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Jitka Klimesova

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Ecologist, Institute of Botany Czech Academy of Science, functional morphology of plants, plant architecture & lino cut klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/jitka-… Plant Bodies link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-…

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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 8h
(New on the Belowground blog) Beyond tree rings: The hidden history of long-lived herbs plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/b...
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Beyond tree rings: The hidden history of long-lived herbs
New research by Jan Binter from the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and the University of South Bohemia. The image above shows an anatomical cross-section of Dryas integrifoli…
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 21h
#Inktober2026 (6.10.2026) Každý den jedna kresba na téma: inktober.com/rules
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#Inktober2026 (5.10.2026) Každý den jedna kresba na téma: inktober.com/rules
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#Inktober2026 (4.10.2026) Každý den jedna kresba na téma: inktober.com/rules
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#Inktober2026 (3.10.2026) Každý den jedna kresba na téma: inktober.com/rules
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#Inktober2026 (2.10.2026) Každý den jedna kresba na téma: inktober.com/rules
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#Inktober2026 (1.10.2026) Každý den jedna kresba na téma: inktober.com/rules
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New on the Belowground blog: Tuberous inspiration plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Tuberous inspiration
Illustrations, photos, and commentary by F. Curtis Lubbe from the institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The illustration above features a relatively realistic image of the belowgrou…
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please pass along: I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab. We study physical ecology, macroecology, and biodiversity — spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested 🧪🌐🌾
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Užitá grafika klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Užitá grafika
Dnes jsem navštívila výstavy Alšovi jihočeské galerie v Hluboké nad Vltavou. V jízdárně zámku jsou obvykle tři výstavy současně. Mým cílem byla výstava grafiky Jana Vičara a jeho velkofor…
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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What makes #Triffid a plant and what makes it almost not a plant at all? In the third #Belowground post @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social dissects #morphology #movement #carnivory and #invasive potential of the most famous fictional plant 🪴 ▶️ 1url.cz/aeXTp #ExFuMo #GoBelowground @ibotcz.bsky.social
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Book club 3: The Day of the Triffids
Commentary and Illustration by Jitka Klimešová from the Institute of Botany of The Czech Academy of Sciences. The image above is from a linocut by Jitka Klimešová, displayi…
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New on the Belowground blog: Book club 3: The Day of the Triffids plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2026/09/23/b...
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Book club 3: The Day of the Triffids
Commentary and Illustration by Jitka Klimešová from the Institute of Botany of The Czech Academy of Sciences. The image above is from a linocut by Jitka Klimešová, displayi…
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Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences @ibotcz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What’s the coolest thing about belowground organs? 🌱 Our Go Belowground 2026 participants will tell you! 👀 ⬇️ #GoBelowground #GoBelowground2026 @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social @exfumo.bsky.social
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HU Functional Ecology Lab. @funecolhu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A new paper from a great collaboration! 🌱🔥 This study explores whether karrikins and strigolactones function as interchangeable cues for seed germination. 1/3
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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The 1st day of #GoBelowground course of belowground functional ecology #Clonality #ClonalOrgans #Strategies #GrowthForms #functions #traits 17 enthusiastic people from around the world! #ExFuMo @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social ▶️ 1url.cz/ye0Y8
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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The 2st day of #GoBelowground course of belowground functional ecology #FineRoots #Anatomy #Crosssections #Storage #Mycorrhiza #Traits #Economy #Strategy Happy smilling belowground people 😀 #ExFuMo @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social ▶️ 1url.cz/ye0Y8
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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The 3st day of #GoBelowground course of belowground functional ecology #Carbohydrates #Storage #StorageOrgans #Clonality #Rhizome #Buds #Stolone #Traits #Economy #Strategy Curiosity always wins😀 #ExFuMo @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social ▶️ 1url.cz/ye0Y8
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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The 4th day of #GoBelowground course of belowground functional ecology #Buds #Storage #Fineroots #Clonality #Rhizome #Stolone #Traits #Economy #Strategy #Methods #FunctionalTraits Collaborate, share, discuss🧐 @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social ▶️ 1url.cz/ye0Y8
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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🚩Sometimes the history of #landscape is hidden belowground. #Growthrings and #radiocarbon dating show that Psidium grandifolium survived for decades beneath Pinus plantations, waiting to #resprout when conditions improved #GoBelowground #Cerrado #ExFuMo ▶️ 1url.cz/OevaG @ibotcz.bsky.social
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Podívelme, on to nejen někdo čte, ale také o tom píše! Díky Adéma Grimes, jsem ráda, že kniha podpořila badatelského ducha...https://www.iliteratura.cz/clanek/48308-klimesova-jitka-bota-botanika
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New on the Belowground blog (podcast): Rhizomes and bulbs and tubers and roots and all plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/r...
