Using total abundance as a proxy for wild bee species richness: A practical tool for non-experts 🐝🌏

Proposes that employing an effective proxy for non-experts could enhance the evaluation of many local and regional conservation initiatives 📑🧪

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Combining holidays and work! Deployment of microclimatic sensors network in Haute-Tarentaise (French Alps). Inside different mountain forests from 1000 to 1900m ⛰️. Yesterday 33°C at 12am and 1850m what about under forest cover? Results in 1 year.
#Umr_edysan #phdlife #microclimat #work_passion

Together w/ Fabien Spicher to install #TMS4 loggers to record microclimatic conditions across the 💯 permanent 🌳🌲 plots of the #RENECOFOR network spread across 🇨🇵

Paired w/ soundscape loggers 🦉🦇 installed by Kevin Darras

#PEPR #FORESTT PC #MONITOR Tasks 3.1 & 3.2 to feed models from Task 3.4 🛰🌳🌐🧪

Allometric equations underestimate woody volumes of large solitary trees outside forests #LSTOFs 🌳

We used terrestrial lidar scanning #TLS & scanned 215 #LSTOFs along rural to urban gradients across 9 🇪🇺 cities to assess their woody volumes 🧪🌐🍁

Below is one #LSTOF near Amiens 🇨🇵

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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 🐝🦋🐿🦇🌾☘️🌻🌼

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For the past three weeks, researchers from #UMR_EDYSAN installing plots for the #MicroB²Som project. This project aims to study microclimates 🌡️, GHG emissions, and the biodiversity of woodlands🌳 on peat soils💧 within #RAMSAR site of the Somme and Avre valleys. Supported by Département de la Somme

Retour sur les évènements #Mélisciences avec @cnrs-hautsdefrance.bsky.social à Amiens ! A la rencontre des élèves au coeur de leurs établissements. Aujourd'hui on parle recherche sur les plantes et l'eau avec #EDYSAN @jonlen.bsky.social 🌱🌿🌾

Aujourd’hui #Mélisciences est au collège Sainte Famille d’Amiens avec les écologues #EDYSAN !
Les élèves explorent les étonnantes capacités des plantes et des graines au contact de l’eau 🪴

@cnrsecologie.bsky.social @upjv-univ.bsky.social

@fspicher.bsky.social, @fgandiaga.bsky.social et Thomas Kichey sont de retour aujourd’hui pour #Mélisciences !
Au collège Compère Morel de Breteuil, les écologues d’ #EDYSAN présentent aux élèves les super pouvoirs de l’eau 💧 et des plantes 🌸☘️

#Mélisciences continue cet après-midi ! 🐝
@fspicher.bsky.social, @fgandiaga.bsky.social et Thomas Kichey invitent les élèves à expérimenter et comprendre le rôle de l’eau dans les écosystèmes forestiers 🌲🌱

@jonlen.bsky.social

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!!

"Show me your sensor and I'll tell you who you are! "
In our studies on #microclimate we often wonder about the best technical solution.
It's hard to make a choice... 🤔
Here some systems used or which will be evaluated.
Don't hesitate to follow our past and future studies!

This week the team #Edysan was on field to collect informations on Vinca minor: genetic, epigenetic, ecophysiology, botany and microclimate

🚨 Mosses on the spotlight ⬇️ We made the cover of the current issue of Journal of Ecology 😍🤩 for the last paper of Eva's PhD on the affinity of understory #plant species, including mosses, to #forest #microclimate buffering 🌳

Picture from Eva Gril

@journalofecology.bsky.social

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🌳Understory #plants have contrasted affinities to the #forest microclimate! Among 126 vascular plants & 64 #bryophytes, many species prefer buffered (less extreme) temps, but not all... 🧪🌍
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🚨 We are hiring one engineer for 2 yrs to set up a #long-term #forest #microclimate monitoring network at the national extent of 🇨🇵 We look for a person fluent in 🇨🇵 to interact with local site managers 🌲🌳 This position is part of #PC #MONITOR in the #PEPR #FORESTT 🌲🌳 Please share widely 😊

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