Tag Archives: Mountains

The Krkonoše Mountains

Posted on August 19, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Lush green fields, pine forests and flower-rich alpine grasslands: our belowground project will go to the Czech Republic! After sampling soils, roots, plants and microclimates in Argentina, Chile, Norway, Sweden and Tenerife, the Czech MIREN team will now also join … Continue reading →

Posted in Czech Republic, General | Tagged Ecology, Global change, Landscape photography, Mountain ecology, Mountain photography, Mountains, Nature, Outdoors, Science | Leave a comment

Tales from the field

Posted on August 17, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

The global pandemic is still restricting lots of our fieldwork, and we have to cancel unfortunately another batch of work planned in northern Norway, but not all of it is going down the drain. PhD-student Ronja, for example, is having … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Norway | Tagged Ecology, Fieldwork, Hiking, Landscape photography, Mountains, Nature, Nature photography, Norway, Outdoors, PhD, Science, Travel | Leave a comment

New MIREN website!

Posted on August 16, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Exciting news! We made a new website for MIREN, the Mountain Invasion Research Network. It still sits at http://www.mountaininvasions.org, yet is now a lot more visually attractive. Visit the site for the nice mountain views, stay for the cool mountain … Continue reading →

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Sensors

Posted on July 24, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Eleven thousand and counting! This summer has been huge for our SoilTemp-database. Little could we have imagined that our project would become such a tremenduous success, with people contributing from all over the world! We are now collecting pictures as … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged climate change, Ecology, Global change, Microclimate, Mountains, Nature, Science, Soil | Leave a comment

Tiny blessings

Posted on July 7, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

This might not look like much to you, but the picture on the right is a massive success-story! What you are looking at, is tiny clover-seedlings, sown last autumn in the barren climate of the northern Scandinavian mountains. This means … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Sweden | Tagged Ecology, Experiments, Fieldwork, Invasive species, Mountains, Nature, Outdoors, Plants, Science | Leave a comment

Two firsts

Posted on February 29, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

This has been a very important week for The 3D Lab: two of our PhD-students submitted their first ever paper! Charly submitted his work on the climatic origin of urban plant invaders, a first in a series studying how the … Continue reading →