Tag Archives: Nature

Out listening

Posted on March 22, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

Last week, you could find an enthusiastic subset of our team hanging around suspiciously on the campus of the University Hospital in Antwerp, booklets in hand and an ominous device close by. This was the kick-off of a new measurement … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Birds, Nature, Noise, Sounds, Soundscapes, UZA | Leave a comment

Tropical forest understory temperatures

Posted on January 23, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

New paper in Nature Communications: Ismaeel et al. (2024) Patterns of tropical forest understory temperatures. It’s a thing we do at SoilTemp: create microclimate maps over large extents for all to use. We have done this before for soil temperature … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Climate, climate change, Ecology, Forests, Nature, Outdoors, Science, Tropical forests | Leave a comment

Take it to the higher order

Posted on December 20, 2023 by lembrechtsjonas

New paper: Reynaert et al. (2023) Direct and higher-order interactions in plant communities under increasing weather persistence. Oikos Let’s knock down an open door: interactions between species are key determinants of their performance. How well an individual is growing, or … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Ecology, Grasslands, Higher-order interactions, HOIs, Interactions, Nature, Outdoors, Science | Leave a comment

Blockchains and biodiversity

Posted on December 11, 2023 by lembrechtsjonas

tl;dr: we will be looking for a database manager who wants to join our SoilTemp team, based in Antwerp, Belgium, with the main goal to make the database more accessible and more flexible. Knowledge of R required, of SQL a … Continue reading →

Posted in Norway, Sweden | Tagged BiodivERsA, Biodiversity, Blokchain, Conservation, Forests, Global change, Nature, Restoration | Leave a comment

The dark secrets of dark diversity

Posted on November 10, 2023 by lembrechtsjonas

Dark diversity. A term that sounds sufficiently dramatic to catch the attention of many an ecologist. But it’s a good theory as well to explore: instead of the common ‘diversity’, which looks at the diversity of species/genes/traits present at a … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, Sweden | Tagged Biodiversity, Dark diversity, Ecology, Global change, Mathematics, Mountains, Nature, Science | Leave a comment

The true thermal niche of forest plant species

Posted on October 4, 2023 by lembrechtsjonas

I might have mentioned this before*, but microclimate is crucial to improve our estimates of species distributions. As species are reacting to micro- rather than macroclimate, and both are at the local scale only very weakly correlated, ignoring microclimate could … Continue reading →