July 2018: A press release was sent out by the British Ecological Society on the phenology research using archived cycling videos. Read more on Science, the Times, New Scientist or PHYS.ORG.
May 2018: PASTFORWARD stelt nu met trots ook de Nederlandstalige versie voor van hun leuke animatiefilmpje over het belang van de kruidlaag in bossen en de impact van voormalig landgebruik, bosbeheer, stikstofdepositie en klimaatopwarming! Of bekijk de Engelse versie!
April 2018:The first ForNaLab/Bos+ Symposium was organized at the Lab in Gontrode. PhD students, post-docs as well as people from Bos+ got to present their research and projects to the other colleagues and master students forest and nature management. You can read the program with abstracts here!
January 2018: ILVO en UGent lanceerden een LANDSCHAPSOBSERVATORIUM. In de regio Merelbeke-Melle-Oosterzele worden een aantal identieke mini-moestuintjes verspreid als meetpunt voor de ecosysteemdiensten en de biodiversiteit in het landschap. Zelf een moestuintje adopteren? Ontdek meer hierover op AVS, Het Nieuwsblad, HLN, Radio 2, Vilt en Veldverkenners!
February 2017: Friday 17th of February, a UGent climate forest of 2.5 ha will be planted in Melle, Belgium. This climate forest will be an open air laboratory and will be part of the global network TreeDivNet.
November 2016: The UGent coordinated a press release on our research in Dovrefjell, Norway, on adaptation of plants to climate change. It has been published by several news websites: De Morgen, Metro & HLN.
November 2015: Thomas Schaubroeck, former PhD student of the lab, won the price of the public for his PhD research in the EOS pipet 2015 competition for most promising young scientist of Flanders.
October 2015: BosLAB, the largest open air laboratory of Flanders, was officially launched.
October 2015: PhD student Sanne Ruyts commented about the link between the masting of oaks and the risk of Lyme disease two years later in Het Belang van Limburg.
September 2015: during the past years, a series of 6 papers from Fornalab on the topic of 'biogeochemistry and biodiversity' were published in Natuur.focus. Now, all papers are bundled in a special issue
August 2015: Five years of FORBIO! Trees seem to be happier when growing in a diverse forest (consisting of different tree species). News covered by the national press: HLN, Le Soir, Het Belang van Limburg, Radio 2, VTM and Natuur.Focus.
April 2014: Head of the lab, Prof. dr. ir. Kris Verheyen, and Prof. dr. Bart Muys, KU Leuven, comment on the current state and the future of Flemish forests and urge policymakers to take actions and develop a long-term vision on the interplay between forests, economics and well-being. Click for links to the interview on Radio 1, newspaper article in De Standaard from 23/04 and 24/04 and press release.
March 2014: Interview of Sanne Ruyts by VTM news on tick activity (in Dutch): video clip
February 2013: Interview of Pallieter De Smedt in EOS magazine about smallFOREST research (in Dutch): (download)