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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/

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Boris Rewald @borisrewald.bsky.social · last mo.

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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Woody Roots@woodyroots.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨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!

Woody Roots IX

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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.

EXCELLENTIA_HE@excellentia.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It's great to see Douglas L Godbold, @borisrewald.bsky.social, Marian Schönauer, & Pavlína Pancová Šimková applying their #EXCELLENTIA expertise in urban #trees, #soil-health #mycorrhizae, soil water #modelling, and EU #research-funding to address urgent needs in #Sarajevo, BiH with #UNSA colleagues

Boris Rewald @borisrewald.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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🧪

Sustainable Water Management and Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure for Advancing Sponge City Perspectives in Bosnia and Herzegovina . Participants of workshop on tree stability lead by Ludek Praus, MendelU, CZ
Boris Rewald @borisrewald.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨Publication ALERT🚨 #Root #phenology in mixed 🍁 #forests 🧪2-yr study (oak, hornbeam, lime, maple): roots start > leaves; maple, hornbeam peak < oak, lime; #mixing mirrors dominant sp; leaf–root lag; winter growth at 4.2 °C; temp link flips; Qiwen Guo et al. 2025, Funct Ecol 👉 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Above‐ and below‐ground phenology of four tree species in mixed forests and monospecific stands

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Boris Rewald @borisrewald.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨Publication alert🚨 #Forest 🌳 #diversity ≠ automatic #drought resilience. Across #treedivnet 🧪🍁experiments, single-year drought growth reflected #trees’ #hydraulic safety margins & drought intensity, not richness. In consecutive droughts, div effects grew—direction varied by site. #Traits matter.

Global Change Biology@globalchangebio.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Multiyear Drought Strengthens Positive and Negative Functional Diversity Effects on Tree Growth Response 🔗 buff.ly/4qqRnFD

Boris Rewald @borisrewald.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨Publication alert🚨Across 21 #forest 🧪🍁 experiments (84k #trees, 89 spp.), productivity ⬆️ with🌳 #richness (saturating) and variability ⬇️. #Functionaldiversity mediated gains; #structuraldiversity trended ⬇️. Selection effects dominate. Acquisitive, low-WD species benefited. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Diversity in Resource Use Strategies Promotes Productivity in Young Planted Tree Species Mixtures

By analyzing data from over 83,000 trees in 21 experiments across five continents, we found that forests with more species were more productive and had more stable growth. Productivity was driven mai...

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EXCELLENTIA_HE@excellentia.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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 😅

Children looking at mushrooms at the excellentia booth during the night of Science 2025, Mendelu, Brno
EXCELLENTIA_HE@excellentia.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Open-access article collection on destructive / sustainable #forest #soil #management, combining forest and soil #ecology #biodiversity with forest #engineering and #remotesensing topics - drawing attention to practices that hinder / improve ecosystems belowground. link.springer.com/collections/...

Forest Soils: How Harvesting Methods and Management Shape Soil Properties, Functions, and Resilience

Intensifying climate pressures and timber demands are refocusing attention on forest soils, the foundation of productivity, biodiversity, and ecosystem ...

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Boris Rewald @borisrewald.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨Article collection OPEN🚨 🧪🍁 #Forest #Soils: How Harvesting Methods and Management Shape Soil Properties, Functions, and Resilience. Edited by Marian Schönauer and me at 🌲"Discover Forests". 🌳 APC currently waived, open till mid 2026 (tbd). link.springer.com/collections/... ... OA, reviews, welcome!

