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...
Book Applied ecology by Jan Frouz and Jaroslava Frouzova, published in Czech by Karolinum Press, Charles University, has been published in English by Springer. The book discusses specialized aspects of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, addresses how provisioning food and renewable resources shapes our planet and offers an accessible reference on ecological principles for students,...
A new Open Access book "Measuring Emission of Agricultural Greenhouse Gases and Developing Mitigation Options using Nuclear and Related Techniques" was published by Springer in the beginning of 2021. On of the 41 co-authors was prof. Miloslav Šimek from the Institute of Soil Biology, Biology Centre CAS.
The theme of the United Nations World Soil Day on 5th December 2020 is "Keep soil alive, Protect soil biodiversity". Soil scientists of the Biology Centre CAS are joining this year's appeal of the Day, since the appeal is closely correlated with their research results. It is therefore no coincidence that one of their papers was highlited by the Soil Biology & Biochemistry journal as an example...
The article in Biological Reviews highlights the importance of ants and termites for ecosystem processes and summarize the available literature about the interactions between these two insect groups. Predatory ants seems to be able to regulate termite populations and thus affect decomposition of plant-derived organic matter.
For 40 years (1979 - 2019), we have been engaged in soil research. The Institute of Soil Biology is part of the Biology Centre, one of the major institutions of the Czech Academy of Sciences . We apply our knowledge systematically to different branches of soil biology from the level of single molecules up to the entire ecosystems. Through this we hope to get an insight into this complex living...
