Tag Archives: Plants

A hell of a nuisance

Posted on January 24, 2026 by lembrechtsjonas

Non-native species can be, pardon my words, a hell of a nuisance sometimes. Case in point: invasive pine species in the Southern Hemisphere. Did you know that there are no (none!) native pine species south of the equator? Given how … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Chile, Hiking, Invasive species, Nature, Pines, Plants, Travel | Leave a comment

Non-native plants in the worlds’ cities

Posted on February 24, 2025 by lembrechtsjonas

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 | Leave a comment

Sensors with a view

Posted on February 3, 2025 by lembrechtsjonas

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 | Leave a comment

Temporal changes along mountain roads

Posted on January 9, 2025 by lembrechtsjonas

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 | Leave a comment

Fieldwork time!

Posted on December 19, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

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 | Leave a comment

The true thermal niche of forest plant species

Posted on October 4, 2023 by lembrechtsjonas

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 →