Tag Archives: Mountains

2018 in stories (2)

Posted on December 29, 2018 by lembrechtsjonas

Following good-old traditions, we end the year with an overview of the most viewed posts on this blog from the past 12 months. In a previous post, we started our overview of 2018 with the 5 most viewed posts of the … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged Ecology, Global change, Landscape photography, Mountains, Nature, Nature photography, Scandinavia, Science, Trails, Travel photography | Leave a comment

2018 in stories (1)

Posted on December 25, 2018 by lembrechtsjonas

Here on ‘On top of the world’, we have the tradition to end the year with a ‘best of’, a list of the most read stories on this blog from the last year. This list helps us to wrap up … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Ecology, Landscape photography, Mountain ecology, Mountains, Nature, Nature photography, PhD, Postdoc, Science, Travel, Travel photography | Leave a comment

Research network

Posted on December 11, 2018 by lembrechtsjonas

Science works best when people work together. This is especially true for the big questions, that involve the whole world in all its complexity. With our growing SoilTemp-database, that is exactly the type of questions we hope to answer: how are … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged climate change, Ecology, Global change, Landscape photography, Mountains, Nature, Nature photography, Plant, Temperature, Weather | Leave a comment

PCR

Posted on December 4, 2018 by lembrechtsjonas

It is official now: I am an aspiring microbial ecologist! What gave it away, is the following blurry picture: Not convincing, you say? Think again, because this is the very first gel electrophoresis of my very first own PCR! A … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged Ecology, Global change, Labwork, Microbes, Microbial ecology, Mountain ecology, Mountains, Nature, Science | 1 Comment

Species (re)distributions in Scandinavian mountains

Posted on November 29, 2018 by lembrechtsjonas

I am happy and honoured to announce some fantastic news: this week, we got a 4-years Fundamental Research Grant from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) to strengthen our research on species (re)distributions in the Scandinavian mountains, in the framework of … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Norway, Sweden | Tagged Ecology, Landscape photography, Mountain ecology, Mountains, Nature photography, Photography, Plant ecology, Plants, Scandinavia, Science | 1 Comment

The Tundra Trait Team

Posted on October 25, 2018 by lembrechtsjonas

In ecology, it is not only relevant where a plant is growing (as is the usual topic of our research here), but also how it looks like when it grows there. The latter is reflected in the concept of traits: characteristics … Continue reading →