Geographical distribution of observations from studies included in the final analysis. Circle size is scaled for visualization purposes to improve visibility of overlapping data points, and does not encode any quantitive information. The center of each circle corresponds to the coordinates of the reseach area of the included studies.
Probabilities of observing an increase or no change in biodiversity upon conservation of extensively managed grasslands, and of observing an increase in biodiversity after restoration of previously abandoned or intensively used agriculturally marginal grasslands. Numbers indicate sample sizes. Raw data are overlaid as jittered points to show the distribution of observed outcomes that informed the model.
🌿🪶 New Review in #BAAE: Abandonment & intensification impact biodiversity in marginal grasslands.
Across 174 European studies, both pathways reduced diversity — while restoration & extensive management help recover ecological value. 🌾
DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
02.11.2025 07:00 — 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
A mají tam i zelený Vesmírníček, což znamená, že byl po roce exkluzivity puštěn do široké distribuce.
Měli byste ho tak nově sehnat u každého dobrého knihkupce!
01.11.2025 14:12 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
V Neoluxoru na pražském Chodově na vás čekají tři výtisky červených Geostorek s podpisem a věnováním. Zaskočte si tam tak pro ně!
Ideální vánoční dárek do zimních měsíců 😀
01.11.2025 14:12 — 👍 28 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
New book out soon! 📖 (Unfortunately only in Czech)
Planet of Melting Ice by Zdeněk Zvonek brings together 19 interviews with scientists from all sorts of fields — from biology to geology to social science — all united by one thing: their work in the polar regions. 🧊
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30.10.2025 12:28 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Teze pro českou vědu 2025 | Věda žije!
Občas vám vadí, že jenom hejtujeme každou změnu, která ve VaVaI přijde. A tak jsme zkusili vyrobit i něco pozitivního a sepsali jsme Teze pro českou vědu, aneb co si myslíme, že čeští vědci, vědkyně a vědecké instituce potřebují k úspěšnému rozvoji. Enjoy!
www.vedazije.cz/clanek/clane...
23.10.2025 06:21 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Check out this new #AJB Review by Tom Givnish!
Causes of delayed #angiosperm #diversification: The photosynthetic revolution, increased opportunity costs of anti-herbivore defenses, selection for qualitative toxins & acceleration of plant–herbivore coevolution
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #plantscience
20.10.2025 19:18 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Fig. 1 (shortened, full legend in paper): Simplified clubroot disease cycle in A. thaliana depicting characteristic cellular events during P. brassicae-induced gall formation. (A) P. brassicae resting spores under optimal conditions give rise to zoospores invading root hairs of a suitable Brassicaceae host plant, here Arabidopsis. Eventually the pathogen develops secondary zoospores that can be released into the soil and, after conjugation, form a uninucleate secondary plasmodium that re-infects the host (secondary/cortical infection). Secondary infection leads to development of a gall, that becomes conspicuous from as early as 10 DAI. Cellular events associated with gall formation during this stage include dynamic changes in cell cycle progression which result in hyperplasia. The stage between 10 and 19 DAI can be referred to as the proliferative phase of gall formation.
🌱 RESEARCH 🌱
Phloem cell proliferation in Plasmodiophora brassicae-induced clubroot galls doesn't directly depend on PEAR transcription factors, despite transcriptional up-regulation - Singh et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @sdeeksha1994.bsky.social @malinowskilab.bsky.social
20.10.2025 11:17 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Do you study effect of disturbance on large scales? Use Belowground Persistence Types of plants! We hope that they will help us to understand better ecosystem resilience than only plant traits.
17.10.2025 17:03 — 👍 26 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
🌿 CSR strategies reflect species' habitat preferences for stress and disturbance, as well as whole-plant traits, offering support for Grime’s hypothesis and highlighting its significance to understanding plant adaptation in the Anthropocene🌲
Read here: buff.ly/yFDdpAZ
16.10.2025 16:02 — 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
New on the Belowground blog: Rhizarium plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/i...
15.10.2025 06:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New paper out. Check it at #AJB!
14.10.2025 16:53 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation
Postdoc Opportunity - Interested in plant scaling, quantitative botany, or theoretical plant biology? join our group to explore how plant form, function & scaling principles connect across levels of organization
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐
14.10.2025 12:27 — 👍 39 🔁 45 💬 2 📌 1
📢 Funded #PhD position!
🌿Interested in studying angiosperm macroevolution linking genome size, polyploidy and trait evolution? 🍀🌻🔬🧬 Join my group @ibotcz.bsky.social
📄Apply/Details: www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies...
