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Tag Archives: Urban ecology
Throwback to last summer fieldtrip in Belgian cities
Guest post by Charly Géron, our urban ecologist! Last summer was -normally- the last field season of my PhD which tries to better understand how cities influence alien plant invasions. One would think that the last field season would be … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, General
Tagged Ecology, Invasive species, Outdoors, Plant photography, Plants, Science, Urban ecology
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#NatureOrNot
Our #NatureOrNot survey has been an unexpectedly big success! More than 1300 people informed us about what they consider nature and what not. The poster above, made by master student Naomi De Vries who’s in charge of the project, summarizes … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, General, Netherlands
Tagged Ecology, Ethnography, Gardens, Nature, Natureornot, Outdoors, Science, Urban, Urban ecology
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About wrapping up 2 field seasons
This is a guest post by Charly Geron, PhD-student at Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech and in our Virtual Lab. One month ago, I was left with mixed feelings about finishing up my second field season, and acquiring massive amount of data … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, General
Tagged Cities, Ecology, Global change, Global change ecology, Invasive species, Nature, Plants, Science, Urban ecology
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TADA
Last weekend, I did something a bit different from my usual science-ing: I got invited to give a workshop at ‘TADA‘, an organisation that gives ‘workshops for the future’, a Saturday school for economically disadvantaged children in the city of … Continue reading
To the growth chamber
This week, a new exciting research direction opened up: our PhD-student in Gembloux (Wallonia) launched a growth chamber experiment! For me, this is an absolute first: to experience the ability to entirely control all conditions, without any noisy outside factor … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, General
Tagged Cities, Ecology, Experiment, Growth chamber, Invasive species, Lab, Nature, Science, Urban ecology, Urban heat islands
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Hunting down plants
I introduced him already in an earlier post: our hero of this spring is the easy-to-overlook flower called Matricaria discoidea, the pineappleweed. We are hunting down populations from all over Belgium to explore differences caused by humans: are the plants growing differently … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium
Tagged Ecology, Flowers, Landscape photography, Nature, Nature photography, Plant ecology, Plants, Science, Urban ecology
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