Tag Archives: Invasive species

Non-native plants in the worlds’ cities

Posted on February 24, 2025 by lembrechtsjonas

Non-native species have been widely studied for decades, and their affinity with urban environments is no surprise to anyone in the field. However, just how many non-native species dwell in our cities was so far unknown. With a global consortium … Continue reading →

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Temporal changes along mountain roads

Posted on January 9, 2025 by lembrechtsjonas

In 2012, during my master’s thesis, we began monitoring vegetation along three Norwegian mountain roads with a clear goal: to track how these plant communities would change over time. Time, of course, is a relative concept, and nature operates on … Continue reading →

Posted in Norway | Tagged Biodiversity, Ecology, Environment, Invasive species, Mountain ecology, Mountains, Nature, Plants, Science | Leave a comment

The impact of the pines

Posted on March 2, 2023 by lembrechtsjonas

Picture this: it’s the 20th century and people are planting pine trees all over Chile. Pines of the genus Pinus, that is, which is very different from the native Araucaria araucana (the monkey puzzle tree). The latter might very well … Continue reading →

Posted in Chile | Tagged Invasive species, Landscape photography, Mountains, Nature, Outdoors, Pines, Plant invasion, Plant invasions, South America, Travel | Leave a comment

Exotic plant species thrive at high(er) elevations

Posted on January 26, 2023 by lembrechtsjonas

Sometimes one needs patience to answer a research question. Lots of it. The Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN) already asked itself this important question back in 2006: how fast are non-native species travelling uphill along mountain roads? Now it’s 2023, … Continue reading →

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MIREN meets in Chile

Posted on November 28, 2022 by lembrechtsjonas

A few hundred kilometers south of Santiago de Chile, nestled in a green valley at the foot of a string of snow-clad volcanoes, lies the ‘Suisandina lodge’, a place that breaths hospitality, with all facilities a mountain ecologist needs to … Continue reading →

Posted in Chile | Tagged Ecology, Forests, Global change, Invasive species, Landscape photography, Mountains, Nature, Nature photography, Plants, Science | Leave a comment

Are non-native plants adapting to city life?

Posted on October 24, 2022 by lembrechtsjonas

With chapter 4 now published, the now finished PhD of Charly Géron has created quite the storyline on how non-native plants are invading our urban environments! In his first paper, we found out that alien plant species in European cities … Continue reading →