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Plant community ecology | Botany | Vegetation science | Natural habitats | Macroecology | Biodiversity | Conservation | Global change | Scientific publishing || Professor @ Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia

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The Czech Botanical Society introduces a new prize. The Vít Grulich Award for the Best Flora Record in Czechia will highlight the tireless work of field botanists who collect fundamental data on our flora. It will commemorate one of the best of them, who passed away far too early three years ago.

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Very interesting talk at our seminar by Jalil Noroozi (University of Vienna) about the wonderful plant world of Iranian high mountains and his research into its biogeography, taxonomy, vegetation diversity and ecology. This is Fritillaria imperialis with two colours, red and yellow.

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The Pladias Database of the Czech Flora and Vegetation has a new map feature that separates old and new records. This example map shows the decline of formerly common Antennaria dioica with a threshold of the year 2000: pladias.cz/en/taxon/dis... Thanks to Petr Novotný for programming this feature.

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🪚 Along with pruning apple trees in our garden, we also pollarded willows (Salix fragilis). Pollarding creates cavities and crevices in the wood, along with smaller volumes of deadwood in various stages of decay. These microhabitats support a variety of invertebrates, fungi, and birds.

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🌱 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱 🌾 In our new article led by Gilles Colling, we further explored the AgriWeedClim database of species composition of weeds in arable fields across ten countries in Central Europe. We focused on the changes in neophytes and archaeophytes over time.

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🐐🐐Overgrazing and desertification. 🐐🐐 I share this image from our vacation, which is quite typical of southern Morocco. When there is literally nothing left to eat on the ground, the goats feed in the crowns of the argan trees (Sideroxylon spinosum, Sapotaceae, a Moroccan endemic).

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🌿 Half a Century of Plant Community Changes in Non-Forest Habitats 🌿 Our new article in Global Change Biology, led by Klára Klinkovská, reveals how the plant species composition in treeless vegetation has changed over the last 50 years.

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Paper alert. You might have heard about some trials of using hemi-parasitic plants to enhance biological restoration of grasslands. Yet it has been documented only from a few small experiment. However, a few years ago, Jakub Tesitel carried out an experiment to test this in different macroclimates.

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An interesting talk by Irati Sanz Zubizarreta from the University of the Basque Country (Bilbao, Spain) at our Lab Meeting. She studies effects of a river dam on riparian vegetation in northern Spain using dendrochronology, analysis of tree regeneration and resurvey of historical vegetation plots.

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Narrow-leaved ragwort (Senecio inaequidens) is the plant of the year 2025 in the Czech Republic. In previous years, the Czech Botanical Society awarded this title to endangered species, but this year, we chose an alien species whose invasion is taking place at breakneck speed right before our eyes.

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Can 19th-century land use still influence today’s grasslands? Our research suggests it can—though the effects are subtle! Led by Gabri Midolo, our new article in Landscape Ecology explores how historical land use shapes the plant composition of current grasslands.

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🌿✨ Great news for Czech nature! The Czech government has officially approved the designation of the Soutok Protected Landscape Area, which should guarantee the conservation of 120 km2 of floodplain with alluvial forests and meadows in the triangle of land next to the Austrian and Slovak border.

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The Tagliamento River is one of the last morphologically almost intact Alpine rivers and an ecosystem of European importance. Plans to build retention basins in its most natural sections threaten its integrity. Join the initiative supported by scientists from 35 countries: freetagliamento.org

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In the just published AVS editorial, we argue that two common practices in scientific articles on community ecology are redundant, useless or even confusing.

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Guess what plant species is this. Taken today in hoarfrost-covered South Moravia. [Answer in the first comment.]

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Happy New Year with new covers of our journals! Also this year, the cover pictures for the Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science were selected from a photo contest. Congratulations to the winners: Lucia Čahojová (JVS) and Markus Neupert (AVS).

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Dnes mi končí druhé čtyřleté funkční období ředitele Ústavu botaniky a zoologie na PřF MU. I když počet funkčních období není na Přírodovědecké fakultě omezen, věřím, že na podobných pozicích s velkými finančními a personálními pravomocemi je nutná pravidelná rotace.

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2024 Editors' Awards for the Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science just announced!

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