Category Archives: Belgium

Veronica

Posted on August 2, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

The series of papers known as ‘Geron et al.’ has a new addition, marking the final piece of Charly Geron’s PhD trajectory studying the link between urban plant invaders and urban microclimates. In his earlier chapters, we already demonstrated that … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Ecology, Experiments, Invasive plants, Plant ecology, Science | Leave a comment

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

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 →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Data science, Ecology, Gap filling, Microclimate, Missing values, Science, Statistics | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Belgium, General | Tagged Botany, Ecology, Nature photography, Plant photography, Science, Spring | Leave a comment

Scouting the cliffs of Freÿr

Posted on April 2, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

On a sunny day in early spring, our team took the car to one of the most monumental locations in Belgium: the cliffs of Freÿr. These beautiful slabs of ‘naked’ limestone of up to 120 meter, overlooking the river Meuse, … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Botany, Ecology, Freyr, Hiking, Landscape photography, Microclimate, Nature, Photography, Rock climbing, Rocks | Leave a comment

Out listening

Posted on March 22, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

Last week, you could find an enthusiastic subset of our team hanging around suspiciously on the campus of the University Hospital in Antwerp, booklets in hand and an ominous device close by. This was the kick-off of a new measurement … Continue reading →