🚨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 yrs of 🎓 Researchers' Night 🇪🇺 in CZ 🇨🇿 and at MendelU! The 🧒 next generation of scientists are showing an interest in 🍄 mushrooms, particularly in how fruiting bodies are connected to 🌳 trees roots. Mission to advertise the underground network accomplished @spun.earth

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

#EuAsiaN-ROOT 🍁 #forest core and satellite site selection and sampling at full swing in #Kazakhstan and #Mongolia. Many thanks to great hosts #KRISSA / #NUM #MULS for hosting @horizoneu.bsky.social 🇪🇺 secondees. Scientific progress (#belowground) by exchange!

Experimental 🧪 setup of core sites in full swing by Italian partners Università degli studi dell'Insubria and PR Campo dei fiori. Eager to compare #Ecosystem #functioning at pairs of ecto vs endo #mycorrhizal #forests 🍁

🧪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

🚨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...

🧪 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!

🚨🧪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!

Last #root ingrowh cores at Czech 🌳🧪 EuAsiaN-ROOT core sites installed today! Thank you for all the help, and UFE, Mendelu and the Czech State Forests for making the sites available for some exciting years of interdisciplinary 🍁

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.

🧪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

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

🧪🍁EuAsiaN-ROOT aims to unravel the complex relationships between soil, roots, fungi and pathogens within AM- vs. EM-dominated forest ecosystems across Eurasia .. read more on ... euasianroot.ldf.mendelu.cz

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.

Thanks to all the wonderful new and old collaborators for a successful Kick of Meeting! After intensive 7h we are now moving fast to expand our understanding on soil biology and related biogeochemical cycles across Eurasian forests 🍁 and train next gen 🧪 scientists! See you soon at the field sites!