Shortfalls in our knowledge about Antarctic biodiversity
This is an English version of a joint press release. Below you can find a link to the paper....
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Category: Publications
A new shiny app to manage occurrence records
The raw material of science is data. It is from these that hypotheses are established and...
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Considering the taxonomic process in estimates of global biodiversity
Estimating how many species are yet to be known (that is, the extent of the so-called Linnean...
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The diversity of South American dragonflies depends on energy and water
In a recent paper led by Fernanda Alves-Martins, we have explored how data quality and...
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A general model of adaptive colonization in symbionts
Global change is forcing many species to shift their ranges. Colonizing new areas often requires...
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Dung beetle functional diversity increases ecosystem functioning
Alike other animals, cows generate excrement due to the digestive process. An average bovine...
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Could data curation affect the observed biodiversity gradients?
As big biodiversity data accumulate in databases such as GBIF, it gets progressively more and more...
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Do we have good data about the impact of land transformation?
This is the question we made in a recent paper with Javier Nori and other colleagues, specialists...
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Identifying interactions between biodiversity data shortfalls
Biodiversity information is plagued with shortfalls, limitations and gaps in the data of all...
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A quixotic quest against bias in biodiversity models
Bias is inherent to any kind of data. And so is biodiversity data. There are many biases in the...
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Forest conversion selects the same traits but at different scale depending on the pool
Certain configurations of functional traits are selected under each new type of conditions. This...
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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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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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