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Miguel B. Araújo Lab

Predicting the effects of environmental change on biodiversity

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Research

Summary

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Over the past 100 years, Earth’s climate has become warmer and precipitation regimes have changed. Can we predict the effects of these changes on biodiversity? Research in the lab seeks improving understanding of the key mechanisms governing the distribution of life on Earth, with strong focus on species distributions. Basic research in the lab tends to feed into the development of models to forecast species distributional dynamics under climate- and land-use change scenarios. To address these questions, we integrate large climate and species distributions databases with descriptions of behavioural and physiological traits of species, molecular phylogenies, and the fossil record. Most research in the lab involves statistical analyses of ecological data, including data mining, bioclimatic modeling, and mathematical simulations, but large-scale experiments, including microcosm and mesocosm experiments, are now being devised for testing models and theory on species distributions and species coexistence.

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News

  • Highly cited researcher 2022
  • New project: NaturaConnect
  • Jury of Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity meets in Lisbon
  • Interview in "El Español"
  • Interview in Ambiente Magazine

Outreach

  • 200 anniversary of Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Is the planet full? TV programme
  • COP27 - Razones para optimismo?
  • Human disturbances affect the topology of food webs
  • Interview in Ambiente Magazine

Opportunities

  • La Caixa PhD studentship
  • Position available: Technician
  • Call for access to Iberian Pond data (2022)
  • First call AQUACOSM-PLUS
  • La Caixa Foundation PhD studentship on climate change and protected areas

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

Books

Biodiversidade 2030

Biodiversidade 2030

Ecological Niches and Geographic Distributions

Ecological Niches and Geographic Distributions

Spatial Conservation Prioritization

Spatial Conservation Prioritization

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