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Tropical forest understory temperatures
New paper in Nature Communications: Ismaeel et al. (2024) Patterns of tropical forest understory temperatures. It’s a thing we do at SoilTemp: create microclimate maps over large extents for all to use. We have done this before for soil temperature … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged Climate, climate change, Ecology, Forests, Nature, Outdoors, Science, Tropical forests
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Take it to the higher order
New paper: Reynaert et al. (2023) Direct and higher-order interactions in plant communities under increasing weather persistence. Oikos Let’s knock down an open door: interactions between species are key determinants of their performance. How well an individual is growing, or … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium
Tagged Ecology, Grasslands, Higher-order interactions, HOIs, Interactions, Nature, Outdoors, Science
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The dark secrets of dark diversity
Dark diversity. A term that sounds sufficiently dramatic to catch the attention of many an ecologist. But it’s a good theory as well to explore: instead of the common ‘diversity’, which looks at the diversity of species/genes/traits present at a … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Sweden
Tagged Biodiversity, Dark diversity, Ecology, Global change, Mathematics, Mountains, Nature, Science
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How to get the word out?
Twitter/X, Mastodon or LinkedIn, what works best for communicating scientific findings? I got the numbers for you! This website is almost ten years old, and still going strong. I am far from done with its main goal, which is the … Continue reading
The vanguard
Here and there across the city of Antwerp, curious boxes with funny black noses are starting to appear. While their presence for now remains subtle, it heralds the exciting beginning of a new impending roller coaster ride of discoveries! These … Continue reading
A correction and a warning
Finally, we got to publish something that was véry long overdue: the necessary correction to our ‘Global maps of soil temperature’. A correction, indeed, as we had identified an error in the analyses that had to be rectified. So, what … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged climate change, Global maps, Microclimate, Nature, Publishing, Science
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The 3D lab 