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Rhizomes and bulbs and tubers and roots and all
News and outreach by F. Curtis Lubbe at the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The illustration above features two plants in conversation, inspired by the short, vertical rhizome…
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Víkendová cesta do rodiště klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/v...
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Víkendová cesta do rodiště
Ano, navštívila jsem Rýmařov a okolí, hlavně Sovinec, který je zachycen na linorytu v záhlaví (vznikl někdy v 80. letech). Cesta na Moravu je vždy kaloricky významná, proto jsem o tom napsala …
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Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila @josephtumber.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Fantastic thread by Karl showing some of the things we have been working on with sUnderfoot @idiv-research.bsky.social Including our newly published database paper and concept paper! Check it out I’m excited for what’s left to come!
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Kelly Gardner, contemporary mosaic artist #Womensart
Heart shaped moasaic artwork created with differently patterned blue and white china and ceramic pieces
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Still standing: persistence traits capture belowground plant functions beyond resource exploration and acquisition - Tumber‐Dávila - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Still standing: persistence traits capture belowground plant functions beyond resource exploration and acquisition
Conceptual linkages between traits and plant functioning leads to three dimensions of variation in the belowground functional space.
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New on the Belowground blog: Even a ghost can learn plant functional ecology plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2026/09/02/e...
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Even a ghost can learn plant functional ecology
A short story by Jane Scalabroni from Charles University in Prague. This was written as an essay for the Plant functional traits course. Although not necessarily from belowground, this tale from be…
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Thrilled to announce that my department - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - at the U of Arizona will likely be hiring for a tenure-track position in "Population and Community Ecology" this fall. Watch this space for more details and official announcements coming soon ... #Ecology #EcologyJobs 🌐🌾🧪
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"A global dataset of key traits for plant belowground functioning" including half of my heart and 40 years of data collection for CLO-PLA www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A global dataset of key traits for plant belowground functioning - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - A global dataset of key traits for plant belowground functioning
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Vědcův rok klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/2026/08/30/v...
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Vědcův rok
Vědcův rok je určen několika „klimatickými“ parametry: (i) oborem, ve kterém bádá, protože chemii můžete dělat kdykoliv, ale kytky rostou jen když je teplo a dostatek vláhy; (ii) zdali bádá na univ…
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Markus Wagner @wagnermarkus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A nice study!
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New on the Belowground blog: Going belowground in search of Oxalis plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2026/08/26/g...
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Going belowground in search of Oxalis
Photos and commentary by F. Curtis Lubbe from the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Above is a picturesque waterfall, around which Oxalis are growing in crevices and over rocky …
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
(New on the Belowground blog) Plants at 6000 metres: Tough life, high demands plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/p...
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Plants at 6000 metres: Tough life, high demands
New research by Zuzana Chlumská from the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The image above looks over the high-elevation plateau landscape of eastern Ladakh, with Tsomoriri Lake…
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Ilustrace, jak už to bývá, mají také příběh. Ten příběh jsem tady sepsala: Ilustrace k pohádkám klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/2026/08/16/i...
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Ilustrace k pohádkám
Tak dnes je v záhlaví poslední, patnáctá, ilustrace k pohádkám. Pohádek je sice také 15, ale jedna nemá ilustraci žádnou (respektive po vytvoření byla zavržena) a jedna má ilustrace dvě. I když nej…
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New on the Belowground blog: Learning to look belowground again and how it can change the way you understand communities plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/l...
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Learning to look belowground again and how it can change the way you understand communities
Commentary by Gabriela Dezotti from Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil. The photo above features the instructors and participants of Go Belowground! Brazil 2026. Photo by Gabriela Santo…
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Vzpomínka na paní profesorovou Jeníkovou klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/p...
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Paní profesorová Jeníková
Zemřela paní Květa Jeníková, měla 95 roků. Potkala jsem ji jen několikrát v životě, ale mám od ní dvě knihy básní, recepis na jablečnou buchtu, překlad Darwinova původu druhů v ilustracíc…
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Jsem velmi poctěna, že v tak seriozním časopise, jako je Živa (4. číslo tohoto roku), vyšla recenze na pohádky Bota Botanika. Děkuji Pavlu Kovářovi za milá slova. Jen pro doplnění, v pohádkách je schováno více botaniků než dva, které zmiňuje 🙂 všem jim děkuji za inspiraci!!! ziva.avcr.cz/2026-4/
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Underground fungal networks come into 3D view without disturbing plant roots www.tum.de/en/news-and-... Read the paper: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience #fungi
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3D Imaging Reveals Underground Plant–Fungal Networks
A new TUM method reveals how plant roots and mycorrhizal fungi interact in soil, offering insights for climate-resilient and drought-tolerant crops.
