Wishing you a joyful holiday season from all of us!!! 🎄

We had a great time engaging with young students at the Research Groups Fair, introducing our RootLab experiments and highlighting the importance of the belowground world! We're looking forward to motivated students to join us and find their thesis topics! 😊

Incredible activity in belowground! Spruce root growth and soil fauna activity in two months. Scanners system set up by @RaivoMetsvaht video by @MariliSell @IvikaOstonen @Klaus_Marian @FutureScapes_ee @unitartu Stay tuned, more videos coming soon!😉

Happy new academic year!!! We are welcoming our new PhD student @victoriaboychev and also hello to our tiny new generation scientist 😍 Go #womenpower 💪

A insightful article about "Adapting to climate change: responses of fine root traits and C exudation in five tree species with different light-use strategy" by @MariliSell @GristinRohulaOkunev @PriitKupper @IvikaOstonen @unitartu

We are at the @CA_Cleanforest annual meeting in Portugal☀️working on resilient forest monitoring. The exciting excursion to the Companhia das Lezírias showed the many study areas for ecology issues and sustainable cork oak forest management🌳 @unitartu @IvikaOstonen @MariliSell

The open conference of @FutureScapes_ee started with @IvikaOstonen introducing the research of our team and the future contribution to this center of excellence! More information at https://t.co/OV3X3gNl4B

Check out how subarctic grasslands communities adapt to soil warming -biomass of roots and rhizomes is main driver in medium term, while NSC concentration in long term, though species-specific response is a different story😊 @FutureArcticITN @biplabi26 @unitartu link below

Excited to be part of FutureScapes! @RootEcologyUT contributes to integrating belowground carbon and biodiversity linkages into sustainable land use approaches. Looking forward to exciting cooperation @LGeoinformatics @LandscBiodivUT @KasakKuno @KadriRunnel et al

(2/2) also peatland has those boot-eating-holes everywhere...🧐

Last minute sampling❄️Decomposition samples were much harder to collect from restored peatland than soil core samples from forest 2 weeks later...(1/2) @IvikaOstonen @victoriaboychev @MariliSell @GristinRohula-Okunev

Special thanks to our two French interns Jessyca Rodrigues and Bastien Pallu

A hectic/intensive days of taking down a growth chamber experiment🥳 In the foreground - taking DNA samples and washing the entire root systems; in the back sampling shoots, stem and C exudation, respiration roots @IvikaOstonen @MariliSell @AliyaSultonova @PriitKupper @unitartu

Great thanks to Dr. Hyungwoo Lim for showing us microdialysis set up! This new method of collecting #root exudates will be tested out in our growth chamber experiment starting already next week🤓 @IvikaOstonen @AliyaSultonova @MariliSell @unitartu

The beginning of the interview is in Estonian, but most in English - go have a listen :) Here's the link for the NASA article:

NASA recently posted an image of how Nepal has doubled its forest coverage by allowing the country's communities to manage their forests. Our Ph.D. student @biplabi26 gave an interview in 2020 about community forestry and how she feels about this idea 🌲🌳 https://t.co/cNxP8S1VMY

Finally, after a year of writing and computering I am happy to even pick absorptive root tips from a couple of samples 🌲🤓😆

Professor @IvikaOstonen showing us how to catch a big bog-fish (in Latin Ingrowth'icus core'us) 💪

Me trying to scare out roots to get this experiment going! 👻 Oh look, it worked 😆 Also the s-shaped thingy in the middle of roots is not a root - sorry I scared you, buddy 😅 @unitartu with @IvikaOstonen #root #ecology #rhizosphere