Tag Archives: Travel

News from the west

Every now and then, there arrives a much appreciated  e-mail with news from the other regions within our network. It is nice to know that they are trying to do the exact same thing as you are doing, but in the … Continue reading

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The proof we needed

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

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Website updated

With autumn in the air, I spent some time updating the backbone of this ever-growing website. It was due time to include all adventures from this summer, as this PhD is endlessly evolving, and this website is trying to follow. There … Continue reading

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Remember them

I still owed you a gallery of my latest visit to Abisko. You can enjoy the rainbows, clouds and splashes of sun here (or find it on the right of my blog).  Summer is gone and all flowers are fading. It … Continue reading

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Tourist in my own city

On a beautiful Friday in October, I had the chance to spend my afternoon at the city campus of our own University of Antwerp to attend a PhD defence from a colleague. The sun was shining bright and I was eager to … Continue reading

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Getting in the right mood

Today we climbed the slopes of Kinnoull Hill, the beautiful hill overlooking Perth and its valley, to get in the right mood for the mountain conference that is starting tomorrow. We enjoyed a beautiful morning with a shy sun piercing through … Continue reading

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