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Cody Coyotee @wile-phylote.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The 🧅bulbs🧄 speak today #Botany2026
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Our colleague Curtis Lubbe is author of cover picture (aquarel) in the last issue of Journal of Ecology. Congrats! I have a jig-saw puzzle with this picture (1000 pieces) and to put it together was really challenge! Nature is beautiful! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Cover Picture and Issue Information
Cover image: Composite of the dormant state of belowground structures for 90 species of Oxalis, depicting variation in bulb size, number, depth, arrangement, and other traits. Illustration in water c...
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
New on the Belowground blog: A personal journey towards belowground organs and the carbon starvation hypothesis plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/a...
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A personal journey towards belowground organs and the carbon starvation hypothesis
New research by Davi Rodrigo Rossatto from Laboratório de Ecologia do Cerrado, Universidade Estadual Paulista – UNESP. The image above displays the diversity of shapes and colors of Cerrado plants.…
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Dovolená a taky další ilustrace k pohádkám klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/d...
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Dovolená
Vrátila jsem se z dovolené a dělá mi problémy nastartovat hlavu k pracovnímu výkonu… asi mi to tam už povážlivě kornatí. Jsem zvědavá kde se nakonec zaseknu, neschopná přepnout. Jestli to bude v do…
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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Fascinating about possible bias in peer review.
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
(New on the Belowground blog) Beyond the model potato: Variation in tuberization signalling across potato genotypes plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/b...
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Beyond the model potato: Variation in tuberization signalling across potato genotypes
Research by Andrea Zounková from Charles University in Prague. The images above display the unexpected reduction in tuber yield in cultivated potato (cultivar Kamýk; wild-type control on the left) …
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
(New on the Belowground blog) Exudation without foraging: What root economics gets wrong about carbon leaving the root plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2026/07/22/e...
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Exudation without foraging: What root economics gets wrong about carbon leaving the root
New Research by Thomas Muratore from Dartmouth College. The image above is a scanned fine-root system showing branching architecture, with numerous absorptive root tips extending from larger transp…
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
New on the Belowground blog: Belowground social intelligence?https://plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2026/07/15/belowground-social-intelligence-invasive-plants-have-stronger-root-recognition-capabilities-than-native-plants/
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Belowground social intelligence: Invasive plants have stronger root recognition capabilities than native plants
New research by Jun-Nan Liu (Shaoxing University & Chengdu University of Technology) and Fei-Hai Yu (Shaoxing University). The image above features a dense stand of Solidago canadensis, a peren…
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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I'm very happy with how this project turned out! Big thanks to @trigonalid.bsky.social for leading this! Now fingers crossed for the review process 🤞
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Musím se pochlubit, je to malý článeček, ale je za ním spolupráce s obdivohodnými kolegy a taky jsem do něj protlačila Linoryt. Obrázek, má sám o sobě zajímavý příběh, byl totiž první rytinou na kusu linolea, jehož získání popisuju tady: klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/2020/06/08/c...
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The Elephant Underground: Belowground Plant Traits and Their Increasing Importance in Ecological Studies
Click on the article title to read more.
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Jak jsem hledala lustrační osvědčení klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/2026/07/11/j...
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Jak jsem hledala lustrační osvědčení
Ano, k výkonům některých funkcí v Akademii je stále ještě potřeba lustrační osvědčení. Možná jedině věk pod 37 let vás může zachránit od této povinnosti. Ale to není můj případ. Paní sekr…
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
New on the Belowground blog: (educational poster) How do we study the seed bank? plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2026/07/08/h...
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How do we study the seed bank?
Poster by Andrea Kučerová, Anna Šolcová, F. Curtis Lubbe, & Jitka Klimešová from the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The illustration above shows three seeds resting under…
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Vedení vědeckého týmu: My jsme štít! klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/2026/07/04/m...
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My jsme štít!
Během studia jsme měli heslo: Geobotanika není žádná charita. Používali jsme ho při exkurzích, když se někdo topil v tůni, uvízl v močále nebo padal ze skály. Tato zásada navazovala na vý…
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