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The peculiar case of the Rallarvägen
Gaining a long-term perspective on ecosystem changes is challenging. Even when ecologists describe changes as happening “remarkably fast,” they are often difficult to observe within a single scientific career, let alone the lifespan of a project. Occasionally, however, we can … Continue reading
Posted in General, Sweden
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36.000 tea bags for science
It has become the go-to technique for many ecologists who need a cheap and simple method to measure decomposition rates in the soil: burying tea bags. However, it is still rather mindboggling that the team behind the international Tea Bag … Continue reading
Filling the gaps
Anyone working with microclimate data is familiar with time series data – repeated measurements over time at the same location. And anyone working with time series has bumped into an important potential issue with them: gaps. More often than not, … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium
Tagged Data science, Ecology, Gap filling, Microclimate, Missing values, Science, Statistics
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A wealth of wildflowers
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, General
Tagged Botany, Ecology, Nature photography, Plant photography, Science, Spring
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A drastic shift in mycorrhizal communities
One of the key findings of the Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN) is that mountain roads have a MASSIVE impact on their surrounding vegetation. Whole communities are changing, non-native species are moving in, and all kinds of species are moving … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged Ecology, Mountains, Mycorrhizae, Nature, Plant invasions, Science
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Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography
From the first days of SoilTemp, we had the ambition to turn this project into more than ‘just a database’. SoilTemp could become the much-needed glue to stick together microclimate ecologists and biogeographers from across the globe, and give them … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged climate change, Conference, ME&B, Microclimate, Nature, Science
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The 3D lab 