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Sustaining Workers Who Sustain the World: Assets-Based Design for Conservation Technologies in Madagascar Open

Eric Greenlee, David H. Klinges, Lalatiana Randriamiharisoa, Kim Valenta, Jean Claude Rakotoarivelo , et al. · 2025

Local workers and their knowledge are essential for sustainable and effective conservation efforts. However, many technology-assisted conservation programs are guided by global benchmarks (e.g., forest cover) and industry metrics (e.g., co…

A workflow for microclimate sensor networks: Integrating geographic tools, statistics, and local knowledge Open

David H. Klinges, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Stijn Van de Vondel, Eric Greenlee, Kian Hayles-Cotton , et al. · 2025

Extreme events drive rapid and dynamic range fluctuations Open

Lydia Soifer, Julie L. Lockwood, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Laura H. Antão, David H. Klinges , et al. · 2025

Reimagining species on the move across space and time Open

Alexa Fredston, Morgan W. Tingley, Montague H. C. Neate‐Clegg, Luke J. Evans, Laura H. Antão , et al. · 2025

Climate change is already leaving a broad footprint of impacts on biodiversity, from an individual caterpillar emerging earlier in spring to dominant plant communities migrating poleward. Despite the various modes of how species are on the…

Ecological associations of the coastal marsh periwinkle snail Littoraria irrorata: field and laboratory evidence of vegetation habitat preferences Open

David H. Klinges, Charles W. Martin, Brian Roberts · 2025

Coastal salt marshes serve as the margin between terrestrial and marine biomes, provide a variety of important services, and are dynamic ecosystems characterized by keystone species that shape trophic networks. In coastal salt marshes of t…

Why extreme events matter for species redistribution Open

Lydia Soifer, J. R. Lockwood, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Laura Antão, David H. Klinges , et al. · 2025

Climate change is altering species’ distributions globally. Increasing frequency of extreme weather and climate events (EWCEs), including heat waves, droughts, storms, floods, and fires, is one of the hallmarks of climate change. These eve…

Ten practical guidelines for microclimate research in terrestrial ecosystems Open

Pieter De Frenne, Rémy Beugnon, David H. Klinges, Jonathan Lenoir, Pekka Niittynen , et al. · 2024

Most biodiversity dynamics and ecosystem processes on land take place in microclimates that are decoupled from the climate as measured by standardised weather stations in open, unshaded locations. As a result, microclimate monitoring is in…

Ecological associations of the coastal marsh periwinkle snailLittoraria irrorata: field and laboratory evidence of vegetation habitat preferences Open

David H. Klinges, Charles W. Martin, Brian J. Roberts · 2024

Coastal salt marshes serve as the margin between terrestrial and marine biomes, provide a variety of important services, and are dynamic ecosystems characterized by keystone species that shape trophic networks. In coastal salt marshes of t…

Community-sourced knowledge improves biodiversity monitoring in Madagascar’s National Parks Open

Lalatiana Randriamiharisoa, David H. Klinges, Simplice Razafindranaivo, Brett R. Scheffers · 2024

Vertical and diel niches modulate thermal selection by rainforest frogs Open

David H. Klinges, Tsitohaina Randriambololona, Zachary K. Lange, Julia Laterza-Barbosa, Herizo Randrianandrasana , et al. · 2024

Thermoregulatory behaviour determines an organism’s body temperature and therefore its physiological condition, and may differ for organisms situated across climate gradients. Species’ preferred or selected temperatures may be higher in wa…

Reimagining species on the move across space and time Open

Alexa Fredston, Morgan W. Tingley, Montague H. C. Neate‐Clegg, Luke J. Evans, Laura Antão , et al. · 2024

Climate change is already leaving a broad footprint of impacts on biodiversity, from an individual caterpillar emerging earlier in spring to an entire plant community migrating poleward. Despite the various modes of how species are on the …

Data and code for: Re-drawing Köppen-Geiger classes with microclimate: implications for nature and society Open

David H. Klinges · 2024

Data and R code for reproducing analyses and visualizations for the paper: Klinges, D.H., Maclean, I.M.D., Scheffers, B.R. Re-drawing Köppen-Geiger classes with microclimate: implications for nature and society. Frontiers in Ecology and th…

Decision analysis shows scientific and economic value of community-based monitoring in Madagascar Open

Lydia Soifer, David H. Klinges, Lalatiana Randriamiharisoa, Brett R. Scheffers · 2024

Community-based monitoring (CBM) could enable long-term biodiversity monitoring in remote areas and benefit local communities, but its benefits have rarely been quantified. We use a multi-criteria decision analysis framework to systematica…

Proximal microclimate: Moving beyond spatiotemporal resolution improves ecological predictions Open

David H. Klinges, J. Alex Baecher, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Ilya M. D. Maclean, Jonathan Lenoir , et al. · 2024

Aim The scale of environmental data is often defined by their extent (spatial area, temporal duration) and resolution (grain size, temporal interval). Although describing climate data scale via these terms is appropriate for most meteorolo…

Novel temperatures are already widespread beneath the world’s tropical forest canopies Open

Brittany T. Trew, David P. Edwards, Alexander Charles Lees, David H. Klinges, Regan Early , et al. · 2024

Tropical forest biodiversity is potentially at high risk from climate change, but most species reside within or below the canopy, where they are buffered from extreme temperatures. Here, by modelling the hourly below-canopy climate conditi…

