Boris Rewald
@borisrewald.bsky.social
Plant Ecophysiologist, #Root enthusiast @EXCELLENTIA_HE @ldf_mendelu | Ὅμηρος fan | אב | views&typos my own
1/ Soil trenching in tropical Ultisols is anything but easy. Dense root layers, clay-rich subsoils, ironstone horizons, heat, and humidity make every soil profile a challenge ⛏️ Understanding the belowground processes mediated by roots & their mycorrhiza...
🧪 Fieldwork isn't always easy. Heavy monsoon rain, slippery terrain, and working in habitat shared with king cobras are all part of our current campaign in Trat, Thailand. 🌧️🐍 @euasian-root.bsky.social #TropicalForest #RootEcology #Thailand
Exciting news!🌲IN-SYLVA Europe has been selected for the ESFRI Roadmap 2026—a major step towards Europe's first research infrastructure dedicated to experimental forest research and climate adaptation. Read more: mendelu.cz/en/ldf-mende...
LDF MENDELU and Its Partners Strengthen Climate-Smart Forestry in Europe through IN-SYLVA Europe - Mendelova univerzita v Brně
The Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology of Mendel University in Brno (FFWT MENDELU), together with the University Enterprise Masaryk Forest in Křtiny (UFE Křtiny) and leading Czech institutions en...
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Excellent day at the @woodyroots.bsky.social conference with super interesting talks, important discussions among our Woody Root community and nice people.
Great to be at the Woody Roots IX conference in Como. If you could not join, tune in tomorrow 04.06.2026 at 9.30 am CEST for my online 🧪 keynote talk illustrating the effects of species interactions / 🍁 forest diversifcation on #root #traits. Zoom link: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series
Indeed a fun, exciting, exhausting, successful secondment to the heart of Apple ancestors. Highly recommend for your next hiking adventure (and scientific excursions)
EuAsiaN-ROOT@euasian-root.bsky.social · 2mo agoWonderful #Malus sieversii🌳 forests at the #Dzungarian Alatau mountain range in #Kazakhstan. Great 🧪 experience and lots of🍄🟫 #mycorrhiza #root #soil sampled by ❤️ great #KRISSA and🍁 #MendelU team.
This gorgeous installation is a perfect segue to the excitement tree root scientists are feeling for the upcoming 9th Woody Roots meeting to be held in Como, Italy in a couple weeks! Definitely a tough gig.... www.uninsubria.eu/about-us/our... @borisrewald.bsky.social
womensartbluesky.bsky.social@womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3mo agoColombian installation artist, Doris Salcedo, from the 'Uprooted' exhibition #WomensArt
#PostDocAlert! PhD in #Ecology and expertise in macroecology, functional ecology, processing & analysis of high-volume data sets and spatial ecology? Our Macroecology group is offering a #PostDoc position in macroecology and biome mapping: apply.refline.ch/273855/1857/... #Sciencejobs
Always very insightful talks on 🍁 tree stress resistance and resilience in Central 🇪🇺 by Christoph Leuschner, U Göttingen... highly recommend 🧪 seminar... This Wednesday May 6th, 2026 at 4 pm CEST via zoom. See you online.
EXCELLENTIA_HE@excellentia.bsky.social · 3mo ago🚨Join us on Wednesday, 6. May 2026, 16:00 CET (Prague) for🧪 #forest🍁#ecology #seminar. Welcome to Christoph Leuschner, University of Göttingen with a review on " #Drought and #heat resistance of Central #European #tree species" ZOOM: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/SEMINAR-SERIES. Free access, Q&A.
Bad news Monday 🧪 RIP Peter Raven. news.mongabay.com/2026/04/pete... news.mongabay.com/2007/03/biod... is a good interview from several years back. 🧪
Peter Raven, botanist and advocate for biodiversity, has died, aged 89
Life on Earth is often described as a web, but for much of modern science it was catalogued as a ledger: names, specimens, distributions, relationships drawn in careful lines. Over the course of the 2...
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1ST project meeting to realize a 'Stormwater-ready constructed #wetland for sustainable (waste) water retention in BiH.' Thanks to canton Sarajevo for engaging, UNSA for organizing... To build a Willow CW or macrophyte dominated demonstrator ... That's the question
Beneath our feet lies a living world that sustains ecosystems, regulates climate, and supports all life above ground. This #UnderEarthDay, let’s recognize the hidden biodiversity of soils and the critical role of underground ecosystems in a changing world. Protecting what we don’t see! @spun.earth
Tree characteristics change in mixed forests, leading to more wood production than in single-species plantations🌳 buff.ly/GcBwwGA 🧪🌍️
Tree characteristics change in mixed forests, leading to more wood production than in single-species plantations
Joel Jensen, Haben Blondeel, Chloe MacLaren, Iftekhar U. Ahmed, Laurent Augusto, Lander Baeten, Mark R. Bakker, Jürgen Bauhus, Christel Baum, Friderike Beyer, Pedro Brancalion, Elisabeth Bönisch, P…
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The "Scientific Café" of the Spring Secondees of the EuAsiaN-ROOT Network, consisting of staff from #MULS #Mongolia, #KU #Thailand, and #MENDELU #Czechia. It was a productive day to reflect on the achievements of the 1. year and discuss the tasks ahead. Thanks @excellentia.bsky.social for organizing
#Soil #moisture is strongly depth-dependent—and so is plant water supply. Across ecosystem we (Marian Schönauer / me) highlight: #SMAP L4, #ERA5-Land shows substantial divergence vs in situ observations across #depths. Moving beyond surface estimates ... #SoilMoisture #Ecohydrology #Root
🚨Join us on Wednesday, 1. April 2026, 16:00 CET (Prague) for🧪 #forest🍁#ecology #seminar. Welcome Richard Norby, U Tennessee 🌳🌲'The AmazonFACE experiment is about to start! Hypotheses generated from previous #FACE experiments' ZOOM: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/SEMINAR-SERIES
Great guy, important topic ... Lars Vesterdal, University of Copenhagen - 🧪🍁 Soil and ecosystem carbon sequestration over 50 years in resampled oak and Norway spruce afforestation chronosequences on former cropland. -When: Wednesday 11 February 16.00 CET. ZOOM: cesnet.zoom.us/j/9212345086...
