Tag Archives: Nature

Revisiting the highways of the mountains

Posted on August 7, 2023 by lembrechtsjonas

In 2016, a significant endeavor began as we initiated the monitoring of vegetation along two cherished mountain trails in the Abisko region. Our primary objective was to assess the impact of these trails on the mountain vegetation. Specifically, we had … Continue reading →

Posted in Sweden | Tagged Botany, Hiking, Mountain ecology, Mountains, Nature, Nature photography, Outdoors, Plants, Science | Leave a comment

Science at its most adventurous

Posted on July 29, 2023 by lembrechtsjonas

We had stumbled upon a great treasure, when our colleague Keith, from Abisko in northern Sweden, found an old research paper from the 1950s written by a botanist called Olav Gjaerevoll. This Olav had spent several summers in the 1940s … Continue reading →

Posted in Sweden | Tagged Climbing, Ecology, Mountain hiking, Mountains, Nature, Outdoors, Scandinavia, Science, Snowbeds | 5 Comments

A call answered across the globe

Posted on July 9, 2023 by lembrechtsjonas

It’s safe to say that last month’s call for microclimate data for our growing SoilTemp database was a success. Almost two hundred new datasets, ranging from just a few sensors to a whopping 32 thousand per dataset, poured into our … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged Data, Ecology, Global change, Microclimate, Nature, Science, SoilTemp | Leave a comment

Tundra traits

Posted on July 4, 2023 by lembrechtsjonas

It was summer 2017, the height of my PhD. As always, I spent the longest days above the polar circle, in the north of Scandinavia. We were there to follow up on our long-term vegetation monitoring, in particular this time … Continue reading →

Posted in Norway | Tagged climate change, Global change, Nature, Nature photography, Outdoors, Plants, Scandinavia, Science, Tundra | Leave a comment

Microclimate can save plant species from population migration

Posted on April 24, 2023 by lembrechtsjonas

Global warming would force plant species to move dozens of kilometres north at breakneck speed to still find suitable habitat. “A failure for flora,” was the scientific consensus for a long time. Recent research suggests that such population relocation would … Continue reading →

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Botanical scouting

Posted on April 12, 2023 by lembrechtsjonas

I spent a beautiful spring day last week in one of Brussels’ most fairy-tale-like places: the botanical garden Jean Massart. This little piece of biodiversity sits in a picturesque valley bordering the E411 highway and that famous chunk of Brussels … Continue reading →