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!🍀🌸🪰

This week we are busy setting up new experiments but also 🍻three excellent BSc defences on exciting topics - testing #AMFinder and intraspecific variation in #root exudation and #PlantSoilfeedbacks! 🌧️ tried to spoil our barbecue, so we had to hide in a corridor ☔️

Tähelepanu, orhitee! 🤭 This week, we were introducing teabags to our blooming BugNet sites. Beautiful tea time! 😍

Oh boy, what a July! 🤯Collected data to evaluate the impact of non-native plants on soil communities🧐, carried out a field course👩‍🎓 and completed yearly surveys of two BugNet sites🐛. Still sane only because of the best team Plant Ecology UT 🧡

Amazing talks today at #ICOM12! Prof. Katie Field demonstrating how herbivory determines carbon flow to AM fungi, legendary James Bever showing how the spatial structure of AM fungi determines mutualism success 🧱 and Nancy Johnson highlighting the importance of local adaptation.🤓

Yuying Jing presented first results from our #PlantSoilAdapt European Research Council (ERC) project about how grassland age affects #drought resilience at #SERE2024 🤩 Excellent talk and so proud of our team! Plant Ecology UT HonorPrentice

Really interesting session at #SERE24 about considering genetic diversity in nature restoration including first talk at an international conference by Anastasia Tõnisson about effects of grassland grazing abandonment! 🤩💪European Research Council (ERC) Landscape Biodiversity Lab

It was great pleasure to host Prof. Dave Johnson in Tartu and hear about the latest research on mycorrhizal networks! Especially discussing who is in control, too often we assume that plants are 🧐 Soil Ecology Lab UoM

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! 👩‍🎓

So fresh that I had to hang it! Our paper exploring the relationship between past natural habitats and AM fungal diversity is now out 🌱📈🌐🍄 Macroecology UT and @.allcoauthors Check more in: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… (Si lo dejo secando se hara cecina? )

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

Invited to talk about belowground interactions to artists! 🤔PLEASE share nice visual resources about roots/mycorrhizae/other good and bad guys in the soil that would inspire 👩‍🎨

It’s out!! We subjected soils from 30 different locations across Europe to extreme events and found that soil fungal and bacterial communities showed consistent responses that could be predicted from their origin! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Festive mood and Bluesky account activated. Happy holidays 🎄 bsky.app/profile/kkoore…