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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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Sowing the seeds
This weird-looking bunch of office plants is actually much more than it seems: it is the start of a new experiment, which will broaden our scientific horizon to the world of population genetics. The lucky model species is Matricaria discoidea, … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, Uncategorized
Tagged Belgium, Ecology, Experiments, Nature, Plants, Science, Urban ecology
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Unusually warm
2018 has started of relatively stormy, here in Belgium. Water on the quays in Antwerp, and the first ever use of the large controlled flooding areas along the Scheldt, the year does indeed start unusual. In the Netherlands, it was … Continue reading
Posted in Netherlands
Tagged Architecture, City, Citytrip, Climate, Landscape photography, Maastricht, Nature, Netherlands, Photography, Travel, Urban ecology
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