Tag Archives: Global change

Weather station data insufficient for predicting the faith of biodiversity under climate change

Posted on July 23, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

We have been doing it all wrong with how we study what the effect of climate change on our biodiversity will be, say Jonas Lembrechts from the University of Antwerp and an international team of ecologists. Their warning is published … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Norway, Science, Sweden | Tagged Climate, climate change, Ecology, Global change, Microclimate, Mountains, Nature, Nature photography, Plants | Leave a comment

Dark

Posted on July 21, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

Dark clouds over our Dark Diversity experiment, yesterday. An unstable atmosphere – some thunderclouds passing to the north of us – made for dramatic views of the heathland in the ‘Kalmthoutse Heide’, when we were out there collecting data for … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium, General | Tagged Ecology, Global change, Kalmthoutse Heide, Landscape photography, Nature, Nature photography, Photography, Science, Thunderstorm | Leave a comment

Four fronts

Posted on June 27, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

Summer arrived, and that means: fieldwork! And this summer, more than ever before, that fieldwork is spreading across the world. We will have four important fronts of research open this summer, and I aim to keep you updated about all … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged Climate, Ecology, Europe, Fieldwork, Global change, Landscape photography, Mountains, Nature photography, Outdoors, Research, Science, Travelling | Leave a comment

For MIREN, we are working on an awesome new blog series summarizing our scientific findings from the last 15 years for conservation, policy makers and the global public. This is chapter 1, so stay tuned for more! Originally posted on … Continue reading →

Posted on June 17, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas | Leave a comment

Passing milestones

Posted on May 11, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

Today was a day of big numbers, for me and the SoilTemp-project we are working on: our database passed two fantastic milestones. We now have over 5000 loggers from more than 40 countries in the database, which I am currently … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged Antwerp, Climate, climate change, Ecology, Global change, Landscape photography, Microclimate, Nature, Science | Leave a comment

City life

Posted on April 19, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

Take this proudly walking pigeon in the port of Barcelona as an announcement for next week’s talk about life in the city, which I’ll be giving for the biologist students at the University of Antwerp. In a session in a … Continue reading →