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📢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

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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 @ibotcz.bsky.social

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🪴Play with your bulbs! 🎎 1url.cz/R16fo In this new #activity, we have #bulbs and #tunics that you can cut out and make into all kinds of different characters and creations. These paper dolls were inspired by southern #African #Oxalis #game #creative #GoBelowground #ExFuMo @ibotcz.bsky.social

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"Go Belowground!" 2025 is here! 14 – 20 September 2025 🌸🪻🪴 Applications ▶️ klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/go-belowgrou... @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social #GoBelowground #ExFuMo

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📢How rhizomes shape whole-plant ontogeny and growth 🪴🪻🌸 Our blog contribution ▶️https://1url.cz/41nBN for @journalofecology.bsky.social about the paper doi.org/10.1111/1365... #ExFuMo #GoBelowground #clonality #ontogeny #carbohydrate #phenology #rhizome @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 #ExFuMo #GoBelowground #clonality #rhizome #course

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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 @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

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#conference | POPBIO 2025: 37th Conference of the Plant Population Biology Section of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ) ❗ Deadline for abstracts: 31 Mar 2025 ➡️ popbio2025.ibot.cas.cz Org. by @popecolibot.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social, @sciencecharles.bsky.social

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#Clonality of #Quercus pyrenaica at the center of its #forest success and decline🌳🌳🌳 ...One of the Spanish names for Q. pyrenaica is “rebollo” which alludes to its enormous capacity to #resprout from the #root and #stembase... Read more ▶️https://1url.cz/y1c09 #GoBelowground @ibotcz.bsky.social

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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 @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

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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 #ExFuMo #GoBelowground

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Cal Lane, Canadian trained welder and artist, transforms common and industrial steel products into intricate sculptures #womensart

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👨‍💻👩‍🔬FunSem 2025: No Joke, Just Fun(ctional) Ecology Seminar 🪴🌱 Two-day event for researchers focusing on plant ecology to present their latest findings, exchange ideas, and discuss ongoing challenges Read ▶️ 1url.cz/119LD #ExFuMo #GoBelowground @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

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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 @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

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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

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Contribute to our blog about you research and passion for belowground plant parts! plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/r...

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„Na Web of Science svítí u této práce červený pohár, což znamená ‚vysoce citovaný článek‘. Měl bych se radovat. Ale jsem zoufalý.“ Boris Cvek je korespondenčním autorem článku v Nature. Podíval se, jak další vědci tento článek citují. A nestačil se divit: vesmir.cz/cz/casopis/a...

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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

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Please share 📢 "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

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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 #ExFuMo #GoBelowground #clonality #rhizome #course

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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

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We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 📸Tomas Figura: A Christmas tree from the microworld 🎄(Multicellular trichome of Verbascum and its pollen).

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Happy dormant period to all rootlings, rhizomelings, tuberlings and bulblings! plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2024/12/25/g...

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📢A new blog published! Using drawing as a tool for learning ✏️🌱🌵 Read more here⏩ 1url.cz/W1IU7 As a person who draws almost every day, I was surprised to discover just how effective drawing can be as a tool for learning about anything, really #GoBelowground #CloPla #rhizome #drawing #bud #clonality

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Clonal research, where are you going? 📢📢Long live the 15th CLONE meeting that will be held in 2027 in Třeboň, Czech Republic 🎉🥳 Read more ▶️https://1url.cz/G1fpr #clonal #conference #meeting #workshop #rhizome #bud #bulb #tuber #GoBelouground #ExFuMo #Trebon #Czechia

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🚩The beauty in the struggle to be a #rhizomatous #palm 🌴 When we think about palms, we may remember the beach, coconut... but it seems like something is missing. It is hard to find mention of palm rhizomes, even among us #belowground people More ▶️https://1url.cz/j1Zx1 #ExFuMo #GoBelowground

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Curious about potato structure while you're preparing #Plantsgiving dinner? Turn your kitchen into a botany lab. botanistinthekitchen.blog/2016/01/23/b...

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For anyone looking for PhDs in the UK starting October 2025 in ecology, evolution, environment etc. The new Doctoral Landscape Awards (DLAs) recently got announced so lots of people will be adverting PhDs with January deadlines. Check out findaphd.com to search for ones that interest you!

