Tag Archives: South America

The impact of the pines

Picture this: it’s the 20th century and people are planting pine trees all over Chile. Pines of the genus Pinus, that is, which is very different from the native Araucaria araucana (the monkey puzzle tree). The latter might very well … Continue reading

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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

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Malalcahuello

This is the third post in a series of stories from our fieldtrip to South America. Check out the arrival in Concepcion and the first fieldwork day <– Fieldwork day 2 of our South American journey brought us to national … Continue reading

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Concepcíon

Brussels-Madrid, a midnight cross-over of the Atlantic Ocean and the whole of South America, and a one hour flight south from Santiago, and there we were: Concepcíon, close to the Pacific Ocean, in Central Chile. There, on the shores of … Continue reading

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Beware of the pines

In the mountains we usually study, plant invasion is often only in its earliest phase, with no more than a few individuals established at high elevations. In these circumstances, the measurable impacts of plant invasion are currently virtually zero. To see … Continue reading

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A mildly booming business

We have been spending considerable amount of time uploading my pictures on Fotolia, one of the main websites for stock photography. It is a lot of work to get them on there, but the occasional reward makes it a lot of … Continue reading

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