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Karen De Pauw 🌼

@karen-depauw.bsky.social
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Plant ecologist @UGent @fornalab.bsky.social & @meisebotanicgarden.bsky.social Urban ecology 🌆 Microclimate 🌡 Global change 🌍 Forests 🌳 Passionate about nature writing & science communication 📚🌼

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ForNaLab @fornalab.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
More shrubs in the mountains?! 😮 Why would this be a problem for the local biodiversity? Shrubs are tall and can form dense canopies, eventually outcompeting many of the smaller alpine flowers. 📃by Thomas Vanneste onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Widespread Shrubification on European Mountain Summits
Based on vegetation resurveys from 572 plots of 1 m2 located on mountain summits spread across Europe's major mountain ranges, shrubification was calculated as the change in shrub cover between 2001 ...
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ForNaLab @fornalab.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
📢New paper out by Isabelle van der Zanden & Lieke Moereels et al: Food forests support different — and often more — soil life than croplands & grasslands. Especially more organisms sensitive to disturbance or drought like fungi, woodlice & harvestmen. 🍄🪲🪱 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s44185-026-00125-w
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Planting food forests can increase soil biodiversity in agricultural landscapes of Northwest Europe - npj Biodiversity
npj Biodiversity - Planting food forests can increase soil biodiversity in agricultural landscapes of Northwest Europe
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Stephanie Schelfhout @stephschelfhout.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Discovered far from home: a new Medicago species (Medicago peregrina sp. nov.) associated with historical wool imports in Belgium plecevo.eu/articles.php... => "the value of continued botanical surveys"+"need to consider historical human activity when interpreting the presence of non-native plants."
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Discovered far from home: a new Medicago species (Fabaceae) of unknown origin, associated with historical wool imports in Belgium
Background and aims – A previously undescribed species of Medicago was discovered in Belgium. Its identification and characterization are important for understanding non-native plant introductions lin...
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Karen De Pauw 🌼 @karen-depauw.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
When a colleagues' paper features for a couple of seconds in the late night show with Seth Meyer 🤩🤩 See 🧵below 👇
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ForNaLab @fornalab.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
How come isopods end up in the late night show with @sethmeyerspencil.bsky.social ? First, enjoy the joke 😀👇 See below to get the story behind it 🧵 youtu.be/T58hOrsaGoI?...
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Seth Holds a Surprise Inspection of His Monologue Writers in February 2026
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Karen De Pauw 🌼 @karen-depauw.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Heel trots om aan dit rapport te hebben meegewerkt! 🌳
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ForNaLab @fornalab.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
New Paper out in Nature Climate Change @natclimate.nature.com! 🌿 👇 Read the full paper from: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Global bias towards recording latitudinal range shifts - Nature Climate Change
The authors consider studies reporting species range shifts and demonstrate a geometric bias in sampling along latitudinal, rather than longitudinal, gradients. This bias may favour the corroboration ...
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Karen De Pauw 🌼 @karen-depauw.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
🌳 Weerstations tonen het regionale klimaat, maar in een bos gebeurt vaak iets heel anders. Daarom experimenteerden we binnen het MIRRA-project met sensoren en bouwden we een website om het microklimaat van het Aelmoeseneiebos live te volgen! 📄Ik schreef een blogpost voor @eoswetenschap.bsky.social
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De vinger aan de pols: realtime microklimaat in het Aelmoeseneiebos
Weerstations vertellen ons wat er gebeurt met het klimaat in onze regio, maar het microklimaat in een bos kan zich heel anders gedragen. Dit microklimaat wor...
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Karen De Pauw 🌼 @karen-depauw.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
We published this open letter on #UrbanForests as essential(!!) infrastructure for climate resilience & biodiversity aimed at policymakers at #COP30. 4🗝️priorities🧵👇 @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social @fornalab.bsky.social @fbwugent.bsky.social @meisebotanicgarden.bsky.social @westsyduhie.bsky.social
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Plants, People, Planet @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
In their Open Letter, Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez, et al. highlight the importance of #UrbanForests as essential infrastructure to policy makers at #COP30, which begins today in Brazil 👇 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #NatureBasedSolutions #PlantScience 🧵
An overhead view of a complex arrangement of trees and vegetation amidst tall buildings in a busy urban setting.
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ForNaLab @fornalab.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Prof Kris Verheyen in the news on the masting year of oaks! www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20... #mastjaar #sciencecommunication
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Zie jij ook opvallend veel eikels liggen? Uitzonderlijk 'mastjaar' voor eiken | VRT NWS: nieuws
Zomer- en wintereiken verliezen opvallend veel eikels dit jaar. Dat komt omdat ze in een uitzonderlijk 'mastjaar' zitten. Dat is een periode waarin een boom of plant meer vruchten draagt dan gemiddeld...
