Vincent Merckx

Moving to the other side 🦋

@VMerckx is talking about carbon transfer in plants! @NetSciNL @TUeindhoven

Daisies in isolation 🌼🌻🏝️ Asteraceae is the most diverse plant family on oceanic islands and home to many spectacular island radiations. We explore the macroecology, drivers of diversity, and id many undiscovered radiations. 📰Paper in @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s4146…

➡️Our new🪳🦟🐛🌱🍃SPECIES INTERACTION NETWORK critique & analysis tips! Let's debate & let us know if you disagree! Ask for PDF via nico.bluethgen@web.de A Critical Evaluation of #Network Approaches for Studying Species #Interactions | Annual Reviews - go.shr.lc/4fph7q0

Excited to share the first manuscript 👇 of PhD candidate Kostas Georgopoulos @SilvaNova_NNF showing that root nodule density in alder trees decreases with increasing age of forest plantations. 🌳 @LeidenBiology @novonordiskfond sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Plenary Session 1️⃣ continues with our Keynote Speakers and Lightning Talk Presenters. Join us in the Hall A at 11:45 and don’t miss it out! @mycorrhiza_ims

And finishing up! Just in time to get to #ICOM12

The forest keeps on giving 🌳🍄

The @ERC_Research MIXOTROPH team in full force, mapping mycorrhizal interactions in tropical forests 🌳 🍄

@tlpcouvreur @ERC_Research Guyane

📢Two tenure-track researcher positions are available in our institute! ✨🧬🔬 More information: naturalis.nl/en/about-us/jo…

@notgaudi We are looking forward to welcome you here!

📢 Voor het bouwen van de nieuwe eDentity infrastructuur zijn we nu op zoek naar een ervaren Programma Manager! Wil jij een sleutelrol spelen bij het opzetten en operationaliseren van deze onderzoeksinfrastructuur? 👇 naturalis.nl/over-ons/werke…

A Friday afternoon treat! Extremely pleased to share our latest research just published @NewPhyt showing intergenerational transfer of carbon resources between green Dactylorhiza fuchsia #orchids and their protocorms via shared #mycorrhizal connections: doi.org/10.1111/nph.19… 🧵

📢 Announcing our latest SPECIAL ISSUE! Mycorrhizal research now: from the micro- to the macro-scale 📚 ow.ly/9PjG50RnNWi 🍄 The #mycorrhizal symbiosis: research frontiers 🍄 Microbe-dependent and independent nutrient acquisition 🍄 The #hyphosphere core #microbiome

Plant communication encompasses both aboveground and belowground interactions. A new #SciencePerspective argues for more research on what happens belowground, which has thus far received less exploration. scim.ag/6II

New Perspective: "Mycoheterotrophy in the wood-wide web" rdcu.be/dFvnV "The prevalence and potential functions of common mycorrhizal networks have been increasingly capturing the interest of science and society, sometimes leading to hyperbole and misinterpretation."

Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy? theguardian.com/environment/20…