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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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A glimpse from the field

By Journey Verspeek – master student in the team And there you are, in the middle of nowhere, face to face with a snorting reindeer charging straight at you. Of course, not all fieldwork days looked like that; mostly we … Continue reading →

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The green revolution of our playgrounds

A blogpost by 3D Lab team members Kyra and Olivia What A super cool project that is currently taking place in Zeeland is the Groene Revolutie (translating to Green revolution) organized by IVN Zeeland. The goal? To greenify all school … Continue reading →

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Little resistance where we expected it

Once you have gone through the effort of collecting a global database, you can start playing with it. And one of the most fun things to play with, I’d say, is general ecological theories – the kind that you would … Continue reading →

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Proving extinction is hard. But we can do so now.

For decades, climate change ecology has mostly been a story about shifts: species moving upslope, poleward, tracking the climate they’re adapted to as it slides out from under them. It’s one of the best-documented fingerprints of warming in nature. What … Continue reading →

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How much hydrology hides in our microclimate sensors?

I’ve spent over a decade now sticking small microclimate loggers into the ground, mostly to talk about temperature. Soil moisture has always been the awkward third wheel in that story: TOMST loggers measure it too, our CurieuzeNeuzen in de Tuin … Continue reading →

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