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Karen De Pauw 🌼 @karen-depauw.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
New Global Tipping Points Report out! Very worrying 😶
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ForNaLab @fornalab.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
New paper out! @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social We test whether optical fibres can be used to measure microclimate temperatures in the forest, and investigate what we can learn from it. 🧵👇 The full article is published Open Access: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Continuous quantification of forest microclimate temperatures in space and time using fibre‐optic technology
Most species experience microclimate temperatures, that is, variable and fine-grained thermal conditions determined by atmospheric conditions interacting with biotic and abiotic components of the ...
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INBO (Research Institute for Nature and Forest) @inbo.be · 06/10/2025
#vacature Onderzoeker genenbronnen bomen en struiken: je ontwikkelt onderzoeksprojecten, beheert DNA-databanken en adviseert stakeholders over duurzaam bosbeheer. Je bouwt mee aan levende collecties, zaadboomgaarden en veldproeven, en krijgt de kans om internationaal te publiceren. bit.ly/4mUauym
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Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek
Het INBO is het onafhankelijk onderzoeksinstituut van de Vlaamse overheid dat via toegepast wetenschappelijk onderzoek, data- en kennisontsluiting het biodiversiteitsbeleid en -beheer onderbouwt en ev...
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ForNaLab @fornalab.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
🌳Week van het bos🌳 In het Aelmoeseneiebos onderzoeken we hoe bossen reageren op complexe uitdagingen zoals klimaatverandering, luchtvervuiling, ... Onze collega's namen @eoswetenschap.bsky.social journalist Kim Verhaeghe mee in dit levend openluchtlaboratorium. www.eoswetenschap.eu/natuur-milie...
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Een levend laboratorium
Door klimaatverandering, luchtvervuiling, ziekten en plagen worden bossen steeds kwetsbaarder. Tegelijk vormen ze een van de krachtigste bondgenoten in de st...
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ForNaLab @fornalab.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The recent issue of the journal @eoswetenschap.bsky.social focusses on sustainable forests. Postdoc at our lab Pallieter De Smedt took an EOS reporter into the forest to discover the importance of litter dwelling fauna for ecosystem functioning. www.tijdschriftenwinkel.be/collections/...
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EOS editie 10/2025
Dossier: Duurzame bossen    ·  Het bos van morgen: Kunnen onze inheemse bomen de klimaatopwarming aan, of moeten we inzetten op zuidelijke soorten?    ·  In een handvol bosgrond lever meer dieren dan ...
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ForNaLab @fornalab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
📣 new paper! 🌳🌱 We present a novel experimental platform showing that light and post-agricultural soil promote graminoid growth more than tree seedlings & the interaction with graminoids significantly affects seedling growth. New platform to study understory grassification! doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...
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INBO (Research Institute for Nature and Forest) @inbo.be · 29/08/2025
Eerste Vlaamse Rode Lijst van wilde bijen gepubliceerd. Dat, en veel meer in de meest recente INBO-nieuwsbrief: www.vlaanderen.be/inbo/nieuwsb...
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Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography (MEB) conference @mebconf.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
We are very happy to announce that the next Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography (MEB) conference will happen in Montpellier (FRANCE), 1 - 5 June 2026 ☀️ meb-network.com/meb-2026/ Microclimate scientists: save the date in your agenda!!
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ForNaLab @fornalab.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
🌳🪲New paper out in Insect Conservation & Diversity!🪲🌳 Our new study explores how urbanisation affects the rusty click beetle (Elater ferrugineus) - a near-threatened saproxylic species related to old trees and deadwood-rich ecosystems. 📖 doi.org/10.1111/icad... @fbwugent.bsky.social
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Functional trait variation of an emblematic saproxylic beetle along rural‐to‐urban gradients across Europe
Urbanisation reduced the local abundance of Elater ferrugineus L., but tree cover increases it. This deadwoods species can persist even in highly urbanised areas. The traits of E. ferrugineus do not...
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Karen De Pauw 🌼 @karen-depauw.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
@nmbs-be.bsky.social Antwerpen Zuid smelt weg. Hier is geen schaduw behalve op de trap. 🫠🫠🫠
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INBO (Research Institute for Nature and Forest) @inbo.be · 01/07/2025
Onze Pieter Vangansbeke schreef samen met Pallieter De Smedt (UGent) een artikel en natuurbericht over de invloed van bosranden en open plekken in het bos op #nachtvlinders. www.natuurpunt.be/nieuws/nacht...
