Dr. Monika Gorzelak

アーバスキュラー菌根菌の一種、Rhizophagus clarus これぞ厚膜胞子(chlamydospore)って感じ。 ガラス細工のようで綺麗なのです。 invam.ku.edu/clarus

Mycorrhizal Networks as Symbiotic Support Systems for Plant Growth and Plant Diversity. This great 35-year old Nature paper by Grime, David Read et al. fascinated me so much that I started to study the mycorrhizal symbiosis! – Still highly relevant! MvdH nature.com/articles/32842…

I was aiming north right for your bitch ass

*gestures to my unmown yard* "I'm choosing to let my yard grow wild, to help the pollinators." *waves at a stack of dirty dishes* "This, too, is for the pollinators." *trips over a pile of dirty laundry" "Pollinators."

Still a useful chart, for shore

🌟Now on the @cdnsciencepub home page! Editor’s Choice: The story of long-term research sites and soil health in Canadian agriculture, Cdn. J. #SoilScience. Congratulations to all the authors! doi.org/10.1139/cjss-2… Charlotte E. Norris, Monika Gorzelak @IronMonika 1/

Today’s #OfficeFindFriday is a new addition and a personal one. I was honoured to receive the Outstanding Weed Scientist, Early Career award for the public sector from @WSWeedSci at the start of March. Thank you to @charlesmgeddes for nominating me and colleagues for (1/2)

Do you want to know why we are so fascinated by the #symbiosis between #mycorrhizal #fungi and land plants? Have a look at this picture. Left a grassland microcosm inoculated with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and right a microcosm without. Initially they were exactly the same!

Abundance dies twice - in the field, and in memory. One of the greatest struggles facing all restoration-initiatives in conservation is the tyranny of low expectations. People begin complaining about beavers or wolves being overpopulated once their numbers reach over 1/80 km^2

It started as a "hmm that's curious" observation of native shrubs inhibiting pine growth and has led to a cool story (authors.elsevier.com/c/1ggGs3JGmRIr…) - we found that both metabolites and microbes influenced by the heath repressed mycorrhizal fungal development necessary for pine growth

Obituary: Alma Dal Co (1989–2022) A visionary and interdisciplinary scientist who brought a fearless passion to everything she did, inspiring all those around her. nature.com/articles/s4155…

Researchers have discovered the first known "virovore," an organism that feeds on viruses. Probably there are many others like it -- an entire, previously unknown food chain. One day into 2023, and already things are going topsy turvy. eurekalert.org/news-releases/… #ecology #life

Dr. Yvonne Lawley with @umanitoba sharing her knowledge on Cover Crops for the Prairies @YvonneLawley_UM #ABSoilGrazing22

Dr. Monika Gorzelak, Soil Fertility Scientist with @AAFC_Canada. Communication Through Mycorrhizal Networks. @IronMonika #ABSoilGrazing22

@cameronpegan @KAleklett I stand by the naming choice and ensuing hilarity

@KAleklett @IronMonika 😂

When setting up our PI’s lab in grad school we named all the equipment after characters from Arrested Development. It lead to some confusion when Dr. Tobias Fünke (the -80) started to defrost in the middle of the night…

@ftmaestre @mikebadz7 @GlobalChangeBio For someone who has read a paper or two about old trees, this is not surprising, but it really can feel unexpected especially thinking about replanted forests and how how quickly seedlings grow and therefore must be sucking up CO2, right? Right???!

It`s time to burry Odum´s hypothesis that old natural forests are in some kind of steady state and no longer act as carbon sinks. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Today is the Early Bird Deadline for #ABSoilGrazing22!! Don't miss out on renowned speakers like @herdyshepherd1, @glomalin, @FoodH2Owell, @YvonneLawley_UM, @helgason_bobbi, @DarylChubb, @IronMonika, and many more! Register now at absoilgrazing.com/registration

@SE_ResearchFarm This floats my boat. Curious to see what you find.

Super neat thing: this was an N15 microplot project. We used a tracer nitrogen so we can detect atmospheric nitrogen in the non-legume. It could indicate N sharing between the intercrops of peas with oat or canola.