Tag Archives: Outdoors

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 →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Botanical garden, Botany, Ecology, Flowers, Forest, Hiking, Microclimate, Nature, Outdoors, Plants, Spring, Walking | 1 Comment

ForestClim – bioclimatic variables for forest understory

Posted on April 7, 2023 by lembrechtsjonas

Those bioclimatic variables that we ecologists all love so much, but at a higher resolution and from right there where your study organisms are living? Wouldn’t that be a dream come true? Time to pinch yourself, as we now released … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged Climate, Forests, Microclimate, Nature, Outdoors | Leave a comment

The impact of the pines

Posted on March 2, 2023 by lembrechtsjonas

Picture this: it’s the 20th century and people are planting pine trees all over Chile. Pines of the genus Pinus, that is, which is very different from the native Araucaria araucana (the monkey puzzle tree). The latter might very well … Continue reading →

Posted in Chile | Tagged Invasive species, Landscape photography, Mountains, Nature, Outdoors, Pines, Plant invasion, Plant invasions, South America, Travel | Leave a comment

Microclimate symposium

Posted on December 13, 2022 by lembrechtsjonas

Truth be told, we just had a little pot of money that needed spending. That pot of money came from a successful application to the University of Antwerp to enhance communication between universities. Now, communication between universities, that’s my kind … Continue reading →