Category Archives: Norway

Introducing: Dovrefjell

Posted on October 6, 2019 by

Wide views, rolling hills, rocky mountain tops: we are proud to introduce you to Dovrefjell in the Norwegian mountains, backdrop of a new branch of our fascinating mountain research. It provides the wild scenery enjoyed by Ronja, Ilias (thank him … Continue reading →

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Following from afar

Posted on August 15, 2019 by

What a feeling that gives: when your PhD- and master-students are rocking their fieldwork, and pictures of their successes are tumbling past. Case in point: this success for our mountain trail surveys in Norway, finished in the rain and with … Continue reading →

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Weather station data insufficient for predicting the faith of biodiversity under climate change

Posted on July 23, 2019 by

We have been doing it all wrong with how we study what the effect of climate change on our biodiversity will be, say Jonas Lembrechts from the University of Antwerp and an international team of ecologists. Their warning is published … Continue reading →

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Species (re)distributions in Scandinavian mountains

Posted on November 29, 2018 by

I am happy and honoured to announce some fantastic news: this week, we got a 4-years Fundamental Research Grant from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) to strengthen our research on species (re)distributions in the Scandinavian mountains, in the framework of … Continue reading →

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Dovre

Posted on November 16, 2018 by

The beginning of this week brought me to Dovre, a stunning National Park in the center of Norway. The area is sitting a 2,5 hours of steady uphill driving south of Trondheim, and was covered in a beautiful November snow … Continue reading →

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Data flows

Posted on July 24, 2018 by

Each year, we have a few days in which the data flows in like a tidal wave. We go to Norway, to our  long-term observation gradients along mountain roads to check out on the temperature sensors we have out there. … Continue reading →

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