Eva Gril

Just added photos of the coming conference excursion to our website! meb-network.com/meb-2026/ Will you join?

MEB 2026 - Meb-Network

We just extended the talk/poster abstract submission deadline for the next international microclimate conference! You can now register until March 1st at meb-network.com/meb-2026/
Thank you for your great contributions so far! 🌅

MEB 2026 - Meb-Network

Registration for the Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography conference is now open!

📅 Dates: June 1-5, 2026
📍 Location: Montpellier, France
🌐 Website: meb-network.com/meb-2026/

Please share the news - all microclimate enthusiasts are welcome!

Yes indeed, thrash can create microhabitats for some species, although sadly enough, glass bottles are often instead deadly traps for insects, micromammals etc.

Truly honoured to have received this PhD award from my university @upjv-univ.bsky.social. For sure I have been very fortunate with my supervisors and the team I have worked with 🌱
Merci Jonathan !!

A green glass bottle left behind on the forest floor, with moss and ferns thriving inside, moss even bursting out of the bottle

Same mossy bottle, this time held by a human hand. It's a small beer bottle, now a miniature greenhouse

Have a look at what my brother found in the forest this morning! Mosses, ferns... Is this not the most beautiful trash ever? 🍾

Forêts, au cœur d'un refuge climatique Pourquoi fait-il plus frais en forêt qu’à découvert ? En mesurant ce microclimat local, les scientifiques du projet Imprint révèlent le rôle essentiel des forêts comme refuges face au changement clima...

Reportage photo du projet #IMPRINT, réalisé par Eva Gril & CNRS Images, sur l'étude des #microclimats #forestiers dans un contexte de réchauffement global 🌳🌍🌐🧪

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@cnrsecologie.bsky.social
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Jeu interactif sur le microclimat forestier, animé par moi-même : un gradient de rouge (chaud) à bleu (frais) est posé sur une table, les participants réunis autour doivent poser leurs hypothèse pour classer les images de forêt selon leur température. Ils semblent concentrés sur la tâche !

Aurore Toulou présentant ses résultats de thèse dans le chaleureux bar associatif "Cause Toujours"

Adélaïde Milza, administratrice du Cause Toujours, donne les réponses du grand quizz Pint of Science - ici, l'origine de l'invention du velcro...

Invitée par la fondation Evertéa, j'ai adoré participer à Pint of Science 🍺 au bar Cause Toujours (Valence) : "Les super-pouvoirs de la forêt, passés aux rayons laser !" #pint25
@pintofscience.fr
Binôme avec Aurore Toulou, doctorante au CETHIL de Lyon, sur les microclimats & espaces verts urbains 🌳

Notre réseau thématique sur les #Forêts en transformation #FORTRAN est sur la 🕸🌳😃 & le programme détaillé des journées de lancement (17-18/06) aussi, placées sous le signe de l'interdisciplinarité : climatologues, écologues, généticiens, biologistes, historiens, économistes, etc.

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Vous y trouverez toutes nos productions ainsi que la magnifique planche de #BD réalisée par @evagril.bsky.social

Le projet #IMPRINT 🌳 sur les #microclimats forestiers & financé par l'Agence nationale de la recherche #ANR 🇲🇫 est bel et bien terminé et vous pouvez télécharger le rapport final sur le site de l'UMR #EDYSAN ⬇️

@evagril.bsky.social @agencerecherche.bsky.social @cnrs.fr

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A forest stand visualized as 3D pixels, or "voxels", extracted on a 20 by 20 m square. It is dense, but the different tree stems are easy to distinguish. Voxels are colored by height, from dark blue near the ground to light green in the top of the canopy (24 m height maximum).

The beauty of trees as lidar point clouds... 3D pixel art 🌳 🧊
Here, an oak forest stand from the North of France, with a dense understory. Voxelised with AMAPVox @umramap.bsky.social, from our terrestrial lidar scans!
@jonlen.bsky.social #EDYSAN @terschki.bsky.social

The #MEB2026 conference is opening a call for workshops, taking place on the 5th of June 2026, in the afternoon. If you are willing to lead a workshop - on any topic relevant to the MEB network - please fill out this form:
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Deadline: 15th September 2025 ⏱️

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Will you join us in Montpellier (France) for the next global microclimate conference? Please share the post below with your microclimate-enthusiast friends 🫶

#microclimate scientists! Stay tuned, we will very soon announce when & where the next MEB (Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography) conference will happen..!
@remybeugnon.bsky.social 🌅

"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!

Ears of glass Gem corn, spectacularly diverse in color

Seeds of glass Gem corn

Earrings made of glass gem corn seeds

Did you ever see Glass Gem corn? Yes, these are natural colors from real corn! 🌈🌽 This variety was selected in the 80s by a farmer in Oklahoma, who crossed ancestral breeds. My aunt has grown this variety, and though you can ear it as popcorn 🍿, I instead made earrings out of the jewel-like seeds!

🌿 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.

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Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography From the first days of SoilTemp, we had the ambition to turn this project into more than ‘just a database’. SoilTemp could become the much-needed glue to stick together microclimate eco…

The top 10 stories of 2024 from The 3D Lab!

#4 - Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography

A publication highlight of the year! This milestone from the SoilTemp community, driven by those united at the MEB conference, showcases why the era of global microclimate research is here

📖Published📖

Our latest review article presents 10 practical guidelines for ground-based research of terrestrial microclimates, covering methods and best practices from initial conceptualisation of the study to data analyses 🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇

https://buff.ly/41BKn8o

🚨 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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The affinity of vascular plants and bryophytes to forest microclimate buffering Understorey plants have a species-specific affinity to the forest microclimate, which we quantify for the first time. The investigation of species response curves to microclimate processes—buffering ...

Species #response #curves to 🌡 to derive #thermal #performances are usually fitted against T°C data from #weather #stations, right? Yet, how many #forest species live next to a weather station? None! Lets derive affinity to forests' microclimates ⬇️

@journalofecology.bsky.social

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Interested in more of this type of work? Follow the microclimate ecology starter park with all these great people inside!
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Everything you ever wanted to know to get started on #microclimate is compiled there ⬇️ in 🔟 guidelines 🤓 Unpack each 1️⃣ to select the right variable, the most relevant spatiotemporal scale, the best sampling design & to tailor your analyses to your study question

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Thanks a lot!! ☺️

A close-up of a forest moss - Campylopus introflexus - the cover picture of Journal of Ecology for January 2025

As my first Bluesky post, I am happy to share my moss photo (the beautiful exotic Campylopus introflexus) on the cover of the newest @journalofecology.bsky.social issue! 🌱 Here is our paper, on bryophyte and vascular plant affinity to forest microclimate: doi.org/10.1111/1365...