Tag Archives: Nature

Bluebell beauty

Posted on April 20, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

This would normally be the season where we take the students to the beautiful Hallerbos, close to Brussels, to teach them all about forest types and keystone plant species. This trip would importantly also involve stunning purple fields of bluebells … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium, General | Tagged Bluebells, Flowers, Forest, Hallerbos, Nature, Nature photography, Outdoors, Photography, Plants, Spring | 2 Comments

Knowledge synthesis communities as the answer?

Posted on March 24, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Another guest post from 3DLab-member Ronja Wedegärtner on how we can do better science in these times of global change, and include the whole of society from the start. We are producing much science, but not using it effectively enough … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged climate change, Collaboration, Ecology, Global change, Hackatons, Nature, Science | Leave a comment

Where do soil microbes live?

Posted on March 23, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

If we want to model where soil microbes are living, and why, traditional distribution models will not do. In a new paper in FEMS Microbiology Ecology, we suggest that accuracy can be achieved, if we just change our mindset and … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged Biodiversity, climate change, Ecology, Global change, Nature, Science, Soils | Leave a comment

Sciencing at home

Posted on March 22, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

With all the social distancing across the world keeping us all at home, a lot of our fieldwork is being delayed. And that’s a bummer, as we just received a beautiful batch of ‘daggers’ to measure microclimate, and had fantastic … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium, General | Tagged Nature, Science | 1 Comment

Can collaboration help us tackle the big issues of ecology?

Posted on March 10, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Ronja Wedegärtner, PhD student at NTNU in Norway and in The 3D Lab, takes you on a reflective tour of the key discussion point of last weeks’ meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland: how we as ecologists can take up our task … Continue reading →

Posted in Iceland, Science | Tagged climate change, Global change, Global change ecology, Iceland, Nature, Nature photography, Science, Travel photography | Leave a comment

Iceland

Posted on March 4, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

This week brought three members of The 3D Lab (Jonas, Ronja and Jan) to the 4th meeting of Oikos, the Nordic Society for Ecology, in beautiful Reykjavik. As ecologists rooted in northern Scandinavia with most of our fieldwork and research … Continue reading →