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Even exotics plants prefer the shade during a heat wave
A warmer climate of origin does not necessarily protect exotic plants from heatwaves like our country has experienced in recent summers, we showed in a recent paper by Charly Géron, PhD candidate in our group. What does? Local microclimates! Our … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium
Tagged Ecology, Global change, Invasive species, Nature, Nature photography, Plant invasions, Science, Urban, Urban ecology
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How heat makes our cities sweat at night
Beautiful data visualization in newspaper De Standaard today, who show-case the newest conclusions from our citizen science project. Here, I provide a shortened English summary of the longread, but for the full beauty of the visuals, you MUST check out … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium
Tagged Climate, climate change, Ecology, Heat, Microclimate, Science, Urban, Urban ecology, Urban heat islands
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Urban invaders loving the heat
Guest post by Charly Géron, PhD student in The 3D Lab and lead author of a new study on how urban microclimates might facilitate plant invasions in cities. They are submerging the news, movies, papers and talks everywhere. I am … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, General
Tagged Ecology, Invasive species, Nature, Nature photography, Science, Urban, Urban ecology
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Throwback to last summer fieldtrip in Belgian cities
Guest post by Charly Géron, our urban ecologist! Last summer was -normally- the last field season of my PhD which tries to better understand how cities influence alien plant invasions. One would think that the last field season would be … Continue reading
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Tagged Ecology, Invasive species, Outdoors, Plant photography, Plants, Science, Urban ecology
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#NatureOrNot
Our #NatureOrNot survey has been an unexpectedly big success! More than 1300 people informed us about what they consider nature and what not. The poster above, made by master student Naomi De Vries who’s in charge of the project, summarizes … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, General, Netherlands
Tagged Ecology, Ethnography, Gardens, Nature, Natureornot, Outdoors, Science, Urban, Urban ecology
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About wrapping up 2 field seasons
This is a guest post by Charly Geron, PhD-student at Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech and in our Virtual Lab. One month ago, I was left with mixed feelings about finishing up my second field season, and acquiring massive amount of data … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, General
Tagged Cities, Ecology, Global change, Global change ecology, Invasive species, Nature, Plants, Science, Urban ecology
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