One of the first lake sites we were coring in Czechia back in 2015. Now mission accomplished. doi.org/10.1111/jbi.... What is behind these forests long-term stability? 🌲🔥🦠

The launch of a new European Plant Macrofossil Database (EuPlaMaDa) on the #Neotoma platform, as one of the key outputs of the COST Action #PalaeOpen, promises a significant step forward for palaeoecological research in Europe🥳 We welcome new volunteers to help with plant macrofossil data upload🤝

Two very successful PhD defences in #paleorudolph lab. Amanda Mateo Beneito explored multi proxy climate reconstruction and it's effect on vegetation dynamics. Kristýna Hošková paved new avenues in phytolith analysis and its use in environment reconstruction. Both with cum laude, congratulations!

Returning to Šumava's lakes to study recent <200 years bark beetle disturbances with @damienrius.bsky.social and @cecileremy.bsky.social 🌲🪲

Coring lakes un the Sumava mountains, Czech Republic, with @petrkunes.bsky.social and @cecileremy.bsky.social, to track past bark beetles outbreaks!

The first open science meeting of our new COST action happens in Prague in July! We want to attract all kinds of proxies 🐘🌲🐛🪲🔥🥀🧪🌾❄️🦠 - signup this week to get funding #PalaeOpen palaeopen.github.io/events/pragu...

Beginners' mistake: how can we recover sediment traps from the centre of this lake via very unstable ice? Nice excursion though ❄️💧☀️🔥🌲#biomarkers

Come to study Ph.D. at our department!

Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳@ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 2y ago

Exciting opportunity! 🌱Join our Lab of Quantitative Ecology at Charles University, Prague! 🇨🇿 Fully funded PhD in Functional Vegetation Paleoecology. 📅Start October 2025 - Apply by January 15 Details: bit.ly/PhD_Function...

Our new study out in @ScienceAdvances shows human presence in Tasmania at least 41,600 years ago, nearly 2000 years earlier than previously thought, and Aboriginal people burned and used wet forests. Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Landscape burning facilitated Aboriginal migration into Lutruwita/Tasmania 41,600 years ago

Paleoecological records show that Aboriginal people burned wet forest to first settle in Tasmania 41,600 years ago.

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Spending wonderful time in Tasmanian alpine zone looking for Psychrophilla (Caltha) and some peat with @lydiamackenzie.bsky.social