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Following plants in the crags: MIREN rock face survey
Join the new MIREN rock face survey With long-term monitoring campaigns focussing on mountain roads and trails, and divergences to railroads and rivers, we are happy to announce that MIREN wants to tackle another – perhaps more unusual – linear … Continue reading
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Take it to the higher order
New paper: Reynaert et al. (2023) Direct and higher-order interactions in plant communities under increasing weather persistence. Oikos Let’s knock down an open door: interactions between species are key determinants of their performance. How well an individual is growing, or … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium
Tagged Ecology, Grasslands, Higher-order interactions, HOIs, Interactions, Nature, Outdoors, Science
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Blockchains and biodiversity
tl;dr: we will be looking for a database manager who wants to join our SoilTemp team, based in Antwerp, Belgium, with the main goal to make the database more accessible and more flexible. Knowledge of R required, of SQL a … Continue reading
Posted in Norway, Sweden
Tagged BiodivERsA, Biodiversity, Blokchain, Conservation, Forests, Global change, Nature, Restoration
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The dark secrets of dark diversity
Dark diversity. A term that sounds sufficiently dramatic to catch the attention of many an ecologist. But it’s a good theory as well to explore: instead of the common ‘diversity’, which looks at the diversity of species/genes/traits present at a … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Sweden
Tagged Biodiversity, Dark diversity, Ecology, Global change, Mathematics, Mountains, Nature, Science
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How to get the word out?
Twitter/X, Mastodon or LinkedIn, what works best for communicating scientific findings? I got the numbers for you! This website is almost ten years old, and still going strong. I am far from done with its main goal, which is the … Continue reading
Where are they NOT?
We ecologists and biogeographers all want to know so badly where species are and are not living. This quest lies at the very heart of our discipline, as it provides invaluable insights into how global changes are impacting biodiversity across … Continue reading
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The 3D lab 