Category Archives: Science

The hiking trail invasions

Posted on December 5, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

We like mountain trails. But we are not alone, it looks like: invasive plant species love them as well as a gateway to invade higher elevations areas. What we always suspected, is now finally proven, thanks to the work of … Continue reading →

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Fluorescence

Posted on November 27, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

For years, I have been teaching a practical course on the measurement of plant stress to our master students. In that course, we introduce them to the magical ecological process called ‘fluorescence’ to investigate stress in their studied plant species. … Continue reading →

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The much-needed handbook

Posted on November 7, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

Let me tell you a little story. Imagine that you are an ambitious young PhD-student, worried about climate change and dedicated to spend the next 4 years performing an experiment that will answer critical questions on the future of our … Continue reading →

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SoilTemp – interactive

Posted on September 30, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

Proudly presenting: an interactive (!) map of our SoilTemp-project. Click on the image to start exploring the what, how and why of our database initiative, and get warmed up for the real work to come!  

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Communication is key

Posted on September 26, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

If you want to do science with impact, communication is key. Thanks to the Flemish PhD Cup, a ‘scicomm’ competition for recent PhD graduates, I got the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn this from professionals. When you see this tower on … Continue reading →

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Elevation and climate as drivers of non-native species distributions

Posted on August 30, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

For MIREN, we are working on an awesome blog series summarizing our scientific findings from the last 15 years for conservation, policy makers and the global public. This is chapter 3 in the series, follow the whole story on www.mountaininvasions.org. If … Continue reading →

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