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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Western Europe is experiencing its second heatwave of the summer. For the continent as a whole, this June is likely to be one of the five warmest on record. Read the press release: climate.copernicus.eu/ecmwf-weathe... @ecmwf.int @oceanterra.org @carlobuontempo.bsky.social
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Karen De Pauw 🌼 @karen-depauw.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Kim Verhaeghe, wetenschapsjournalist bij Eos, brengt hier kleine wonders naar boven die me nauw aan het hart liggen. Mossen zijn zo'n bijzondere plantjes: aanrader 👇 #mossen #wetenschapscommunicatie @eoswetenschap.bsky.social www.eoswetenschap.eu/natuur-milie...
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Mossen zijn evolutionaire wonderen die de lucht zuiveren en mini-oerwouden verbergen
Van een afstand lijken de mossen die groeien op onze muren, dakpannen en stoeptegels vooral op hoopjes vuil die je te lijf moet gaan met een hogedrukreiniger...
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Karen De Pauw 🌼 @karen-depauw.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Very proud to show the results and some beautiful pictures of @nerdland.be festival! What a rollercoaster ! The Oooh's and Aaaah's and Wauw's of so many when looking through the 🔬 or at small soil critters made this so worth it. Just wonderful! #citizenscience #burgerwetenschap #nerdlandfestival
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Karen De Pauw 🌼 @karen-depauw.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Mooie blogpost over de digitalisatie van natuurhistorische collecties en de deuren die daarmee open gaan! @eoswetenschap.bsky.social Door Ann Van Baelen @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social www.eoswetenschap.eu/natuur-milie... 🌿🔍 #Natuurwetenschap #Digitalisering #Biodiversiteit
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Van kikker tot kennisbank: waarom we onze natuurwetenschappelijke collecties digitaliseren
Hoewel natuurwetenschappelijke collecties in het verleden vaak een ietwat stoffig imago hadden, vormen ze een onschatbare bron van kennis. Digitalisering en ...
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Karen De Pauw 🌼 @karen-depauw.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Today we had the first meeting of the CLOVER project focusing on Climate Overshoot. Inspiring discussions from the start: it will be an interesting two years to come! More 👇 @fornalab.bsky.social
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Karen De Pauw 🌼 @karen-depauw.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Such a great experience to be interviewed and then read a very clear article about the science we're doing without having to write it ourselves. Kim did a fantastic job. Proud to be in @eoswetenschap.bsky.social magazine!!
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ForNaLab @fornalab.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
More than 400 leaf impressions were made with clear nail polish and regular tape! @stephschelfhout.bsky.social
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ForNaLab @fornalab.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
We were on @nerdland.be festival and it was FANTASTIC! ✨ Belgian Championship Worm Charming 🍂 Soil fauna safari's 🔬 Microclimate & stomata discovery Thanks everyone for sharing the science enthusiasm! @stephschelfhout.bsky.social @karen-depauw.bsky.social @wimds.bsky.social @fbwugent.bsky.social
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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
We monitored air 🌡 & vapour pressure deficits below the crown of >200 large solitary trees #LSTs 🌳 along rural-to-urban gradients for 3 tree species (oak, ash, and lime) across 9 European cities 🏫 We found that #LSTs shape their own species-specific microclimate to host 🐝🦋🐿🦇🌾☘️🌻🌼 shorturl.at/3xPRd
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Karen De Pauw 🌼 @karen-depauw.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Klimaat-trappers gezocht in Nationaal Park Brabantse wouden! 👇🚴 Vanuit UGent brengen wij voor dit project het microklimaat in kaart in >50 tuintjes in gemeenten in de Brusselse rand, in het Zoniënwoud en in hartje Brussel! @fornalab.bsky.social @fbwugent.bsky.social www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
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Vrijwilligers gezocht die willen fietsen door Zoniënwoud voor uniek onderzoek
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Karen De Pauw 🌼 @karen-depauw.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
You'll find us in the jungle tent! 😍🌴 For me it will be the first year to be there not only to indulge in all the science of others but also share about the science we are doing ourselves at @fornalab.bsky.social. Looking forward to this A LOT! @nerdland.be
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Karen De Pauw 🌼 @karen-depauw.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Yesterday, we were very proud to be present at university of Antwerp for this celebration! 😍✨
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Ghent University, Systematic and Evolutionary Botany lab @ugent-botany.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The Belgian Plant Science Community is kicked off at Meise Botanic Garden today, to spark integrative plant research in the many Belgian institutes. Timely initiative to battle climate change, biodiversity loss and foster food security. @kuleuvenplantinst.bsky.social @universitedeliege.bsky.social
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Karen De Pauw 🌼 @karen-depauw.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Kick off of the Belgian Plant Science Community! Gathering all people working on plants across Belgium from molecular scientists to ecologists. Cool! #BPSC
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Karen De Pauw 🌼 @karen-depauw.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
We lanceren een citizen science oproep rond bosanemoon voor het FOURCAST project! 🌼 Deel jouw bosanemoon waarnemingen via waarnemingen.be 🌼 Help ons met een veldexperiment Schrijf je hier in: www.projectfourcast.be/citizen-scie... #citizenscience #burgerwetenschap www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
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Plantentuin Meise zoekt bosanemonen: "Vergelijken met exemplaren van 150 jaar geleden"
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Markus Wagner @wagnermarkus.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
This looks like a great option when nondestructive biomass measurements are required, e.g., in mesocosm experiments.
