Tag Archives: Forest

The snails are out!

Posted on June 13, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

Belgium is experiencing some hot and humid, almost tropical weather the last days/weeks. Perfect weather to find snails, I found out (and even better weather to meet up with mosquitos, I learned the hard way). Great weather for plants to grow as well. … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium, General | Tagged Animals, Ecology, Forest, Hiking, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Science, Snails, Wildlife | Leave a comment

The little hut in the forest

Posted on May 25, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

When we first went to Norway in the summer of 2012, we had long searches for the perfect camping spot: close to the little village, next to the river, on top of the mountain… We scouted and tried several places, … Continue reading →

Posted in Norway | Tagged camping, Forest, Hike, Hiking, Landscape, Norway, Outdoors, Photography, Scandinavia, Travel, Travelling | 5 Comments

Closing chapters

Posted on April 26, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

When I finally read the output from our work in the newspapers, it feels like closing a chapter: we have told our story, and it reached the people that could care. With an article about each of our two recent papers … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged Ecology, Forest, Nature, Naturephotography, Outreach, PhD, Photography, Plants, Publishing, Science, Trees | 1 Comment

Beech and bluebell

Posted on April 21, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

This week brought the field course to the ‘Hallerbos’, Brussels world-famous forest with the purple bluebell carpet. Of course it is mostly this endless see of purple that attracts the thousands and thousands of tourists every year (oh, dear lord, … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Beech, Belgium, Bluebells, Flowers, Forest, Hallerbos, Nature photography, Photography, Spring, Tourism, Travel photography | 8 Comments

Hallerbos

Posted on April 11, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

Busy day at work today. I finished the finetuning of the first ‘big’ manuscript of my PhD-project, the first main goal we are working to. After some very productive moments of writing today, I sent it to my colleagues for … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Belgium, Bluebells, Flowers, Forest, Hiking, Landscape photography, Nature, Outdoors, PhD, Photography, Plants, Spring, Travel | 2 Comments

On how leaves decompose

Posted on March 17, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

Climate poses a stronger control on litter decomposition than the species or the origin of the litter. That is the main conclusion of our recent paper in Biogeosciences (on which I collaborated primarily as a statistician). Getting to know the details about … Continue reading →