Tag Archives: Belgium

From DNA to the world

Posted on October 5, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

Biology is a discipline as wide as the world. Studying all species, from elephants to worms, from trees to bacteria, and digging into all aspects of their life, behaviour, body, evolution or ecology. And biology might not sound as the … Continue reading →

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Charging the batteries

Posted on August 29, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

A few more days of charging the batteries here in Belgium before we head up back north to the colds of the Arctic. There seems to be an unfortunate negative correlation between the weather in Belgium and the weather in … Continue reading →

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There is no place like

Posted on August 19, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

…home. The summer is for fieldwork and conferences. For a mountain ecologist based in Belgium, that means a lot of travelling. To the mountains. To other like-minded scientists. All that travelling might very well be the most exciting part of the … Continue reading →

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The red campion

Posted on May 7, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

It is funny to see the differences and similarities in plant species between the place where I work – northern Scandinavia – and the place where I live: Belgium. There are quite a few similarities in species, especially in the … Continue reading →

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Bluebell-beauties: a gallery

Posted on May 3, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

Some eye candy: scroll through pictures of beeches and bluebells from the Hallerbos in the gallery on the right. As an assistant in the course on forest types at our university, I spent several hours of my springtime in the … Continue reading →

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Beech and bluebell

Posted on April 21, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

This week brought the field course to the ‘Hallerbos’, Brussels world-famous forest with the purple bluebell carpet. Of course it is mostly this endless see of purple that attracts the thousands and thousands of tourists every year (oh, dear lord, … Continue reading →

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