How do niche-based responses change community dynamics
Ecological communities change through time and space. In particular, many plant commities follow...
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Category: Publications
Celebrating Alfred R. Wallace’s life and works
Today we celebrate Alfred Russel Wallace’s 200th Anniversary. Although for many he’s...
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Studying moss establishment success
In the first article from Fernando Hurtado’s PhD we study the ability of a handful of moss...
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The functional role of dung beetles
Besides the press release text below, you can see a post about this review article at Animal...
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Dung beetle community responses to aridity
Assessing how communities respond to environmental gradients is one of the central questions of...
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Models of global diversity trends should incorporate taxonomic uncertainty
Many recent models of global trends in different aspects of biodiversity often assume that...
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Mapas de ignorancia para tener en cuenta la incertidumbre en los datos sobre la distribución de las especies
La distribución geográfica de las especies es el resultado tanto de sus requerimientos...
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Elevational and altitudinal shifts in dung beetles at a Brazilian National Park
The paper showing the results and first analyses of the survey that Cristina Araújo (see People)...
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Las especies muestran respuestas heterogéneas a la temperatura a diferentes escalas
Existe la creeencia generalizada de que los individuos, y con ello las especies, van a responder...
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Oversimplistic models may seem correct for the wrong reasons
The island rule is an ecogeographical rule, which states that island populations and species get...
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New article on body size evolution
Despite being close to the mainland, the Island of Jersey in front of the French coast was the...
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New article on sampling bias in North Atlantic Forest fruit-feeding butterflies
In a new article by Thadeu Sobral-Souza and collaborators, we show that data on fruit-feeding...
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I 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.
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