One could wonder if the microclimate-based models of Haesen et al. would have predicted such a wealth of wildflowers in the garden of our new home!

This is our first spring in our new garden, and we could thus have hardly foreseen that so many beautiful decorations would spring up in our little patch of forest!

Of course, that is if our distribution models would not have said so. In this recent paper in Ecology Letters, we used our high resolution (5 x 5 m) maps of forest microclimate to improve distribution models of forest understory plants.

5 x5 m might just be enough to give our garden its own little pixel on the maps, so it could be worthy to investigate…

Of course, I should not tell you that all that greenery was one of the reasons why we bought the place, so I am beyond excited that the garden is rewarding our decision so handsomely!