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#GoBelowground 2026 is over, and what a great course it was! 🌱🔬
Thank you to all participants, lecturers and helpers for the energy, ideas, discussions and great atmosphere throughout the week #GoBelowground! 💚
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September 21, 2026 at 9:07 AM
exfumo.bsky.social
📢 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
Drawing by Curtis Lubbe
January 14, 2026 at 10:51 AM
exfumo.bsky.social
🚩Sometimes the history of #landscape is hidden belowground. #Growthrings and #radiocarbon dating show that Psidium grandifolium survived for decades beneath Pinus plantations, waiting to #resprout when conditions improved #GoBelowground #Cerrado #ExFuMo
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September 18, 2026 at 7:42 AM
joanabergmann.bsky.social
#GoBelowground features our recent revisiting of the RES ☺️
#root #collaboration @zalf.bsky.social
exfumo.bsky.social Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · Apr 23
🚩Throwing a birthday party for a five-year old – and what that tells us about root functioning
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Root Economics Space was born! 🎉
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #root #functional #ecology #concept #spectrum #strategy #plant
April 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
wile-phylote.bsky.social
Hope this lovely, short paper helps to lighten your dark day(s)! Open Access, too!

Title says it all :-)

#GoBelowground #Geophytes #BulbousLab 🧅🪻🧅🌷🧅
January 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
ibotcz.bsky.social
What’s the coolest thing about belowground organs? 🌱 Our Go Belowground 2026 participants will tell you! 👀 ⬇️ #GoBelowground #GoBelowground2026 @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social @exfumo.bsky.social
September 20, 2026 at 12:14 PM
wile-phylote.bsky.social
Compass plants have the deepest AND most aggravating rhizome I’ve ever attempted to excavate. Not dig, EXCAVATE! Quite impressive. #GoBelowground
July 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
exfumo.bsky.social
The 4th day of #GoBelowground course of belowground functional ecology #Buds #Storage #Fineroots #Clonality #Rhizome #Stolone #Traits #Economy #Strategy #Methods #FunctionalTraits Collaborate, share, discuss🧐
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September 18, 2026 at 7:55 AM
exfumo.bsky.social
The 5th day of #GoBelowground was all about mini-projects #Buds #Storage #FineRoots #Clonality #Rhizome #Stolon #Traits #FunctionalTraits #PlantEcology
Explore, measure, interpret and turn belowground traits into ecological stories.
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September 21, 2026 at 9:04 AM
exfumo.bsky.social
The 2st day of #GoBelowground course of belowground functional ecology #FineRoots #Anatomy #Crosssections #Storage #Mycorrhiza #Traits #Economy #Strategy Happy smilling belowground people 😀
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September 15, 2026 at 3:35 PM
exfumo.bsky.social
The beauty of storage! A new contribution on the blog.
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Photographs courtesy of artist Beth Galton www.bethgalton.com
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #art
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April 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
exfumo.bsky.social
The 1st day of #GoBelowground course of belowground functional ecology #Clonality #ClonalOrgans #Strategies #GrowthForms #functions #traits
17 enthusiastic people from around the world!
#ExFuMo @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social
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September 15, 2026 at 3:25 PM
leticiagiacom.bsky.social
attending to #GoBelowground this week! meeting so many nice people and already learned so much within these two days. excited for the rest of the week 🤩
September 16, 2025 at 10:02 PM
exfumo.bsky.social
"Go Belowground!" 2025 is here! 14 – 20 September 2025 🌸🪻🪴
Applications ▶️ klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/go-belowgrou...
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#GoBelowground #ExFuMo
February 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
exfumo.bsky.social
The 3st day of #GoBelowground course of belowground functional ecology #Carbohydrates #Storage #StorageOrgans #Clonality #Rhizome #Buds #Stolone #Traits #Economy #Strategy Curiosity always wins😀 #ExFuMo
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September 17, 2026 at 7:46 AM
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 #traits #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #functional #course
March 5, 2026 at 9:39 AM
ibotcz.bsky.social
🌱 Go Belowground course - everything you ever wanted to know about belowground plant organs! Theory, experiments and hands-on fieldwork. Add the breathtaking landscape of the Novohradské Mountains, top experts and a greate international crew - and that’s #GoBelowground 2026. 🌿🔬⛰️
September 19, 2026 at 7:55 PM
exfumo.bsky.social
🌴🌲🌾Plant Bodies are here! A new book by @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social
Do You Want to Know How Plant Structures Contribute to Our Comprehension of Their Life-History Strategy?
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#morphology #architecture #ecology #GoBelowground #ExFuMo @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
exfumo.bsky.social
Going belowground in search of #Oxalis in #Brazil! From #waterfall #rocks to dry #roadsides, these plants reveal an amazing diversity of #bulbs, #rhizomes, and #clonal #strategies #GoBelowground #ExFuMo
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August 31, 2026 at 11:30 AM
exfumo.bsky.social
🌱How do we study #seeds hidden in the #soil? This poster introduces the main methods to explore the #seedbank, from #germination #experiments to seed extraction, and shows what each approach can tell us.
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#GoBelowground #ExFuMo @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social
July 8, 2026 at 11:55 AM
wile-phylote.bsky.social
🚨🧅🚨 YOU CAN BUILD YOUR OWN BULBS with this gorgeously illustrated activity 🚨🧅🚨

#Geophytes #GoBelowground #Bulbs #IAmABotanist 🧪🌾
March 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
ibotcz.bsky.social
🌍 Meet this year’s belowground crew – and find out what brought them to #GoBelowground course!

👇Students from different countries have come to the Novohradské hory/Mountains to explore plants from a different perspective – belowground. @czechacademy.bsky.social
September 18, 2026 at 10:28 AM
exfumo.bsky.social
#GoBelowground is going international again! 🇧🇷
This time we go to Brazil. #Functional #morphology #course Go Belowground! will bring students together to explore #storage organs, #clonal plants, and the hidden half of #plant life.
#ExFuMo #ecology @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social
April 28, 2026 at 9:39 AM
exfumo.bsky.social
🌼🌸Flowers, leaves, bulbs, and evolution: Researchers unite for a whole plant perspective
Oxalis plants are charismatic, perfectly suited for science to meet arts
Blog ▶️https://1url.cz/o1CjE

#Oxalis #evolution #DNA #JAR #flowers #leaf #bulb #ecology #Africa #polyploidy #storage #GoBelowground
November 27, 2024 at 9:50 AM
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 #traits #GoBelowground #ExFuMo
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December 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM