Tag Archives: Mountains

Alpine invasions

Posted on August 16, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

With all that travelling (first fieldwork in Sweden/Norway, then the conference in Florida), I did not have time yet to announce the good news: we just got a paper published in Alpine Botany, reviewing the current knowledge on plant invasions in the alpine … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged Ecology, Global change, Mountains, Nature, Photography, Plant invasion, Plant invasions, Science, Travel, Travelling | 1 Comment

Florida

Posted on August 7, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

Good morning, sunshine state! Allow me to bring some mountain ecology to the Florida wetlands… I’m here in Fort Lauderdale for the conference of the Ecological Society of America, ready to spread the word about our research. Exciting!

Posted in USA | Tagged Boats, Ecology, ESA, ESA2016, Florida, Fort Lauderdale, Mountains, Photography, Science, Water | 7 Comments

The stars of the project

Posted on August 3, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

You can scroll through lots of pictures of nice landscapes and curious plants in my previous posts on our fieldwork trip to Scandinavia, but that leaves us with one important question: did we actually see any of the stars of the project, our non-native mountain invaders? … Continue reading →

Posted in Sweden | Tagged Abisko, arctic, Ecology, Fieldwork, Flowers, Mountains, Nature, Photography, Plant invasion, Plants, Scandinavia, Science | Leave a comment

Earth’s stage

Posted on July 27, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

Concerning the weather, mountains never disappoint. They are earth’s stage for some of the most impressive shows I have ever seen, involving cloud formations of all types and structures. If it is a thunderstorm racing over the lake towards you, … Continue reading →

Posted in Sweden | Tagged Atmosphere, Clouds, Ecology, Hiking, Landscape photography, Landscapes, Mountains, Nature, Outdoors, Science, Travel, Travelling | 1 Comment

The red dot

Posted on July 25, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

Mountain trails, the main subject of this years’ research in the Abisko region in the Northern Scandes. It means hiking a lot, and thàt means meeting The Red Dot everywhere. Piles of stones, trees, big rocks, or whatever other typical … Continue reading →

Posted in Sweden | Tagged Abisko, Adventure, Hiking, Landscape photography, Landscapes, Mountains, Nature, Outdoors, Scandinavia, Sweden, Travel, Travelling | Leave a comment

Behold the buttercup

Posted on July 19, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

We had to battle the fog and rains, withstand the iciest fieldwork conditions and climb above 1000 meters in the ice-cold subarctic mountains (in the valley of Laktatjakka, close to Abisko, Sweden), but we finally sow it flowering: the glacier … Continue reading →