Interested in plant functional traits? Or just in traits of any organism? Check our discussion in nature on how trait selection influences (or not) the characteristics of synthetic functional spaces like the global spectrum of plant form and function: rdcu.be/dfA5P

What a busy week refreshing our knowledge about sedges and grasses 🌾, doing annual measurements of BugNet site and harvesting photometer plants 🌱 (or what's left of them 🐐 🐌 ).

Kicking off the semester with a new #PhD student👨‍🎓Meet Philemon Gyamfi, who will explore multi-trophic #interactions in invaded plant communities 🦠🌱🪳 during the next 4 years. Have wonderful discoveries in the science and beyond, Philemon!

GlobalAMFungi: a global database of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal occurrences from high-throughput sequencing metabarcoding studies Větrovský et al. GlobalFungi Petr Kohout Petr Baldrian Maarja Öpik 📖 ow.ly/jUBJ50PRR7S

We had a lot of fun last week cooking dinner together, going for a hike, doing team training and learning more about each other with Plant Ecology UT With warm memories into the new week!

Do you have a PhD, your topic is related to plants or soil and you are looking for new challenges?🧐 Come join us Plant Evolutionary Ecology lab! We are almost at full swing with nice people and some of the research established but plenty of more to discocer European Research Council (ERC) project!

#TansleyReview: Symbiont plasticity as a driver of plant success Zobel et al. Plant Ecology UT Plant Evolutionary Ecology lab 📖 ow.ly/6r2H50QxPsg

Precisely ONE WEEK ❗️to apply for a post-doc position in our department! If you love 💚🤎interactions between plants and soil communities, this can perfectly match you. ⬇️

We are reopening a search for a postdoc in my group. I am looking for a curious person with an interest in plant-soil / plant-insect interactions to join our large and diverse team (research-groups.usask.ca/bennett-lab). 1/4

Over the past few days, we took the opportunity to explore the beautiful habitats and ☀️ weather in the best company. Now fully charged for the field season! 💪 Let the summer begin!🍀🌸🪰

Yesterday, Mari and Martin hosted the 15th traditional garden party🍓🧀 for their closest colleagues. Last year, they received a beautiful home award from the Estonian president for their species rich and beautiful garden 🍾 what an inspiration!🪻🐞

It's been a great joy to host Prof. David Johnson Soil Ecology Lab UoM over past days in ☀️🍃 Estonia and wittness my first PhD student getting a PhD! Thank you both for the cheerful and stimulating discussio and congratulations Dr. Liu! 👩‍🎓

Time to find and measure nearly 1000 plants that we transplanted across 22 sites in spring! Beautiful weather and grasslands 🤩 #local_adaptation European Research Council (ERC) Plant Ecology UT Siim-Kaarel Sepp

Very excited to harvest our first ever experiment combining arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal 🌱🌲White Briza roots, brown pine root tip and ECM hyphae everywhere 🤩 European Research Council (ERC)

Soil microbial response to extreme events across Europe - some core responses are in common but depends a lot on where the soil comes from! This was a huge effort from the core team, so happy to see it out ! 👏