Category Archives: Sweden

Airport botany

Posted on August 8, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

On our way to Abisko, northern Sweden, a massive early-morning thunderstorm in Brussels was the start of a 28-hour travel delay: we missed our next flight with a margin of just 10 minutes, and as such ended up too late … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Sweden | Tagged Airport, Botany, Ecology, Hiking, Nature, Nature photography, Travel photography, Travelling | Leave a comment

Tarfala

Posted on July 30, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

While a lot is going on in and around Abisko, as can be seen in yesterday’s story, part of the team has ventured further south, to the perhaps even more beautiful moonscape of Tarfala. Here, a rugged mountain cabin hosts … Continue reading →

Posted in Sweden | Tagged climate change, Glaciers, Hiking, Mountain photography, Mountains, Nature photography, Outdoor photography, Research | Leave a 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

The peculiar case of the Rallarvägen

Posted on June 20, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

Gaining a long-term perspective on ecosystem changes is challenging. Even when ecologists describe changes as happening “remarkably fast,” they are often difficult to observe within a single scientific career, let alone the lifespan of a project. Occasionally, however, we can … Continue reading →

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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

The dark secrets of dark diversity

Posted on November 10, 2023 by lembrechtsjonas

Dark diversity. A term that sounds sufficiently dramatic to catch the attention of many an ecologist. But it’s a good theory as well to explore: instead of the common ‘diversity’, which looks at the diversity of species/genes/traits present at a … Continue reading →