What type of organ is it? 🥕🌱🪴 #Belowground #plant organs can store #resources, support #perennation, and enable #clonal growth. A helpful #guide to bulbs, #rhizomes, #tubers, #stolons, and more ▶️ 1url.cz/ReQE8
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #clonality
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What type of organ is it? 🥕🌱🪴 #Belowground #plant organs can store #resources, support #perennation, and enable #clonal growth. A helpful #guide to bulbs, #rhizomes, #tubers, #stolons, and more ▶️ 1url.cz/ReQE8
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #clonality
🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! 🌱⛏️Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026, Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training ▶️ 1url.cz/2ziQz
#clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #traits #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #functional #course
#Drylands may look sparse aboveground, but the real strategy is #belowground. Across Southwest #Asia, #clonality doesn’t disappear with #aridity It peaks in the driest sites (again in #wetlands) Yes, #rhizomes are in the #desert! 🌱 1url.cz/5eKSZ #GoBelowground #ExFuMo
🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! 🌱⛏️Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026 Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training ▶️ 1url.cz/2ziQz
#clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #traits #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #functional #course
#ExFuMo in 2025🎯 Review: new insights into #rhizome investment & #ontogeny, the #Belowground #Persistence Types” framework, the Plant Bodies book, and hands-on belowground training #IAVS #workshop + #GoBelowground course)
Read the recap ▶️ 1url.cz/KJxLz
@ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
Heading to #IAVS2026 in #Gijón? Curious about plant belowground? Join the #Belowground #Workshop! Intro + hands-on field digging in JUN 21. Free for attendees, max 20 participants. Sign up via the conference site! ▶️ 1url.cz/OJ8fM #IAVS #ExFuMo #GoBelowground #clonality @ibotcz.bsky.social
🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! 🌱⛏️ Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026, Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training ▶️ 1url.cz/2ziQz
#clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #traits #GoBelowground #ExFuMo
@ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! 🌱⛏️ Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026, Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training ▶️ 1url.cz/2ziQz
#clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #traits #GoBelowground #ExFuMo
@czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social
Happy to announce that Sara Loftus successfully defended her PhD thesis @uni-goettingen.de. Starting from Day-1 of the #MoreCropPerDrop project, she performed excellent work in advancing our understanding of key #sorghum #belowground #root and #rhizosphere traits under #stress.
Very proud today 🍾.
Cover Page EuAsiaN-ROOT deliverable 1.2. l Handbook on site selection
Big 🧪milestone for #EuAsiaN-ROOT 🌍🌳
We built a #Eurasia wide #forest-soil research #network—28 core sites (18 running) + satellite plots across CZ, DE, IT, KZ, MN, TH, with shared protocols & FAIR data to unlock #belowground insights at AM/EM #mycorrhiza #root contrast. euasianroot.ldf.mendelu.cz
Welcome to the 9th International Symposium on Physiological Processes in Roots of Woody Plants. Join leading researchers, students, and professionals in Como, Italy to explore how woody roots contribute to sustainability, soil health, and plant production across diverse ecosystems. The images shows the logo, conference titel and venue 2-5 June 2026 in Como, Italy
🚨SAVE the DATE🚨 "9th International 🧪 Symposium on 🍁Woody Root Research" 3-5 June 2026, Como, Italy. www.uninsubria.eu/woody-roots-ix ... Sessions: #root #ecology, #mycorrhizal dynamics, #belowground #technologies, #agroforestry applications, & #globalchange, ... SIGNUP for NEWSLETTER: bit.ly/4mXU6Nt
Welcome to the 9th International Symposium on Physiological Processes in Roots of Woody Plants. Join leading researchers, students, and professionals in Como, Italy to explore how woody roots contribute to sustainability, soil health, and plant production across diverse ecosystems. Main Themes & Highlights Immagine logo Root-driven sustainability Soil protection and health Plant production in changing environments Root-soil-ecosystem interactions Technological innovation in root research Sessions will cover topics such as root ecology, mycorrhizal dynamics, belowground monitoring technologies, agroforestry applications, and global change impacts. The event will include keynote presentations, oral sessions, posters, and a field visit.
