Tag Archives: climate change

Is the coronavirus good news for the climate?

Posted on April 6, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Guest post by Sara Vicca (UA, dept. Biologie), Ann Crabbé (UA, dept. Sociologie) and Steven Van Passel (UA, FBE). This blog appeared earlier in Dutch on http://www.globalchangeecology.blog and in English on http://www.scientists4climate.be. Translated by Jonas Lembrechts with DeepL. Is the coronavirus good … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged climate change, Climate warming, Coronavirus, Covid2019, Economy, Global change | Leave a comment

Knowledge synthesis communities as the answer?

Posted on March 24, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Another guest post from 3DLab-member Ronja Wedegärtner on how we can do better science in these times of global change, and include the whole of society from the start. We are producing much science, but not using it effectively enough … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged climate change, Collaboration, Ecology, Global change, Hackatons, Nature, Science | Leave a comment

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

Can collaboration help us tackle the big issues of ecology?

Posted on March 10, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Ronja Wedegärtner, PhD student at NTNU in Norway and in The 3D Lab, takes you on a reflective tour of the key discussion point of last weeks’ meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland: how we as ecologists can take up our task … Continue reading →

Posted in Iceland, Science | Tagged climate change, Global change, Global change ecology, Iceland, Nature, Nature photography, Science, Travel photography | Leave a comment

Iceland

Posted on March 4, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

This week brought three members of The 3D Lab (Jonas, Ronja and Jan) to the 4th meeting of Oikos, the Nordic Society for Ecology, in beautiful Reykjavik. As ecologists rooted in northern Scandinavia with most of our fieldwork and research … Continue reading →

Posted in Iceland | Tagged climate change, Ecology, Global change, Landscape photography, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Travel, Travel photography | 1 Comment

Microclimate ecology and biogeography

Posted on February 28, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

It’s one thing to have a great database. It’s a second one to put it to good use. The data is there, our SoilTemp-database for example has accumulated over 7500 loggers from all over the world now, and contributions are … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Sweden | Tagged Biogeography, climate change, Ecology, Forests, Global change, Microclimate, 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 →