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Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography
From the first days of SoilTemp, we had the ambition to turn this project into more than ‘just a database’. SoilTemp could become the much-needed glue to stick together microclimate ecologists and biogeographers from across the globe, and give them … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, Conference, ME&B, Microclimate, Nature, Science
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Boosting my R efficiency by 300%: how a robot transformed my coding experience
Yes, you read that correctly—300% faster! That’s the remarkable leap in speed I’ve experienced in tackling my most common R programming challenges ever since I enlisted the help of a certain robotic companion to think alongside me. That companion, as … Continue reading
The dark secrets of dark diversity
Dark diversity. A term that sounds sufficiently dramatic to catch the attention of many an ecologist. But it’s a good theory as well to explore: instead of the common ‘diversity’, which looks at the diversity of species/genes/traits present at a … Continue reading
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Tagged Biodiversity, Dark diversity, Ecology, Global change, Mathematics, Mountains, Nature, Science
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The true thermal niche of forest plant species
I might have mentioned this before*, but microclimate is crucial to improve our estimates of species distributions. As species are reacting to micro- rather than macroclimate, and both are at the local scale only very weakly correlated, ignoring microclimate could … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, Forests, Microclimate, Nature, Plants, Species distributions
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A correction and a warning
Finally, we got to publish something that was véry long overdue: the necessary correction to our ‘Global maps of soil temperature’. A correction, indeed, as we had identified an error in the analyses that had to be rectified. So, what … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, Global maps, Microclimate, Nature, Publishing, Science
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A call answered across the globe
It’s safe to say that last month’s call for microclimate data for our growing SoilTemp database was a success. Almost two hundred new datasets, ranging from just a few sensors to a whopping 32 thousand per dataset, poured into our … Continue reading
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Tagged Data, Ecology, Global change, Microclimate, Nature, Science, SoilTemp
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The 3D lab 