Latest posts tagged with #ExFuMO on Bluesky
What if #belowground organs had personalities? ▶️ 1url.cz/ueHMb
This post turns the hidden #diversity of #roots and #storage organs into a playful study, inspired by the remarkable forms #plants take beneath the #soil.
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground #artㅤㅤㅤㅤ
@czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social
‼️What if #grasslands are storing far more #carbon than we think? #Subtropical grasslands shows that most #biomass lies #belowground - global models may be seriously underestimating their #carbonstorage potential ‼️🌾
Our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/Heobp
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground
📢What can #root #architecture tell us about fine roots? Quite a lot! The structure of the whole root system helps explain variation in fine-root traits and these links differ between #taprooted and #adventitious rooted plants. ▶️ 1url.cz/rewe0
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground
#Agenda
8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026 Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training ▶️ 1url.cz/2ziQz
#clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #functional @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
@exfumo.bsky.social
🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026 Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training ▶️ 1url.cz/2ziQz
#clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #functional @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
📢Sometimes survival means letting go. In #clonal plants, old #rhizome segments can be sealed off and shed while younger parts stay functional. A fascinating rhizome #senescence in Rumex alpinus.
More on our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/UeWTU
@ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground
What type of organ is it? 🥕🌱🪴 #Belowground #plant organs can store #resources, support #perennation, and enable #clonal growth. A helpful #guide to bulbs, #rhizomes, #tubers, #stolons, and more ▶️ 1url.cz/ReQE8
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #clonality
🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! 🌱⛏️Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026, Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training ▶️ 1url.cz/2ziQz
#clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #traits #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #functional #course
If you’d like to watch a colourful video from our amazing Oxalis collection 🌸🌼🪷, head over to the blog post here
▶️ 1url.cz/0eJVU
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground #bulb #botany #Oxalis #plantscience #plantcollection @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
Beyond #earthworms: Can smaller ##soil animals help sequester #carbon in soil?
Find the answer on our blog▶️ 1url.cz/2euqJ
#sequestration #GoBelowground #ExFuMo @gangst.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
#Drylands may look sparse aboveground, but the real strategy is #belowground. Across Southwest #Asia, #clonality doesn’t disappear with #aridity It peaks in the driest sites (again in #wetlands) Yes, #rhizomes are in the #desert! 🌱 1url.cz/5eKSZ #GoBelowground #ExFuMo
Across a long #elevational #gradient, #bamboo has high #shoot density low down, bigger shoot #biomass up high. #Hormones shift with altitude and fungal community composition aligns with hormone/#trait patterns.
Read more ▶️ 1url.cz/Sezlv
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground #rhizome
🌾🍂Removing #litter boosts belowground #bud banks + #shoot density, while litter buildup limits new shoots. #Bunchgrasses respond strongly, #rhizomatous grasses less. #Management is to avoid litter accumulation
Our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/Detdg
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground
🙌FunSem IV is behind us — long live FunSem V! 👑The 4th edition of the Functional Ecology Seminar was full of interesting talks and inspiring discussions. See you again next year! 🌱 @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground #plant #ecology #traits #evolution #diversity
Try harder! 🏋️♀️🪻How young clonal herbs rebuild after disturbance
Read more ▶️ 1url.cz/beLwS
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #biomass #clonality
#disturbance #establishment #functional #traits #perennial #herb #economic #spectrum #resource #allocation @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
How old do herbs live? For #clonal plants, it’s tricky. An individual can be thousands of years old even if their organs are only a few years old. How to #age clonal plants reliably? Read ▶️ 1url.cz/4Jy2x #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #rhizome #ramet #mutation @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! 🌱⛏️Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026 Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training ▶️ 1url.cz/2ziQz
#clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #traits #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #functional #course
Drawing by Curtis Lubbe
