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Little resistance where we expected it
Once you have gone through the effort of collecting a global database, you can start playing with it. And one of the most fun things to play with, I’d say, is general ecological theories – the kind that you would … Continue reading
Proving extinction is hard. But we can do so now.
For decades, climate change ecology has mostly been a story about shifts: species moving upslope, poleward, tracking the climate they’re adapted to as it slides out from under them. It’s one of the best-documented fingerprints of warming in nature. What … Continue reading
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Tagged Biodiversity, climate change, Conservation, Environment, Mountains, Nature, Science
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How much hydrology hides in our microclimate sensors?
I’ve spent over a decade now sticking small microclimate loggers into the ground, mostly to talk about temperature. Soil moisture has always been the awkward third wheel in that story: TOMST loggers measure it too, our CurieuzeNeuzen in de Tuin … Continue reading
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Tagged Citizen science, Climate, climate change, Environment, Microclimate, Nature, Sustainability
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The MIREN road survey database
Can you imagine how many hours of roadside fieldwork went into this? We’ve just published the MIREN road survey database, and the accompanying paper led together with Sylvia Haider: 170,000 georeferenced plant records, covering 6,854 vascular plant species across 3,364 … Continue reading
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Big, rocky canaries in the coalmine
Mountain tops are big, rocky canaries in the coalmine that is our planet. Up there, above the last trees, change happens in real time and out in the open: plants, rock and climate, negotiating directly with each other. If you … Continue reading
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Tagged Biodiversity, Climate, climate change, Environment, Microclimate, Mountains, Nature, Thermophilisation
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MEB 2026
Big week in Montpellier this week, as the world’s microclimate ecology and biogeography community has gathered for the third global MEB conference. After the first edition in Antwerp in 2022 and the second in Helsinki in 2024, this year’s conference … Continue reading
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