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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
RangeX
We are very pleased to announce that next year, with MIREN, we will be heavily involved in two large international projects that have been recommended for funding through BiodivERsA (https://www.biodiversa.org). The first project is called RangeX (“Mechanisms underlying the success … Continue reading
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Tagged BiodivERsA, Global change, Mountain ecology, Mountain photography, Mountains, Nature, Outdoors, Species distributions
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Chicken or egg?
Guest post by Jan Clavel By now we know quite well that non-native plant invaders are fond of human disturbances. We have seen many times, across many different ecosystems, that these foreign plants use the more welcoming disturbed sites as … Continue reading
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Tagged Ecology, Fungi, Invasive species, Landscape photography, Mountain ecology, Mountains, Mycorrhizae, Science
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Finished
The 3D lab waves goodbye to another master student, with Sam having defended his thesis last week. Sam travelled to the northern Scandes to study the drivers of plant community composition, and brought home some fascinating findings: while plant species … Continue reading
