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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tým botaniků, bryologů a mykologů v čele s experty z Ústavu botaniky a zoologie zveřejnil kritický checklist rašeliništních specialistů ČR podle jednotlivých biotopů. S využitím historických floristických dat rekonstruovali dřívější rozšíření rašeliništních biotopů. www.preslia.cz/article/11597

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Our new study, which has just been published in mBio, presents Cryptonaiada temporaria – the first known gregarine to have evolved to parasitise vertebrates. @mbio.bsky.social #Apicomplexa #Gregarines #Parasitology #Evolution #mBio #Cryptonaiada journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Noc vědy už tento pátek! Stavte se za námi v Univerzitním kampusu Bohunice (pavilony D31 a D32). @masarykuniversity.bsky.social #EuropeanResearchersNight #NocVedcu #NocVedy #Brno

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Milan Chytrý se zúčastnil Dne pro životní prostředí na zámku v Lánech, kde na pozvání prezidenta Petra Pavla diskutovali vědci, zemědělci, lesníci, pracovníci nevládních center ekologické výchovy a influenceři o hlavních výzvách a možných řešeních pro zlepšení stavu přírody a životního prostředí.

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

After longterm research our botanists have published a comprehensive study on the remarkable endemic plants found in Balkan wetlands. They have compiled an original dataset on wetland vegetation in nine countries where Balkan endemics and subendemics are found. Read more: doi.org/10.1111/plb....

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Forest Herb-Layer Species Richness in Western Balkan Diversity Hotspot. First article based on our extensive fieldwork in Montenegro with group of Masaryk Uni students has just been published in the Journal of Vegetation Science. doi.org/10.1111/jvs.... @jvs-avs.bsky.social @milanchytry.bsky.social

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Hidden changes in rocky dry grasslands of the Dyje/Thaya River Valley. By revisiting vegetation plots 30 years after original survey, we discovered that these seemingly untouched habitats are changing. Read more: doi.org/10.23855/pre... @preslia.cz #podyji #thayavalley #drygrassland #vegetation

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Centurial Degradation of Insect Diversity in Lowland Rivers: Partial Recovery but Restructuration onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @chmi-cz.bsky.social @narodnimuzeum.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy @akademievedcr.bsky.social

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

We are proud to celebrate Dean’s Awards 2025/2026 at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University. Congratulations to B. Pavlíčková, J. Rohel, E. Nosková, R. Míč and M. Horsák on this well-deserved recognition. We are delighted to see their talent, dedication, and achievements acknowledged.

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Does it matter how a tree dies? Yes! Our research in the Biological Conservation journal shows that trees that die standing and fall years later host significantly more fungal species than trees that are uprooted while alive. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... #mycology #forest #deadwood #bluecat

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Congratulations to Jan Roleček for Presl Brothers Award for his book about Carpathian meadows @paleoibot.bsky.social #carpathian #meadows #botany

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

V Evropě přibylo rostlin, které upřednostňují dusíkatou půdu. Výzkum založený na stovkách tisíc lokalit ukazuje, že intenzivní hospodaření a hnojení zásadně mění podobu krajiny napříč kontinentem. ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/clanek/veda/...

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Congratulations to Kristina Svobodová and @fishjakub.bsky.social to 2025 Živa Awards ziva.avcr.cz/aktuality/20...

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Sexual selection and reproductive success in mesocosm populations of African annual killifish doi.org/10.1111/jfb.... @fishjakub.bsky.social

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Last week Martin Večeřa participated in 2nd OSCARS Annual General Meeting in Seville Spain, where he presented interim results of project Implementing FAIR principles in European Vegetation Archive data (EVA-FAIR) supported within Open Science Clusters' Action for Research&Society oscars-project.eu

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

What did Europe’s wetlands look like 15,000 years ago and how have they become what we see today? 🌿 Our new study introduces a way to identify entire past habitats, using plant macrofossils and large vegetation databases. doi.org/10.1016/j.ge... @paleoibot.bsky.social @sciencecharles.bsky.social

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

A new paper led by Joshua Erkelenz has been published in the Journal of Vegetation Science! We showed how elevation, slope aspect, and tree canopy filter the understory functional composition in broadleaved forests in the Apennines. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Publikace přináší ucelený pohled na vegetaci, druhovou pestrost a vývoj lesostepních luk na okraji Karpat od konce poslední doby ledové až po současnost. Opírá se o rozsáhlý terénní výzkum, dlouhodobá data i kritickou syntézu dosavadních poznatků. www.academiaknihy.cz/book/cards-e...

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Current protected areas provide limited benefits for European river biodiversity. Read more: nature.com/articles/s41... @rstubbington.bsky.social @natureportfolio.nature.com #biodiversity #hydrobiology #river

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

We are proud of our colleague Zdeňka Lososová, she was awarded with MUNI Scientist prize. @masarykuniversity.bsky.social www.sci.muni.cz/en/current-n...

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Our botanists fianlly discovered "flowering" tetraploid ginkgo tree (with four sets of chromosomes). Using pollen from this plant, they performed controlled crossbreeding with common diploid female plants and obtained four new triploid plants—the first in this species! doi.org/10.1016/j.in...

