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How microclimate is changing at a different rate
If you’ve been following my research for a while, you should know by now that microclimate warming rates can be very different from what our weather stations and climate models tell us. We’ve been discussing it for forests, mountains and … Continue reading
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Extremes
I’ve just returned from a field visit to northern Sweden – above the Arctic Circle. It was close to thirty degrees Celsius this week. We nearly got burned off the mountain. This kind of heat is no longer unusual. It … Continue reading
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Uncertainty surrounding the prediction of microclimate change
We need to gear up the search for correct climate predictions to tackle the biodiversity crisis. In a recent perspective piece in the journal Science, we argue that our climate predictions do not take into account local changes in land … Continue reading
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City life
Take this proudly walking pigeon in the port of Barcelona as an announcement for next week’s talk about life in the city, which I’ll be giving for the biologist students at the University of Antwerp. In a session in a … Continue reading
Global Change Ecology Centre initiates CO2 compensation of flights
As I said earlier, we at the Global Change Ecology Centre of the University of Antwerp are working towards a reduction of our carbon footprint, through a more sustainable flight strategy and a carbon compensation project. As I find this … Continue reading
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