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npj Biodiversity, a new journal from Springer Nature Ecology and Evolution portfolio has published its first articles. This journal, led by Joaquín Hortal as Editor-in-Chief, will publish research and synthesis in all aspects of biodiversity science. You can read its...
The team lead by Bruno Ribeiro, integated by Geiziane, Lucas Jardim, Rafael Loyola and other colleagues from UFG and other institutions won the 2022 GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge prize, for their development of bdc: A toolkit for standardizing, integrating and cleaning...
In this video abstract we explain how can we measure the uncertainty coming from the limitations of biodiversity data, and how can it be incorporated into models for conservation decision-making. To do this we developed the first Maps of Biogeographical Ignorance, a...
Stéphanie Vaz, a PhD student from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, is joining us for a 6 month sanduíche stay at MNCN. Stéphanie works with fireflies, and her PhD work deals with developing a large-scale conservation assessment of this group of beetles in...
Biodiversity data can be analysed to predict species distribution at various scales of time and space. However, survey completeness and temporal decay in data quality introduce uncertainty into biodiversity models. Researchers Joaquín Hortal, Juliana Stropp, Richard...
Pilar Hurtado has just joined us through a 2-yr Juan de la Cierva-Formación postdoctoral contract. Pilar is a community ecologist specialised in lychens. She has worked on assessing the response of epiphytic communities to climate change and habitat fragmentation...