MIREN newsletter june 2022
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Jonas Lembrechts
- Jun 2
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...
Jonas Lembrechts
- Apr 4
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...
Jonas Lembrechts
- Feb 15
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:...
Jonas Lembrechts
- Feb 12
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...
Jonas Lembrechts
- Feb 3
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...
Jonas Lembrechts
- Feb 3
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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!
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) –...
Jonas Lembrechts
- Dec 8, 2020
RangeX
We are very pleased to announce that next year MIREN will be heavily involved in two large international projects that have been...
MIREN
- Oct 23, 2020
Weed of the month - Cirsium arvense
Daniel Chichinsky, Kara Hettinger, and Tim Seipel Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences - Montana State University...
Jonas Lembrechts
- Oct 20, 2020
MIRENs autumn newsletter
Wonder what has been going on in the MIREN network and all its different components across the world? Find out in our autumn newsletter...
Jonas Lembrechts
- Oct 7, 2020
Non-native plants and their mycorrhizae
New regional MIREN-paper out in New Phytologist, by PhD candidate Jan Clavel from the University of Antwerp, Belgium! We disentangle the...
Jonas Lembrechts
- Sep 7, 2020
Last chance!
Last chance to participate in MIRENs survey on the perception of invasive species in mountains, as we are closing the survey on September...
Jonas Lembrechts
- Aug 30, 2020
2-year Postdoc position available!
“DArwin's Naturalization Conundrum rEvisited (DANCE) – Darwin meets omics” The project is about analyzing the role of plant species...
Jonas Lembrechts
- Aug 20, 2020
Tales from the field
The global pandemic is still restricting lots of MIRENs fieldwork, but that makes us extra happy with those plans that still can be...