Elevational and altitudinal shifts in dung beetles at a Brazilian National Park

Posted by Joaquín Hortal | Nov 5, 2021 | English, Português, Publications, Research | 0 |

The paper showing the results and first analyses of the survey that Cristina Araújo (see People) did for her PhD along an altitudinal gradient at Itatiaia National Park has been just published. Itatia (Río de Janeiro, Brazil) is part of Serra da Mantiqueira, and was the first National Park declared in Brazil. These preliminary analyses provide highly valuable information, as this is one of the very few studies on the responses of dung beetles to elevational gradients in the Neotropics.

For more information please follow https://jhortal.com/project/araujo-et-al-i-j-trop-insect-sci-2021-elevational-and-seasonal-distribution-of-dung-beetles-at-itatiaia-national-park-brazil/

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Joaquín Hortal

I am a biogeographer with broad interests in macroecology, community ecology, island biogeography, insect ecology, evolution, and biodiversity research. My main research aim is to determine why biodiversity – and in particular community structure – is geographically distributed the way it is, and to identify the processes that domain the spatial and temporal dynamics of ecological assemblages. I work as Scientific Researcher at the Department of Biogeography and Global Change of the Natural History Museum in Madrid (MNCN), a research institute of the Spanish Scientific Council (CSIC). I am also External Professor at the Departamento de Ecologia of the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) in Brazil, and Associate Researcher of the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c) of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon in Portugal.