EXCELLENTIA_HE@excellentia.bsky.social · 6mo ago🚨Join us on Wednesday, 11. February 2026, 16:00 CET (Prague) for🧪 #forest🍁#ecology #seminar. Welcome Lars Vesterdal, U Copenhagen 🌳🌲'Soil and ecosystem C sequestration over 50 years in resampled oak and Norway spruce afforestation chronosequences ...' ZOOM: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/SEMINAR-SERIES
🚨Join us on Wednesday, 11. February 2026, 16:00 CET (Prague) for🧪 #forest🍁#ecology #seminar. Welcome Lars Vesterdal, U Copenhagen 🌳🌲'Soil and ecosystem C sequestration over 50 years in resampled oak and Norway spruce afforestation chronosequences ...' ZOOM: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/SEMINAR-SERIES
🚨EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION EXTENDED until 15. FEBRUARY🚨 for the 9th International 🧪 Symposium on Woody Root Research! 🌳🍁 Please register/submit at wrix.favmeeting.it, conference website www.uninsubria.eu/woody-roots-ix Abstract deadlines: 31. March for oral (selected), 30. April for posters!
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Woody Roots@woodyroots.bsky.social · 8mo ago🚨REGISTRATION & ABSTRACT SUBMISSION OPEN 🚨 for the 9th International 🧪 Symposium on Woody Root Research! 🌳Please register/submit at wrix.favmeeting.it. Early bird registration ends on 1. February 2026. Abstract deadlines: 31. March for potential oral presentations (selected), 30. April for posters.
We appreciate the scientific clarity from @markuseichhorn.bsky.social 🌳 Evidence matters when scaling forest restoration approaches, this review is a valuable contribution. Read more forestry science in the Journal of Forestry Research: link.springer.com/journal/11676 #Forestryresearch #JFR 🍁🌺🌱🌿
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Markus Eichhorn@markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 7mo agoI often get asked about the Miyawaki method of forest restoration, usually by people who have heard extraordinary claims for it. Morales et al. (2025) have reviewed the evidence and found it to be weak or absent. 🌏🧪🌳🌲 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🚨Alpine #peatlands 🚨 punch above their extend for #carbon & #biodiversity, but many are degraded. 🧪Using Sentinel-1/2 + terrain data, we map peatlands in the #European-Alps and flag hotspots where maps and nodels diverge, guiding targeted monitoring. Read preprint at doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
🚨Join us on Wednesday, 21. January 2026, 16:00 CET (Prague) for🧪 #forest🍁#ecology #seminar. Welcome our own @borisrewald.bsky.social (MENDELU) 🌳🌲'Mixed #tree #plantations: the good, the plastic and the uncertain' - with a lot of #root #plasticity... ZOOM: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/SEMINAR-SERIES
🚨REGISTRATION & ABSTRACT SUBMISSION OPEN 🚨 for the 9th International 🧪 Symposium on Woody Root Research! 🌳Please register/submit at wrix.favmeeting.it. Early bird registration ends on 1. February 2026. Abstract deadlines: 31. March for potential oral presentations (selected), 30. April for posters.
Woody Roots IX
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🚨New paper in Geoderma🚨 Across 9 #TreeDivNet 🧪experiments in Europe, we show that mixed-species 🍁 #forests 🌳🌲store ~9% more #soilcarbon than monocultures. Gains are strongest on cool, <fertile, #climate stable sites, and linked to >fungal richness. #soilcarbon 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
Excited to be participating in the conference 'Soil Cities' on #soil-sensitive architecture and #urban planning. #greeninfrastructure #urbandevelopment, 20–21 November 2025, Altes Fundamt, Bremen. We'll explore how #healthy #soils can shape #climate-resilient #cities. See you at: www.soilcities.org
A look back at the very engaging and productive💧🏙️SPONGE-City BiH conference bit.ly/47apbZx where we brought together experts from MendelU CZ and UNSA BiH on #Water Manag. & #Urban #Blue-Green 🌳 Infrastr. for #Sponge Cities. Thank you to all who participated & special thanks to Prof. Emira Hukic🧪
