New season, new experiment. This week we are at IDENT Freiburg to collect leaf and bark samples. 🌲🌳🪾 The team includes @alex-sternberg.bsky.social and Sophia, who will use these samples for their doctoral theses (microbiome and secondary metabolites). @michakoehlerbotany.bsky.social

What actually lives in green roof substrate? Curious about what we, the "Biodiversity" team, is studying on the UFZ green roof (and other green roofs in Leipzig/Halle)? Check out the latest UFZ Green Roof Newsletter for all the details: www.ufz.de/export/data/...
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All in the name of science — even if it means crawling through the undergrowth! Together with @alex-sternberg.bsky.social (PhD student 👌) and an amazing team of helpers, we’re currently sampling at the IDENT site in Sardinia. Stay tuned for more updates! 🌲🌲🦠🍄‍🟫🪱🌲🌳

This week we identified fungal fruiting bodies from the #MyDiv tree diversity experiment, and found an impressive richness. One of our highlights is Dissoderma odoratum growing as a parasite on a Hebeloma mesophaeum fruiting body. Very rare and endangered! Nature is an incredible thing! #MLU

Preprint alert!🚨 You want biomass data without clipping the vegetation? Use your smartphone for a 3D scan! In our manuscript you get instructions & a complete Jupyter notebook for immediate use! doi.org/10.32942/X2T... 🪴+📱=💚 #biodiversity #ecology #globalchange #photogrammetry