Tag Archives: Species distributions

Exotic plant species thrive at high(er) elevations

Posted on January 26, 2023 by lembrechtsjonas

Sometimes one needs patience to answer a research question. Lots of it. The Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN) already asked itself this important question back in 2006: how fast are non-native species travelling uphill along mountain roads? Now it’s 2023, … Continue reading →

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RangeX

Posted on December 17, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

We are very pleased to announce that next year, with MIREN, we will be heavily involved in two large international projects that have been recommended for funding through BiodivERsA (https://www.biodiversa.org). The first project is called RangeX (“Mechanisms underlying the success … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged BiodivERsA, Global change, Mountain ecology, Mountain photography, Mountains, Nature, Outdoors, Species distributions | 2 Comments

The holy trinity of global change ecology

Posted on April 25, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

A few weeks ago, the journal Annals of Botany asked me to write a commentary pieceon a new paper coming out on the effect of climate change on grass species on a subantarctic island. An intriguing paper, as they compared … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged Biodiversity, climate change, Ecology, Experiments, Fieldwork, Global change, Microclimate, Modelling, Species distributions | 2 Comments

Climate change biogeography

Posted on March 28, 2018 by lembrechtsjonas

There are several ways in which one can tackle climate change and its effects on our world. Biogeographers are approaching the issue via one of its core fundaments: how is climate change affecting the distribution of all living things on … Continue reading →

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Species distributions in a messy world

Posted on February 17, 2018 by lembrechtsjonas

At the meeting in Zurich (introduced here for those who missed it), species distribution ecologists (like me) and people from the remote sensing community came together to meet. Troughout the discussions we had, an intriguing conclusion surfaced that I found … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged Ecology, Global change, Global change ecology, Landscape photography, Nature, Nature photography, Photography, Plants, Science, Species distributions | 2 Comments

The proof we needed

Posted on November 13, 2015 by lembrechtsjonas

Good news for those ecologists studying species distributions: it turns out that the climatic niche of mountain plants is fairly conserved in space (Wasof et al. 2015). These results come from a study on the distribution of alpine species in the European … Continue reading →