This is how the belowground friendship can look like! In the picture you see the fungus Lactarius camphoratus that forms a white sheath around the roots of an oak tree 🌳. [3/6]

Another favorite: Elisabeth Bönisch
📃Does plant biodiversity influence nutrient cycles?
🔎Why: Every organism needs nutrients to live - plants, animals & humans. To understand how these nutrients (for example nitrogen and phosphorus) travel through our ecosystems is important...

Nearly all plants on Earth form a symbiosis with mycorrhizal fungi. Mycorrhizal fungi grow into large networks of tubular cells, known as mycelium, that forage for nutrients in the soil and exchange them with their plant partners. [5/6]

Protecting #soilbiodiversity is essential for the long-term #sustainability of our #ecosystems and global #foodsecurity .

#WorkingForABetterTomorrow !

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New #Soil #Biodiversity Translating SoilBiodiversity articles for #kids translated to
#Serbian 2
#French 1
#German 1
Learn about #earthworms #deadwood #microplastics & #FunctionalTraits

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iDiv Biodiversity Research Universität Würzburg #UniWürzburg Frontiers for Young Minds

iDiv Biodiversity Research Translating SoilBiodiversity Marie Sünnemann Romy Zeiss

iDiv at #SPIN2030 - a science festival that took place in Dresden on 8 & 9 March. We are still overwhelmed how many people were interested in science and (soil) #biodiversity ! Translating SoilBiodiversity

Malte Jochum Translating SoilBiodiversity Frontiers for Young Minds iDiv Biodiversity Research Elisabeth Bönisch Romy Zeiss Rémy Beugnon Helen Phillips Thank you!

Link to the collection iDiv Biodiversity Research: idiv.de/de/young-minds…

Link to the English articles Frontiers for Young Minds: kids.frontiersin.org/collections/11…

With the decline of biodiversity nitrogen and phosphorus cycling might become less efficient → ecosystems will be less capable of keeping and recycling nitrogen and phosphorus

Link to the article: idiv.de/de/young-minds…

A single gram of soil can contain up to 90 metres of mycelium 😮 and he total length of mycorrhizal mycelium in the top 10 cm of soil is around 450 quadrillion kilometres: around half the width of our galaxy. 🌌🚀

Link to the article: idiv.de/de/young-minds…

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Translating SoilBiodiversity Frontiers for Young Minds iDiv Biodiversity Research Elisabeth Bönisch Romy Zeiss Malte Jochum Rémy Beugnon Helen Phillips :) How can you become a translator?

Link to the full collection iDiv Biodiversity Research : idiv.de/de/young-minds…

Link to the original article collection Frontiers for Young Minds : kids.frontiersin.org/collections/11…

Malte Jochum Soil Biodiversity Translating SoilBiodiversity iDiv Biodiversity Research Eisenhauer Lab Is there some needs for French translation?

Inspiring children around the globe to learn about #soil #diversity - that is the aim of an initiative launched by Malte Jochum, an #ecologist at JMU. (📷 2022 Olivia Azevedo and Frank Ashwood/frym.2022.652660) Translating SoilBiodiversity Global Change Ecology Group @Uni_WUE iDiv Biodiversity Research
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... to understand how the ecosystems we live in work ⚙️.
The Problem: With continued global changes, more species will be lost 💀 from ecosystems and biodiversity will continue to decline 📉.

Trees and special fungi 🍄are like best buddies 🫂 and can form a symbiosis, called mycorrhiza, where they help each other out 🤝, and that's just so nice. [2/6]

The trees give the fungi sweet sugars, like yummy treats 🍬, and in return, the fungi bring water 🫧 and important nutrients to the tree's roots. Also this symbiosis is diverse, as multiple fungal and plant identities can be friends 🫂 with each other. [4/6]

Huge congrats to Elisabeth Bönisch & Romy Zeiss from team Translating SoilBiodiversity for winning the iDiv Biodiversity Research Science Communication Prize! Well deserved! Thanks a lot for your very valuable work for this project!

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