It's great to see Douglas L Godbold, @borisrewald.bsky.social, Marian Schönauer, & Pavlína Pancová Šimková applying their #EXCELLENTIA expertise in urban #trees, #soil-health #mycorrhizae, soil water #modelling, and EU #research-funding to address urgent needs in #Sarajevo, BiH with #UNSA colleagues

🚨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

🚨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🚨 #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.

🚨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....

🚨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

2005–2025: 🎉 Celebrating 20 years of 🧪Researchers' Night in the Czech Republic and 🎓 MendelU! With the younger 🧒 generation showing a growing interest in mushrooms, particularly the tasty 🍄 fruiting bodies, but less so in hyphae /mycorrhizal 🌳 functions 😅

Open-access article collection on destructive / sustainable #forest #soil #management, combining forest and soil #ecology #biodiversity with forest #engineering and #remotesensing topics - drawing attention to practices that hinder / improve ecosystems belowground. link.springer.com/collections/...

🚨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!

Invitation to the #Excellentia co-organized 🧪conference on "Sustainable Water Management & Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure for Advancing Sponge City Perspectives in Bosnia and Herzegovina" 20-22 Oct 2025, #Sarajevo BiH, register until 15. Oct. Program 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.

🚨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

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...

Beautiful (urban) forests (and some ancient grave stones) in the Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia. Thanks to the Forestry Faculty, University of Sarajevo for the excellent kick off workshop of our project "Blue Green Infrastructure"... Fostering CZ - BiH Forestry collab. on water, drought and tree health...

🧪 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...

🧪Join us on Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 16:00 CET (Prague) for our #forest🍁#ecology seminar, MENDELU, CZ "Heartbeat of the Forest: Drivers and Consequences of Mast-Seeding ..." by Mario Pesendorfer @mbpesendorfer.bsky.social @BOKU University. Zoom: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series Q&A via chat

🚨🧪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!

Chemical weathering of rocks and minerals is 🧪 important to 🍁forest ecosystem because it is the principal source of several macronutrients: Ca, Mg, K, P, Fe, Mn. First dozen EuAsiaN-ROOT satellites are now equipped across Mongolia by @burenjargal-2025.bsky.social and DL Godbold. Great start WP4.

🚨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 :))

Eurasian Network for Tree-Root-Mycorrhizal-Pathogen Interactions in Forest Soils (EuAsiaN-ROOT) - Field sampling at University Forest Enterprise in CZ started. Colleagues from Kasetsart University, TH & Kazakh Research Institute of Soil Science, KZ and @ @excellentia.bsky.social PhD students

Welcome to our new partner project @euasian-root.bsky.social and the >70 colleagues (and counting) from LUH, UNINS, CF in Europe and KIRSSA ((Kazakhstan), KU (Thailand) and MULs and NUM (both Mongolia). We look forward to working with you on the hidden half of 🍁🌳🌲forest ecosystem 🧪across Eurasia!

🧪Join us on Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 13:00!!!! CEST (Prague) for our #forest🍁#ecology seminar, MENDELU, CZ "Karri (Eucalyptus diversicolor) forests" by Pauline Grierson @pfgblue.bsky.social, @ University of Western Australia Zoom link: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series. Q&A via chat.

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.

Lovely day to organize our🌳 #windthrow plots, creating replicated 🍁🧪 sites with dead wood legacies, stems, branches, cleared, control. Big thanks to our Belgian guest students for 💪 and minds.

🧪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.

Welcome to the new semester, welcome to the new course on "The Hidden Half of ecosystems" (in English) by @borisrewald.bsky.social and Douglas Godbold of #MENDELU, #FFWT. 🌲Hard facts and fun field trips targeting #roots & friends ( #mycorrhiza ). 🌳

🍁🧪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...

