Tag Archives: Mountains

SciLogs

I posted another scientific story on the EOS-blog at SciLogs.be, this time about microclimate and plants. Unfortunately for my dear international public, these posts are in Dutch, but you can take my word on it that it is a big honour for … Continue reading

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Database needs adventurers

Climate change is a global issue, and its effect will be felt on every square centimeter of this earth, that issue is more or less cleared in the scientific community. The changing climate might not have as much impact everywhere and … Continue reading

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Invasive plants reaching new elevations

With humans traveling and occupying the world more intensively every day, invasions by nonnative plant species are becoming an omnipresent pattern. People transport countless plant seeds as they travel that might, or might not, establish and disrupt local ecosystems. Until … Continue reading

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Uphill (and downhill!)

Our climate is changing, that much is clear. The main effect of this changing climate is that what once was balancing now starts shifting. As if our little world became a plate full of beer pulls, losing its balance on the shaking hands of an … Continue reading

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Waarom bergwandelaars best hun zolen poetsen

Waarom bergwandelaars best hun zolen poetsen. I got invited to blog at Scilogs, the blog from the science communicating journal EOS. Off course, I could not resist such an honour, so I will occasionally write in Dutch about mountain ecology there. … Continue reading

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What the new year will bring

A PhD lasts only for a short period in one’s life. The plan is to get as much out of it as possible, that is for sure. I would like to make use of the beginning of this new year … Continue reading

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