Category Archives: The research

The current experiment

Posted on April 10, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

It is about time to give an overview of what I was actually searching down there in Chile. Our research there results from a collaborative project between Sweden, Chile and Argentina. As a Belgian guy, I may at first seem a bit … Continue reading →

Posted in Chile, The research | Tagged Abroad, Adventure, Chile, Ecology, Experiment, Fieldwork, Invasion, Mountain ecology, Punta Arenas, Research | 4 Comments

Escaping the roadsides

Posted on April 8, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

Aliens in the lowlands! Aliens slowly fighting their way up on the mountains, surviving competition and increasingly harsh conditions! Aliens looming in roadside edges, ready to invade the undisturbed mountain vegetation… I got the chance to present my alien plant research on a … Continue reading →

Posted in The research | Tagged Abroad, Chile, Congress, Ecology, Field ecology, Human impact, Invasion, Mountain ecology, Mountains, Plants, Poster presentation, Roads, Torres del Paine | 3 Comments

More about roadside vegetation

Posted on March 6, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

Roadsides host more plant species than the natural vegetation. That is the stunning conclusion I draw in my previous post. While this difference is clear on low elevations, it vanishes as we get higher in the mountains, ending in similar … Continue reading →

Posted in Sweden, The research | Tagged Alpine, Ecology, Field ecology, Mountain ecology, Mountains, Plant strategies, Plants, Publication, Research, Roads | 4 Comments

Changes in the mountains

Posted on March 3, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

Mountains are increasingly important islands of nature in our rapidly changing world. They contain some of the most diverse biodiversity hotspots in the world, have a high aesthetic value and their conservation even has a lot of economic importance. There … Continue reading →

Posted in Sweden, The research | Tagged Abroad, Ecology, Field ecology, Human impact, Mountain ecology, Mountains, Plants, Publication, Research, Roads, Roadsides, Science | 14 Comments

Press

Posted on February 27, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

I got my first paper published (the one that kept me waiting so impatiently), and the story even got covered by the popular media! They were impressed by our warning that alien plant species are not stopped by the freezing … Continue reading →

Posted in The research | Tagged Aliens, Human impact, Invasion, Media, News, Publication, Publicity, Subarctic | 3 Comments

Humans in the lowlands

Posted on February 25, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

I like to compare mountains with islands. Islands of undisturbed nature in a wild and dangerous ocean of human influence; the lowlands. Wave after wave of human influences crashes on the slopes of the island-mountain, trying to erode the natural … Continue reading →