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Gratulujeme Milanovi Chytrému k Ceně ministra školství, mládeže a tělovýchovy za vynikající vzdělávací činnost na vysoké škole! Kromě toho, že je špičkovým vědcem v oblasti ekologie a botaniky, je i inspirativním učitelem, který dokáže nadchnout své studenty. www.em.muni.cz/udalosti/183...

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Symposium on Fish Mating Systems (Czechia, 21-23 Jan 2026): REGISTRATION NOW OPEN at fish.ivb.cz/registration/ Plenary talks by Suzanne Alonzo, John Fitzpatrick, and Chiara Benvenuto. @ivb-cas.bsky.social

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

New study in which our colleagues were involved shows that landscapes with ≈ 60 % unmanaged forests + 40 % intensively managed forests maximise multitaxonomic biodiversity (birds, plants, fungi, lichens, etc.). Read more 👀: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Our hydrobiologists observed ephemeral wetlands on arable land which belong to of the last fish-free aquatic habitats that have the potential to serve as refugia for regionally rare zooplankton species. What did they found: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Česká krajina dál trpí nedostatkem vody a toky vysychají. Hydrobiolog Petr Pařil upozorňuje, že ubývá i prostor pro vodní živočichy. S úbytkem vody mizí druhová pestrost a ekosystémy jsou stále zranitelnější s dlouhodobými následky pro všechny. Reportáž ČT zde: www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10971...

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Our students collected awards in student competition at the Limnospol conference. The award for the best lecture went to Dominik Pliska, the award for the 1st best poster to Erika Skříšovská and for the 3rd best poster to Matěj Kořínek. Congratulations to everyone! #award #wetlands #hydrobiology

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Iceland, the land of volcanoes and elves hides more than it seems. Our zoologists have discovered wetland snails which were spread by birds from Europe. Many species are cumulated in the warmest areas, which are under human pressure. Read more here: brill.com/view/journal... #malacology #Iceland

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

In abandoned sandpit near Železná Ruda in Šumava Mts, Czech scientists discovered a new species of Czech funga - Multiclavula corynoides, a lichenised fungus with unicellular algae of the genus Elliptochloris inside. Read more: czechmycology.org/article/77103 @czechacademy.bsky.social #lichens

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Hydnoids, well-known Czech fungi? Not quite. A new study by a Czech team (including Dvořák & Hrouda from MUNI) provides the first complete DNA-based checklist of Czech stipitate hydnoids. #mycology #houby #fungi

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

V časopise Ochrana přírody vychází první výsledky výzkumu našich hydrobiologů o přínosu budování tůní v nížinné zemědělské krajině. Nevhodně vybudované tůně ničí revitalizační potenciál a násobí degradaci přírodních stanovišť. #hydrobiology #biodiversity www.casopis.ochranaprirody.cz/pece-o-priro...

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Our malacologists have just published the results of an extensive survey of land snails in the Faroe Islands.They confirmed the presence of all previously known species, but also discovered several new ones - not only on particular islands, but also for the whole archipelago.

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Our hydrobiologists analysed changes in the distribution of aquatic invertebrates in 65 pristine Czech rivers between 1997-2015. #hydrobiology #invertebrates #rivers #species_richness

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

We are proud of our PhD student Kristýna Kuklová. She was awarded by Brno PhD talent. She is involved in the development of advanced metagenomic methods for the analysis of environmental DNA to identify ancient parasites. www.em.muni.cz/udalosti/179... #JCMM #science #biology #parasitology

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Meloe is eating the flowering Pulsatilla. Natural interference of one endangered species with the reproduction of another endangered species. Read more about monitoring of Pulsatilla populations: www.preslia.cz/article/pdf?... Photo P. Dundek #botany #Pulsatilla #biodiversity #umbrella_species

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Jaro klepe na dveře: Vyrážíme znovu do terénu. Připravili jsme pokusné plochy pro Terénní cvičení z geobotaniky. V Jamolicích budeme sledovat dlouhodobé změny vegetace vlivem vypalování a narušování drnu. #botany #field #study_at_MUNI

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Nabídka práce: Botanický ústav AV ČR hledá vedoucího průhonického herbáře. Pozice bude otevřena do obsazení, první pohovory jsou plánovány na 13. března 2025. www.ibot.cas.cz/cs/vacancies... #botany, #job, #herbarium

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The experiment was done at multiple sites covering the principal environmental gradients in Central Europe. We have also shown that Rhinanthus change the structure of arthropod communities. The use of Rhinanthus in ecological restoration is now supported by compelling experimental evidence.

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Calamagrostis epigejos, is a nasty expansive grass encroaching European grasslands. In a new research paper, we have demonstrated the ability of Rhinanthus hemiparasitic plants to suppress the grass, enhance diversity and restore high-nature-value grasslands. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kSR614Z6t...

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Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk Uni @botzool.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Už jen do neděle 12. 1. 2025 se můžete registrovat na oblíbenou konferenci Zoologické dny. Nenechte si tuto výjimečnou událost ujít! www.ivb.cz/vyzkum/zoolo... #zoodny #konference #brno #ivb #muni @czechacademy.bsky.social‬

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