Category Archives: Science

The MIREN road survey database

Posted on August 22, 2026 by lembrechtsjonas

Can you imagine how many hours of roadside fieldwork went into this? We’ve just published the MIREN road survey database, and the accompanying paper led together with Sylvia Haider: 170,000 georeferenced plant records, covering 6,854 vascular plant species across 3,364 … Continue reading →

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Big, rocky canaries in the coalmine

Posted on August 14, 2026 by lembrechtsjonas

Mountain tops are big, rocky canaries in the coalmine that is our planet. Up there, above the last trees, change happens in real time and out in the open: plants, rock and climate, negotiating directly with each other. If you … Continue reading →

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Mountain road microclimate

Posted on April 28, 2026 by lembrechtsjonas

This is a massively important paper. At least for me. It brings together the work I’ve been doing in the Mountain Invasion Research Network and the Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography Network. And it finally answers one of the key research … Continue reading →

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A tale of homogenisation

Posted on October 22, 2025 by lembrechtsjonas

I’ve always been intrigued by ecological scaling – it’s literally in my title: Assistant Professor in Ecological Scaling. One of the main reasons we care so much about scaling is that ecological theories don’t always hold up when we change … Continue reading →

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We just love hearing the sound of nature

Posted on June 17, 2025 by lembrechtsjonas

In a region like Flanders – dense, busy, and full of human activities of all shapes and sizes – the problem of noise pollution is increasingly recognized. We often think of that noise as something we can measure in decibels. … Continue reading →

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SoilTemp is now MEB!

Posted on May 31, 2025 by lembrechtsjonas

Over the past six years, I’ve poured my heart into SoilTemp. What started as a vision for a global soil temperature database quickly grew into something much more: a living, breathing community of researchers passionate about microclimate ecology. From the … Continue reading →

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