Category Archives: General

The night

Posted on December 2, 2025 by lembrechtsjonas

[ENGLISH] A cold, dark autumn night. My alarm goes off at 1:15 a.m., and for a moment I wonder what on Earth I was thinking. Then it hits me: I had been invited for a night-time interview on NPO Radio … Continue reading →

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Shaping the future of environmental data sharing

Posted on November 11, 2025 by lembrechtsjonas

Are you working with environmental or biodiversity data and willing to help us out? At the Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography (MEB) network, we believe that open, reliable, and collaborative data exchange is the cornerstone of understanding and predicting biodiversity and … Continue reading →

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How to not be swamped by your microclimate data

Posted on November 11, 2025 by lembrechtsjonas

Microclimate data are finally finding their way more routineously into ecological models – and rightly so. Hooray for that! The growing availability of in-situ measurements is helping us bridge the gap between the coarse world of macroclimate and the fine-scale … Continue reading →

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How to set up your own microclimate network

Posted on August 16, 2025 by lembrechtsjonas

Back in 2021, we had an important thought: maybe we should start treating microclimate the same way we treat macroclimate. Weather and climate are monitored by national governments through organized, standardized networks – so why not microclimate too? We wrote … Continue reading →

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Fijnstofpluim uit Canada live gedetecteerd door burgers rond Nationaal Park Brabantse Wouden

Posted on August 13, 2025 by lembrechtsjonas

Het Nationaal Park Brabantse Wouden is gestart met het nieuwe burgerwetenschapsproject Groene Longen, dat het positieve effect van bos – en natuur in brede zin – op de luchtkwaliteit in kaart wil brengen. In totaal nemen 35 burgers in en … Continue reading →

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Monocultures

Posted on August 11, 2025 by lembrechtsjonas

Our EcoFracNet biodiversity monitoring project is gathering momentum. Over the past months, we’ve been roaming the Netherlands, clipboards in hand, from endless heathlands to city parks, to record plant diversity in hundreds of 1 m² plots. With several hundred plots … Continue reading →