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Boris Rewald
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Plant Ecophysiologist, #Root enthusiast @EXCELLENTIA_HE @ldf_mendelu | Ὅμηρος fan | אב | views&typos my own
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Boris Rewald @borisrewald.bsky.social · Sep 25
🚨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!
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.
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A look back at the very engaging and productive💧🏙️SPONGE-City BiH conference bit.ly/47apbZx where we
brought together experts from MendelU CZ and UNSA BiH on #Water Manag. & #Urban #Blue-Green 🌳 Infrastr. for #Sponge Cities. Thank you to all who participated & special thanks to Prof. Emira Hukic🧪
Sustainable Water Management and Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure for Advancing Sponge City Perspectives in Bosnia and Herzegovina . Participants of workshop on tree stability lead by Ludek Praus, MendelU, CZ Sustainable Water Management and Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure for Advancing Sponge City Perspectives in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Lecture on urban green infrastucture by Boris Rewald, MENDELU, CZ Sustainable Water Management and Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure for Advancing Sponge City Perspectives in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Lecture on Strategic urban greening starts with tree inventories: a case study of Sarajevo by Alma Hajrudinović-Bogunić, UNSA-SFSA Mirza Dautbašić, UNSA-SFSA, Dženan Bećirović, UNSA-SFSA Sustainable Water Management and Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure for Advancing Sponge City Perspectives in Bosnia and Herzegovina, workshop on Modeling water balance components - inclusive remote sensing by Marian Schönauer, MENDELU and Ismet Fazlić, UNSA
October 27, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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🚨Join us on Wednesday, 5 November 2025, 16:00 CEST (Prague) for🧪 #forest🍁#ecology #seminar. Welcome Francis M. Martin @fmartin54.bsky.social (INRAE Nancy) 'Into the Heart of Darkness - #Genomics🧬 #Saptrotrophy-to-Symbiosis 🌳Forest #Soil #Fungioom' 🍄 ZOOM: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/SEMINAR-SERIES
Join us on Wednesday, 5 November 2025, 16:00 CEST (Prague) for our 🧪 #forest🍁#ecology seminar. Welcome Francis Martin (INRAE Nancy, France) on 'Into the Heart of Darkness - #Genomics🧬 #Saptrotrophy-to-Symbiosis 🌳Forest #Soil #Fungioom' 🍄 ZOOM: https://excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/SEMINAR-SERIES. Free. Q&A. Holds the excellentia logo, a qr code and reference to funding bodies.
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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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
Cover Page EuAsiaN-ROOT deliverable 1.2. l Handbook on site selection
October 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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🚨Publication ALERT🚨 #Root #phenology in mixed 🍁 #forests 🧪2-yr study (oak, hornbeam, lime, maple): roots start > leaves; maple, hornbeam peak < oak, lime; #mixing mirrors dominant sp; leaf–root lag; winter growth at 4.2 °C; temp link flips; Qiwen Guo et al. 2025, Funct Ecol 👉 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Above‐ and below‐ground phenology of four tree species in mixed forests and monospecific stands
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
doi.org
October 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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🚨Publication alert🚨Across 21 #forest 🧪🍁 experiments (84k #trees, 89 spp.), productivity ⬆️ with🌳 #richness (saturating) and variability ⬇️. #Functionaldiversity mediated gains; #structuraldiversity trended ⬇️. Selection effects dominate. Acquisitive, low-WD species benefited. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Diversity in Resource Use Strategies Promotes Productivity in Young Planted Tree Species Mixtures
By analyzing data from over 83,000 trees in 21 experiments across five continents, we found that forests with more species were more productive and had more stable growth. Productivity was driven mai...
doi.org
October 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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🚨Publication alert🚨 #Forest 🌳 #diversity ≠ automatic #drought resilience. Across #treedivnet 🧪🍁experiments, single-year drought growth reflected #trees’ #hydraulic safety margins & drought intensity, not richness. In consecutive droughts, div effects grew—direction varied by site. #Traits matter.
globalchangebio.bsky.social Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · Sep 18
Multiyear Drought Strengthens Positive and Negative Functional Diversity Effects on Tree Growth Response

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October 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Holocaust-Überlebende weltweit gedenken den Opfern des 7. Oktober 2023. Sie trauern um zerstörte Familien, warnen vor wachsendem #Antisemitismus und hoffen trotz allem auf #Frieden – für #Israel, für die Menschen in Gaza, für die Menschlichkeit. #Erinnerung #NieWieder

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Symbolbild: Die Hand eines Holocaust-Überlebenden mit tätowierter Häftlingsnummer hält die Hand eines jungen Palästinensers. Im Hintergrund leuchtet eine Kerze zwischen Davidstern und palästinensischer Flagge – Zeichen von Erinnerung, Mitgefühl und Hoffnung auf Frieden. Bild: ChatGPT/KGS IAK Berlin https://auschwitz.info/de/presse/pressemitteilungen/presseinfo-einzeln/lesen/zwei-jahre-nach-dem-7-oktober-2023-erinnerung-solidaritaet-und-die-hoffnung-auf-frieden-3214.html
October 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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📢 Hot off the press in New Phytologist!
A fresh study explores the link between root traits and ecosystem functions 🌱🌍, with our very own Thom Kuyper among the co-authors! 👏

