Proud to have been selected for the 9th consecutive year as Highly Cited by Clarivate Reuters-Thomson: “Recognizing the true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science™. Of the world’s scientists and social scientists, Highly Cited Researchers truly are . . . [ Read More ]
La Caixa PhD studentship
We are offering a research project listed under La Caixa prestigious PhD studentships. The studentships are competitive and only the best students will be selected. Our project is termed "Modelling the future of species interactions under climate change extremes". For this project, we are looking for a bright and committed candidate with ability to work in a collaborative international . . . [ Read More ]
Position available: Technician
We are looking for a lab & field technician to support experiments in the project AQUACOSM-PLUS, more specifically within the Iberian Ponds programme. Description of the job, salary and application process here. . . . [ Read More ]
New project: NaturaConnect
The European Biodiversity Strategy 2030 commits Union Member States to legally protect a minimum of 30% of the European Union’s land and sea area and to strictly protect at least a third of these protected areas. European Members States are also committed to effectively manage conservation areas and to restore Europe’s natural capital, thus taking a leading role in the Post-2020 Convention on . . . [ Read More ]
Building Bridges in Biology Conference
Miguel B. Araújo was invited to give a keynote address to the March 2023 Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Conference on Building Bridges in Biology. The conference has a strong focus towards solving health problems but with a broad view, which includes ecosystems and global change. His talk will draw on some of the lab's recent work on trajectories and critical transitions in complex . . . [ Read More ]
Operations Research in Turbulent Times Conference
Miguel Bastos Araújo will have the pleasure to give the opening keynote address to the XXII Congress of the Portuguese Association for Operational Research taking place at the University of Évora between the 6th and 8th of November. This year’s topic is “Operations Research in Turbulent Times: Adaptation and Resilience” and the talk will focus on “Self-organisation of complex networks in . . . [ Read More ]
Funk Lecture Series by Nuria Galiana on Macroecologica Networks
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Call for access to Iberian Pond data (2022)
Two calls are now open to enable access to the Iberian Ponds data, under EC AQUACOSM-PLUS project, for collaboration on the following topics: Spatial and temporal variation in pond communities across a temperature gradient Climate change effects on Iberian aquatic food webs To apply follow the links . . . [ Read More ]
Jury of Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity meets in Lisbon
Miguel B. Araújo, vice-President of the Jury of the "Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian" Prize for Humanity on Climate Change was thrilled to meet his peers after a long period of remote work owing to COVID-19 restrictions. In particular, he is delighted to support next-President of the Jury, former Germany's Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel, in selecting nominated climate-change champions for this 1 M . . . [ Read More ]
Human disturbances affect the topology of food webs
https://youtu.be/N4D--Wj3JvM What do galaxies and molecular structures have in common? Or trade between countries, communications on the Internet, and trophic relationships within ecosystems? One answer is that they all involve nodes interconnected by flows of mass and energy. In other words, they are networks. The study of networks has revealed intriguing regularities. For example, it is . . . [ Read More ]