Tag Archives: Microclimate

The tastiest sensor

Posted on March 24, 2022 by lembrechtsjonas

Case in point that community science has so much more dimensions than we’re used to: we now have our ‘garden dagger’ microclimate sensor turned into chocolate! A tasty treat to all participants of the citizen science project who join us … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Chocolate, Citizen science, climate change, Ecology, Microclimate, Science | Leave a comment

Global maps of soil temperature

Posted on January 3, 2022 by lembrechtsjonas

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 →

Posted in Science | Tagged Climate, climate change, Ecology, Global maps, Microclimate, Nature, Science, Soils, Temperature | 4 Comments

Bacteria: a thermometer for the past

Posted on December 2, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

It was at a lunchtime seminar of our research group that Cindy De Jonge introduced a new concept to me: using variation in cell membrane lipids (affectionately called brGDGT lipids by those who love them) as a thermometer for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Norway, Sweden | Tagged Bacteria, brGDGTs, Ecology, Fieldwork, Microclimate, Mountains, Science, Soil, Soil ecology, Tundra | Leave a comment

Forests: buffers for temperature in the future?

Posted on November 10, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

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 →

Posted in Science | Tagged climate change, Ecology, Forest understory, Forests, Global change, Microclimate, Nature, Science | Leave a comment

ME&B conference

Posted on November 1, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

Preparations are now in full swing for the first ever international microclimate ecology conference, which we’ll host here in Antwerp from the 28th-31st March 2022. The Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography conference is a joint collaboration between the microclimate labs from … Continue reading →

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Happy hunting

Posted on October 14, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

I spent a happy, sunny, warm autumn Saturday on the farm with my oldest. The goal? Finding back the microclimate sensors we installed there together in early spring, and taking soil samples for soil microbial analysis. And learning about farm … Continue reading →