Tag Archives: Science

Filling the gaps

Posted on April 18, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

Anyone working with microclimate data is familiar with time series data – repeated measurements over time at the same location. And anyone working with time series has bumped into an important potential issue with them: gaps. More often than not, … Continue reading →

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A wealth of wildflowers

Posted on April 13, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

One could wonder if the microclimate-based models of Haesen et al. would have predicted such a wealth of wildflowers in the garden of our new home! This is our first spring in our new garden, and we could thus have … Continue reading →

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A drastic shift in mycorrhizal communities

Posted on April 10, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

One of the key findings of the Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN) is that mountain roads have a MASSIVE impact on their surrounding vegetation. Whole communities are changing, non-native species are moving in, and all kinds of species are moving … Continue reading →

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Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography

Posted on April 9, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

From the first days of SoilTemp, we had the ambition to turn this project into more than ‘just a database’. SoilTemp could become the much-needed glue to stick together microclimate ecologists and biogeographers from across the globe, and give them … Continue reading →

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A new beginning

Posted on March 26, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

Last week, I spent a delightful day at my soon-to-be new home university in Utrecht. A day packed with discussions on scientific ambitions, teaching plans, and meeting new colleagues and ongoing research in the group. The first tulip of the … Continue reading →

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Assistant professor in ecological scaling

Posted on March 12, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

Major milestone: first of May, The 3D Lab is making a big move to Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and it is doing so following my recent appointment as an assistant professor in the Ecology & Biodiversity-group there. Major milestone, … Continue reading →