Microclimate and species redistributions.
Living for SoilTemp (www.soiltempproject.com), CurieuzeNeuzen (www.curieuzeneuzen.be) and MIREN (www.mountaininvasions.org)
Does microclimate data actually improve SDMs? Very much yes, and even at the European scale!
The impressive outcome of a new SoilTemp-paper led by Stef Haesen now out in Ecology Letters.
Why I think these results are extremely important?
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https://the3dlab.org/2023/10/04/the-true-thermal-niche-of-forest-plant-species/
Great news! The Corrigendum to our 'global maps of soil temperature' got finally published!
Read all about the what and why summarized in this post
(+ a little extra warning for data users of global maps like ours!)
A very important paper coming out of the PhD of Eduardo Fuentes-Lillo: a review of the state of our knowledge on non-native plant invasions in the Andes.
Summary of the main findings in the blogpost: https://the3dlab.org/2023/08/20/going-up-the-andes/
Very short summary on plant invasions in the Andes:
- The patterns: same as in all mountains
- The drivers: human disturbance trumps climate
- The impact: largely unstudied
- The management: in need of trans-national collab across the Andes
Paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-023-02697-6
What is this sturdy wooden pole doing, overlooking Lapporten in Swedish Lapland?
Join us for a day of fieldwork on one of the most interesting long-term vegetation monitoring projects I have ever seen!
https://the3dlab.org/2023/08/14/a-climate-change-ecologists-dream/
A microclimate sensor overlooks the beautiful Laktatjakka-valley. We're back there this year, to monitor the effect of mountain trails on the vegetation. And it's as pretty as ever, as this post hopes to prove⬇️!
https://the3dlab.org/2023/08/07/revisiting-the-highways-of-the-mountains/
Very happy with this picture a student made of me, doing snowbed vegetation surveys. Looking rather profesh, if you ask me.
For more pictures of our adventures on the rocky slopes of the northern Scandes, check out this well-illustrated blog post!
https://the3dlab.org/2023/07/29/science-at-its-most-adventurous/
Can we predict winners and loosers in a warming tundra using their traits?
Not so fast, we say in our recent publication in @NatureComms, led by @nanitundra!
How that came to be, you can read in this blogpost!
What I learned from a week of
@SpeciesOnTheMov
-conferencing in Florida, including some ways in which I think our field should move forward!
Spiced up by a nice bunch of Florida wildlife pictures 🤩
What's the impact of pine invasions in Chile on the microclimate and soil? And what does that mean for the native vegetation?
In a recent paper led by
@ragarciaaraya
, we found impressively strong micro-environmental gradients!
My summary ⬇️
Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez