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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

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PhD defense Jan Clavel

Another milestone coming up, as The 3D Lab-member Jan Clavel is making the final preparations for his PhD defense on February 5th!

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Tropical forest understory temperatures

New paper in Nature Communications: Ismaeel et al. (2024) Patterns of tropical forest understory temperatures. It’s a thing we do at SoilTemp: create microclimate maps over large extents for all to use. We have done this before for soil temperature … Continue reading

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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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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

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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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