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The threat of global change for Arctic vegetation
When standing on the top of a mountain in northern Scandinavia on a cold spring day, I find it easy to be impressed by the vastness and harshness of the Arctic. A wilderness that seems to fit the very definition … Continue reading
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Tagged Biodiversity, climate change, Environment, native-plants, Nature
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How microclimate is changing at a different rate
If you’ve been following my research for a while, you should know by now that microclimate warming rates can be very different from what our weather stations and climate models tell us. We’ve been discussing it for forests, mountains and … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate, climate change, Environment, Global warming, Nature
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A glimpse from the field
By Journey Verspeek – master student in the team And there you are, in the middle of nowhere, face to face with a snorting reindeer charging straight at you. Of course, not all fieldwork days looked like that; mostly we … Continue reading
The green revolution of our playgrounds
A blogpost by 3D Lab team members Kyra and Olivia What A super cool project that is currently taking place in Zeeland is the Groene Revolutie (translating to Green revolution) organized by IVN Zeeland. The goal? To greenify all school … 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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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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