EXCELLENTIA_HE
@excellentia.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary research group at the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, CZ - conducting research on forest ecosystem functioning and services, above and below ground. Visit our website https://excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/
On the CZ Day of the Fight for Freedom and Democracy we remember: rights aren’t given, they’re defended. The same holds for #forests – without active, 🧪 science-based care 🍁we lose 🌳 #biodiversity, 🌍 #climate-resilience and 🍄 #healthy-soils. Democratic freedoms let us protect these common goods.
November 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
On the CZ Day of the Fight for Freedom and Democracy we remember: rights aren’t given, they’re defended. The same holds for #forests – without active, 🧪 science-based care 🍁we lose 🌳 #biodiversity, 🌍 #climate-resilience and 🍄 #healthy-soils. Democratic freedoms let us protect these common goods.
🚨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
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
🚨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, 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
September 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
🚨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
2005–2025: 🎉 Celebrating 20 years of 🧪Researchers' Night in the Czech Republic and 🎓 MendelU! With the younger 🧒 generation showing a growing interest in mushrooms, particularly the tasty 🍄 fruiting bodies, but less so in hyphae /mycorrhizal 🌳 functions 😅
September 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
2005–2025: 🎉 Celebrating 20 years of 🧪Researchers' Night in the Czech Republic and 🎓 MendelU! With the younger 🧒 generation showing a growing interest in mushrooms, particularly the tasty 🍄 fruiting bodies, but less so in hyphae /mycorrhizal 🌳 functions 😅
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...
June 17, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Beautiful (urban) forests (and some ancient grave stones) in the Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia. Thanks to the Forestry Faculty, University of Sarajevo for the excellent kick off workshop of our project "Blue Green Infrastructure"... Fostering CZ - BiH Forestry collab. on water, drought and tree health...
June 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Beautiful (urban) forests (and some ancient grave stones) in the Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia. Thanks to the Forestry Faculty, University of Sarajevo for the excellent kick off workshop of our project "Blue Green Infrastructure"... Fostering CZ - BiH Forestry collab. on water, drought and tree health...
🚨The new 🧪publication by Marian Schönauer, @borisrewald.bsky.social et al. demonstrates that #ERA5-Land data is equally well suited to modelling 🍁 #tree growth as weather station data. ERA5-Land opens up possibilities for modelling and overcomes issues of data accessibility. doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...
June 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🚨The new 🧪publication by Marian Schönauer, @borisrewald.bsky.social et al. demonstrates that #ERA5-Land data is equally well suited to modelling 🍁 #tree growth as weather station data. ERA5-Land opens up possibilities for modelling and overcomes issues of data accessibility. doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...
🧪Join us on Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 16:00 CET (Prague) for our #forest🍁#ecology seminar, MENDELU, CZ "Heartbeat of the Forest: Drivers and Consequences of Mast-Seeding ..." by Mario Pesendorfer @mbpesendorfer.bsky.social @BOKU University. Zoom: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series Q&A via chat
June 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
🧪Join us on Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 16:00 CET (Prague) for our #forest🍁#ecology seminar, MENDELU, CZ "Heartbeat of the Forest: Drivers and Consequences of Mast-Seeding ..." by Mario Pesendorfer @mbpesendorfer.bsky.social @BOKU University. Zoom: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series Q&A via chat
🚨🧪SUMMER SCHOOL: THE HIDDEN HALF OF 🍁🌳ECOSYSTEMS (22 - 26 September 2025) at the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Czechia. Programm and registration: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/summer-school. Deadline for registration: 30th June 2025 (15 participants). See u soon!
June 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🚨🧪SUMMER SCHOOL: THE HIDDEN HALF OF 🍁🌳ECOSYSTEMS (22 - 26 September 2025) at the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Czechia. Programm and registration: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/summer-school. Deadline for registration: 30th June 2025 (15 participants). See u soon!
🧪Join us on Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 13:00!!!! CEST (Prague) for our #forest🍁#ecology seminar, MENDELU, CZ "Karri (Eucalyptus diversicolor) forests" by Pauline Grierson @pfgblue.bsky.social, @ University of Western Australia
Zoom link: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series. Q&A via chat.
