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INNATURE: Building biodiversity and belonging in urban spaces

By Olivia van der Weiden Over the past months, we’ve been working hard on the preparations for INNATURE, an EU-funded project on nature based solutions in urban areas. The mission of this project is straightforward: co-create nature-based solutions to promote … Continue reading

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Where the soundscape is pleasant

So, where in Flanders does it still sound nice? A simple question, perhaps. But one for which the data has long remained elusive. Sound is a complex, multi-dimensional beast, and capturing how people actually experience it is not straightforward. In … Continue reading

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A hell of a nuisance

Non-native species can be, pardon my words, a hell of a nuisance sometimes. Case in point: invasive pine species in the Southern Hemisphere. Did you know that there are no (none!) native pine species south of the equator? Given how … Continue reading

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Don’t mess with physics

Gather ‘round, my friends, because this one is important! A few years ago, we released our Global maps of soil temperature – a project that brought climate data much closer to the conditions that actually matter for the organisms living … Continue reading

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How to not be swamped by your microclimate data

Microclimate data are finally finding their way more routineously into ecological models – and rightly so. Hooray for that! The growing availability of in-situ measurements is helping us bridge the gap between the coarse world of macroclimate and the fine-scale … Continue reading

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A tale of homogenisation

I’ve always been intrigued by ecological scaling – it’s literally in my title: Assistant Professor in Ecological Scaling. One of the main reasons we care so much about scaling is that ecological theories don’t always hold up when we change … Continue reading

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