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Our new article in Science Advances, led by Gabriele Midolo, identifies the main factors driving changes in the species composition of plant communities across Europe: eutrophication, denser, more productive vegetation, and drying of wetlands. doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…

Sexual selection and reproductive success in mesocosm populations of African annual killifish doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70… @fish_jakub_zak

OSCARS (Open Science Clusters' Action for Research & Society) is funded by European Commission’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme oscars-project.eu. Check out poster doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… and the first-year project results czechveg.github.io

Last week Martin Večeřa participated in 2nd OSCARS Annual General Meeting in Seville. He presented interim results of project Implementing FAIR principles in European Vegetation Archive data (EVA-FAIR).

By applying FEVER index we reconstructed how Central European wetlands evolved through time: Early periods: dominated by aquatic habitats and fens, Middle Holocene: expansion of waterlogged forests and bogs, Last 2,000 years: return of open fens and rise of wet grasslands.

What did Europe’s wetlands look like 15,000 years ago and how have they become what we see today?🌿 Our new study introduces a way to identify entire past habitats using plant macrofossils and large vegetation databases @VegetPaleo @Science_USB @CTS_uk_av doi.org/10.1016/j.gecc…

Záznam mé přednášky z Pražského hradu byl zveřejněn na YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=HLjXlL…

After publishing species occurrence data in GBIF, we have now also made available online 117,739 vegetation plots from the Czech Vegetation Database in CSV and Turboveg formats, complemented with a data processing tutorial. czechveg.github.io

Even a slight deterioration in the conservation status of our small Sphagnum fens can be seen from space – can we use this in their monitoring? doi.org/10.1002/rse2.7… #Fens #Remotesensing #Biodiversity #Climateimpact #Natureconservation

We have just published 2,474,166 records of plant species occurrences from the Czech Vegetation Database in GBIF: doi.org/10.15468/94bfqd These records represent 74% of the plant occurrence data and 30% of all organism occurrence data in the GBIF database for the Czech Republic.

We are proud of Martin Večeřa, who received TACR project from Environment for life 2 program called Steppic grasslands of Southern Moravia – an analysis of current state, development, and resources for ecological restoration tacr.gov.cz/program-prostr… #botany #grassland #Moravia

In two webinars on 13 and 27 March, we will present tools for open publishing of vegetation data, using the example of the Czech Vegetation Database (>117,000 vegetation plots), which goes fully open! Registration for 17 March: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

A new paper led by Joshua Erkelenz has been published in the Journal of Vegetation Science! We showed how elevation, slope aspect, and tree canopy filter the understory functional composition in broadleaved forests in the Apennines. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jv…

Interested in a PhD in European wetland flora and vegetation? See details here: dropbox.com/scl/fi/r5ob6sc…

New interactive global maps of 31 plant traits were prepared by Daniel Lusk, based on plant distribution data from GBIF and sPlot, plant trait data from TRY, and various satellite-based products. Map viewer: global-traits.projects.earthengine.app/view/global-tr… Article: doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Publikace přináší ucelený pohled na vegetaci, druhovou pestrost a vývoj lesostepních luk na okraji Karpat od konce poslední doby ledové až po současnost. Opírá se o rozsáhlý terénní výzkum, dlouhodobá data i kritickou syntézu dosavadních poznatků. academiaknihy.cz/book/cards-en-…

Právě vyšla monografie Karpatské lesostepní louky, která se věnuje jednomu z nejbohatších ekosystémů střední Evropy. Autorem knihy je Jan Roleček s kolektivem autorů z Botanického ústavu AV ČR, Masarykovy univerzity a dalších českých univerzit. @NaklAcademia @IBOTCZ

In our new article in Nature Cities, led by Susanne Tautenhahn, we used our recently published European datasets of plant indicator values, linked them to citizen science data, and mapped environmental conditions for Europe and 326 European cities. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s44284…

🐾 Divoká příroda nezmizela. Jen se přesunula blíž k nám. Podívejte se na nový dokumentární cyklus, který ukazuje střety lidí a zvířat na silnicích, ve městech i v krajině rozdělené infrastrukturou. @CzechTV #vzpoura_zvirat ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1646346…

Current protected areas provide limited benefits for European river biodiversity. Read more: nature.com/articles/s4146… @rstubbington @JukkaAroviita @NaturePortfolio #biodiversity #hydrobiology #river