Zoom link: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series. Q&A via chat.
May 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
🧪Join us on Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 13:00!!!! CEST (Prague) for our #forest🍁#ecology seminar, MENDELU, CZ "Karri (Eucalyptus diversicolor) forests" by Pauline Grierson @pfgblue.bsky.social, @ University of Western Australia
Zoom link: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series. Q&A via chat.
Zoom link: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series. Q&A via chat.
EGU25 🧪 talk by Marian Schönauer et al. on "Spatial variations in soil moisture in temperate 🍁 forest independent of topographic moisture indices, yet ERA5-Land retrievals accurately reflect their temporal variations". Impressive accuracy of EOS-based over fllow-accumulation-based indices.
April 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
EGU25 🧪 talk by Marian Schönauer et al. on "Spatial variations in soil moisture in temperate 🍁 forest independent of topographic moisture indices, yet ERA5-Land retrievals accurately reflect their temporal variations". Impressive accuracy of EOS-based over fllow-accumulation-based indices.
Lovely day to organize our🌳 #windthrow plots, creating replicated 🍁🧪 sites with dead wood legacies, stems, branches, cleared, control. Big thanks to our Belgian guest students for 💪 and minds.
March 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Lovely day to organize our🌳 #windthrow plots, creating replicated 🍁🧪 sites with dead wood legacies, stems, branches, cleared, control. Big thanks to our Belgian guest students for 💪 and minds.
🧪Join us on Wednesday, 2 April 2 2025, 16:00 CET (Prague) for our #forest🍁#ecology seminar, MENDELU, CZ "Spatial and temporal variation in Amazon deforestation and forest recovery" by John Healey, @bangoruniversity.bsky.social Zoom link: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series. Q&A via chat.
March 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🧪Join us on Wednesday, 2 April 2 2025, 16:00 CET (Prague) for our #forest🍁#ecology seminar, MENDELU, CZ "Spatial and temporal variation in Amazon deforestation and forest recovery" by John Healey, @bangoruniversity.bsky.social Zoom link: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series. Q&A via chat.
Welcome to the new semester, welcome to the new course on "The Hidden Half of ecosystems" (in English) by @borisrewald.bsky.social and Douglas Godbold of #MENDELU, #FFWT. 🌲Hard facts and fun field trips targeting #roots & friends ( #mycorrhiza ). 🌳
March 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Welcome to the new semester, welcome to the new course on "The Hidden Half of ecosystems" (in English) by @borisrewald.bsky.social and Douglas Godbold of #MENDELU, #FFWT. 🌲Hard facts and fun field trips targeting #roots & friends ( #mycorrhiza ). 🌳
🧪Join us on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 16:00 CET (Prague) for our monthly #forest🍁#ecology seminar, MENDELU, Brno, CZ - "Spatial Ecology of Rotational and Continuous Cover Forestry in Boreal Landscapes" by Daniel Binkley, Colorado State Univ. Zoom link - excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series.
February 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
🧪Join us on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 16:00 CET (Prague) for our monthly #forest🍁#ecology seminar, MENDELU, Brno, CZ - "Spatial Ecology of Rotational and Continuous Cover Forestry in Boreal Landscapes" by Daniel Binkley, Colorado State Univ. Zoom link - excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series.
Lovely 🍁🎄evening of the Forest Ecosystem Research 🧪 Group at the Mendel University in Brno, CZ. We wish you and your ❤️ones happyness and health, during the festive season and 2025! 🎇
December 16, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Lovely 🍁🎄evening of the Forest Ecosystem Research 🧪 Group at the Mendel University in Brno, CZ. We wish you and your ❤️ones happyness and health, during the festive season and 2025! 🎇
🧪Join us on Wednesday, 4. December 2024, 4 pm CET (Prague) for our monthly #forest #ecology seminar, Mendelu, Brno, CZ - "The role of forest biodiversity for human health benefits and risks" by Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, UniFreiburg Zoom link - excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series.
December 1, 2024 at 10:49 AM
🧪Join us on Wednesday, 4. December 2024, 4 pm CET (Prague) for our monthly #forest #ecology seminar, Mendelu, Brno, CZ - "The role of forest biodiversity for human health benefits and risks" by Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, UniFreiburg Zoom link - excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series.
