Centurial Degradation of Insect Diversity in Lowland Rivers: Partial Recovery but Restructuration onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @chmi-cz.bsky.social @narodnimuzeum.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy @akademievedcr.bsky.social

We are proud to celebrate Dean’s Awards 2025/2026 at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University. Congratulations to B. Pavlíčková, J. Rohel, E. Nosková, R. Míč and M. Horsák on this well-deserved recognition. We are delighted to see their talent, dedication, and achievements acknowledged.

Does it matter how a tree dies? Yes! Our research in the Biological Conservation journal shows that trees that die standing and fall years later host significantly more fungal species than trees that are uprooted while alive. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... #mycology #forest #deadwood #bluecat

1/2 Pozvánka na Týden invazních druhů. Součástí je i tradiční víkendové mapování Biosmršť:

Our new study, led by Xiao-Peng Tan, maps the distribution of plant strategies across European grasslands and projects how current patterns will be affected by ongoing climate change. Open-access article: doi.org/10.1002/ecog... @ecography.bsky.social

The first comprehensive analysis of vegetation changes across Europe, based on the ReSurveyEurope dataset, is out! In an article led by Stephan Kambach, we analyzed 57,390 time series of vegetation plots. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Our new study, led by Marc Riera, compares European niches and habitat relationships of alien plant species introduced intentionally or unintentionally. doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Congratulations to Jan Roleček for Presl Brothers Award for his book about Carpathian meadows @paleoibot.bsky.social #carpathian #meadows #botany

V Evropě přibylo rostlin, které upřednostňují dusíkatou půdu. Výzkum založený na stovkách tisíc lokalit ukazuje, že intenzivní hospodaření a hnojení zásadně mění podobu krajiny napříč kontinentem. ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/clanek/veda/...

Letošní sčítání proběhne 1.-7. června a 13.-19. července 2026 skupinajaro.cz/motyli-pulho...

Congratulations to Kristina Svobodová and @fishjakub.bsky.social to 2025 Živa Awards ziva.avcr.cz/aktuality/20...

Our new article in Science Advances, led by Gabriele Midolo, identifies the main factors driving changes in the species composition of plant communities across Europe: eutrophication, denser, more productive vegetation, and drying of wetlands. doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Sexual selection and reproductive success in mesocosm populations of African annual killifish doi.org/10.1111/jfb.... @fishjakub.bsky.social

Last week Martin Večeřa participated in 2nd OSCARS Annual General Meeting in Seville Spain, where he presented interim results of project Implementing FAIR principles in European Vegetation Archive data (EVA-FAIR) supported within Open Science Clusters' Action for Research&Society oscars-project.eu

What did Europe’s wetlands look like 15,000 years ago and how have they become what we see today? 🌿 Our new study introduces a way to identify entire past habitats, using plant macrofossils and large vegetation databases. doi.org/10.1016/j.ge... @paleoibot.bsky.social @sciencecharles.bsky.social

Záznam mé přednášky z Pražského hradu byl zveřejněn na YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLjX...

After publishing species occurrence data in GBIF, we have now also made available online 117,739 vegetation plots from the Czech Vegetation Database in CSV and Turboveg formats, complemented with a data processing tutorial. czechveg.github.io

Even a slight deterioration in the conservation status of our small Sphagnum fens can be seen from space – can we use this in their monitoring? #Fens #Remotesensing #Biodiversity #Climateimpact #Natureconservation zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We have just published 2,474,166 records of plant species occurrences from the Czech Vegetation Database in GBIF: doi.org/10.15468/94b... These records represent 74% of the plant occurrence data and 30% of all organism occurrence data in the GBIF database for the territory of the Czech Republic.

We are proud of Martin Večeřa, who received the TACR project from the program Environment for life 2 called “Steppic grasslands of Southern Moravia – an analysis of current state, development, and resources for ecological restoration“ tacr.gov.cz/program-pros... #science #botany #grassland #Moravia

We're back with more webinars! Starting 2026 with two events co-hosted with European Vegetation Survey all about sharing and accessing open vegetation data. Register here for the upcoming webinar on the 13th and follow our updates! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A new paper led by Joshua Erkelenz has been published in the Journal of Vegetation Science! We showed how elevation, slope aspect, and tree canopy filter the understory functional composition in broadleaved forests in the Apennines. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Interested in a PhD in European wetland flora and vegetation? See details here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/r5ob6...

New interactive global maps of 31 plant traits were prepared by Daniel Lusk, based on plant distribution data from GBIF and sPlot, plant trait data from TRY, and various satellite-based products. Map viewer: global-traits.projects.earthengine.app/view/global-... Article: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

An interview - rozhovor English: www.sci.muni.cz/.../succes..... Česky: www.sci.muni.cz/.../rozhovor...

Právě vyšla monografie Karpatské lesostepní louky, která se věnuje jednomu z nejbohatších ekosystémů střední Evropy. Autorem knihy je Jan Roleček s kolektivem autorů z Botanického ústavu AV ČR, Masarykovy univerzity a dalších českých univerzit. @ibotcz.bsky.social @academianakladatel.bsky.social

In our new article in Nature Cities, led by Susanne Tautenhahn, we used our recently published European datasets of plant indicator values, linked them to citizen science data, and mapped environmental conditions for Europe and, at a finer resolution, for 326 cities. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s442...

🐾 Divoká příroda nezmizela. Jen se přesunula blíž k nám. Podívejte se na nový dokumentární cyklus, který ukazuje střety lidí a zvířat na silnicích, ve městech i v krajině rozdělené infrastrukturou. @ceskatelevize.cz #vzpoura_zvirat www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/16463...

