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Global maps of soil temperature
In a new paper just published in Global Change Biology, we provide the first-ever global maps of soil temperature (0 -15 cm) at a 1 km² resolution, based on the global SoilTemp database of over 8500 in-situ soil temperature time … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate, climate change, Ecology, Global maps, Microclimate, Nature, Science, Soils, Temperature
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Forests: buffers for temperature in the future?
Even if you followed this webspace only occasionally, you should have gotten the idea of the fact that we are starting to get a good hold of microclimate across the globe. We know how much European forest understories differ from … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, Ecology, Forest understory, Forests, Global change, Microclimate, Nature, Science
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The first map of the air-conditioning effect of European forests
Press release Forest canopies cool summer temperatures with up to 10°C. An international team of scientists led by researchers from the KU Leuven in Belgium now mapped the temperature of all European forest patches to quantify the airco function of … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate, Ecology, Forests, Microclimate, Nature, Outdoors, Science
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On the measurement of microclimate
Ecologists nowadays are trying to get closer to measurements of the microclimate that organisms are actually experiencing. Weather stations are great, standardized sources of temperature data at 2 m in the air, yet organisms often relate more strongly to what … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, Ecology, Measurements, Microclimate, Nature, Science
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Weather station networks, reinvented
We need a different kind of weather station networks to answer most ecological questions. We argue that what we need is countrywide ‘microclimate networks’, that measure weather conditions there where they matter for ecology and nature around us. Where weather … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate, climate change, Ecology, Forests, Global change, Microclimate, Nature, Outdoors
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Show us your best
The 3D Lab closed off the year with a fun meeting last Friday. All members were asked to present 1) their favourite figure they made the last year, and 2) a figure they hope to make the next year. And, … Continue reading
