Tag Archives: Biodiversity

Mapping the past to predict the future

Posted on September 30, 2025 by lembrechtsjonas

Long-term followers of this blog know I’ve always been fascinated by species distribution changes. We’ve tracked non-native species moving into mountains and cities, studied how mountain plants travel up and down slopes along roads, and explored how microclimate – and … Continue reading →

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Monocultures

Posted on August 11, 2025 by lembrechtsjonas

Our EcoFracNet biodiversity monitoring project is gathering momentum. Over the past months, we’ve been roaming the Netherlands, clipboards in hand, from endless heathlands to city parks, to record plant diversity in hundreds of 1 m² plots. With several hundred plots … Continue reading →

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An army of scientists

Posted on June 17, 2025 by lembrechtsjonas

This year, I had the joy (and challenge) of teaching Ecology to first-year biology students at Utrecht University for the very first time. Nearly 400 students, fresh into their academic journey, dipping their toes into the fascinating, complex, and urgently … Continue reading →

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Non-native plants along mountain trails

Posted on June 2, 2025 by lembrechtsjonas

We had been studying the role of mountain roads as drivers of non-native plant invasions in mountains all the way back till 2007. Heck, we just published a first manuscript on the decadal dynamics in those (Iseli et al. 2024)! … Continue reading →

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BioTime 2.0

Posted on May 21, 2025 by lembrechtsjonas

If we want to understand how biodiversity is shifting in this rapidly changing climate, we need two critical ingredients: microclimate time series and biodiversity time series. (And yes, let’s not forget good soil data – but let’s keep it simple … Continue reading →

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Reimagining species on the move

Posted on May 15, 2025 by lembrechtsjonas

I still remember those first groundshattering papers showing the impact of recent climate change on biodiversity. For decades, climate change had been looming in models and predictions — but suddenly, the evidence was real, visible in the field. Species weren’t … Continue reading →

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