🔗 Check it out :
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Rooting for function: community‐level fine‐root traits relate to many ecosystem functions
Humans are driving biodiversity change, which also alters community functional traits. However, how changes in the functional traits of the community alter ecosystem functions—especially belowground...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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excellentia.bsky.social
🚨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
INvitation poster for 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. Shows text in front of an agroforestry plantation photo and the Excellentia and EU logos
September 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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🗞️New study in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 🗞️

🌳Diversity in resource use strategies promotes productivity across a global network of tree #diversity experiments?🌲

Read our new study led by Joel Jensen together with #TreeDivNet here:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Diversity in Resource Use Strategies Promotes Productivity in Young Planted Tree Species Mixtures
By analyzing data from over 83,000 trees in 21 experiments across five continents, we found that forests with more species were more productive and had more stable growth. Productivity was driven mai....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Makes me as PhD supervisor even more proud of Ilija!
euasian-root.bsky.social EuAsiaN-ROOT @euasian-root.bsky.social · Sep 26
🎉 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
Ilija explaining a four year old how fruiting bodies are connected to roote via the hyphae network and why this is importent for trees
September 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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As climate adaptation needs increase, is this the solution to closing the finance gap?
September 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Absorptive fine #roots drive substantial #forest #soil carbon accumulation over the long term: Substantial forest soil carbon accrual from absorptive fine roots over decadal timescales - Nature Geoscience
Substantial forest soil carbon accrual from absorptive fine roots over decadal timescales - Nature Geoscience
The accrual of soil carbon from absorptive fine roots exceeds that of leaf litter in forests despite lower productivity, according to an analysis of field observations from Northern Hemisphere forest sites.
www.nature.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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🚨Article collection OPEN🚨
🧪🍁 #Forest #Soils: How Harvesting Methods and Management Shape Soil Properties, Functions, and Resilience. Edited by Marian Schönauer and me at 🌲"Discover Forests". 🌳 APC currently waived, open till mid 2026 (tbd). link.springer.com/collections/... ... OA, reviews, welcome!
Article collection / special issue: Forest Soils: How Harvesting Methods and Management Shape Soil Properties, Functions, and Resilience Journal: Discover Forests Url: https://link.springer.com/collections/dgafjfgejh Intensifying climate pressures and timber demands are refocusing attention on forest soils, the foundation of productivity, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. Harvesting methods can alter physical soil properties, hydrology, and nutrient cycles, while management incentives such as increased structural and species diversity, retention of deadwood and legacy trees, or the maintenance of refugia may buffer or reverse impacts. Together, these practices govern soil carbon dynamics, greenhouse-gas fluxes, microbial and faunal communities, mycorrhizal networks, and erosion and water quality, yet the mechanistic links and context dependencies remain underexplored across forest types and pedoclimatic zones. This collection invites original research, perspectives and reviews that quantify how harvesting systems (e.g., reduced-impact logging, mechanized operations, continuous-cover forestry) and diversity/retention strategies (e.g., mixed-species stands, structural complexity, coarse woody debris) affect soil properties and functions. We especially welcome studies that bridge scales, from plot to landscape and from short-term responses to long-term recovery, and that integrate physiology, biogeochemistry, soil ecology, and hydrology using field experiments, long-term trials, chrono sequences, remote sensing, geostatistical analysis, synthesis/meta-analysis, and/or innovative analytics (e.g., modelling, eDNA, isotopes). Submissions with regional to global scope and data-driven policy relevance (i.e., nature-based solutions) are encouraged. Our goal is to draw attention to forest management practices that hinder or improve ecosystem functions and services by hampering or stewarding soil life and function.
September 25, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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🚨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!
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.
September 25, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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🧪CONFERENCE "Sustainable #Water Management and 🏙️ #Urban Blue-Green 🌳 #Infrastructure for Advancing 💧 #Sponge City Perspectives in #BiH" October 20-22, 2025, University of #Sarajevo, BiH. Free admission. Register until October 15, link at www.sfsa.unsa.ba/web/invitati...
Invitation posterfor participation at the Conference “Sustainable Water Management and Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure for Advancing Sponge City Perspectives in Bosnia and Herzegovina (SPONGE CITY-BH)” We are pleased to announce the international conference “Sustainable Water Management and Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure for Advancing Sponge City Perspectives in Bosnia and Herzegovina (SPONGE CITY-BH)”, which will take place in Sarajevo from October 20–22, 2025. Organized by the Faculty of Forestry, University of Sarajevo, the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Sarajevo, and Mendel University in Brno, this event will bring together leading experts, researchers, practitioners, and students to address one of the most pressing challenges of our time—ensuring sustainable management of water resources in rapidly urbanizing environments. The conference will provide a platform for exchanging innovative ideas, best practices, and research findings on integrating blue and green infrastructure into urban landscapes. Particular emphasis will be placed on advancing the Sponge City concept, a nature-based solution that aims to enhance resilience to climate change, mitigate flood risks, and improve urban living conditions. In addition to scientific presentations and professional lectures, the conference will host a student research competition, recognizing the outstanding contributions of PhD, MSc, and BSc students. Through this initiative, we aim to encourage young researchers to showcase their work, foster dialogue across generations of experts, and highlight innovative approaches to sustainable urban water management.
