Plant ecologist @UGent @fornalab.bsky.social & @meisebotanicgarden.bsky.social
Urban ecology 🌆 Microclimate 🌡 Global change 🌍 Forests 🌳
Passionate about nature writing & science communication 📚🌼
Reposted by Pieter De Frenne
📄Ik schreef een blogpost voor @eoswetenschap.bsky.social
💸Invest in urban forests as infrastructure
🌳Deliver equity & access
🌡️Mainstream in climate and biodiversity governance
🔄Strengthen resilience with adaptive, evidence-based management
Reposted by Pieter De Frenne
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#NatureBasedSolutions #PlantScience 🧵
4🗝️priorities🧵👇
@plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social @fornalab.bsky.social @fbwugent.bsky.social @meisebotanicgarden.bsky.social
@westsyduhie.bsky.social
Reposted by Karen De Pauw, Juan Antonio Hernández‐Agüero
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#NatureBasedSolutions #PlantScience 🧵
Reposted by Karen De Pauw
#mastjaar #sciencecommunication
👉global-tipping-points.org
Very worrying 😶
Reposted by Tommaso Jucker, Karen De Pauw, Connor Morozumi
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/...
👉global-tipping-points.org
Reposted by Karen De Pauw, Stephanie Schelfhout
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...
Reposted by Karen De Pauw
Reposted by Karen De Pauw, Stephanie Schelfhout
www.tijdschriftenwinkel.be/collections/...
Reposted by Karen De Pauw
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...
Reposted by Tim Adriaens, Karen De Pauw
Reposted by Jonathan Lenoir, Karen De Pauw
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
Reposted by Wim Thiery, Carlo Buontempo, Karen De Pauw
Read the press release: climate.copernicus.eu/ecmwf-weathe...
@ecmwf.int @oceanterra.org @carlobuontempo.bsky.social
Reposted by Karen De Pauw
www.natuurpunt.be/nieuws/nacht...
#mossen #wetenschapscommunicatie
@eoswetenschap.bsky.social
www.eoswetenschap.eu/natuur-milie...
Reposted by Pieter De Frenne, Stephanie Schelfhout
The results are now online on our website:
canopychange.ugent.be/Nerdland.htm...
🌡️ Microclimate mapping of the festival island!
🔬 Stomata counting for a citizen science experiment!
✨ BK Worm Charming!!
🍂 Soil fauna safaris!
#citizenscience #burgerwetenschap
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
Reposted by Pieter De Frenne, Karen De Pauw, Stephanie Schelfhout
The results are now online on our website:
canopychange.ugent.be/Nerdland.htm...
🌡️ Microclimate mapping of the festival island!
🔬 Stomata counting for a citizen science experiment!
✨ BK Worm Charming!!
🍂 Soil fauna safaris!
#citizenscience #burgerwetenschap
Reposted by Stephanie Schelfhout
@eoswetenschap.bsky.social
Door Ann Van Baelen @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
www.eoswetenschap.eu/natuur-milie...
🌿🔍 #Natuurwetenschap #Digitalisering #Biodiversiteit
Reposted by Hans Verbeeck, Karen De Pauw
Reposted by Karen De Pauw