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Find here below our latest newsletter for February 2024! It includes details on our new MIREN rock face survey that we are launching, as...
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Jonas Lembrechts
Jan 23
Following plants in the crags: MIREN rock face survey
Join the new MIREN rock face survey With long-term monitoring campaigns focussing on mountain roads and trails, and divergences to...
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Jonas Lembrechts
Feb 14, 2023
MIREN newsletter February 2023
A published protocol! A global paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution! And a surge of surveys and resurveys of the MIREN road protocol...
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Jonas Lembrechts
Feb 14, 2023
Long-term monitoring shows the upward spread of non-native plant species along mountain roads around
"Our results suggest plant invasions into mountain ecosystems are increasing as a result of both a growing number of new non-native...
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Jonas Lembrechts
Dec 29, 2022
Non-native plants along roads and trails
Last 'new fact' of the year: we compared patterns of non-native plant invasions along roads and trails worldwide. The main patterns are...
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Jonas Lembrechts
Nov 28, 2022
MIREN meeting in Chile
End of November 2022, the MIREN Steering Committee - and some lucky invitees - gathered in Malalcahuello, Chile, for a week full of...
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Jonas Lembrechts
Nov 14, 2022
Invitation for MIREN hybrid meeting
On the 20th of November 2022, you are all kindly invited to a 2-hour virtual meeting on our MIREN network and get an update on our...
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Jonas Lembrechts
Jun 20, 2022
MIREN newsletter june 2022
Curious to know the latest on what MIREN has been up to? You can find all the details in our newsletter!
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Jonas Lembrechts
Jun 2, 2022
Call for proposals: Analyze the MIREN road survey data and join us in Chile
Are you interested in plant ecology, community ecology, mountains, global change research, biodiversity patterns, microclimate effects on...
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Jonas Lembrechts
Apr 4, 2022
Highlights of the 2021-2022 MIREN survey in Kosciuszko National Park, Australia
All over the world, MIRENers are resurveying their roads for our 2021-2022, 15 years after the very first surveys were done. This is a...
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Jonas Lembrechts
Feb 15, 2022
A common protocol for tracking species range changes in mountains
A MIREN milestone paper just got published, open access in Ecology and Evolution: the MIREN road survey protocol! The paper:...
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Jonas Lembrechts
Feb 12, 2022
Global survey on alien invasive species impacts and management in mountains
--- Upcoming study --- Invasive species are a major driver of change in global biodiversity and ecosystems. However, knowledge on the...
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Jonas Lembrechts
Feb 3, 2022
Bacteria: a thermometer from the past
New regional MIREN paper, with MIREN members Jonas Lembrechts and Ivan Nijs! It was at a lunchtime seminar of our research group that...
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Jonas Lembrechts
Feb 3, 2022
Greetings for 2022
Dear MIREN friends and colleagues, Albeit being late, we would like to wish you all a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2022. The last few...
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Jonas Lembrechts
Aug 26, 2021
Do the distribution patterns of plants in mountains apply to other organisms?
The MIREN global network of elevational transects has clearly shown declines in species richness of non-native plants with increasing...
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Jonas Lembrechts
Aug 26, 2021
The key to plant invasions in the Andes
In 2016, MIREN published the results from a much-needed experiment. We had sown seeds in two extreme environments: the north of...
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Jonas Lembrechts
Aug 26, 2021
A railroad in Kashmir Himalaya
Kashmir Himalaya. A region famous for its breathtaking heights and steep mountain regions. From 1994 to 2013, the Indian government here...
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Jonas Lembrechts
Aug 26, 2021
Non-natives at the end of the world
The Crozet archipelago. A few tiny specks in a vast ocean, ‘on the road’ from South Africa to Antarctica. A tough climate, inhabitants...
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Jonas Lembrechts
Mar 31, 2021
MIREN spring news
Curious what MIREN is and has been up to? Get the latest news from the network in the newsletter below!
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Jonas Lembrechts
Feb 17, 2021
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP – AFROMONTANE RESEARCH UNIT
To Drive the South African Contribution to an EU Horizon 2020 BiodivERsA Project Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN) –...
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