EXCELLENTIA welcomes Dr. Přemysl Mácha to our #transdisciplinary #forest #research team. As a cultural anthropologist and forester, he will explore the relationships between #society and #forestry to promote a culture of change 🌳🌲and preserve cultural heritage🌲🌲Welcome!
November 14, 2024 at 9:45 AM
EXCELLENTIA welcomes Dr. Přemysl Mácha to our #transdisciplinary #forest #research team. As a cultural anthropologist and forester, he will explore the relationships between #society and #forestry to promote a culture of change 🌳🌲and preserve cultural heritage🌲🌲Welcome!
EXCELLENTIA welcomes Daria Ovsiannikova,
Tamara Vukanović & Ilija Bićanin as new PhD students working #belowground on #roots, #mycorrhizae, soil #pathogens -
@ldf_mendelu University Forest #Křtiny (UFE) #windthrow and many other sites across Eurasia! Digging deeper, together!
Tamara Vukanović & Ilija Bićanin as new PhD students working #belowground on #roots, #mycorrhizae, soil #pathogens -
@ldf_mendelu University Forest #Křtiny (UFE) #windthrow and many other sites across Eurasia! Digging deeper, together!
November 14, 2024 at 9:43 AM
EXCELLENTIA welcomes Daria Ovsiannikova,
Tamara Vukanović & Ilija Bićanin as new PhD students working #belowground on #roots, #mycorrhizae, soil #pathogens -
@ldf_mendelu University Forest #Křtiny (UFE) #windthrow and many other sites across Eurasia! Digging deeper, together!
Tamara Vukanović & Ilija Bićanin as new PhD students working #belowground on #roots, #mycorrhizae, soil #pathogens -
@ldf_mendelu University Forest #Křtiny (UFE) #windthrow and many other sites across Eurasia! Digging deeper, together!
Join us TODAY - Thursday 14. November 2024, 4 pm CET (Prague) for our monthly #forest #ecology seminar @ldf_mendelu., Brno, CZ - "Mycorrhizal Impacts on Ecosystem Functioning" by Nadia Soudzilovskaia @uhasselt. Zoom link - excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series Everyone is welcome. Q&A via chat.
November 14, 2024 at 9:41 AM
Join us TODAY - Thursday 14. November 2024, 4 pm CET (Prague) for our monthly #forest #ecology seminar @ldf_mendelu., Brno, CZ - "Mycorrhizal Impacts on Ecosystem Functioning" by Nadia Soudzilovskaia @uhasselt. Zoom link - excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series Everyone is welcome. Q&A via chat.
EXCELLENTIA welcomes Dr. Burgenjargal Otgonsuren... adding expertise on #boreal forests particular #belowground incl. #mycorrhizae - which she will apply at the @ldf_mendelu #Brno to the University Forest #Křtiny (UFE) and many other🌲🌳 sites across #Eurasia.
September 26, 2024 at 7:37 PM
EXCELLENTIA welcomes Dr. Burgenjargal Otgonsuren... adding expertise on #boreal forests particular #belowground incl. #mycorrhizae - which she will apply at the @ldf_mendelu #Brno to the University Forest #Křtiny (UFE) and many other🌲🌳 sites across #Eurasia.
The EXCELLENTIA Team welcomes Dr. Marian Schönauer! A great day for all who need his #geocomputation skills - which he will apply at the FFWT, Mendel University in
#Brno, CZ to the University Forest #Křtiny (UFE) and many other 🌳#forest🌲sites. We are happy to have you!
#Brno, CZ to the University Forest #Křtiny (UFE) and many other 🌳#forest🌲sites. We are happy to have you!
July 4, 2024 at 9:45 AM
The EXCELLENTIA Team welcomes Dr. Marian Schönauer! A great day for all who need his #geocomputation skills - which he will apply at the FFWT, Mendel University in
#Brno, CZ to the University Forest #Křtiny (UFE) and many other 🌳#forest🌲sites. We are happy to have you!
#Brno, CZ to the University Forest #Křtiny (UFE) and many other 🌳#forest🌲sites. We are happy to have you!