💬 Questions welcome!
#science #plants #polyploidy #genomesize #trait #evolution
13.10.2025 17:53 — 👍 11 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
My Creatures are almost ready to be released into the wild!
10 days until publication day 📕
What do you all think of my cover? She’s SO shiny! 🤩
You can pre-order at your local bookshop or online 🐨🦉🐍
www.amazon.co.uk/Creatures-Da...
13.10.2025 19:10 — 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
By @alinebombo.bsky.social, @alefidelis.bsky.social & Soizig Le Stradic
#botany #plantscience #rhizomes #grasslands #conservation #biodiversity
13.10.2025 14:23 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A weed is simply “a plant in the wrong place.”
On weeds, borders, and belonging.
orionmagazine.org/article/gian...
10.10.2025 15:20 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Wow, Bulbostylis paradoxa is clonal! Beyond seeds: Revealing the clonal reproduction of Bulbostylis paradoxa as a persistence mechanism in tropical savannas - Fontenele - 2025 - Ecology - Wiley Online Library esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
10.10.2025 15:19 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In my Bacteria Era 🦠
Painting a new Species daily until I die. Starting as a beginner, watch my art evolve over time.
instagram.com/smart.alyk
Nezávislý spolek zaměřený na popularizaci vědy, mezioborovost, celoživotní seberozvoj a podporu mezioborové inspirace v českém prostředí.
Plant Scientist bridging cytogenetics & traits to uncover mysteries of #Macroevolution | Junior Group Leader @ibotcz.bsky.social |#womeninstem | worked in🇮🇳 🇨🇿 🇨🇳 🇩🇪 | Loves 📚✈️
i like fire, grasses, and seeds 🔥🌾 researching the role of fire on tropical grasslands and savannas
I 💜 evolutionary genetics/genomics, repeated adaptation, 🌸 pigmentation, 🏔️ alpine environment, polyploidy
I'm MSCA fellow at Charles Uni 🇨🇿 and Uni Bern🇨🇭
X @MajdaHolcova
The institute primarily conducts fundamental research in plant biology, namely in plant genetics and molecular biology, cell biology, physiology, phytopathology and biotechnologies. However, IEB is also active in applied research.
Master's student in Environmental and Biodiversity Management in the Applied Research for the Conservation of Biodiversity @master-rainet.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social. My interests include #botany #PlantArchitecture #conservation
🌿Assistant Professor at @umontpellier.bsky.social & @umramap.bsky.social🌿
🌍Evolutionary ecologist | Plant architecturist🌳
🌵Exploring biodiversity of plant forms & functions🌸
Plant Diversity Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, UCalgary, jvamosi.wordpress.com | she/her
Master student. Interested in vegetation science, currently investigating the effects of fire on the belowground component of Cerrado open ecosystems 🔥🌾
Organism-centered evolutionary ecologist addict to Natural History. Posts mainly on natural history, pollination, epigenetics and conservation
See https://t.co/l8Vx6d4tdN for more
Applied ecologist working on the ecological emergency
Studying ecosystem restoration, rewilding, dispersal, spatial ecology, ecosystem services, agro-ecology, global change. Views are my own & personal/unofficial
Conservation biology | Agronomic ecology | Trade-offs | Professor KU Leuven | KU Leuven Plant Institute | Non-utopian
https://bio.kuleuven.be/faculty/00012061
Professor of Ecology & Botany at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul/UFRGS, Brasil
www.ufrgs.br/segerlab
Plant Biophysics & Agritech | Associate Professor @ Imperial College London, UK
Author, botanist, broadcaster and other odd things; read all about it in 'Evergreen: The Botanical Life of a Plant Punk' (Thames & Hudson). My book of 50 essays, 'The Sceptical Botanist' (CSIRO Publishing), also out now!
https://talkingplants.blogspot.com
Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences
Arctic & Alpine Ecology | Ecosystem gas fluxes | R programming | Fieldwork safety & inclusivity | Open science | Free-heeler & Cyclist
🇨🇭 🇨🇦 🇽🇰 🇩🇰 🇬🇱 🇷🇺 🇦🇹 🇧🇻 (in that order)
jogaudard.github.io/CV_jgaudard
Evolutionary ecologist • Plant-insect interactions • Local adaptation • Biogeography
| Assistant Professor at Illinois State U |
| Formerly at Cornell U |
Insect lover and passionate salsa dancer
Website: https://goldarlab.weebly.com/
