The life strategies of a multitude of soil faunal taxa can strongly affect the formation of labile and stabilized organic matter in soil, with potential consequences for how soils are managed as carbon sinks, nutrient stores, or providers of food. This is the main conclusion of a review led by a team of researchers from the Czech Academy of Sciences, the German Centre for Integrative...
The Czech One Nature project was named one of the top ten LIFE projects from across the EU in 2023, not only for its successful delivery of its objectives, which contribute to nature and landscape conservation, but also for its outputs that appeal to the general public, such as the documentary film The Values of Nature.
24 scientists from the Biology Centre CAS are ranked among the top 2 % of the world's most cited scientific authors. The list of the best scientific authors is published annually by Elsevier according to an analysis by Stanford University. The datasets are based on the Scopus database and include all scientific disciplines.
Jan Frouz and Jaroslava Frouzová won the Jaroslav Jirsa Award for the best textbook of the year in the science and mathematics-physics category.
According to an analysis by Stanford University, Jan Frouz, Miloslav Šimek and Ivo Šafařík are among the 2% most cited scientists in the world.
Soil biologist Gerrit Angst from the Biology Centre of the CAS received the prestigious Lumina quaeruntur Premium from the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences. This generous grant for promising young researchers will enable him to set up his research group focusing on soil biochemistry. According to Gerrit Angst, soil plays a key role in the fight against climate change and its...
During the 19th International Congress of Myriapodology in Bogota, Colombia, in August 2023, the General Assembly of the International Society for Myriapodology (traditionally also referred to as the Centre International de Myriapodology – CIM since its foundation in 1968) elected Karel Tajovský, a researcher at the Institute of Soil Biology and Biogeochemistry, as a honorary member of this...
Increased carbon sequestration in soil to help mitigate climate change can only be achieved by a more holistic management. This is the conclusion from an opinion paper conceptualized by a team led by researchers from the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig University, the Czech Academy of Sciences, and the University of Copenhagen. The authors developed a novel...
Soil - how to take care of it and how to manage it well. The new educational and popularization book by Miloslav Šimek from the Biology Centre of the CAS is published thanks to the AV21 Strategy Programme "Landscape Conservation and Restoration", the theme "Soil - the key to fighting drought, mitigation and adaptation to global change". The book is intended for all those interested in farming...
A review article originating from international cooperation under the lead of Dr. Gerrit Angst from the Biology Centre CAS has become the most cited article in the past three years in Soil Biology and Biochemistry, the most prestigious journal in the field of soil science. The review compiles data on the origins of stabilized soil carbon, which can persist in soil for centuries to millennia and...
