New SDM paper out online

Posted by Joaquín Hortal | Oct 29, 2011 | English, Publications | 0 |

The report of the meeting on how to use Species Distribution Modelling for biodiversity research in Brazil, organized last August in Belo Horizonte by Luciana Kamino, has just been published online on Biology Letters. There you can find several insight on how to study species’ distributions in the megadiverse tropical areas.

Kamino, L.H.Y., Stehmann, J.R., Amaral, S., De Marco Jr, P., Rangel, T.F., de Siqueira, M.F., De Giovanni, R. & Hortal, J. (2011) Challenges and perspectives for species distribution modelling in the Neotropics. Biology Letters, in press. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2011.0942

About The Author

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.