🚨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!
Exposed roots of the Mediterranean shrub Daphne gnidium, it's can be massive
#botany #belowground #plant #roots #Thymelaeaceae
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 🌱🌴🌷
🚨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
Street level window view into a below ground cafe
Speak easy
Nikon Zf 28mm f2.8 iso25600 1/500s
#streetphotography #photography #brisbane
#nikon #nikonzf #nikonphotography #blackandwhitephotography #speakeasy #belowground
These examples are just a fraction of the incredible #diversity in #belowground #storage organs inspired by southern #African or North #American #species. But there are beautiful storage organs to be found all over the world!
Read more on our blog▶️ 1url.cz/NJwc0
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo
🚩The pessimistic and optimistic #functional #morphologist 🙂😒
A new on the blog▶️ 1url.cz/wJQSg by
@jitkaklimesova.bsky.social
"I was surprised that other #ecologists had not seen the obvious effect that #belowground organs"
#clonality #buds #storage #GoBelowground #ExFuMo
@ibotcz.bsky.social
SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .May 15th, 2025
bit.ly/stc051525
#tectonic-like #deformation #recycling #Coronae #rhinoceros #genome #endangered #"stem" #Zangenite #amorphus # #ordered #hydrothermal #"Juan de Fuca Ridge" #earthquakes #inflation #"hydrogen reservoir" #natural #belowground #seals
Sometimes the belowground comes to you!
The news on the blog 1url.cz/xJ1rJ
"Sometimes #bulbs that should be #belowground come aboveground, giving us a little peek into what lies below"
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #clonality #Oxalis
@ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
"Go Belowground!" 2025 is here! 14 – 20 September 2025 The course covers the theoretical background and practical assessment of #plant #functional #traits found in #belowground plant organs in #temperate #herbs. Application info: 1url.cz/2ziQz #ExFuMo #GoBelowground
💥Unveiling the Hidden Half: The Role of Belowground Organs in Perennial Plants
A new blog contribution▶️
1url.cz/M175s
The need for #comprehensive #ecological studies that integrate both #aboveground and #belowground #traits over extended periods.
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground @czechacademy.bsky.social
📢To grow is not always to become big – Plants of high-#Himalayan #mountains▶️https://1url.cz/61m1l
In extremes, vertical #growth can be detrimental. Instead, growth is better defined #belowground enabling #plants to endure and thrive in challenging conditions.
#GoBelowground
@ibotcz.bsky.social
Grassland ecosystem in the Swabian Alb, Germany.
Yesterday, I submitted the #MultiCrossBEF2 proposal to @dfg.de. If funded, we will explore @bexplo.bsky.social #LandUse impacts on grassland #aboveground #belowground #invertebrate communities & #ecosystem functioning, integrating across time & the experiment/real-world divide.
@uni-wuerzburg.de
Please feel free to read the quick short summary of the above research article "Studying how roots behave. Root dynamics over time in a hyperdiverse tropical forest" #tropiroots #tropicalforest #fineroots #belowground
fesummaries.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/s...
📢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
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground
📢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
@ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
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"Go Belowground!" 2025 is here! 14 – 20 September 2025
The course covers the theoretical background and practical assessment of #plant #functional #traits found in #belowground plant organs in #temperate #herbs 🪴🌱
Application info: 1url.cz/2ziQz
#clonality #ExFuMo #GoBelowground
📢"Go Belowground!" 2025 is here! 14 – 20 September 2025
The course covers the theoretical background and practical assessment of #plant #functional #traits found in #belowground plant organs in #temperate #herbs 🪴🌱
Application info: 1url.cz/2ziQz
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground #clonality #rhizome #course
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