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Microclimatic conditions anywhere at any time!
Earlier this month, the journal Global Change Biology asked me to write a little commentary about a recent paper . Well, that’s an offer one cannot refuse! First of all: that’s a tremendous honour; thanks GCB to think of me … Continue reading
Posted in General, Science
Tagged Climate, climate change, Ecology, Global change, Microclimate, Mountain photography, Mountains, Nature, Outdoors, Science
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Death is life
Halloween has passed, with rain and wind and falling autumn leaves. And all over the forest: the very spooky ‘consumers of the death’, the creatures of the dark soils feasting on what has fallen: the saprotrophs and detritivores. What better … Continue reading
Introducing: Dovrefjell
Wide views, rolling hills, rocky mountain tops: we are proud to introduce you to Dovrefjell in the Norwegian mountains, backdrop of a new branch of our fascinating mountain research. It provides the wild scenery enjoyed by Ronja, Ilias (thank him … Continue reading
Posted in General, Norway
Tagged Ecology, Hiking, Landscape photography, Mountains, Nature, Nature photography, Outdoors, Photography, Scandinavia, Science, Travel photography
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Pink
Nothing says pink like the Flemish heathlands at the end of summer. I was lucky enough to spend one of the last hot summer days on the vast pink plains of the ‘Kalmthoutse Heide’, where we have our sites for … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, General
Tagged Belgium, Biodiversity, Ecology, Fieldwork, Heathland, Landscape photography, Nature, Nature photography, Outdoors, Photography, Plant photography, Science, Travel
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Following from afar
What a feeling that gives: when your PhD- and master-students are rocking their fieldwork, and pictures of their successes are tumbling past. Case in point: this success for our mountain trail surveys in Norway, finished in the rain and with … Continue reading
Heather
While most of the fieldwork campaigns this summer are being taken care of by our awesome teams of PhD and master students, there is a few sets of field days I am joining. One of them just happened on a … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, General
Tagged Biodiversity, Ecology, Heathlands, Hiking, Kalmthout, Nature, Nature photography, Outdoors, Plant photography, Plants, Science
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Four fronts
Summer arrived, and that means: fieldwork! And this summer, more than ever before, that fieldwork is spreading across the world. We will have four important fronts of research open this summer, and I aim to keep you updated about all … Continue reading
Posted in General, Science
Tagged Climate, Ecology, Europe, Fieldwork, Global change, Landscape photography, Mountains, Nature photography, Outdoors, Research, Science, Travelling
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