Recent interview to the magazine WILDER about the prospects that 2021 will bring to biodiversity and conservation. In Portuguese, can be read here. . . . [ Read More ]
Presentation of CORESCAM project
CORESCAM: Studying Coastal Biodiversity Resilience to Increasing Extreme Events in Central America. A project co-led by Rosa Román Cuesta (CIFOR), Ana Rey and Miguel Bastos Araújo (both from MNCN-CSIC). Synthesis: Central America (Mesoamerica+Caribbean) has been dubbed the miner’s canary of climate change due to the marked increase in extreme events and their impacts over humans and . . . [ Read More ]
Discriminating climate, land‐cover and random effects on species range dynamics
Kudos for Shirin Taheri who just published the first article from her PhD thesis in Global Change Biology. We show that determinants of bird species range shifts in Great Britain, in the past decades, is likely driven by a combination of factors (climate change, land-cover change, and stochasticity) and that the strength of the signal of each one of these factors varies across the . . . [ Read More ]
Talk to representatives of ministries of CPLP
I was happy to share some thoughts on biodiversity, climate change and conservation planning to the representatives of the environmental ministries of CPLP (referring to the "Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries"). My presentation starts at . . . [ Read More ]
Climate change adaptation: complexity and uncertainty
I was asked to write an essay about climate change adaptation. The original version can be read here, but I copy below the full text too because the format is not the most user friendly: Adaptação à mudança num contexto de complexidade e incerteza O mundo encontra-se num processo de transformação profunda. Se as alterações climáticas e a perda de biodiversidade globais já estavam na agenda . . . [ Read More ]
Que hacemos en el lab en 1 minuto
https://youtu.be/CoYYYlUKq4Y . . . [ Read More ]
SARS-Cov-2: Updated climate suitability maps
Below we will be sharing regular updates on estimated changes in climate suitability for SARS-CoV-2 transmission after incorporation of new data on positive cases. The most updated maps will be provided on the top of the page. 1st May (includes t_mean, t_min*t_max, precipitation, evapotranspiration, radiation) 31 March (includes t_mean, t_min*t_max, precipitation, . . . [ Read More ]
SARS-CoV-2 and climate
As new cases of SARS CoV-2 (aka 2019-nCoV) Coronavirus are confirmed throughout the world and millions of people are being put into quarantine, it is important to investigate the mix of factors affecting the spread of the epidemics. It is still early days, but, using existing data on positive cases of SARD-CoV-2 Coronavirus, Babak Naimi and I developed a large ensemble of 10 machine . . . [ Read More ]
Climate determination of trophic structures – A tribute to Alexander von Humboldt
This is our little tribute to Alexander von Humboldt while disseminating the results of our recent paper in Nature Communications about climate determination of animal community trophic structures. https://youtu.be/1WwGVnNFJOY . . . [ Read More ]
Biogeographic analysis of trophic structures reveals the signature of climate and people
Community trophic structure typical of seasonal tropical climates https://youtu.be/1WwGVnNFJOY In Spanish here Climate determines the arquitectures of trophic structures and human activities simplify them. This is the main conclusion of a study published today in Nature Communications, by Manuel Mendoza and Miguel B. Araújo. Using the geographic distributions and feeding . . . [ Read More ]