Tag Archives: Ecology

Gearing up our city microclimate plans

Posted on April 2, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Yesterday, we had a new member joining the team! It was a virtual first day at work, but we are very happy nonetheless to have her on board now: Camille will be managing our citizen science project on garden microclimates, … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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The baby goes to Reykjavik

Posted on March 20, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

As a parent in academia, travelling – and leaving wife and kid behind – is far from easy. That is why we decided to take an ambitious plunge when I had to go to Reykjavik for the conference of the … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Two firsts

Posted on February 29, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

This has been a very important week for The 3D Lab: two of our PhD-students submitted their first ever paper! Charly submitted his work on the climatic origin of urban plant invaders, a first in a series studying how the … Continue reading →

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