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Fieldwork time!
It’s fieldwork time again! We have started to enjoy some cold, grey and dark days in the Dutch mud the last weeks, for our new project on the scale at which biodiversity varies (more on that here). Fieldwork in December, … Continue reading
Posted in General, Netherlands
Tagged Biodiversity, climate change, Conservation, Ecology, Environment, Fieldwork, Monitoring, Nature, Plants, Utrecht Science Park
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Ten practical guidelines
One of the biggest dreams when we started the SoilTemp project was not only to bring together all available microclimate data into a single, unified database but also to align how we think about and measure microclimate. Today, we are … Continue reading
An ecological data hypermarket?
For the past five years, I have led SoilTemp, the global database of microclimate data. I have witnessed its evolution from humble beginnings to a robust repository housing close to a 100,000 microclimate time series from around the world, several … Continue reading
Posted in General, Science
Tagged Climate, climate change, Data, Database, Databases, Environment, Microclimate, Mountains, programming, Science, SoilTemp, sql, Temperature
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Throwback to MEB2024
The last week of August was marked in red and bold on many calendars: it was the week of the Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography conference, undoubtedly the most important event of the year for global microclimate research. After this second … Continue reading
Airport botany
On our way to Abisko, northern Sweden, a massive early-morning thunderstorm in Brussels was the start of a 28-hour travel delay: we missed our next flight with a margin of just 10 minutes, and as such ended up too late … Continue reading
Posted in General, Sweden
Tagged Airport, Botany, Ecology, Hiking, Nature, Nature photography, Travel photography, Travelling
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The peculiar case of the Rallarvägen
Gaining a long-term perspective on ecosystem changes is challenging. Even when ecologists describe changes as happening “remarkably fast,” they are often difficult to observe within a single scientific career, let alone the lifespan of a project. Occasionally, however, we can … Continue reading
Posted in General, Sweden
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The 3D lab 