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Mapping the past to predict the future
Long-term followers of this blog know I’ve always been fascinated by species distribution changes. We’ve tracked non-native species moving into mountains and cities, studied how mountain plants travel up and down slopes along roads, and explored how microclimate – and … Continue reading
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Tagged Biodiversity, climate change, Conservation, Environment, Nature
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Soil microbes care little about your climate gradients
We had a hunch: the biogeography of soil microbial communities was going to be messy. Even less than plants or animals, microbes aren’t paying attention to the broad-brush macroclimatic gradients that ecologists often use to explain species distributions. They live … Continue reading
The rhododendron that can be tracked from space
In the alpine tundra of the Changbai Mountains in Northeast China, on the border with North Korea, climate has warmed significantly over the last few decades (at a rate of 0.28 °C/decade, from 1959 to 2017, to be precise). It’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, Ecology, Global change, Mountains, Nature, Plants, Remote sensing, Satellite, Science
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The 3D lab 