Breeding effects on the root-associated microbiome of Zea mays L. are linked to plant-induced variation in soil water potentials Abstract. Modern crop varieties may exert reduced influence on their microbiome compared to their progenitors, as plant-microbe interactions were not targe

🤩 Now out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social Comms!

#NicolasTyborski and our wonderful #Rhizotraits team unravel how old landraces and modern varieties of maize distinctly modulate their #rhizosphere #microbiomes under drought via soil water potentials!
🌽🥵🦠
Thanks to #BayCEER #Rhizo4Bio #bmftr_bund

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🌲 Das Forum Waldkontroversen 2025 läuft gerade! Spannende Diskussionen über Förderung, Regulierung und Verantwortung im Wald.
#Waldkontroversen #BayCEER #UniBayreuth
@unibayreuth.bsky.social

🌿This Thursday at the BayCEER Colloquium:
Dr. Jos Kramer explores how social behaviour in #animals and #microbes shapes evolution and #animal–microbe interactions.

📅 Thu | 12:30 | H6 GEO
#BayCEER #Ecology #Evolution #social

@joskramer.bsky.social

www.eae.uni-bayreuth.de/eae/en/mitar...

Führung | "Steinreich: Gesteine im Ökologisch-Botanischen Garten" Universität Bayreuth

Führung | "Steinreich: Gesteine im Ökologisch-Botanischen Garten"

📅 Fr, 24. Okt 2025 | 16 Uhr | Haupteingang ÖBG
Erfahrt mehr über unsere Gesteine mit Richard Regner (Bayer.-Böhm. Geopark) – Eintritt frei! 🌿

www.obg.uni-bayreuth.de/de/veranstal...

#BayCEER #ÖBG #Geology #UniversityOfBayreuth

🌿 The BayCEER Colloquium Winter 2025/26 starts soon!🌿

Join us every Thursday, for inspiring talks on ecology, climate, and environmental research.

Full program 👉 www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/bayceer/en/a...

No registration needed!!

#BayCEER #Ecology #EnvironmentalScience #Research

Würdigung für jahrelanges Engagement Prof. Dr. Heike Feldhaar hat die Bayerische Staatsmedaille für herausragende Verdienste um die Umwelt erhalten.

🌿👏 Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Heike Feldhaar, BayCEER, and University of Bayreuth, on receiving the Bavarian State Medal for outstanding services to the environment!

ubtaktuell.uni-bayreuth.de/umweltmedail...

#BayCEER #UniBayreuth #Ecology #Insects #Sustainability

Was a pleasure to join this year's #BayCEER Workshop to talk about burying beetles, social immunity & parental care and how all this might influence offspring immunity and their early development.
Watch out for a publication on this sooner than later 👀

🌿 Great energy at the 17th BayCEER Workshop 2025! 🌿

A day of sharing research, ideas, and inspiration across ecology and environmental sciences.

www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/ws2025/

#BayCEER #Workshop #Ecology

@unibayreuth.bsky.social
@luederslab.bsky.social

This #meta-analysis adds valuable insights into how micro- and #nanoplastics affect reproduction in #Daphnia. An important step toward understanding #ecosystem-level impacts of #plastic #pollution.

Great work!!
#Microplastics #Ecotoxicology #BayCEER

Root and shoot traits of two common herbs respond differently to drought and fertilization in a multifactorial global change experiment - Plant and Soil Background Plants must adapt locally to the recent global change, such as increasing drought exposure or altering nutrient availability. In ecological theory, all functional traits of the plant move t...

🌱 New BayCEER study: Roots react differently to drought and nutrient stress!

Less root growth in drought, more in low nutrients, key insights for climate-smart ecology.

➡️: doi.org/10.1007/s111...
@unibayreuth.bsky.social

#BayCEER #ClimateResilience
#PlantScience #Ecology #ClimateChange

Rhizosphere 6 – "Rooting for Earth" in Edinburgh Universität Bayreuth

...and also great to attend the #Rhizosphere6 conference in Edinburgh the week before, together with @jpausch.bsky.social, @khatababdalla.bsky.social, @vkurbel.bsky.social & more from the #agroecology group of @unibayreuth.bsky.social / #BayCEER.
www.agraroekologie.uni-bayreuth.de/en/news/2025...

🧫 BayCEER Colloquium – June 5
🕧 12:30 | 📍 H6, GEO

Dr. Clara Martínez-Pérez
How bacteria shape algal productivity & carbon cycling 🌊🌍

Tiny microbes, big impact!
@unibayreuth.bsky.social
🔗 www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/bayceer/en/a...