🧪Join us on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 16:00 CET (Prague) for our monthly #forest🍁#ecology seminar, MENDELU, Brno, CZ - "Spatial Ecology of Rotational and Continuous Cover Forestry in Boreal Landscapes" by Daniel Binkley, Colorado State Univ. Zoom link - excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series.

Congratulations M. Steinparzer, @borisrewald.bsky.social & Douglas Godbold! Great applicability to #mixed #forests at the #MENDELU University Forest Enterprise #Křtiny ... lets see how thinning x species diversity changes microclimate buffering in mature stands. Lots of 🍁🧪 to do at #Excellentia :)

Happy New Year! We welcome the start of the #EU funded EuAsiaN-ROOT project and many more cool (and hot) #forest #ecology research in Brno and beyond!

Lovely 🍁🎄evening of the Forest Ecosystem Research 🧪 Group at the Mendel University in Brno, CZ. We wish you and your ❤️ones happyness and health, during the festive season and 2025! 🎇

🧪🍁Join us on Tuesday, 17. December 2024, 1 pm CET (Prague) for our #forest #ecology public lecture @ldf_mendelu, Brno, CZ - "Can #viruses help us to cure forests #diseases?" by Leticia Botella Sánchez, Mendel University in Brno. NOTE: In person, seminar room B106, FFWT

🧪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

🧪Join us on Wednesday, 4. December 2024, 4 pm CET (Prague) for our monthly #forest #ecology seminar, Mendelu, Brno, CZ - "The role of forest biodiversity for human health benefits and risks" by Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, UniFreiburg Zoom link - 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!

EXCELLENTIA welcomes Daria Ovsiannikova, Tamara Vukanović & Ilija Bićanin as new PhD students working #belowground on #roots, #mycorrhizae, soil #pathogens - @ldf_mendelu University Forest #Křtiny (UFE) #windthrow and many other sites across Eurasia! Digging deeper, together!

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.

EXCELLENTIA welcomes Dr. Burgenjargal Otgonsuren... adding expertise on #boreal forests particular #belowground incl. #mycorrhizae - which she will apply at the @ldf_mendelu #Brno to the University Forest #Křtiny (UFE) and many other🌲🌳 sites across #Eurasia.

🧪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 the EXCELLENTIA team at the FFWT, Mendel University in beautiful #Brno, CZ in the field of 🌳🌲#forest #social #economy. 🎓PhD, experience and Czech language required - see excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/open-positions for details. Deadline: 01.09.2024

🧪Hidden Half #Summerschool 7-11. Oct. 2024 🧪 Joint us at the #MENDELU, #Brno, CZ for an intensive, free, fun 5-day course on #roots,🍄 #mycorrhiza in 🌳#forests. Lectures, field and lab training - and lots of 🎓discussion. Registration until 20.08. - excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/summer-school

Congratulations to our EXCELLENTIA colleague Leticia Botella Sánchez on passing the🧪 #habilitation procedure @ldf_mendelu in the field of 🌳🌲 #Forest Protection and Wildlife Management. Looking forward to unraveling the importance of #viruses in #mycorrhiza #root #soil functioning

Join us on Wed 5. June, 4pm CEST (Prague) for the monthly online #forest #ecology seminar at MendelU, Brno, CZ - "Belowground phenology: links to whole tree C allocation and implications for future forests" by Dr. Luke McCormack @MortonArboreum; #roots excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-seri...

Big thanks to @borisrewald.bsky.social and the🍺 Pint of 🧪 Science crowd for the interesting, controversial, engaged discussion on #NbS by 🌳🌲 #tree of all kinds and shapes, societal goal tradeoffs, and competition for space at landscape and #urban scales. Great start of🍺 Pint of Science in #brno

🧪Looking forward to discussing these and other findings on #naturebasedsolution #ecosystem services of (#urban) #trees tomorrow, 14. May with @borisrewald.bsky.social at the klubgreen.tode.cz 🍺 in our 1st EXCELLENTIA #sciencecafe #Brno. Starts at 19:00 CET, free admission, Q&A