I regularly teach a long-running postgraduate course on measuring biodiversity, including metrics, sampling design and biodiversity data shortfalls. I also teach other subjects on biogeography and macroecology.
Here you will find some news on forthcoming courses, and eventually some resources.
Mónica Gómez Vadillo has just started working with us, thanks to a 4-yr PhD grant from Spanish AEI, associated to project NICED. Mónica will be supervised by Joaquín Hortal and Emilio García Roselló from Vigo University. After more than two years of experience as a...
Inscriptions are now open for the next Summer Course at the University of Azores. The event will take place at the Campus of Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira island, from July 22th to August 2nd 2024. It will be a comprehensive course (70 hours, 6ECTS) offering an overview...
Max Willian Tavares de Almeida had his viva yesterday, 20th December. After a nice 5-hour defence by teleconference, he obtained his PhD in Ecology and Evolution at the Universidade Federal de Goiás. Max's thesis describes the shortfalls in the knowledge on the...
Fernando Hurtado made a great defence of his PhD thesis during his viva yesterday, 16th november, at the Universidad de Alcalá. Fernando has been working on the determinants of the distribution and coexistence of moss species, taking a hybrid approach based on...
Stéphanie Vaz succesfully defended her PhD thesis yesterday, 14th november, by teleconference. She's now a doctor in Ecology for the Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro. Stéphanie's PhD seeks to analyse the threats affecting the distribution of the Atlantic Forest...
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...
José Saramago