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Even exotics plants prefer the shade during a heat wave
A warmer climate of origin does not necessarily protect exotic plants from heatwaves like our country has experienced in recent summers, we showed in a recent paper by Charly Géron, PhD candidate in our group. What does? Local microclimates! Our … Continue reading
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Tagged Ecology, Global change, Invasive species, Nature, Nature photography, Plant invasions, Science, Urban, Urban ecology
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Non-natives at the end of the world
The Crozet archipelago. A few tiny specks in a vast ocean, ‘on the road’ from South Africa to Antarctica. A tough climate, inhabitants limited to a bunch of winter-hardy researchers and the occasional seabird. But also: Poa annua, the common … Continue reading
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Tagged Cold climates, Ecology, Global change, Nature, Outdoors, Plant invasions, Plants, Science
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How heat makes our cities sweat at night
Beautiful data visualization in newspaper De Standaard today, who show-case the newest conclusions from our citizen science project. Here, I provide a shortened English summary of the longread, but for the full beauty of the visuals, you MUST check out … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate, climate change, Ecology, Heat, Microclimate, Science, Urban, Urban ecology, Urban heat islands
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Exotic species enter through the city gates
3DLab-member Charly Géron’s second paper recently got featured on http://www.eoswetenschap.eu! Here is an English translation of the story they brought there: —- Plants from warmer regions feel perfectly at home in our cities. From there, they can colonize the countryside. … Continue reading
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Tagged Cities, Ecology, Invasive species, Landscape photography, Nature, Outdoors, Plant invasions, Plants, Science, urban photography
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It is possible!
I just received the beautiful lake-view above and, oh boy, is that an important picture! It means that we made it happen, despite the ongoing pandemic and the kilos of extra administrative chaos it brought with it: we sent a … Continue reading
Fieldwork preparations
Hot summer day in the heathlands of Kalmthout, north of Antwerp, last week. With a team of two PhD students and four master students, we had a trial fieldwork day for this summer in northern Sweden. Trying out vegetation surveys, … Continue reading
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The 3D lab 