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Predicting the effects of environmental change on biodiversity

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50 years of protected areas in Portugal

Miguel Araújo was invited to give a keynote address in Portuguese parliament about the recently published study "Biodiversidade 2030". You can watch the full presentation on the belo YouTube video (from minute 49:30 onwards). . . . [ 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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BCSD Key note address

It was a true pleasure to talk to entrepreneurs and business people at the annual meting of the Business Council for Sustainable Development on the limits of the economy in the finite planet and discuss new ways to address the problem of sustainability, with focus to the natural capital and to biodiversity in a changing world.  . . . [ 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 ]

2020 Lisbon Conference

I was trilled and honoured to participate in the 4th Lisbon Conference on "The Acceleration of Global Change and How the Pandemic is Affecting it" on the panel dedicated to "The divergence over climate action: what energy for what future?" together with Jennifer Layke (WRI) and Karin Backstrand (Stockholm University), with a debate chaired by Agostinho Miranda. Unfortunately, it had to be . . . [ Read More ]

Conference: Climate Action – Strategic Challenges 2020

I was invited to an interesting political discussion surrounding the strategic actions required to face the challenges of climate change. The conference took place in Porto (Portugal) with the presence of 5 ministers of Portugal as well as many other decision makers. The slot in which I participated about "agriculture and climate change starts roughly at 2h26 min of the following . . . [ Read More ]

Honorary membership to the College of Biologists

As Geographer, I feel honoured to have been nominated as honorary member of the Portuguese College of Biologists (Ordem dos Biólogos) together with the Ciência Viva Programme (national science communication's programme) and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. At the the awarding ceremony on the 12th of February 2020 my talk was: "Planetary Metabolism and Sustainability". . . . [ Read More ]

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Research Highlights

Human disturbances affect the topology of food webs

Biogeography of bird and mammal trophic structures

Strategy games to improve environmental policymaking

Response of an Afro-Palearctic bird migrant to glaciation cycles

Improvements in reports of species redistribution under climate change are required

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