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😍 🥕Our #ExFuMo colleague Gabi went to Prague to talk about the #senescence of #belowground organs. Her feeling afterwards: "It was amazing, with many questions after the talk. I was excited before but now I'm inspired" 😄 #GoBelowground #CharlesUniversity #Science #rhizome #clonality #storage

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🌼🌸Flowers, leaves, bulbs, and evolution: Researchers unite for a whole plant perspective Oxalis plants are charismatic, perfectly suited for science to meet arts Blog ▶️https://1url.cz/o1CjE #Oxalis #evolution #DNA #JAR #flowers #leaf #bulb #ecology #Africa #polyploidy #storage #GoBelowground

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📢Another educative free poster is out as a PDF file! #Carbohydrates🍬 play a critical role in the #metabolism and #structural #integrity of #plants, supporting their #growth, #development, and #survival Download ▶️ 1url.cz/z1qnv #GoBelowground #starch #glucose #storage

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🚩Go Belowground! 2024 SEP 16-20 - The Course on Belowground Functional Ecology in Konza Prairie, Kansas 🌻🇺🇸 Happy smiling people with dirty hands, shovels and a bison herd! Thanks to USDA, KonzaLTER, Institute of Botany Czech Academy of Sciences #clonality #GoBelowground #storage #bud #carbohydrates

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📣Go Belowground! 2024 is over 💔 🌿Do you wanna know what the course was about? Read 1url.cz/o1aD9 See you next year!👍 Thanks to Konza Prairie, USDA, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences #GoBelowground #clonality #storage #carbohydrates #isotopes #roots #functional #ecology #traits

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How do earthworms impact #soil processes and provide #EcosystemServices ? It depends on the type of worm. 🪱 🧪 🌍 #earthworms #ecology #SciComms #NaturalHistory #Science #Biology #Nature @ukceh.bsky.social @thegsbi.bsky.social @soilassocscot.bsky.social

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🌎🧪Forest Ecology Starter Pack now available for those studying various aspects of forest 🌲🌳🌴ecosystems. The starter pack is limited to 150 names & it is now full. To grow your network: follow folks, get followed, re-post, & enjoy! go.bsky.app/8ZNK9jy

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📜 Trade-offs involved in the choice of pot vs field experiments 🧑‍🔬 Daniel Montesinos 📔 @newphyt.bsky.social 🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantPhysiology #PlantDevelopment #PlantImmunity

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Buds are everywhere! They are indispensable and super fascinating! Love and explore buds! Diversity and functional differentiation of renewal buds in temperate herbaceous plants by Schnablová et al. @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social in @newphyt.bsky.social 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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📢Educative FREE POSTER is out as a PDF file! How do we analyse different CARBOHYDRATES in plants? 🌷 #process #methods #analysis #carbohydrates #plant #storage #sugar #oligosaccharide #sugaralcohols #GoBelowgrund #starch #fructan Download here▶️https://1url.cz/01EYZ

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What do #belowground #researchers do when they love their work but need to relax and balance their personal and professional lives? Belowgournd #art is the answer! Artwork of @exfumo.bsky.social members @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social and Curtis Lubbe in #Galerie Natura #GoBelowground #linocut

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🚩Shedding light on fern stems! 🪴🌿 Read more by @rafadscruz.bsky.social 1url.cz/41ke0 The #stems of #ferns are important as #functional response #traits in #competition for space and light, as well as for reaching optimal #microhabitats in #stressful #environments #GoBelowground #clonality #rhizome

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Plant biologists! We need you! We did set up a quick survey to study why people chose to study plant science. Please check here and shared widely: forms.gle/4X3FUwzxXBx3... #PlantSci

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Diversity and functional differentiation of renewal buds in temperate herbaceous plants nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Past, Present, and Future of Forbs in Old-Growth Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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#Petrichor! I did not know the term! Smell of soil after the rain!

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📢A new paper from our lab! Lubbe at al. in @funecology.bsky.social New opportunities for grassland species in warming temperate winters❄️🌱 #ExFuMo #GoBelowground #ClimateChange #FreezingTolerance #herb #perennial #leaf #persistence #traits #overwintering #phenology #WinterWarmSpell

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📢❄️🌱Dear herbs, get ready, winter is coming! #Temperate #herbs have developed #strategies for #winter #survival and #spring #regrowth, which are reflected in their #buds Read our blog ▶️https://1url.cz/T1sTn #GoBewloground #storage #carbohydrate #perennial

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🔬🌿Going #Belowground: An exploration of the world underneath our feet. A commentary by @sahjim05 "I learned new things about the belowground world, including... It was fascinating " read here▶️ 1url.cz/u1de7 For GoBelowground! course 2025 SEP 21-27 contact @ExFuMo1

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