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This is the 5th post in a series of stories from our fieldtrip to South America. Check out the arrival in Concepcion, the first and second fieldwork day and this post on pine invasions <– Sometimes, one travels far to arrive seemingly close to home. That … Continue reading →

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Pines!

This is the 4th post in a series of stories from our fieldtrip to South America. Check out the arrival in Concepcion, and the first and second fieldwork day <– Our local partner in Chile, the Laboratorio de Invasiones Biológicas (LIB), has … Continue reading →

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Malalcahuello

This is the third post in a series of stories from our fieldtrip to South America. Check out the arrival in Concepcion and the first fieldwork day <– Fieldwork day 2 of our South American journey brought us to national … Continue reading →

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Laguna del Laja

This is the second post in a series of stories from our ongoing fieldtrip to South America. Check out the first one <– Our first day of fieldwork in the Chilean Andes brought us to Laguna del Laja, a national … Continue reading →

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Concepcíon

Brussels-Madrid, a midnight cross-over of the Atlantic Ocean and the whole of South America, and a one hour flight south from Santiago, and there we were: Concepcíon, close to the Pacific Ocean, in Central Chile. There, on the shores of … Continue reading →

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Green living things

There is an interesting challenge around, inspired by a comic from xkcd, in which scientists try to explain their research with only the thousand (or better: “ten-hundred”) most common words in the English language. Well, that’s the kind of challenge … Continue reading →

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