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When fire digs deeper 🔥🌹🌱 A new on our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/oJSXO Even in fire-adapted grasslands, too much fire can erode resilience! by @alinebombo.bsky.social
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #Brazil #CamposRupestres #Resilience #buds #regeneration #rhizome #root
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When fire digs deeper: How changing fire frequency reshapes the belowground world of campos rupestres
New research by Aline Bertolosi Bombo at the Lab of Vegetation Ecology, São Paulo State University (UNESP). Above are views of the stunning campos rupestres in southeastern Brazil — ancie…
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November 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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#GoBelowground course is over! Huge thanks to all participants and lecturers! We hope you made it home safely and found the course useful. And also big thanks @czechacademy.bsky.social and @ibotcz.bsky.social for their support. Until next time! #ExFuMo #functional #morphology #clonality #roots
September 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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🌷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
September 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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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 🌱🌴🌷
September 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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📢How Recurrent Droughts Impact #Grassland #Clonal Demographic #Traits
▶️https://1url.cz/XJtTZ
#Plant perennating organs that produce new shoots, store #carbohydrates, and enable plants to recover after #stress are critical for grassland survival
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April 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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❄️⛄️🌱Greening winters above, but what’s below?
Read our blog▶️ 1url.cz/410lj
As winters warm, and weather patterns increase in their fluctuations and variability, winters are not always the calm, cold, dormant seasons they once were...
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground #rhizome
January 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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A little digging in the forests of New England
A new post on our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/pJdXm
Many of the plants have very long rhizomes that twist through the thick litter layer! Thanks @josephtumber.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social
#ExFuMo #Rhizome #Clonality #GoBelowground
September 24, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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"Go Belowground!" 2025 is here! 14 – 20 September 2025 🌸🪻🪴
Applications ▶️ klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/go-belowgrou...
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February 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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The #belowground can be #artistic and #poetic. Curtis Lubbe drew these two illustrations, inspired by observations of different types of #rhizomes, and Zhimin Liu added his poetic words and beautiful script.
⏩https://1url.cz/s1SQX
#GoBelowground #clonality #ExFuMo @ibotcz.bsky.social
An overwintering collaboration
Illustrations by F. Curtis Lubbe and inscriptions by Zhimin Liu, from the Czech Academy of Sciences, and Chinese Academy of Sciences, respectively.   The belowground can be artistic and p…
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January 2, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Cold-season cattail harvest = cleaner water, happier wetlands, and usable biomass—without stressing the system. Win-win 👍
More on our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/8JhAe
#Wetlands #NatureBasedSolutions #WaterQuality #GoBelowground #ExFuMo
October 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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💥Unveiling the Hidden Half: The Role of Belowground Organs in Perennial Plants
A new blog contribution▶️
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The need for #comprehensive #ecological studies that integrate both #aboveground and #belowground #traits over extended periods.
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April 2, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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It Takes Digging to See the Whole!
📢A new on our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/RJFEx ..."As a geologist, it always seemed to me that plant scientists don’t seem to hesitate to sweep conclusions based only on aboveground parts..." 🙉
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It Takes Digging to See the Whole
News and commentary by Ying Fan from Rutgers University in the US. The illustration above, by F. Curtis Lubbe, gives a peek into the hidden belowground. “One cannot understand why a particular plan…
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August 1, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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📢Martínková et al. (2025) The establishment growth and clonal growth organs ▶️
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" #Rhizomatous #herbs need at least two years to establish and the definition of #establishment growth as the time between #germination and #flowering is not accurate"
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April 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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⛏️🌿Reflections from #IAVS2025 in Greeley - Commentary by Johanne Gresse (University of Tübingen) on Belowground workshop... they took us from plant anatomy to field digs to talks on belowground organ traits... more on our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/uJdHi
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground #clonality #bud #storage #morhology
Going belowground at the IAVS annual meeting
Commentary by Johanne Gresse from the University of Tübingen in Germany. Photo by Gabriela Silva. I had the pleasure of attending the Belowground workshop at the annual meeting of the Int…
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September 22, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Studying the hidden half is messy—partial samples, broken roots, shifting soils. That’s exactly what students need to see. “In belowground science, perfection is impossible. Accuracy is not.” 🔍🌱
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Life Lessons in Root Identification
Commentary by S. Grady Welsh from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA. The photo above shows members of the Tumber-Dávila Lab learning to sieve roots and soil. Photo by Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dá…
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October 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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We are very grateful to @czechacademy.bsky.social for supporting our beloved "Go Belowground!" course on plant functional morphology.
Your support means a lot to us! 🌱
Let’s Go Belowground to explore plant strategies!
📅 14–20 SEP, Czech Republic
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground #happy #clonality #CAS
June 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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🔔A new on our blog: Belowground traits significantly differ between decreasing and increasing plant species in alpine meadows 🌻🌹▶️ 1url.cz/FJBzX
#Alpine #Climatechange #GoBelowground #Traits #Rhizomes #Roots #Abundance #Drought #Stress #Functional #Ecology #ExFuMo
July 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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🌴🌲🌾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?
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#morphology #architecture #ecology #GoBelowground #ExFuMo @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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📢Context matters: Plant diversity affects soil carbon storage differently across ecosystems
To know more, read our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/zJRTz
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #biodiversity #soil #carbon #sequestration #persistence #environment
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August 7, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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🧐When is a rhizome not a rhizome? 🪴🌱
A new commentary by Nigel Chaffey ▶️https://1url.cz/W1PRZ
...#rhizome is an #underground #stem, and #stolon is an above-ground stem...
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground #clonality #functional #morphology #clonal #organs #CGO
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February 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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🚩Flowers below and bulbs above! 😵🌱
The belowground world can be quite surprising — you never know what you will find!
Read more▶️https://1url.cz/81nWl @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #clonality #flower #bulb
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February 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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📢Martínková et. al (2025) in @journalofecology.bsky.social
The hidden half of #ontogeny and #seasonal dynamics in #perennial herbs🪴
... to fully understand plant strategies, plants need to be studied as integrated bodies ▶️https://1url.cz/Y19uF
#aboveground #belowground
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February 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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🌏📢Exploring #subtropical #forests! ... the most fascinating finding was a small forest herb that used its #stem #tubers to survive frequent soil disturbance...🌿
Read more ▶️https://1url.cz/W1OL6
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #field #sampling #clonality #rhizome #tuber #China #herb
January 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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📢A new blog contribution
Inspiration to look belowground: Body form 🌴🌲🎋
The #Hallucigenia was a creeping worm-like #creature Just like this animal, #plants are quite mysterious and confusing... yet they surround us.
#art #GoBelowground #ExFuMo
▶️ 1url.cz/k1xGm
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March 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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📢Make your own plant! 🌿🌱🪴
As part of our on-going goal to make more educational materials to teach about #belowground #storage #organs, here is a new activity!
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground #clonality #education #rhizomes
▶️https://1url.cz/l15CU
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January 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM