Johannes Cunow
jcunow.bsky.social
Johannes Cunow
@jcunow.bsky.social
ℹ️ Plant Ecology 🌱 Functional, spatial & temporal root dynamics 🩵 Snow, reindeer & climate change - based in Umeå Sweden
Crazy stuff. Never seen such a thing.
Today’s discovery while washing Trichophorum cespitosum roots: tiny coil spring structures! Possibly part of contractile roots? Nature’s engineering never ceases to surprise. #roots #ecology #peatlands
October 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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#GoBelowground course is over! Huge thanks to all participants and lecturers! We hope you made it home safely and found the course useful. And also big thanks @czechacademy.bsky.social and @ibotcz.bsky.social for their support. Until next time! #ExFuMo #functional #morphology #clonality #roots
September 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Throwback to our last summer field campaign in Northeast Finland.

Happy to host my phenomenal Finnish colleagues now here in Umeå and really dig into the topic of plant-root-methane-hydrology. Thanks to Eeva Järvi-Laturi and Kaisa Säkkinen and everyone else. It was truly a joyful summer.
September 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Reposted by Johannes Cunow
The soil is providing food & water, but how to monitor what’s going on in the ground without destroying it?
Our answer: sounds.
Listen to Jonatan Klaminder as he explains it all from 1:07:00 until 1:37:00 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LcR...
The automated subtitles in English are 👌
#acoustics #science
Föreläsningar av nya professorer 2025 – 8 maj eftermiddag
YouTube video by Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
www.youtube.com
May 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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I'm hiring, two fully funded PhD positions! Come work in Umeå in Arctic Sweden, a leading place for high-latitude ecosystem ecology and carbon biogeochemistry
January 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"Priority effects were common and strong" - a fantastic study demonstrating how plant growth and the arrival order of a plant is linked to it's competitiveness. Great stuff!
doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
Priority effects can be explained by competitive traits
Priority effects, the effects of early-arriving species on late-arriving species, are caused by niche preemption and/or niche modification. The strength of priority effects can be determined by the e...
doi.org
January 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM