Category Archives: Norway

Temporal changes along mountain roads

Posted on January 9, 2025 by lembrechtsjonas

In 2012, during my master’s thesis, we began monitoring vegetation along three Norwegian mountain roads with a clear goal: to track how these plant communities would change over time. Time, of course, is a relative concept, and nature operates on … Continue reading →

Posted in Norway | Tagged Biodiversity, Ecology, Environment, Invasive species, Mountain ecology, Mountains, Nature, Plants, Science | Leave a comment

The valley where it all begon

Posted on August 11, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

I will never get used to the absolute beauty of this place. Where are we? The ‘Skjomdal’, a long valley cutting through Norway, just south of Narvik. A stream, a river and a fjord, all surrounded by stunning mountains. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Norway | Tagged Fieldwork, Fjord, Hiking, Mountains, Nature, Nature photography, Outdoors, Travel photography | 1 Comment

The summer is for Sweden

Posted on July 29, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

The group has a whole team up north again, monitoring vegetation and bumblebees, gathering microclimate data and so much more. I was lucky enough to spend a few days up there as well, checking up on the long-term monitoring sites … Continue reading →

Posted in Norway, Sweden | Tagged Fieldwork, Landscape photography, Mountain photography, Nature photography, Scandinavia, Travel, Travel photography | Leave a comment

Blockchains and biodiversity

Posted on December 11, 2023 by lembrechtsjonas

tl;dr: we will be looking for a database manager who wants to join our SoilTemp team, based in Antwerp, Belgium, with the main goal to make the database more accessible and more flexible. Knowledge of R required, of SQL a … Continue reading →

Posted in Norway, Sweden | Tagged BiodivERsA, Biodiversity, Blokchain, Conservation, Forests, Global change, Nature, Restoration | Leave a comment

Tundra traits

Posted on July 4, 2023 by lembrechtsjonas

It was summer 2017, the height of my PhD. As always, I spent the longest days above the polar circle, in the north of Scandinavia. We were there to follow up on our long-term vegetation monitoring, in particular this time … Continue reading →

Posted in Norway | Tagged climate change, Global change, Nature, Nature photography, Outdoors, Plants, Scandinavia, Science, Tundra | Leave a comment

Fieldwork done!

Posted on August 3, 2022 by lembrechtsjonas

The team has done it: all 180 plots from our long-term vegetation monitoring along the Norwegian mountain roads have been surveyed! With that achievement in our pockets, we now have the third time step in our time series all on … Continue reading →