Pia Bradler
@piambr.bsky.social
PhD student BETA-FOR experiment focusing on understory vegetation, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning | botanist | passionate about promoting species knowledge and environmental education 🌿🌱🍄🟫 @Leuphana Uni Lüneburg
We have two PhD positions available in our working group! BETA-FOR + DIVERSA 🌿🌱🌳🍃 Also check out our lab website tinyurl.com/45b88d52
February 3, 2026 at 1:41 PM
We have two PhD positions available in our working group! BETA-FOR + DIVERSA 🌿🌱🌳🍃 Also check out our lab website tinyurl.com/45b88d52
4 PhD and 2 Postdoc positions @betafor.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/5452zukw
All about forest BEF research in a beta-diversity experiment 🌳🍃🐜. While I have roughly a year left on my contract, there’s already a call for the next PhD student working on understorey vegetation in BETA-FOR🌱. Happy to chat!
All about forest BEF research in a beta-diversity experiment 🌳🍃🐜. While I have roughly a year left on my contract, there’s already a call for the next PhD student working on understorey vegetation in BETA-FOR🌱. Happy to chat!
4 PhD positions and 2 Postdoc positions (respective place of work in the text) in forest [...]
Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg (JMU) and its partner Universities Georg-August-University of Göttingen (GAUG), Leipzig University (UL), University of Bayreuth (UB), Universität Bremen (UB), Un...
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January 26, 2026 at 2:52 PM
4 PhD and 2 Postdoc positions @betafor.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/5452zukw
All about forest BEF research in a beta-diversity experiment 🌳🍃🐜. While I have roughly a year left on my contract, there’s already a call for the next PhD student working on understorey vegetation in BETA-FOR🌱. Happy to chat!
All about forest BEF research in a beta-diversity experiment 🌳🍃🐜. While I have roughly a year left on my contract, there’s already a call for the next PhD student working on understorey vegetation in BETA-FOR🌱. Happy to chat!
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We are happy to announce that we will continue investigating interesting topics around forest management and biodiversity!
If you like to work in an interdisciplinary team and are interested in forest ecology, please have a look at our exciting new opportunities:
www.greenjobs.de/stellenanzei...
If you like to work in an interdisciplinary team and are interested in forest ecology, please have a look at our exciting new opportunities:
www.greenjobs.de/stellenanzei...
4 PhD positions and 2 Postdoc positions (respective place of work in the text) in forest [...]
Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg (JMU) and its partner Universities Georg-August-University of Göttingen (GAUG), Leipzig University (UL), University of Bayreuth (UB), Universität Bremen (UB), Un...
www.greenjobs.de
January 26, 2026 at 10:00 AM
We are happy to announce that we will continue investigating interesting topics around forest management and biodiversity!
If you like to work in an interdisciplinary team and are interested in forest ecology, please have a look at our exciting new opportunities:
www.greenjobs.de/stellenanzei...
If you like to work in an interdisciplinary team and are interested in forest ecology, please have a look at our exciting new opportunities:
www.greenjobs.de/stellenanzei...
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We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🌲 🌳 🌍
📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration?
💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models?
🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town?
Come and join us at KIT!
Application details: t1p.de/qctj7
📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration?
💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models?
🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town?
Come and join us at KIT!
Application details: t1p.de/qctj7
January 22, 2026 at 11:45 AM
We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🌲 🌳 🌍
📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration?
💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models?
🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town?
Come and join us at KIT!
Application details: t1p.de/qctj7
📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration?
💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models?
🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town?
Come and join us at KIT!
Application details: t1p.de/qctj7
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"Ecological Forecasting" - the new Master of Science study program at the University of Bayreuth www.uni-bayreuth.de/en/master/ec...
Ecological Forecasting, Master of Science (M.Sc.)
Ob Bachelor-, Master-, Lehramt- oder Jura-Studium: An der Uni Bayreuth findest du sicher den passenden Studiengang.
www.uni-bayreuth.de
January 13, 2026 at 8:02 AM
"Ecological Forecasting" - the new Master of Science study program at the University of Bayreuth www.uni-bayreuth.de/en/master/ec...
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I am interested in working with an artist on a graphic novel on soil and/ or global environmental change. The lab would have money to fund this.
Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?
Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?
December 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I am interested in working with an artist on a graphic novel on soil and/ or global environmental change. The lab would have money to fund this.
Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?
Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?
Two positions in arthropod ecology in our institute, come work with us at Leuphana! 🪲🕷️🦗🐜
Prof Michael Staab @leuphana.bsky.social is currently offering two 3-year positions in arthropod 🪲🕷️🦗 ecology in the @bexplo.bsky.social framework (apply until January 14th):
PhD (65%):
www.leuphana.de/en/universit...
Research associate (50% ):
www.leuphana.de/en/universit...
PhD (65%):
www.leuphana.de/en/universit...
Research associate (50% ):
www.leuphana.de/en/universit...
Research Associate (m/f/d) Arthropods
www.leuphana.de
December 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Two positions in arthropod ecology in our institute, come work with us at Leuphana! 🪲🕷️🦗🐜
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Happy to share that our paper is out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social 😄
Experimentally increasing structural heterogeneity in forest landscapes (deadwood + canopy gaps) boosts taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of hoverflies 🪰🌳
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Experimentally increasing structural heterogeneity in forest landscapes (deadwood + canopy gaps) boosts taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of hoverflies 🪰🌳
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Experimental enhancement of structural heterogeneity in forest landscapes promotes multidimensional hoverfly diversity
Our results provide the first experimental evidence that enhancing structural heterogeneity at the landscape scale can restore multidimensional hoverfly diversity in temperate forests. They underscor...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Happy to share that our paper is out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social 😄
Experimentally increasing structural heterogeneity in forest landscapes (deadwood + canopy gaps) boosts taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of hoverflies 🪰🌳
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Experimentally increasing structural heterogeneity in forest landscapes (deadwood + canopy gaps) boosts taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of hoverflies 🪰🌳
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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In trees, intraspecific and intraindividual leaf trait variability decrease along a gradient of tree species richness and are an important part of functional diversity in forest stands,
Our new paper is already out in @natcomms.nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Want to know more about it? 🧵
Our new paper is already out in @natcomms.nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Want to know more about it? 🧵
Intraspecific and intraindividual trait variability decrease with tree richness in a subtropical tree biodiversity experiment - Nature Communications
In forests, trait expression is influenced by tree-tree interactions. Castro Sánchez-Bermejo et al. show how phenotypic variability of tree species decreases with tree diversity and contributes import...
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December 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
In trees, intraspecific and intraindividual leaf trait variability decrease along a gradient of tree species richness and are an important part of functional diversity in forest stands,
Our new paper is already out in @natcomms.nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Want to know more about it? 🧵
Our new paper is already out in @natcomms.nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Want to know more about it? 🧵
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Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...
December 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...
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University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
December 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
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Over 2,600🌳 #trees during the 2018–2020 #drought :
• Traits disadvantageous in normal years became beneficial under drought
• Trees grew better with neighbours whose hydro-functional traits differed from their own
🗞️Paper out now @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
• Traits disadvantageous in normal years became beneficial under drought
• Trees grew better with neighbours whose hydro-functional traits differed from their own
🗞️Paper out now @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Hydro‐Functional Traits and Their Dissimilarity to the Neighbourhood Buffer Tree Growth Against the 2018–2020 Central European Drought
Climate change is putting forests at risk. Our research shows that a tree's water-use strategy largely determines its growth across years: whereas one strategy performs better in normal years, the ot....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Over 2,600🌳 #trees during the 2018–2020 #drought :
• Traits disadvantageous in normal years became beneficial under drought
• Trees grew better with neighbours whose hydro-functional traits differed from their own
🗞️Paper out now @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
• Traits disadvantageous in normal years became beneficial under drought
• Trees grew better with neighbours whose hydro-functional traits differed from their own
🗞️Paper out now @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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New paper out 🌱📄: More light in canopy gaps 🌤️ does not offset the loss of tree diversity caused by roe deer browsing 🦌.
In paired exclosure experiments, roe deer browsing cut tree diversity by half🌳.
Read it here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
In paired exclosure experiments, roe deer browsing cut tree diversity by half🌳.
Read it here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Light and ungulate browsing interact in shaping future woody plant diversity through natural regeneration
Our results provide strong evidence that in the current context of increasing tree mortality and subsequent light availability, roe deer act as a keystone species. It is crucial to implement browsing....
