Mycorrhizal networks, Group Leader of @UnderstandEvo @Naturalis_Sci, Associate Prof. @IBED_UvA, Co-founder of @BINCOnpo, Science board of @diploidgenomics
Leiden, Netherlands
Joined October 2013
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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/s41467-0…
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➡️Our new🪳🦟🐛🌱🍃SPECIES INTERACTION NETWORK critique & analysis tips! Let's debate & let us know if you disagree! Ask for PDF via [email protected]
A Critical Evaluation of #Network Approaches for Studying Species #Interactions | Annual Reviews - go.shr.lc/4fph7q0
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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
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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
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📢 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
ALT Cover of New Phytologist 242:2. View of the soil mycorrhizal community in a hypothetical forest dominated by oak species associated with different types of mycorrhizal fungi that form separate underground networks (MN) that may possibly be used to transport amino acids, carbohydrates, fatty acids, signaling microRNAs or peptides and hormones.
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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
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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."
Our perspective: Mycoheterotrophy in the wood-wide web, just published in @NaturePlants
nature.com/articles/s41477-0…
A short 🧵👇
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Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy?
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Tiputinia foetida is an extremely rare insect pollinated parasitic plant that feeds on mycelium instead of photosynthesizing energy with chlorophyll. Known only from Ecuador and Peru, only three other observations of this species are on iNaturalist.
Pastaza, Ecuador – at Berkeley, CA
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New in @Nature, we show that commonly applied approaches have failed to accurately represent global trends in biodiversity. So what's the problem and what's the solution?
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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The wood wide web - the idea that trees communicate with each other through an underground fungal network – has enchanted the public.
But some ecologists think its scientific basis has been oversold go.nature.com/3vrZ0gS
Vincent Merckx retweeted
Thanks to all the participants for the enthusiasm and hard work during the 1st edition of our Microbiome Analysis Course @LeidenBiology organised by Martijn Bezemer, @Adam_Oss and myself supported by @SilvaNova_NNF @ScienceCluster .
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📢 Wij zoeken een postdoc voor een project (1.5 jaar) over de rol van bodemmanagement en het bodemmicrobioom voor de voedingswaarde van het gewas ui bij het IBL @LeidenBiology, @UniLeiden.
Geinteresseerd?
Neem contact op met Martijn Bezemer, [email protected]
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Our TerraDunes experiment was featured in @UniLeiden news 🍄🌳 @LeidenBiology @cml_biodiv
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shorturl.at/tCUYZ
Vincent Merckx retweeted
📢 Voor het NWO-KIC programma “Biodiversity and biotic stress primary production systems” zijn wij op zoek naar twee promovendi @UniLeiden met Prof. Martijn Bezemer in onze Above-Belowground Interactions groep @LeidenBiology
Zie de onderstaande details 👇
shorturl.at/nuyOZ
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Super excited about our new paper entitled ‘Convergence in carnivorous pitcher plants reveals a mechanism for composite trait evolution’ just out in @ScienceMagazine and featured on the cover!
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📢 Lab technician job alert 📢
Passionate about plants, insects and microbes? 🌳🐛🍄
Do you enjoy doing fieldwork, molecular and microbiology work?
✨ Join our @SilvaNova_NNF team @LeidenBiology! ✨
See details 👉 tiny.cc/5ggivz
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Found a couple plants of the amazing ghostwort (Aneura mirabilis) a few days ago at a site last recorded in 1988. Not the most photogenic examples I've seen of this mycoheteroptrophic liverwort but a thrill to see every time nonetheless.
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Congratulations for this amazing initiative at our partner institute @Naturalis_Sci which will develop a state-of-the-art #metabarcoding facility for the Netherlands👏🎉
🔥🔥🔥A leap forward for biodiversity monitoring in the Netherlands!!!
I am proud to announce that under my lead @Naturalis_Sci was awarded 18.5M€ to build a large DNA metabarcoding facility for rapid identification and monitoring of biodiversity (1/6)
rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nie…
