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Non-native plants in the worlds’ cities
Non-native species have been widely studied for decades, and their affinity with urban environments is no surprise to anyone in the field. However, just how many non-native species dwell in our cities was so far unknown. With a global consortium … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged Biodiversity, Ecology, Environment, Global, Invasive species, Nature, Plant invasions, Plants, Research, Science
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Sensors with a view
Not all fieldwork pictures are equally breathtaking. While part of our team waded through the muddy mud of De Driehoek – one of our university campus’s last patches of nature – another group embarked on a rather more inspiring mission: … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium
Tagged Climbing, Ecology, Fieldwork, Microclimate, Outdoors, Plants, Rock climbing, Rock diversity, Science
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Temporal changes along mountain roads
In 2012, during my master’s thesis, we began monitoring vegetation along three Norwegian mountain roads with a clear goal: to track how these plant communities would change over time. Time, of course, is a relative concept, and nature operates on … Continue reading
Posted in Norway
Tagged Biodiversity, Ecology, Environment, Invasive species, Mountain ecology, Mountains, Nature, Plants, Science
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Fieldwork time!
It’s fieldwork time again! We have started to enjoy some cold, grey and dark days in the Dutch mud the last weeks, for our new project on the scale at which biodiversity varies (more on that here). Fieldwork in December, … Continue reading
Posted in General, Netherlands
Tagged Biodiversity, climate change, Conservation, Ecology, Environment, Fieldwork, Monitoring, Nature, Plants, Utrecht Science Park
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The true thermal niche of forest plant species
I might have mentioned this before*, but microclimate is crucial to improve our estimates of species distributions. As species are reacting to micro- rather than macroclimate, and both are at the local scale only very weakly correlated, ignoring microclimate could … Continue reading
Posted in General, Science
Tagged climate change, Forests, Microclimate, Nature, Plants, Species distributions
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Revisiting the highways of the mountains
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
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The 3D lab 