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November 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
New paper out 🌱📄: More light in canopy gaps 🌤️ does not offset the loss of tree diversity caused by roe deer browsing 🦌.
In paired exclosure experiments, roe deer browsing cut tree diversity by half🌳.
Read it here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
In paired exclosure experiments, roe deer browsing cut tree diversity by half🌳.
Read it here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Deer browsing limits forest diversity – even in the light. New study in @jappliedecology.bsky.social by Würzburg ecologists and others: Even sunny canopy gaps cannot offset the impact of roe deer on forest regeneration. 🦌🌳☀️
➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...
➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...
November 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Deer browsing limits forest diversity – even in the light. New study in @jappliedecology.bsky.social by Würzburg ecologists and others: Even sunny canopy gaps cannot offset the impact of roe deer on forest regeneration. 🦌🌳☀️
➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...
➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...
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Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
October 21, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
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🌿👏 Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Heike Feldhaar, BayCEER, and University of Bayreuth, on receiving the Bavarian State Medal for outstanding services to the environment!
ubtaktuell.uni-bayreuth.de/umweltmedail...
#BayCEER #UniBayreuth #Ecology #Insects #Sustainability
ubtaktuell.uni-bayreuth.de/umweltmedail...
#BayCEER #UniBayreuth #Ecology #Insects #Sustainability
Würdigung für jahrelanges Engagement
Prof. Dr. Heike Feldhaar hat die Bayerische Staatsmedaille für herausragende Verdienste um die Umwelt erhalten.
ubtaktuell.uni-bayreuth.de
October 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🌿👏 Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Heike Feldhaar, BayCEER, and University of Bayreuth, on receiving the Bavarian State Medal for outstanding services to the environment!
ubtaktuell.uni-bayreuth.de/umweltmedail...
#BayCEER #UniBayreuth #Ecology #Insects #Sustainability
ubtaktuell.uni-bayreuth.de/umweltmedail...
#BayCEER #UniBayreuth #Ecology #Insects #Sustainability
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Happy this paper is published!
Testing for biotic homogenization of plant communities through the addition of non-native species along mountain roads across multiple spatial scales
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Testing for biotic homogenization of plant communities through the addition of non-native species along mountain roads across multiple spatial scales
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Global Homogenisation of Plant Communities Along Mountain Roads by Non‐Native Species Despite Mixed Effects at Smaller Scales
Aim
Mountain ecosystems are experiencing increased invasion of non-native plants. These increases in non-native species put mountains at risk of biotic homogenisation and a reduction of biodiversity.....
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October 17, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Happy this paper is published!
Testing for biotic homogenization of plant communities through the addition of non-native species along mountain roads across multiple spatial scales
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Testing for biotic homogenization of plant communities through the addition of non-native species along mountain roads across multiple spatial scales
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
October 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
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Our #BETAFOR PhDs had an amazing time presenting their research at last week’s #gfoe2025 at @uni-wuerzburg.de! 🌟 Full of fresh ideas and inspiring discussions, it’s back to daily life. 💻✨
@claudiki.bsky.social @piambr.bsky.social @johannaasch.bsky.social @juliarothacher.bsky.social
@claudiki.bsky.social @piambr.bsky.social @johannaasch.bsky.social @juliarothacher.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Our #BETAFOR PhDs had an amazing time presenting their research at last week’s #gfoe2025 at @uni-wuerzburg.de! 🌟 Full of fresh ideas and inspiring discussions, it’s back to daily life. 💻✨
@claudiki.bsky.social @piambr.bsky.social @johannaasch.bsky.social @juliarothacher.bsky.social
@claudiki.bsky.social @piambr.bsky.social @johannaasch.bsky.social @juliarothacher.bsky.social
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Anne Chao and @piambr.bsky.social, the 100% perfect dialogue duo at #gfoe2025! ✨
Thank you for sharing statistical insights on sample coverage and it's standardization in the first @gfoesoc.bsky.social keynote session using #BETAFOR data.🌳🌱
@uni-wuerzburg.de @cofeuniwue.bsky.social
Thank you for sharing statistical insights on sample coverage and it's standardization in the first @gfoesoc.bsky.social keynote session using #BETAFOR data.🌳🌱
@uni-wuerzburg.de @cofeuniwue.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Anne Chao and @piambr.bsky.social, the 100% perfect dialogue duo at #gfoe2025! ✨
Thank you for sharing statistical insights on sample coverage and it's standardization in the first @gfoesoc.bsky.social keynote session using #BETAFOR data.🌳🌱
@uni-wuerzburg.de @cofeuniwue.bsky.social
Thank you for sharing statistical insights on sample coverage and it's standardization in the first @gfoesoc.bsky.social keynote session using #BETAFOR data.🌳🌱
@uni-wuerzburg.de @cofeuniwue.bsky.social
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REGISTRATION OPEN
Online registration is now open and the call for abstracts for oral presentations and posters has been published for the 54th Annual Meeting of the #Ecological Society of #Germany, #Austria and #Switzerland.