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Ellen De Vrieze @ellendevrieze.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Having a great time at Ruhr University Bochum for my research stay at the Urban Ecology and Biodiversity lab of @valentinecology.bsky.social - Learning a lot - and the coffee breaks are pretty nice too! ☕😊 Big thanks to the team for the warm welcome! #UrbanEcology @fornalab.bsky.social
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Karen De Pauw 🌼 @karen-depauw.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
On the limited space in living plant collections and the pace at which more and more plant species are becoming threatened 👇
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Michal Bogdziewicz @micbog.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Our new @pnas.org paper shows a previously unrecognized mechanism by which climate warming reduces beech growth: more frequent seed production depletes tree resources, causing a 28% decline in radial growth. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Funded by @ncngovpl.bsky.social
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Jeremy Borderieux @jeremborderieux.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
📯🌲| The last article from my thesis is now out in @peercomjournal.bsky.social ! We tackled how the different drivers of forest temperature determine plant communities. We found that shaded valley bottoms harbor 5 (30%) more cold-adapted species! doi.org/10.24072/pcj.... Will it lead to microrefugia?
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Cool topoclimates promote cold-adapted plant diversity in temperate mountain forests
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UGent Open Science @ugentopenscience.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Excited for 💗#LoveDataWeek!💗? At Ghent University, we’re exploring how you can share your research data responsibly and make it FAIR. 🗓️ Feb 10–14. Register here: ghentcorr.github.io/news/LoveDat...
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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Abstract submission is now open for the International Mountain Conference #IMC25 in Innsbruck in September: imc2025.info. If you're looking for an exciting session on the future of mountain forests, come join us for FS 3.206 (imc2025.info/imc25/sessio...). Looking forward to a great conference!
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 16/01/2025
Ancient ginkgo trees, some over 600 years old, show no signs of aging, maintaining vitality similar to younger trees. A study shows that their stem cells and immune defenses remain robust over centuries, explaining their extraordinary lifespans. In @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/scottt...
A stock image of a ginkgo tree. They’ve lived through the ice age, the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and brushed off an atomic blast just a mile away. Here’s the story of this living fossil that refuses to age—or die.
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Karen De Pauw 🌼 @karen-depauw.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Getting a new idea about a really cool sensor is easy Building that idea into a usable sensor: something else entirely Great reflection by my colleague Eline about the process Beautifully written, pure honesty and many lessons learned 👇 #ecology #reflection #sensor #diy
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Karen De Pauw 🌼 @karen-depauw.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
How to balance gaining new insights & knowledge on precious ecosystems with the risk of damaging them with field experiments? Do we, as scientists, think deeply enough about the effects on ecosystems and how to reduce potential damage of scientific experiments? Was an interesting exercise! 👇
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ForNaLab @fornalab.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Hej Bluesky! We are ForNaLab: 🌼 a team of researchers passionate about Forest & Nature at Ghent university 📈 scientists delving deep into fundamental and applied questions We will be posting here on 🔭 the process of doing science ✨ new research results stay tuned! 🎉
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Stephanie Schelfhout @stephschelfhout.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Geweldig boeiend NatuurFocus Symposium bijgewoond. Thx @karen-depauw.bsky.social et al voor de smooth organisatie.
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Dr. Mariana García Criado @nanitundra.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🌿 We need to raise the profile of #bryophyte ecological research 🌿 (and also a bryophyte emoji!) In this opinion piece, we as a group of #ECRs outline barriers in bryophyte research and provide recommendations to overcome them across institutional levels & disciplines. doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
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