Tag Archives: Mountains

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

An ecological data hypermarket?

Posted on October 1, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

For the past five years, I have led SoilTemp, the global database of microclimate data. I have witnessed its evolution from humble beginnings to a robust repository housing close to a 100,000 microclimate time series from around the world, several … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged Climate, climate change, Data, Database, Databases, Environment, Microclimate, Mountains, programming, Science, SoilTemp, sql, Temperature | Leave a comment

The valley where it all begon

Posted on August 11, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

I will never get used to the absolute beauty of this place. Where are we? The ‘Skjomdal’, a long valley cutting through Norway, just south of Narvik. A stream, a river and a fjord, all surrounded by stunning mountains. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Norway | Tagged Fieldwork, Fjord, Hiking, Mountains, Nature, Nature photography, Outdoors, Travel photography | 1 Comment

Tarfala

Posted on July 30, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

While a lot is going on in and around Abisko, as can be seen in yesterday’s story, part of the team has ventured further south, to the perhaps even more beautiful moonscape of Tarfala. Here, a rugged mountain cabin hosts … Continue reading →

Posted in Sweden | Tagged climate change, Glaciers, Hiking, Mountain photography, Mountains, Nature photography, Outdoor photography, Research | Leave a comment

A drastic shift in mycorrhizal communities

Posted on April 10, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

One of the key findings of the Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN) is that mountain roads have a MASSIVE impact on their surrounding vegetation. Whole communities are changing, non-native species are moving in, and all kinds of species are moving … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged Ecology, Mountains, Mycorrhizae, Nature, Plant invasions, Science | Leave a comment

The dark secrets of dark diversity

Posted on November 10, 2023 by lembrechtsjonas

Dark diversity. A term that sounds sufficiently dramatic to catch the attention of many an ecologist. But it’s a good theory as well to explore: instead of the common ‘diversity’, which looks at the diversity of species/genes/traits present at a … Continue reading →