BIOCUE

Science is coming to a park near you! 🌳

As part of BIOCUE , we’re sampling parks to explore how nature-based urban rewilding affects soil health, compared to traditional grass lawns. Today, we took samples from Grøndalsparken in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 to do some preliminary tests. 🌱 Stay tuned for more! 🌱

Isn't it nice when you're evaluating a difficult sampling site and you find out that someone already made a path that you can use? 😁

Figuring out what we need to buy for our experiments this summer to measure carbon use efficiency and much more. Lots of exciting stuff coming soon!

City trees provide cooling even in extreme heat Urban trees transpire much more than expected at temperatures above 39°C. This questions previous assumptions about heat regulation.

🌳 Surprise discovery: plane trees evaporate a lot of water in extreme heat – even at temperatures above 39 °C, cooling the air more than previously thought. This casts doubt on predictions on future heat distribution in cities. www.wsl.ch/en/news/city... #Climateadaptation #Urbantrees #Trees

🍃 Successful BIOCUE kick-off meeting at @wslresearch.bsky.social! We spent two lovely days together and designed our strategy to uncover the influence of #nature based solutions on #carbon use efficiency. This will be of extreme importance in our fight against #climatechange! Stay tuned for more 📻