Tag Archives: Scandinavia

The summer is for Sweden

Posted on July 29, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

The group has a whole team up north again, monitoring vegetation and bumblebees, gathering microclimate data and so much more. I was lucky enough to spend a few days up there as well, checking up on the long-term monitoring sites … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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The hidden waterfall

Posted on August 8, 2022 by lembrechtsjonas

Years of travelling to the same place and monitoring the vegetation along the same trail, and nobody ever told me about this beautiful waterfall just 50 meters off track! It sits at the base of the ‘Björkliden’ trail, close to … Continue reading →

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Fieldwork done!

Posted on August 3, 2022 by lembrechtsjonas

The team has done it: all 180 plots from our long-term vegetation monitoring along the Norwegian mountain roads have been surveyed! With that achievement in our pockets, we now have the third time step in our time series all on … Continue reading →

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News from the field

Posted on July 23, 2022 by lembrechtsjonas

It has been a roller coaster ride to get the whole team in northern Scandinavia, as you can read here, but now the fieldwork is on a roll! That things are going well is testified by the pictures I am … Continue reading →

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