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Considering the taxonomic process in estimates of global biodiversity
by Joaquín Hortal | Mar 9, 2024 | English, Publications, Research | 0 |
Estimating how many species are yet to be known (that is, the extent of the so-called Linnean...
Read MoreThe diversity of South American dragonflies depends on energy and water
by Joaquín Hortal | Feb 16, 2024 | English, Publications, Research | 0 |
In a recent paper led by Fernanda Alves-Martins, we have explored how data quality and...
Read MoreA general model of adaptive colonization in symbionts
by Joaquín Hortal | Dec 26, 2023 | English, Publications, Research | 0 |
Global change is forcing many species to shift their ranges. Colonizing new areas often requires...
Read MoreMax Willian got his PhD!
Max Willian Tavares de Almeida had his viva yesterday, 20th December. After a nice 5-hour defence...
Read MoreNew collection on dryland biodiversity open for submissions
by Joaquín Hortal | Dec 21, 2023 | #globalchange, English, News, Research | 0 |
Drylands occupy over 40% of the Earth’s land surface but there are many challenges to organisms...
Read MoreJuliana Kuchenbecker and Fred Neves visit us for 6 months
by Joaquín Hortal | Dec 14, 2023 | English, News | 0 |
Frederico Neves and Juliana Kuchenbecker, from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais at Belo...
Read MoreDung beetle functional diversity increases ecosystem functioning
by Joaquín Hortal | Dec 7, 2023 | #globalchange, Destacada, English, Publications, Research | 0 |
Alike other animals, cows generate excrement due to the digestive process. An average bovine...
Read MoreCould data curation affect the observed biodiversity gradients?
by Joaquín Hortal | Dec 4, 2023 | English, Publications, Research | 0 |
As big biodiversity data accumulate in databases such as GBIF, it gets progressively more and more...
Read MoreFernando Hurtado is now a doctor
Fernando Hurtado made a great defence of his PhD thesis during his viva yesterday, 16th november,...
Read MoreStéphanie Vaz presented her PhD
Stéphanie Vaz succesfully defended her PhD thesis yesterday, 14th november, by teleconference....
Read MoreBryony Blades starts a 3-month secondment
by Joaquín Hortal | Oct 30, 2023 | English, News | 0 |
Bryony Blades, a PhD student from the University of Oxford, is joining MNCN for a 3-month research...
Read MoreIBS Funk Lecture on Mapping Ignorance
I was honoured to give the first International Biogeography Society’s (IBS) Funk Lecture of...
Read MoreI am a biogeographer and community ecologist, working as scientific researcher at the Department of Biogeography and Global Change of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC).
I am also scientific collaborator at the Postgraduate Course on Ecology and Evolution of the Universidade Federal de Goiás and the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c) of the Universidade de Lisboa, and member of eBryo – Research Group on Experimental Bryology.