Tag Archives: Nature photography

Alliances against invasion

Posted on January 31, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

This post first appeared on the MRI mountain blogs.  In the discipline of mountain invasion, the enemy has many faces. Some are large and visible, marching uphill in plain sight. Others are small and sneaky, slipping invisibly and unnoticed behind your … Continue reading →

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Cold wizard

Posted on January 24, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

That it might have been me, with my talks about species surviving in cold climates, they told me in Amiens…  I had to admit that it was peculiar that me as a cold-climate ecologist visited them during the only icy winter … Continue reading →

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Up to Amiens

Posted on January 18, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

Winter has arrived. The first real cold wave sweeps over Western Europe, with snow and freezing temperatures. With this cold I will travel to Amiens. Not for fieldwork, luckily, as I’d have to take my warmest mountain clothing. No, the … Continue reading →

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Eating villages

Posted on January 13, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

The Port of Antwerp is very hungry. In the last century, it has been eating several villages and thousands of acres of land to meet the requirements of being a globally competing economic center. I find it interesting to wander in … Continue reading →

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Chilling

Posted on January 4, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

For the next year, I will have four master thesis students joining in on my projects, so I will definitely be chilling day in day out (and this cute cat is happy to teach me how to do that). No, I am … Continue reading →

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A soft ending

Posted on January 2, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

We ended 2015 with almost spring-like temperatures. The feeling of a new beginning was even more accentuated by the endless fields of flowers of white mustard and fodder radish we wandered through on a nice walk on the last day of the … Continue reading →

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