HOW TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT:
www.gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca...
Online registration is now open and the call for abstracts for oral presentations and posters has been published for the 54th Annual Meeting of the #Ecological Society of #Germany, #Austria and #Switzerland.
HOW TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT:
www.gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca...
April 3, 2025 at 7:19 AM
REGISTRATION OPEN
Online registration is now open and the call for abstracts for oral presentations and posters has been published for the 54th Annual Meeting of the #Ecological Society of #Germany, #Austria and #Switzerland.
HOW TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT:
www.gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca...
Online registration is now open and the call for abstracts for oral presentations and posters has been published for the 54th Annual Meeting of the #Ecological Society of #Germany, #Austria and #Switzerland.
HOW TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT:
www.gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca...
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Fellow Ecologists,
The #gfoe2025 @gfoesoc.bsky.social call for papers has just been published. Please submit your abstracts for exciting talks and engaging posters to present in Würzburg in September!
gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca...
@uni-wuerzburg.de @globalchangeeco.bsky.social
The #gfoe2025 @gfoesoc.bsky.social call for papers has just been published. Please submit your abstracts for exciting talks and engaging posters to present in Würzburg in September!
gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca...
@uni-wuerzburg.de @globalchangeeco.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Fellow Ecologists,
The #gfoe2025 @gfoesoc.bsky.social call for papers has just been published. Please submit your abstracts for exciting talks and engaging posters to present in Würzburg in September!
gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca...
@uni-wuerzburg.de @globalchangeeco.bsky.social
The #gfoe2025 @gfoesoc.bsky.social call for papers has just been published. Please submit your abstracts for exciting talks and engaging posters to present in Würzburg in September!
gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca...
@uni-wuerzburg.de @globalchangeeco.bsky.social
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Six award-winning female scientists told Nature about the women who have inspired them by pushing innovative research and creating opportunities for others. #WomenInStem 🧪
Behind every great woman in science, there’s another great woman in science
To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, six award-winning female scientists highlight women who have inspired them by pushing innovative research and creating opportunities for others.
go.nature.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Six award-winning female scientists told Nature about the women who have inspired them by pushing innovative research and creating opportunities for others. #WomenInStem 🧪
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Hey Young Modellers in Ecology out there 👋🌳
Register now for this year’s YoMos workshop:
www.yomos.org/next-workshop 📑
Deadline: 15.03.2025
See you!
Register now for this year’s YoMos workshop:
www.yomos.org/next-workshop 📑
Deadline: 15.03.2025
See you!
February 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Hey Young Modellers in Ecology out there 👋🌳
Register now for this year’s YoMos workshop:
www.yomos.org/next-workshop 📑
Deadline: 15.03.2025
See you!
Register now for this year’s YoMos workshop:
www.yomos.org/next-workshop 📑
Deadline: 15.03.2025
See you!
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Seventh edition of Go_Belowground course on practical assessment of moprhological and anatomical traits on belowground organs and their importancy: Go belowground! 2025 klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/go-belowgrou...
Go belowground! 2025
The Department of Experimental and Functional Morphology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences organize the 7th edition of PhD course of functional ecology „Go belowground!“ 1…
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January 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Seventh edition of Go_Belowground course on practical assessment of moprhological and anatomical traits on belowground organs and their importancy: Go belowground! 2025 klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/go-belowgrou...