Miguel Araujo coordinates a Think Tank within the Natura Connect project, bringing together representatives of the public administration, universities, private sector, and NGOs to discuss the implementation of the European Biodiversity Strategy in Portugal. • Date: November 21, from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm • Location: Évora • Participation is not open to the public This . . . [ Read More ]
2024 Gordon Conference “Unifying Ecology Across Scales” in New Hampshire
Miguel Araújo was invited to serve as a speaker at the 2024 Meeting of Unifying Ecology Across Scales, a highly prestigious Conference, which will be held at Southern New Hampshire University, United States, in the summer of 2024. The Unifying Ecology Across Scales Gordon Research Conference is a premier, international scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through . . . [ Read More ]
2024 ECTE Conference in Lisbon
The European Conference of Tropical Ecology Conference, the Annual Meeting of the Society for Tropical Ecology (Gesellschaft für Tropenökologie, gtö), will take place in Lisbon in February 2024. The overarching topic will be "Tropical ecosystems in a fast-changing planet“. Miguel Araújo has the pleasure to be giving the opening keynote focusing on modelling climate change impacts on . . . [ Read More ]
2024 IBS meeting in Prague
Our lab will be present in "force". Núria Galiana and Miguel Araújo are co-organisers of the symposia on "Network Biogeography: The Present and Future of Terrestrial Food Webs" that will be held at the International Biogeography Society Meeting in Prague, in January 2024. Juan David González Trujillo is also participating, showcasing some of our recent work on trophic structure of global . . . [ Read More ]
9th edition of the SDM course
It is now becoming a tradition for Babak Naimi and Miguel Araújo to hold the SDM course in November. 2023 will not be an exception and the course is now announced and opened for registration. Early bird tickets available on the first-come-first-served basis. To read more about the course, see here. . . . [ Read More ]
Interview in “El Español”
"¿Y cómo afecta la biodiversidad al cambio climático? En la biosfera terrestre hay casi tanto carbono como en la atmósfera, unas 750 gigatoneladas, pero en los océanos hay 28.100 gigatoneladas. La gestión de los flujos de carbono entre lo que está vivo y lo que está muerto y los stocks de carbono se hacen con los ciclos biológicos. Un cambio, una alteración de esos ciclos puede . . . [ Read More ]
2022 Edition of the SDM course
We are thrilled to announce the 8th edition of the “Species Distributions Modelling Course: Concepts, Methods, Applications, and Challenges” that Babak Naimi and I give regularly. The previous edition had a limited presencial participation owing to the pandemic COVID-19 and we inaugurated the online participation. While online participation is now maintained, we strongly encourage those that can . . . [ Read More ]
Lecture: Understanding species diversity
How are global diversity gradients formed? What are the main underlying driving mechanism? Can we tease them apart easily? These are some of the topics addressed in the lecture recorded on the 15th of June 2020 with the title "Understanding Species Diversity: Ecological and Evolutionary Approaches". The lecture was given in the context of the MSC in Palaeontology jointly put together by NOVA . . . [ Read More ]
Opening of the EU Green Week
The 19th of October witnessed the Opening of the European Green Week, this year under scientific curation by Miguel B. Araújo and taking place at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. Despite the pandemic situation the event went well with a at least a good hundred of people present in the large auditorium of the Foundation and many more attending online. The . . . [ Read More ]
Climate change for journalists’ workshop: a success
Seven journalists from Norway met seven journalists from Portugal to exchange experience and discuss the science of climate change with environmental journalist Ricardo Garcia, and myself, and with extra inspiration and knowledge sharing by experts in specific domains of climate change modelling, oceans and climate change, fire and fire spread under climate change, climate change mitigation, and . . . [ Read More ]