ... (interdisciplinary) processes, fluxes. Deadline for abstracts 15.01.25! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

I've had a few questions about the Dec 6 @plantphys.bsky.social webinar on Root Development blog.aspb.org/december-6-p... It's being held at a time to accomodate the speakers, so not always convenient for participants. However, we always record webinars & post them to YouTube and blog ASAP!

🧪Sunday dedication to #forest #ecology... Determining baseline soil C, #mycorrhizal and soil #pathogen community, and #root biomass values after 🌳 #windthrow for long term study plots at the MendelU university forest. 👏👏 @excellentia.bsky.social

🧪 Highly recommended #forest #ecology seminar this Wednesday 4th of December, 4pm CET excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series

EXCELLENTIA welcomes Dr. Přemysl Mácha to our #transdisciplinary #forest #research team. As a cultural anthropologist and forester, he will explore the relationships between #society and #forestry to promote a culture of change 🌳🌲and preserve cultural heritage🌲🌲Welcome!

Join us TODAY - Thursday 14. November 2024, 4 pm CET (Prague) for our monthly #forest #ecology seminar @ldf_mendelu., Brno, CZ - "Mycorrhizal Impacts on Ecosystem Functioning" by Nadia Soudzilovskaia @uhasselt. Zoom link - excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series Everyone is welcome. Q&A via chat.

🧪Join us on Wed 9. October 2024, 4 pm CEST (Prague) for our monthly #forest #ecology online seminar @ldf_mendelu, Brno, CZ - 🌳"Regenerative Forestry" 🌲by Cindy Prescott from UBC Forestry. Zoom link - excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series Everyone is welcome. Q&A via chat.

🧪new #TreeDivNet publication🌿Early overyielding in a mixed deciduous forest is driven by both above- and below ground species-specific acclimation 🌳By Ramona Werner etal and FFWT MendelUs' Douglas Godbold and @borisrewald.bsky.social Congrats! Read: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

The EXCELLENTIA Team welcomes Dr. Marian Schönauer! A great day for all who need his #geocomputation skills - which he will apply at the FFWT, Mendel University in #Brno, CZ to the University Forest #Křtiny (UFE) and many other 🌳#forest🌲sites. We are happy to have you!

🚨JOB ALERT🚨Join our interdisciplinary 🧪forest science team in Brno, CZ as researcher in the field of 🌳forest socio-economics 🌳- perception of ESS, human well-being, consequences of 📉forest health ... plenty of opportunities for your ideas! 01. Sept. 2024, excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/open-positions

Join me, Douglas Godbold and 🧪lab experts for my favourite topic: The Hidden Half of 🌳Ecosystems #summerschool (7-11.10.2024) at the Mendel University in #Brno, CZ. Lets 🎓unravel the secrets of #roots, soil #fungi, and effects on ecosystems services together! excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/summer-school

See you online on June 5th, 4 pm CET, for another very exciting 🧪 @excellentia.bsky.social seminar - addressing the hidden half of 🌳forest ecosystems - focusing on #root #phenology 〽️ and the consequences for #forest #ecosystem #carbon allocation. ZOOM link: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series

Thank you! Beer and scientific discussion... (not nesessary in this order)... Great evening! 🧪🍺 Next time I will definitely talk more about roots of 🌿🌵🌱🪴🌳🌲🌴

🧪🚨Preprint of Steinparzer et al. - studying "Forest Temperature Buffering in Pure and Mixed Stands". Read more on the High-Resolution Temporal Analysis at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🚨Publication alert🚨 Results of Zheng et al. imply that a diversity of species with different, and potentially complementary, ecological strategies is beneficial for maintaining community productivity over time in both grassland and forest ecosystems. Read the full text at doi.org/10.1038/s414...

🧪 Join us tomorrow, 14. May 7 pm, for a #sciencecafe / Pint of Science in #brno on "Nature-based solutions: Air pollution mitigation and thermal comfort provided by (urban) tree and forests" Venue: KLUB GREEN, Brno. @excellentia.bsky.social. Details: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/activities-a...

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🚨🧪#Tree #diversity reduces variability in sapling survival under drought: a new #TreeDivNet synthesis paper by Blondeel et al. just published in J Ecology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Join us on Wed 3. April, 16:00 CET (Prague) for our monthly, free and online🧪 #forest seminar. Looking forward to #Fungi in temperate forest #soil: ecology and contribution to #ecosystem services by Petr Baldrian, MBU CAS, CZ. Guests welcome! Zoom link, Q&A: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series

Join us for this exiting, free 🧪online seminar- unravelling facts and fiction on the mutualisms between #trees and their #fungi partners (mycorrhizae). Wednesday 13.03.2024, 4 pm, CET. Zoom link excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series

Hello! My 🧪Scientific interests as captured by this word cloud of publications in Google scholar... Cooperation and exchange always welcome! Just get in contact..

This comic sans et al. font blog was quite informative .. I honestly didn't know! For the next paper submission I think twice before picking Helvatica, Arial or good old Times New Roman unreflected (if the author guidelines are actually so liberal)