Tag Archives: climate change

Our green is grey

Posted on July 13, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

This column appeared originally in Dutch in EOS (www.eoswetenschap.eu) There’s no nature here anymore in Flanders. Not if we were to define it as ‘untouched wilderness’ that is not or hardly influenced by human activities. We have lost our last … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium, General | Tagged climate change, Ecology, Global change, Nature, Outdoors, Plants, Science, Urban, Urbanisation | 2 Comments

Goodbye!

Posted on July 3, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Two big achievements yesterday: two of our master students defended their thesis, and will thus be able to put an endmark behind their education! A big congratulation to both Ilias Janssens and Bram Vanheule for all they achieved. Ilias studied … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged climate change, Ecology, Education, Global change, Nature, Teaching, Thesis | Leave a comment

10.000

Posted on June 29, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

We reached a milestone today: our SoilTemp database now hosts more than 10.000 sensors[1]! To celebrate this achievement – and the great news that our call for data in Global Change Biology is now published in its final format – … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged Climate, climate change, Database, Global change, Microclimate, Science, Soils, SoilTemp | Leave a comment

Uncertainty surrounding the prediction of microclimate change

Posted on May 14, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

We need to gear up the search for correct climate predictions to tackle the biodiversity crisis. In a recent perspective piece in the journal Science, we argue that our climate predictions do not take into account local changes in land … Continue reading →

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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

SoilTemp: a database of near-surface temperatures

Posted on April 21, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Let me tell you something important – which won’t be a surprise to regular followers of this blog: weather station data doesn’t do the trick for ecologists. It is just too different from the climate as experienced by most organisms, … Continue reading →