#BayCEER #MicrobialEcology #Colloquium #ScienceTalks #Bayreuth

🌱 BayCEER Colloquium – May 15, 2025
🕧 12:30 | 📍 H6, Geo

"Polyploid adaptation to extreme environments"

How genome duplication helps plants thrive in mountains, tropics, and islands — with insights for climate resilience.
@maxplanck.bsky.social
#BayCEER #Polyploidy #PlantScience #ClimateAdaptation

First Indication of Carbon Uptake via Fungi in Young Woody Plants in the Tropics Researchers at the Bayreuth Centre for Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER) at the University of Bayreuth have found the first indication that young plants of certain tropical tree species obtain part of their carbon through fungi. This mechanism could enable these plants to compensate for the low carbon uptake through photosynthesis in the shaded understorey, giving them a growth advantage over other plants. The researchers have published their findings in the journal Functional Ecology.

First Indication of Carbon Uptake via Fungi in Young Woody Plants in the Tropics
#Ökologie #Pflanzenforschung #Mykorrhiza #Tropenwald #UniBayreuth #BayCeer
bit.ly/3WIDz5C

🌿 BayCEER Colloquium 🌿
📅 Thursday, 25/01
⏰ 12:15–13:45
📍 H6, GEO Building

Discover the vital role of fungi in orchid conservation with insights from 10 years of groundbreaking research. Don’t miss this engaging talk!
#fungal #BayCEER #bayreuth #fungi #conservation #Biology #orchid #rhizoctonia

Join Us This Thursday!

📅 Date: January 16, 2025
📍 Location: H6, GEO, #UniversityofBayreuth
⏰ Time: 12:15

Dr. Marina Scheumann will discuss how #emotions and #vocal_communication evolve across species, drawing on #Darwin’s ideas and recent research.

Don’t miss this #BayCEER colloquium lecture!

🌿 BayCEER Colloquium 🌍
This Thursday, 12.12.2024, at 12:15 p.m.
H6, GEO building, University of #Bayreuth

Learn how bark beetle outbreaks and #wildfires are reshaping European forests and challenging EU #climate targets.

Don't miss it! 🌲

#BayCEER #ForestEcology #ClimateChange #EarthObservation

🌍 Weltbodentag 2024: Der Boden als wertvolle Ressource für die Zukunft 🌱
Das BayCEER arbeitet mit innovativen Forschungsprojekten an nachhaltigen Lösungen für den Schutz und die Nutzung dieser wertvollen Ressource.

#Weltbodentag #Nachhaltigkeit #Forschung #BodenSchützen #BayCEER
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Today, Prof. Stefan Peiffer, a member of the #BayCEER Steering Committee and Head of the Department for Hydrology, will present his study on the impacts of #climate change on #reservoir #nutrient dynamics in the #FranconianLake District (FLD).

https://www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/D-A-CH-Geobiology-2024/

👋 Farewell to this wonderful bunch of early career researchers filling the D-A-CH Geobiology Symposium 2024 at #BayCEER with most exciting science.👌🔬
See y'all in Vienna next year!
Thx again to all involved, esp. #Iwalewahaus for hosting us!

geobiology2024

⏰ Deadline extended!
Apply before Aug. 30th for our free! D-A-CH young scientists meeting on #GeoBiology, end of Sept. at #BayCEER.
Cool keynote by #EmilRuff on dark oxygen production 🔥. Career development hints. Fun and good Bayreuth 🍻

Frontiers | Consistent prokaryotic community patterns along the radial root axis of two Zea mays L. landraces across two distinct field locations The close interconnection of plants with rhizosphere- and root-associated microorganisms is well recognized, and high expectations are raised for considering...

🤩 Just out in #FrontMicrobiol!
Great work by #NicolasTyborski and entire #Rhizotraits team on how landraces of maize select for surprisingly similar #rizosphere #microbiome taxa at very different field sites! More coming up soon!
#BayCEER #BonaRes4u

Most stunning pink pigmented #methylotroph leaf offprints taken by our #BayCeer biology BSc students in this summer's #soil #microbiology field course.
#ArtOfNature 👍🦠☘️

7th retreat of the #BayCEER at the @fraunhofer.bsky.social Research Campus in Waischenfeld with highly inspiring discussions on our current and future research and teaching in #ecology and #environmentalsciences at #UniBT.

Imagine a team of students and researchers picking "wild" plastic waste out of the field just to put experimental microplastics back in 🤪!
Preparing for the start of our Soil Microplastics Observatory <SMO> within #SFB1357.
Thanks to all helpers at #BayCEER!

Sehr spannendes Symposium anlässlich des #WorldWaterDay am 22. März in Hof. Wasserforschung am #BayCEER ist mit dabei.
Powered by #ZIM_BMWK Netzwerk #Water4All und durch die #WaterIsRight Stiftung.

Anmeldung kostenlos unter:
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University of Bayreuth once again among the top ten for students Students give the University of Bayreuth top marks. The evaluation portal Studycheck ranks it as the 8th most popular university in Germany. Last year, 93 percent of students even recommended it to ot...

Huge thanks to our inspiring students for the poll!
What a great place to teach and to do research.
👍👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 #BayCEER #Uni-Bayreuth