Author Archives: lembrechtsjonas

Catching carabids and measuring microclimate

Posted on July 1, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

Last week, we started our monitoring campaign for carabid beetles in the botanical garden Jean Massart. I already introduced that beautiful oasis in the city of Brussels before, and the idea that within this nice, cool and wet patch of … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Beetles, Botanical garden, Brussels, Jean Massart, Nature, Nature photography, Outdoors, Pitfall traps, Summer | Leave a comment

Proximal microclimate

Posted on June 28, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

Spatial resolution is one thing. Temporal resolution an other. The microclimate community has been working hard to improve both, in a continuous search for better microclimate data. However – and this might be slightly shocking – both are largely missing … Continue reading →

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The peculiar case of the Rallarvägen

Posted on June 20, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

Gaining a long-term perspective on ecosystem changes is challenging. Even when ecologists describe changes as happening “remarkably fast,” they are often difficult to observe within a single scientific career, let alone the lifespan of a project. Occasionally, however, we can … Continue reading →

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36.000 tea bags for science

Posted on May 14, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

It has become the go-to technique for many ecologists who need a cheap and simple method to measure decomposition rates in the soil: burying tea bags. However, it is still rather mindboggling that the team behind the international Tea Bag … Continue reading →

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Filling the gaps

Posted on April 18, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

Anyone working with microclimate data is familiar with time series data – repeated measurements over time at the same location. And anyone working with time series has bumped into an important potential issue with them: gaps. More often than not, … Continue reading →

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A wealth of wildflowers

Posted on April 13, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

One could wonder if the microclimate-based models of Haesen et al. would have predicted such a wealth of wildflowers in the garden of our new home! This is our first spring in our new garden, and we could thus have … Continue reading →