September 25, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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🚨PUBLICATION ALERT🧪Soil carbon to go: #Agroforestry🌳practices including 🍁 #coffee sequester the highest amounts of #soil #C in mountainous Southern #Ethiopia. Agroforestry Systems. doi:10.1007/s10457-025-01298-2; Access: rdcu.be/eFJ90 AF systems based on coffee are key to enhancing soil C storage.
Agroforestry coffee plot in the Sidama region, Ethiopia
September 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Thank you for the great atmosphere, the care you show for trees, and for providing a platform for #roots, #mycorrhiza and #soilhealth in #urban areas. Stressed city trees need us to look beneath our feet – 'Rooted Realities'. CZ National Arborist Conference: 'Tree for Life – Life for a Tree 2025'.
Titel slide of a keynote lecture on "Rooted Realities: A Soil-Centric Agenda for Arboriculture", Tree for Life – Life for a Tree 2025 / "Risk" conference in Brno, CZ by Boris Rewald | lecture in English
September 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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🚨Publication Alert🚨Root mixture analysis: methods and vision. Marco Lombardi et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.tp... - A 🧪 rational why we need (better) tools to study (crop) #root mixtures to move toward #sustainable #production of #food #feed #energy. Download 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lZUN4rGdj...
Figure 1. Key figure. Advanced spectroscopy-based pipeline for root species differentiation. (A) Root phenotyping system. The root phenotyping system consists of a minirhizotron installed in the field trials at various angles from the vertical axis, best suited for accommodating the camera system. (B) Light spectrum. The light spectrum consists of three main regions: UV, visible light, and IR. The IR region is further divided into two groups: near-IR (NIR) spanning 750–1000 nm and short-wave IR (SWIR) covering 1000–2500 nm. Examples of six features that could be detected in roots in multispectral analysis encoding for blue, green, red, water, nitrogen, and carbon. The wavelength scale is expressed in nanometers (nm). (C) Multispectral camera system. The camera is mounted on an aluminum tube, which allows smooth movement along the minirhizotron for efficient data collection. On the right is an example of image overlay of different multispectral bands. (D) Root species differentiation. Left: The large volume of multispectral images captured by the camera system is processed and segmented using software that leverages deep learning and machine learning for high-throughput segmentation. The segmentation involves distinguishing and separating root objects from nonroot objects within root and soil mixtures. Center: The segmented roots are clustered using unsupervised methods, including k-means clustering and principal component analysis. Right: Supervised statistical analysis predicts root species (species 1 and species 2) in a mixture. Created in BioRender (https://BioRender.com/k43u259). © 2025 Elsevier Ltd. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2025.07.003
August 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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🚨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
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August 8, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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euasian-root.bsky.social
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 "Thailand" Kickoff meeting at the Faculty of Foresty, Kasestsart University, Bangkok Trenching soil monolits to exclude roots and mycorrhizal fungi Soil coring for sampling roots, soil and the microbiome Large trees remnants
August 8, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Back from fieldwork in Thailand - studying the effects of #Dipterocarps on #forest #soil processes incl. #weathering, #decomposition and ecosystem properties (C allocation, #root traits). Big thanks to the @euasian-root.bsky.social team from #Kasetsart University and Sakaerat Research Station!
Identifying Dipterocarp tree patches at the research site Digging tranches to exclude roots and maycorrhizae Large field team at Sakaerat Environmental Research Station
August 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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In beautiful #Thailand, eager to dig for @euasian-root.bsky.social into #roots #mycorrhiza but before a weekend treat with some big beauties 🐘 (hope they don't 💩 poop, sit, take interest on our new 🌳 dipterocarp plots though)
Not only elephants enjoy a good mud bath, peeling and massage...
July 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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🎉 Congratulations to 🎓Dr. Pavel Baykalov on successfully defending his 🧪PhD thesis on "advanced #root imaging" @BOKU AND @vienna-scientific.bsky.social, 🙏funded by @horizoneu.bsky.social #MSCA Future Arctic #ATTRACT. 👏, Pavel! 🔗 www.researchgate.net/profile/Pave...
Pavel Baykalov after explaining smart root imaging Technology to the ecologists, image shows three persons in a seminar room with the first slide of the defensio presentation
July 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Reposted by Boris Rewald
excellentia.bsky.social
The long-term 🌳#windthrow plots are fully set up one year after the 🌀 storm. It's always surprising how much 💪 physical work #forest #ecology 🍁 fieldwork involves, but the data on soil C dynamics, microfauna and flora expected in the years to come is much needed for sound 🌲🌳 management decisions...
Working hard to distribute branch Wood equally across windthrow sites at the University Forest Enterprise, Mendel University in Brno. Testing for effects of different deadwood retention measures after stand replacing windthrows on soil processes, biodiversity conservation and tree regeneration
June 17, 2025 at 5:27 AM