The final day of the #GoBelowground course on plant belowground #traits consisted of students´ miniprojects on #rooting depth, #bud bank, plant #age structure, fine #root traits and #clonal growth organs. See you next year! Thanks @czechacademy.bsky.social and @ibotcz.bsky.social for the support

First PhD paper out!🎉 Dive in here to see how past frugivores and present human pressure jointly shape seed size distributions on Madagascar: doi.org/10.1111/ele.... Huge thanks to Alexander Zizka and my supervisor Renske Onstein @renskeonstein.bsky.social . Excited to keep going on this journey!

🌷The fourth day of the #GoBelowground course was dedicated to #bud #traits and bud bank, fine #root traits with @joanabergmann.bsky.social and participants' presentations. Thanks to @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social #ExFuMo #clonality #functional #ecology #course #morphology #phenology

🌱Budding plant architects 🌱 @hugobonnaudet.bsky.social exploring plant architecture 🌳in a practical workshop we organised at the University of Montpellier 🌺 @umontpellier.bsky.social @umramap.bsky.social #PlantArchitecture #Botany

#Carbohydrate #storage, #analytical #methods of carbohydrate storage, sweet tasting and #plant #belowground organs hunt were the program of the third day of the #GoBelowground course 🌷🌿🪻 @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social #ExFuMo

The second day of the #GoBelowground! The course on #plant #belowground #functional #morphology was about the fine #roots and #anatomy of #storage #organs. We are grateful to @czechacademy.bsky.social and @ibotcz.bsky.social for the support, and to all participants for their enthusiasm! #ExFuMo 🌱🌴🌷

The first day of the 7th edition of the #GoBelowground course! 16 participants from 7 countries and 3 continents are admiring the ecological functions of clonal growth organs. Our mission? Not to overlook crucial plant part - belowground! Thanks @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social #ExFuMO

New on the belowground blog: teaching & learning belowground ecology plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/g...

record 17,058 Marie Curie proposals in 2025 vs. 10,360 in 2024!!! the reason is pretty obvious, but wow that is a huge jump marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...

Zajímá vás věda a její popularizace? A jste studenty Univerzity Karlovy? Na Matematicko-fyzikální fakultě si nyní můžete zapsat nový předmět, který se právě komunikaci a popularizaci vědy věnuje. www.matfyz.cz/clanky/na-ma...

Functional traits drive speciation in tropical palms through complex interactions between genome size, adaptation and allometry https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.07.673473v1

If you haven’t pre-ordered this yet, mash that button! Pre-orders (and library requests) make a huge difference to authors, and help make sure enough books are printed to meet demand.

You can read the full paper here @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Using a unique long-term field experiment, we show that chronic (20 years!) drought reduces ecosystem CO2 uptake and persistently shifts soil fungal and bacterial communities, but that shifts in plant communities determine ecosystem CO2 fluxes. 🧵 www.uva.nl/en/shared-co...

How is modern life manufactured? How do our brains construct our identities? How can music heal our bodies and minds? These are some of the questions that the books nominated for the Royal Society Trivedi #SciBooks Prize seek to answer: https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/science-book-prize/

New on the Belowground blog: Effect of intensive grazing on forbs plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/b...

New research just dropped! Revisiting Paradigms Related to Root Hydraulic Limitation Under Drought is now available—challenging classic hydraulic-fuse models and outdated assumptions about root embolism, xylem safety-efficiency trade-offs, and ABA signalling. doi.org/10.1007/124_...

📢🌿Available #traits #FunctionalTraits PhD position in my group @westsyduhie.bsky.social, closes 30th Oct. Topics: “Climate adaptations in Australian native grasses”; OR “Plant resource economics”. Apply via WSU Online Portal. Eligibility and other key info here: wrightlab.wordpress.com/news/

Už jen deset dní a tohle "monstrum" půjde do světa Pocity? Radost, že se uzavře projekt, na kterém jsme pracovali ca rok Ale současně i lehké obavy. Z čeho? Že se to neprodá :D Není totiž pro autora nic horšího, než když napíše knihu a ona je ležákem www.knihydobrovsky.cz/kniha/geosto...