📢 Root exudates: invisible, fast-changing chemical signals shaping microbes, neighbors and soil. 🦠🌱
A new on our blog ▶️ 📢https://1url.cz/lJAdf
#Rhizosphere #RootExudates #PlantEcology #ExFuMo #GoBelowground #Soil #Exudate #Microbes @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
#ExFuMo in 2025🎯 Review: new insights into #rhizome investment & #ontogeny, the #Belowground #Persistence Types” framework, the Plant Bodies book, and hands-on belowground training #IAVS #workshop + #GoBelowground course)
Read the recap ▶️ 1url.cz/KJxLz
@ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
Heading to #IAVS2026 in #Gijón? Curious about plant belowground? Join the #Belowground #Workshop! Intro + hands-on field digging in JUN 21. Free for attendees, max 20 participants. Sign up via the conference site! ▶️ 1url.cz/OJ8fM #IAVS #ExFuMo #GoBelowground #clonality @ibotcz.bsky.social
🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! 🌱⛏️ Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026, Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training ▶️ 1url.cz/2ziQz
#clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #traits #GoBelowground #ExFuMo
@ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
Season’s greetings from our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/PJ6z5 Thank you to everyone who has read, shared, or contributed this year!🩷This illustration of buds on belowground storage organs is available with other materials here▶️ 1url.cz/FJ6z9
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! 🌱⛏️ Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026, Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training ▶️ 1url.cz/2ziQz
#clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #traits #GoBelowground #ExFuMo
@czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social
The locality of Skaar Ridge in the Central Transantarctic Mountains. It is at 2200 m, on top of a mountain that rises above the Antarctic icesheet, photo by Rudolph Serbet.
Transverse sections of a young Glossopteridale root (R) with its typical structure with wedges of wood producing a sucker shoot (S) with a conspicuous pith and “normal” wood cylinder. A later stage when they are separated but the two axes are still englobed within the same bark tissues (right). Scale bars = 200 µm.
Already #ancient antarctic #tree showed a clever survival trick! Root sprouting - new stems popping up from the roots after damage. These #Permian forests regenered from belowground and from roots! ▶️ 1url.cz/MJY2G
#RootSprouting #Antarctica #GoBelowground #ExFuMo @ibotcz.bsky.social
Cross-cut of a rhizome, with the central cylinder (rich in starch) and thick cortex, separated by a layer of cambium-like tissue from which roots and suckers develop (credit: Mathilde Vantyghem).
New research by Mathilde Vantyghem from the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (Cirad). The photo above shows banana plants with side shoots (suckers) connected to the main plant through the belowground rhizome (credit: Mathilde Vantyghem).
Banana isn’t just about the fruit 🍌 🍌
New on our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/uJ9Y3
We know little about carbon allocation in banana rhizome, a starch-rich hub connecting mother plants and daughters. Huge knowledge gaps, big climate resilience implications!
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo
Drawing by Curtis Lubbe
Plants race too! Just belowground. #Taproot stays put, #bulbsdives down, #tubers scatter in all directions, but the hypogeogenous #rhizome and a #rootsprouter take the gold for lateral spread
▶️ 1url.cz/ZJ57D
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #art #lateralspread @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
Perennial #herbs don’t “wake up” in spring out of nowhere. Their #renewalbuds preform leaves and even flowers months before we see any green.
More on our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/VJOhA 🌱 #budpreformation #FunctionalEcology #SpringTiming #GoBelowground #ExFuMo @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
linocut by Jitka Klimesova
#Novelty isn’t a yes/no, but a #gradient from #replication to #innovation. We should be honest about where our work sits on that gradient, instead of overselling everything as #groundbreaking
More▶️ 1url.cz/sJXel
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #linocut @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
Ready for winter! ❄️☃️🪻As winter in the northern hemisphere approaches, plants are preparing to be protected from cold ❄️
Read more on our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/PJ0Vy
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #rhizome #bud #clonality #overwintering #strategy @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
When fire digs deeper 🔥🌹🌱 A new on our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/oJSXO Even in fire-adapted grasslands, too much fire can erode resilience! by @alinebombo.bsky.social
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #Brazil #CamposRupestres #Resilience #buds #regeneration #rhizome #root
@ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