Current protected areas provide limited benefits for European river biodiversity. Read more: nature.com/articles/s41... @rstubbington.bsky.social @natureportfolio.nature.com #biodiversity #hydrobiology #river

Further evidence of the declining quality of endangered natural habitats has just been published in a new Preslia article on vegetation resurvey by Klára Friesová and collaborators. Open-access article: doi.org/10.23855/pre... Infographic by NotebookLM

We are proud of our colleague Zdeňka Lososová, she was awarded with MUNI Scientist prize. @masarykuniversity.bsky.social www.sci.muni.cz/en/current-n...

New arachnology research shows that Clubiona spiders—key natural enemies of orchard pests—stay active even in winter thanks to unique antifreeze proteins that stop ice crystals from growing. Read more: doi.org/10.1111/febs... @FEBSJournal @QueensKingston #arachnology #spider

🧵1/ New paper out in @ecography.bsky.social ! 🌍🌳 We looked at temperate deciduous forests across North America, West Eurasia, and East Eurasia, three regions that share ancient roots but have been separated for millions of years. What does that long breakup mean for today’s biodiversity?

Our botanists fianlly discovered "flowering" tetraploid ginkgo tree (with four sets of chromosomes). Using pollen from this plant, they performed controlled crossbreeding with common diploid female plants and obtained four new triploid plants—the first in this species! doi.org/10.1016/j.in...

Our new paper in Ecology Letters, led by Jan Divíšek, shows that non-invasive alien plant species that successfully establish within local plant communities tend to resemble the resident native species. In contrast, invasive alien species usually differ from native plants. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

The first European classification of vegetation in seasonally drained salt lakes, led by Svitlana Iemelianova from our Vegetation Science Group, and supported by an MSCA4Ukraine grant. Our findings will change the standard European vegetation classification system. doi.org/10.1111/avsc...

Gratulujeme Milanovi Chytrému k Ceně ministra školství, mládeže a tělovýchovy za vynikající vzdělávací činnost na vysoké škole! Kromě toho, že je špičkovým vědcem v oblasti ekologie a botaniky, je i inspirativním učitelem, který dokáže nadchnout své studenty. www.em.muni.cz/udalosti/183...

In our new article led by Gabriele Midolo, published in Ecology Letters, we show that plant species richness in European plant communities generally decreased between the 1960s and 1980s. However, since the 1990s, this trend seems to have stopped or even reversed. dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Symposium on Fish Mating Systems (Czechia, 21-23 Jan 2026): REGISTRATION NOW OPEN at fish.ivb.cz/registration/ Plenary talks by Suzanne Alonzo, John Fitzpatrick, and Chiara Benvenuto. @ivb-cas.bsky.social

New study in which our colleagues were involved shows that landscapes with ≈ 60 % unmanaged forests + 40 % intensively managed forests maximise multitaxonomic biodiversity (birds, plants, fungi, lichens, etc.). Read more 👀: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Vysokohorské ryby v Evropě? Kde? Proč? a Jak se tam dostaly? Více v odpovědi pro Zeptej se vědce shorturl.at/0RrVO

We are proud of Milan Chytrý, who has been elected member of Academia Europaea, one of the most respected scientific societies in Europe. @milanchytry.bsky.social, @masarykuniversity.bsky.social www.sci.muni.cz/en/current-n...

Our hydrobiologists have been involved in research in the #H2020 #DRYvER project, revealing how drying rivers will affect aquatic life up to 2100. Find out why connecting river reaches is key to returning life to drying streams. www.sci.muni.cz/en/current-n...

Our new online application EVA-MAP provides interactive maps of vegetation plots from the European Vegetation Archive and ReSurveyEurope databases. It enables filtering the plots by various criteria. More details can be found in this new article in the IAVS Bulletin: www.sci.muni.cz/botany/chytr...

"Doktorandy se snažím vychovávat s vědomím, že v budoucnu mají být lepší než já a rozvíjet náš obor." Rozhovor s Milanem Chytrým otevírá důležitá témata o roli školitele, o kvalitě výuky, o respektu ke studentům: kvalita.muni.cz/aktualne/akt...

What determines mitochondrial number in Ethiopian Rodents from two Mountain regions? Species? Tissue? Elevation? @botzool.bsky.social @ivb-cas.bsky.social doi.org/10.25225/jvb...

In our new article, Zdenka Preislerová and I review the trends in describing new syntaxa of European vegetation from the early 20th century to the publication of the EuroVegChecklist (Mucina et al. 2016) and beyond. @applvegsci.bsky.social @euroveg.bsky.social 🔗Open access: doi.org/10.1111/avsc...

Our hydrobiologists observed ephemeral wetlands on arable land which belong to of the last fish-free aquatic habitats that have the potential to serve as refugia for regionally rare zooplankton species. What did they found: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In our new Preslia article, led by Barbora Klímová, we corrected bias in the occurrence data using rarefaction and mapped the geographical distribution of plant species richness in Czechia (left: raw data, right: corrected data). 🔗 doi.org/10.23855/pre...

In our new article with Rui-Ling Liu and Wen-Yong Guo in J. Ecol., we quantified how plant strategy scores derived from leaf traits (Pierce method) correlate with other plant traits and plant environmental preferences. 🔗 Open-access article: doi.org/10.1111/1365... ‪@journalofecology.bsky.social‬