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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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Tagged climate change, Ecology, Global change, Global warming, Microclimate, Nature, Outdoors, Science
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The holy trinity of global change ecology
A few weeks ago, the journal Annals of Botany asked me to write a commentary pieceon a new paper coming out on the effect of climate change on grass species on a subantarctic island. An intriguing paper, as they compared … Continue reading
Posted in General, Science
Tagged Biodiversity, climate change, Ecology, Experiments, Fieldwork, Global change, Microclimate, Modelling, Species distributions
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SoilTemp: a database of near-surface temperatures
Let me tell you something important – which won’t be a surprise to regular followers of this blog: weather station data doesn’t do the trick for ecologists. It is just too different from the climate as experienced by most organisms, … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate, climate change, Ecology, Microclimate, Nature, Nature photography, Science
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The coronavirus microclimate
For us scientists, it is tempting to throw our expertise into the fight against COVID-19. For spatial ecologists, this often means: predicting the risk of spread of the virus based on species distribution models, trying to identify its climatic niche … Continue reading
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Tagged climate modelling, corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Microclimate
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Gearing up our city microclimate plans
Yesterday, we had a new member joining the team! It was a virtual first day at work, but we are very happy nonetheless to have her on board now: Camille will be managing our citizen science project on garden microclimates, … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate, Ecology, Fieldwork, Gardening, Microclimate, Outdoors, Science
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Revisiting Ekenäs
A little addendum to my previous post on our microclimatemeeting: I had been there before, in the Ekenäs Herrgård. That time, June 2015, the mansion was bathing in the suns of spring, and the chestnut in the garden was in … Continue reading
Posted in General, Sweden
Tagged Architecture, Ecology, Meeting, Microclimate, Nature, Science, Travel photography
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Microclimate ecology and biogeography
It’s one thing to have a great database. It’s a second one to put it to good use. The data is there, our SoilTemp-database for example has accumulated over 7500 loggers from all over the world now, and contributions are … Continue reading
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Tagged Biogeography, climate change, Ecology, Forests, Global change, Microclimate, Nature, Science, Soils
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