Tag Archives: Microclimate

An anticipated package

Posted on May 2, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

Last week brought a fantastic and long-anticipated present from the Czech Republic in my mail: two heavy boxes with over a hundred TOMST TMS-4s. That name is a code for something that I would call without exaggeration a new era in … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium, General | Tagged Climate, Fieldwork, Loggers, Microclimate, Nature photography, Outdoors, Science, Weather | 2 Comments

SoilTemp website launched

Posted on December 5, 2018 by lembrechtsjonas

SoilTemp, our project working towards a global database of soil temperatures for use in ecological analyses, launched its own website: soiltemp.weebly.com! The website allows interested visitors to explore what the project is about and, most importantly, follow the growth of … Continue reading →

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The climate the organisms feel

Posted on October 1, 2018 by lembrechtsjonas

Short: in our recent review in Ecography, we propose an overarching approach to obtain microclimatic data for use in species distribution modelling. We now welcome anybody who has soil temperature data to join our SoilTemp-network and help us to apply … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged Climate, climate change, Ecology, Microclimate, Nature, Nature photography, Plant photography, Plants, Science | Leave a comment

Topography

Posted on September 17, 2018 by lembrechtsjonas

For an ecologist interested in where plants are growing, the local climate is crucial. And that microclimate is for a large part influenced by the local topography. Slopes, aspect, elevation, cold air pooling… All the bumps and crevices in the … Continue reading →

Posted in France, General | Tagged climate change, Ecology, France, Global change, Landscape photography, Microclimate, Mining, Mountains, Nature, Nature photography, Science, Travel photography | Leave a comment

Draft

Posted on March 4, 2018 by lembrechtsjonas

There it is! The fruit of hard labour, the harvest of what has been sown 5 years ago: the draft of my PhD-thesis! It is out of my hands now, while the jury is bowing their wise heads over it. … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged Ecology, Global change, Microclimate, Nature, PhD, Photography, Plants, Science, Thesis, Writing | 1 Comment

A story of hotspots and stepping stones

Posted on July 21, 2017 by lembrechtsjonas

Predicting the faith of exotic plant species in cold-climate mountains: our new paper is out now in early view! You can find it here. Abisko, a small village north of the polar circle in Swedish Lapland. The origin of several … Continue reading →