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

🎉 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

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 🍁 #forest core and satellite site selection and sampling at full swing in #Kazakhstan and #Mongolia. Many thanks to great hosts #KRISSA / #NUM #MULS for hosting @horizoneu.bsky.social 🇪🇺 secondees. Scientific progress (#belowground) by exchange!

Experimental 🧪 setup of core sites in full swing by Italian partners Università degli studi dell'Insubria and PR Campo dei fiori. Eager to compare #Ecosystem #functioning at pairs of ecto vs endo #mycorrhizal #forests 🍁

🧪 Counting #roots, #mycorrhizae and #pathogens in the #Eurasian soil transect to synthesise in-situ knowledge of "soil biology" for 🍁 #forests belowground. Great progress thanks to a highly engaged consortium! Example for Thailand: some soil data but little information on roots / mycorrhizae... dig!

Last #root ingrowh cores at Czech 🌳🧪 EuAsiaN-ROOT core sites installed today! Thank you for all the help, and UFE, Mendelu and the Czech State Forests for making the sites available for some exciting years of interdisciplinary 🍁

Yes, we "hate" #roots and #mycorrhiza so much, we trench them as deep as possible... Just to show how soil Carbon will thrive (read: being lost) when they are not around! All 🧪power to the saprotrophs!... Two more trenches to do in CZ then it's summer secondment in 🍁Thailand! Yeah!

Chemical weathering of rocks and minerals is 🧪 important to 🍁forest ecosystem because it is the principal source of several macronutrients: Ca, Mg, K, P, Fe, Mn. First dozen EuAsiaN-ROOT satellites are now equipped across Mongolia by @burenjargal-2025.bsky.social and DL Godbold. Great start WP4.

Eurasian Network for Tree-Root-Mycorrhizal-Pathogen Interactions in Forest Soils (EuAsiaN-ROOT) - Field sampling at University Forest Enterprise in CZ started. Colleagues from Kasetsart University, TH & Kazakh Research Institute of Soil Science, KZ and @ @excellentia.bsky.social PhD students

🧪🍁EuAsiaN-ROOT aims to unravel the complex relationships between soil, roots, fungi and pathogens within AM- vs. EM-dominated forest ecosystems across Eurasia .. read more on ... euasianroot.ldf.mendelu.cz

Thanks to all the wonderful new and old collaborators for a successful Kick of Meeting! After intensive 7h we are now moving fast to expand our understanding on soil biology and related biogeochemical cycles across Eurasian forests 🍁 and train next gen 🧪 scientists! See you soon at the field sites!