Why would anyone want to be a scientist? "Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently filled with failure and rejection." journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Evoluční experiment klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/2025/09/07/n...

Highly interesting research by Tamsin Lockwood and colleagues now published in a paper titled "Semi-natural grasslands as a nature-based solution for climate change mitigation: An assessment of carbon and plant communities across age gradients" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New on the Belowground blog: Blue onion decor with roots plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/b...

Riverbank erosion in SW Australia exposed previously undocumented root clusters in Kingia australis. Research by Lamont et al. suggests these novel 'kingioid roots' enhance water and nutrient uptake rather than storage, linking with seasonal root-cluster types🫚 Paper here 🔗 buff.ly/Hi3BxLE

If you’re planting yourself somewhere cozy this weekend, consider picking up When the Earth Was Green. 🌱

A proč studujete ekologii vy? klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/p...

I was asked to give that last minute. Thanks for staying! www.rhizovision.com is still kicking, new version coming out soon.

Grime's CSR theory revisited: A whole-plant view of vascular plant functioning across contrasting environments besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our #OpenAccess paper showing no trends in photoperiod sensitivity in germination 🌱 & flowering time 🌸 across a range of predictors out now in @ecol-evol.bsky.social Led by brilliant Honours student Ashika and my first 'senior author' paper 😀 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change - Stemkovski - 2025 - Functional Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A new journal category: Reflections. We're inviting reviews authored by research field leaders to reflect on a topic of their choosing, exploring the history of and provide context for the current state of our discipline. Our first guest is Prof. Mark Westoby #openaccess

New on the Belowground blog: fine roots and soil heterogeneity plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/f...

Letošní konference za velkou louží: klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/2025/08/24/p...

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In one week my book about carbon comes out, and here's some nice things some nice people have said about it. If you feel moved to do so, the link below provides a means of purchase. Thank you, that is all. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

New on the Belowground blog: Just WOW! plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/w...

Today, apparently, is National Potato Day in America, so if you’d like an absurdly long thread of root-vegetable-native-to-the-Americas content, you’ve come to the right place. We begin with the potato monument in Biesiekierz, Poland, because, well: look at it. Of course we do

5. Today I read a paper by @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social and Alexander Mussgnug that I think illustrates this point perfectly. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24891/1/Phil...

Co nám to leze v podrostu lesa? Mrkvovitá rostlina Aralia nudicaulis. Nachytána v harvardském lese...What is is creeling in the forest understory? Aralia nudicaulis from Apiaceae family. Sampled in Harvard forest...

Already in Baltimore for #ESA2025! If you are interested in plant belowground organs come to our Symposium on Wednesday, August 13 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det...

New on the Belowground blog: colouring sheets plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/p...

Already in Baltimore for #ESA2025! If you are interested in plant belowground organs come to our Symposium on Wednesday, August 13 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det...

🚨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...

🌴🌲🌾Plant Bodies are here! A new book by @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social Do You Want to Know How Plant Structures Contribute to Our Comprehension of Their Life-History Strategy? 1url.cz/ZJRTl #morphology #architecture #ecology #GoBelowground #ExFuMo @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social

Thrilled to start as Junior Group Leader @ibotcz.bsky.social this Sept at Průhonice! 🌿🚀 We will explore how #genomesize, #polyploidy & #traits shape plant #diversity, #evolution & #distribution across space and time, combining lab work and modelling.🌴🔬🧬 Funded #PhD openings soon! Get in touch!

New on the Belowground blog: plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/c...

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New on the Belowground blog: plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/07/30/t...

As happy author I wold like to advertise my new book. I am presenting what do we know about functions of plant morphological characters. I hope it will change a way how ecologists look at plants and insipire them in their research. (link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

New on the Belowground blog: don't be lazy to look belowground! plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/i...