Tag Archives: Photography
Dark
Dark clouds over our Dark Diversity experiment, yesterday. An unstable atmosphere – some thunderclouds passing to the north of us – made for dramatic views of the heathland in the ‘Kalmthoutse Heide’, when we were out there collecting data for … Continue reading
City life
Take this proudly walking pigeon in the port of Barcelona as an announcement for next week’s talk about life in the city, which I’ll be giving for the biologist students at the University of Antwerp. In a session in a … Continue reading
Dark diversity
Spring finally arrived here in Belgium, and with that spring the fieldwork vibe inevitably starts blossoming as well. To get that fieldwork vibe up to speed, we headed north of Antwerp, to the ‘Kalmthoutse Heide’, a large swath of semi-natural … Continue reading
KittenR
I finally got an opportunity to put my R skills to ‘good use for society’: I visualised the numbers of kittens that were brought to our local animal shelter throughout the season, and modelled how much milk, kitten food, and … Continue reading
Pines!
This is the 4th post in a series of stories from our fieldtrip to South America. Check out the arrival in Concepcion, and the first and second fieldwork day <– Our local partner in Chile, the Laboratorio de Invasiones Biológicas (LIB), has … Continue reading
Species (re)distributions in Scandinavian mountains
I am happy and honoured to announce some fantastic news: this week, we got a 4-years Fundamental Research Grant from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) to strengthen our research on species (re)distributions in the Scandinavian mountains, in the framework of … Continue reading









