Tag Archives: Biodiversity

#togetherforbiodiversity

Posted on June 24, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Biodiversity is essential for our survival and well-being. It nourishes and heals us. It provides us with oxygen and pure water. Biodiversity takes care of us, but it is in danger. Change and action are urgently needed to protect life … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium, General | Tagged Belgium, Biodiversity, Conservation, Nature, Outdoors, Protection, Science | Leave a comment

The holy trinity of global change ecology

Posted on April 25, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

A few weeks ago, the journal Annals of Botany asked me to write a commentary pieceon a new paper coming out on the effect of climate change on grass species on a subantarctic island. An intriguing paper, as they compared … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged Biodiversity, climate change, Ecology, Experiments, Fieldwork, Global change, Microclimate, Modelling, Species distributions | 2 Comments

Where do soil microbes live?

Posted on March 23, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

If we want to model where soil microbes are living, and why, traditional distribution models will not do. In a new paper in FEMS Microbiology Ecology, we suggest that accuracy can be achieved, if we just change our mindset and … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged Biodiversity, climate change, Ecology, Global change, Nature, Science, Soils | Leave a comment

The biodiversity crisis and its tight link with climate change

Posted on February 20, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Written by Jonas Lembrechts and Sara Vicca and originally posted on the website of Scientists4Climate. Our biodiversity is in decline, and its decline is faster than at any time in human history. This uncomfortable truth comes in parallel with the … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged Biodiversity, Climate, climate change, Global change, Nature, Science | Leave a comment

Pink

Posted on September 12, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

Nothing says pink like the Flemish heathlands at the end of summer. I was lucky enough to spend one of the last hot summer days on the vast pink plains of the ‘Kalmthoutse Heide’, where we have our sites for … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium, General | Tagged Belgium, Biodiversity, Ecology, Fieldwork, Heathland, Landscape photography, Nature, Nature photography, Outdoors, Photography, Plant photography, Science, Travel | Leave a comment

Heather

Posted on July 19, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

While most of the fieldwork campaigns this summer are being taken care of by our awesome teams of PhD and master students, there is a few sets of field days I am joining. One of them just happened on a … Continue reading →