Tag Archives: Outdoors

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

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

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

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 →