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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
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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
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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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Tagged Botany, Ecology, Nature photography, Plant photography, Science, Spring
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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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Tagged Climate, climate change, Ecology, Forests, Nature, Outdoors, Science, Tropical forests
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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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The 3D lab 