Defining model complexity: An ecological perspective Open

Charlotte Malmborg, Alyssa Willson, L. M. Bradley, Meghan A. Beatty, David H. Klinges , et al. · 2024

Models have become a key component of scientific hypothesis testing and climate and sustainability planning, as enabled by increased data availability and computing power. As a result, understanding how the perceived ‘complexity’ of a mode…

Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography Open

Julia Kemppinen, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Jofre Carnicer, Nathalie Isabelle Chardon , et al. · 2024

Brief introduction: What are microclimates and why are they important? Microclimate science has developed into a global discipline. Microclimate science is increasingly used to understand and mitigate climate and biodiversity shifts. Here,…

The Coastal Carbon Library and Atlas: Open source soil data and tools supporting blue carbon research and policy Open

James R. Holmquist, David H. Klinges, Michael Lonneman, J. L. Wolfe, Brandon Boyd , et al. · 2023

Quantifying carbon fluxes into and out of coastal soils is critical to meeting greenhouse gas reduction and coastal resiliency goals. Numerous ‘blue carbon’ studies have generated, or benefitted from, synthetic datasets. However, the commu…

Enhancing demographic diversity of scientist-community collaborations improves wildlife monitoring in Madagascar Open

F G Price, Lalatiana Randriamiharisoa, David H. Klinges · 2023

Community-based monitoring (CBM)– programs that integrate community members and their values into biodiversity and/or natural resource monitoring– is an effective tool for conservation. Wide inequities exist in CBM collaboration, and monit…

Re-drawing Köppen-Geiger classes with microclimate: implications for nature and society Open

David H. Klinges, Ilya M. D. Maclean, Brett R. Scheffers · 2023

Scientists have long categorized the planet’s climate using the Köppen-Geiger (KG) classification to understand climate change impacts, biogeographical realms, agricultural suitability, and conservation. However, global KG maps primarily r…

USAID PEER Project 6-134 Madagascar: Community-based monitoring and management of Madagascar's National Park protected areas Open

Lalatiana Randriamiharisoa, David H. Klinges, Lydia Soifer, F G Price, Brett R. Scheffers · 2023

Data pertinent to USAID PEER Project 6-134 Madagascar.Please see the following page for project info and updates:https://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/PEER/PEERscience/PGA_181428

USAID PEER Project 6-134 Madagascar: Community-based monitoring and management of Madagascar's National Park protected areas Open

Lalatiana Randriamiharisoa, David H. Klinges, Lydia Soifer, F G Price, Brett R. Scheffers · 2023

Data pertinent to USAID PEER Project 6-134 Madagascar. Please see the following page for project info and updates: https://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/PEER/PEERscience/PGA_181428

Data and code for: Re-drawing Köppen-Geiger classes with microclimate: implications for nature and society Open

David H. Klinges · 2023

Data and R code for reproducing analyses and visualizations for the paper "Re-drawing Köppen-Geiger classes with microclimate: implications for nature and society", currently under review at Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

Novel climates are already widespread beneath the world’s tropical forest canopies. Open

Brittany T. Trew, David P. Edwards, Alexander Charles Lees, David H. Klinges, Regan Early , et al. · 2023

Tropical forest biodiversity is potentially at high risk from climate change, but most species reside within or beneath the canopy, where they are buffered from extreme temperatures, implying that forest canopies may reduce the severity of…

Microclimate, an inseparable part of ecology and biogeography Open

Julia Kemppinen, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Jofre Carnicer, Nathalie Isabelle Chardon , et al. · 2023

Abstract Microclimate science has developed into a global discipline. Microclimate science is increasingly used to understand and mitigate climate and biodiversity shifts. Here, we provide an overview of the current status…

Reviews and syntheses: The promise of big diverse soil data, moving current practices towards future potential Open

Katherine EO Todd-Brown, Rose Abramoff, Jeffrey Beem‐Miller, Hava K. Blair, Stevan Earl , et al. · 2022

In the age of big data, soil data are more available and richer than ever, but – outside of a few large soil survey resources – they remain largely unusable for informing soil management and understanding Earth system processes beyond the …

mcera5 : Driving microclimate models with ERA5 global gridded climate data Open

David H. Klinges, James P. Duffy, Michael Kearney, Ilya M. D. Maclean · 2022

Microclimate models predict temperature and other meteorological variables at scales relevant to individual organisms. The broad application of microclimate models requires gridded macroclimatic variables as input. However, the spatial and…

Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems Open

Christian Rixen, Toke T. Høye, Petr Macek, Rien Aerts, Juha M. Alatalo , et al. · 2022

Snow is an important driver of ecosystem processes in cold biomes. Snow accumulation determines ground temperature, light conditions, and moisture availability during winter. It also affects the growing season’s start and end, and plant ac…

Global maps of soil temperature Open

Jonas J. Lembrechts, Johan van den Hoogen, Juha Aalto, Michael B. Ashcroft, Pieter De Frenne , et al. · 2021

Research in global change ecology relies heavily on global climatic grids derived from estimates of air temperature in open areas at around 2 m above the ground. These climatic grids do not reflect conditions below vegetation canopies and …

Reviews and syntheses: The promise of big soil data, moving current practices towards future potential Open

Katherine EO Todd-Brown, Rose Abramoff, Jeffrey Beem‐Miller, Hava K. Blair, Stevan Earl , et al. · 2021

In the age of big data, soil data are more available than ever, but -outside of a few large soil survey resources- remain largely unusable for informing soil management and understanding Earth system processes outside of the original study…

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