Sidney Gouveia and Luiz Lima visit us at MNCN

Posted by Joaquín Hortal | Sep 2, 2024 | English, News | 0 |

Sidney Gouveia and his MSc student Luis Lima, from the Universidade Federal de Sergipe, will be visiting our lab at MNCN and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid during this month, thanks to the project IA-VENOM (Prevendo a ocorrência de acidentes com escorpiões frente às mudanças climáticas; 200897/2024-1). During their visit we will discuss some of the physiological models they develop to understand macroecological patterns, as well as how to advance our way of measuring the biodiversity data shortfalls. Sidney will also give at seminar at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

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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.