Article collection / special issue: Forest Soils: How Harvesting Methods and Management Shape Soil Properties, Functions, and Resilience Journal: Discover Forests Url: https://link.springer.com/collections/dgafjfgejh Intensifying climate pressures and timber demands are refocusing attention on forest soils, the foundation of productivity, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. Harvesting methods can alter physical soil properties, hydrology, and nutrient cycles, while management incentives such as increased structural and species diversity, retention of deadwood and legacy trees, or the maintenance of refugia may buffer or reverse impacts. Together, these practices govern soil carbon dynamics, greenhouse-gas fluxes, microbial and faunal communities, mycorrhizal networks, and erosion and water quality, yet the mechanistic links and context dependencies remain underexplored across forest types and pedoclimatic zones. This collection invites original research, perspectives and reviews that quantify how harvesting systems (e.g., reduced-impact logging, mechanized operations, continuous-cover forestry) and diversity/retention strategies (e.g., mixed-species stands, structural complexity, coarse woody debris) affect soil properties and functions. We especially welcome studies that bridge scales, from plot to landscape and from short-term responses to long-term recovery, and that integrate physiology, biogeochemistry, soil ecology, and hydrology using field experiments, long-term trials, chrono sequences, remote sensing, geostatistical analysis, synthesis/meta-analysis, and/or innovative analytics (e.g., modelling, eDNA, isotopes). Submissions with regional to global scope and data-driven policy relevance (i.e., nature-based solutions) are encouraged. Our goal is to draw attention to forest management practices that hinder or improve ecosystem functions and services by hampering or stewarding soil life and function.
EXCELLENTIA_HE@excellentia.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Invitation to the #Excellentia co-organized 🧪conference on "Sustainable Water Management & Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure for Advancing Sponge City Perspectives in Bosnia and Herzegovina" 20-22 Oct 2025, #Sarajevo BiH, register until 15. Oct. Program at www.sfsa.unsa.ba/web/invitati...

Invitation for participation at the Conference “Sustainable Water Management and Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure for Advancing Sponge City Perspectives in Bosnia and Herzegovina (SPONGE CITY-BH)”

Dear Professors, Students, Experts, and Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the international conference “Sustainable Water Management and Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure for Advancing Sponge City ...

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Boris Rewald @borisrewald.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🧪CONFERENCE "Sustainable #Water Management and 🏙️ #Urban Blue-Green 🌳 #Infrastructure for Advancing 💧 #Sponge City Perspectives in #BiH" October 20-22, 2025, University of #Sarajevo, BiH. Free admission. Register until October 15, link at www.sfsa.unsa.ba/web/invitati...

Invitation posterfor participation at the Conference “Sustainable Water Management and Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure for Advancing Sponge City Perspectives in Bosnia and Herzegovina (SPONGE CITY-BH)” We are pleased to announce the international conference “Sustainable Water Management and Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure for Advancing Sponge City Perspectives in Bosnia and Herzegovina (SPONGE CITY-BH)”, which will take place in Sarajevo from October 20–22, 2025. Organized by the Faculty of Forestry, University of Sarajevo, the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Sarajevo, and Mendel University in Brno, this event will bring together leading experts, researchers, practitioners, and students to address one of the most pressing challenges of our time—ensuring sustainable management of water resources in rapidly urbanizing environments. The conference will provide a platform for exchanging innovative ideas, best practices, and research findings on integrating blue and green infrastructure into urban landscapes. Particular emphasis will be placed on advancing the Sponge City concept, a nature-based solution that aims to enhance resilience to climate change, mitigate flood risks, and improve urban living conditions. In addition to scientific presentations and professional lectures, the conference will host a student research competition, recognizing the outstanding contributions of PhD, MSc, and BSc students. Through this initiative, we aim to encourage young researchers to showcase their work, foster dialogue across generations of experts, and highlight innovative approaches to sustainable urban water management.
EXCELLENTIA_HE@excellentia.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

Working hard to distribute branch Wood equally across windthrow sites at the University Forest Enterprise, Mendel University in Brno. Testing for effects of different deadwood retention measures after stand replacing windthrows on soil processes, biodiversity conservation and tree regeneration
EXCELLENTIA_HE@excellentia.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

Ancient graveyard on mountain top in the middle of a beautiful mixed forest in Sarajevo Canton.