Author Archives: lembrechtsjonas

New life

Posted on May 1, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

There is new life on the campus of my university! In the field next to the plots of my new experiment on the campus, a young foal is happily hopping around. His cute little face makes fieldwork on the campus even more fun. Look … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Campus life, Field, Fieldwork, Foal, Horse, Spring, University of Antwerp | 6 Comments

Penguin parade

Posted on April 28, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

Penguins are one of the main touristic attractions in Punta Arenas. There even live more penguins than people in the southern Magellan provence, so they really are the real owners of southern Chile. There is a colony of these funny looking puppets … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium, Chile | Tagged Birds, Chile, Penguin, Planckendael, Punta Arenas, Zoo | 11 Comments

Alien impact

Posted on April 25, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

A lot of my work deals with invasive alien species. This is a subject not everyone is familiar with, although it highly concerns (or should concern) everybody and our whole society. I sporadically provided some information on alien species and my … Continue reading →

Posted in General | 9 Comments

Spring

Posted on April 22, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

The free time and the nice spring weather around Easter created some fantastic opportunities to finally focus on native vegetation again. I got invited to the beautiful hills and forests in Luxemburg, a fantastic chance nobody should ever refuse. It became a … Continue reading →

Posted in Luxemburg | Tagged Beech forest, Flowers, Forest, Hiking, Hills, Luxemburg, Mountains, Plants, Rocks, Spring, Spring flowers | 3 Comments

New plans

Posted on April 18, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

Hooray! I got permission to start a new experiment this summer! This time no exotic location, however. I will stay with both feet on the university grounds, where I got access to almost 100 square meter of boring grassland on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Bees, Ecology, Experiment, Field ecology, Fieldwork, Gaps, Invasion, Plants, Science, Spring | 10 Comments

Catch the wind

Posted on April 15, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

Wind blows along unseen, but not unfelt. Winds are everywhere and serve especially in the mountains as an omnipresent companion. I tried to catch the impressiveness of this natural force in pictures to help imagining what mountain plants have to face … Continue reading →