Tag Archives: climate change

The fog lifts over Dutch nature

Posted on November 13, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

I’m starting something new and I’m SUPER excited: a new project that perfectly aligns with my new role as an assistant professor in ecological scaling—and builds naturally on the work I’ve been doing so far: the Dutch branch of EcoFracNet! … Continue reading →

Posted in Netherlands | Tagged Biodiversity, climate change, Conservation, Dutch nature, Ecological scaling, Ecology, Environment, Landscape photography, Monitoring, Nature, Science, Utrecht | 1 Comment

Nitrogen deposition and distribution shifts of forest plants

Posted on October 15, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

It intuitively makes a lot of sense, doesn’t it? As the climate warms, species should be moving north, racing to stay within the climatic conditions they can survive in. So, naturally, we thought the same when we set out to … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged Biodiversity, climate change, Ecology, Environment, Forests, Nature, Nature photography, Nitrogen deposition, Science | 2 Comments

An ecological data hypermarket?

Posted on October 1, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

For the past five years, I have led SoilTemp, the global database of microclimate data. I have witnessed its evolution from humble beginnings to a robust repository housing close to a 100,000 microclimate time series from around the world, several … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged Climate, climate change, Data, Database, Databases, Environment, Microclimate, Mountains, programming, Science, SoilTemp, sql, Temperature | Leave a comment

Tarfala

Posted on July 30, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

While a lot is going on in and around Abisko, as can be seen in yesterday’s story, part of the team has ventured further south, to the perhaps even more beautiful moonscape of Tarfala. Here, a rugged mountain cabin hosts … Continue reading →

Posted in Sweden | Tagged climate change, Glaciers, Hiking, Mountain photography, Mountains, Nature photography, Outdoor photography, Research | Leave a comment

Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography

Posted on April 9, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

From the first days of SoilTemp, we had the ambition to turn this project into more than ‘just a database’. SoilTemp could become the much-needed glue to stick together microclimate ecologists and biogeographers from across the globe, and give them … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged climate change, Conference, ME&B, Microclimate, Nature, Science | Leave a comment

Tropical forest understory temperatures

Posted on January 23, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

New paper in Nature Communications: Ismaeel et al. (2024) Patterns of tropical forest understory temperatures. It’s a thing we do at SoilTemp: create microclimate maps over large extents for all to use. We have done this before for soil temperature … Continue reading →