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Predicting the effects of environmental change on biodiversity

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Conference: Species on the Move

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Miguel Araújo is thrilled to participate in the “Species on the Move International Conference” at Hobart, in Tasmania, Australia, between the 9th and the 12th of February 2016. During this conference he will provide an oral presentation with the following title and abstract:

From models of species distributions to models of communities: Climate and land use changes are leading to alterations in the distributions of species and the composition of assemblages. Most current models focus on species distributions, especially those concerned with animals, but there is a growing interest in how environmental changes might affect ecosystems and their associated services to society. However, scaling up from single species to ecosystems is not trivial since detailed multi-species distributions models are prone to chaotic dynamics, whereby small changes in the models can cause massive changes in the predictions. I will discuss some of the problems associated with modelling individual species and propose alternative approaches, using species distributions and auxiliary trait data, to model the general properties of communities and ecosystems and how they might respond to environmental changes.

 

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Marine biodiversity exposed to prolonged and intense subsurface heatwaves

Human disturbances affect the topology of food webs

Biogeography of bird and mammal trophic structures

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