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 ]
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 ]
Conference: Community Ecology for the 21st Century
Photo by Miguel Araújo (Guys fulvus in Monfrague) Of the many problems confronting society on the veil of the 21st Century, one of the gravest is the likelihood that modern humans may so change the intrincate workings of the earth's ecosystems that they will no longer be able to provide the support that human culture requires for its existence. Yet, our ability to understand and predict the . . . [ Read More ]
Conference: Species on the Move
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 . . . [ Read More ]
Conference: Biodiversity Informatics and Modelling Species Distributions
Miguel Araújo, Antoine Guisan, and Town Peterson will provide keynote addresses at the Symposium and Panel Discussion: Frontiers of biodiversity informatics and modelling species distributions that will take place on the 4th of November in New York at the American Museum of Natural History. The event is part of a task force created by GBIF. Details on the task group and the public event are . . . [ Read More ]
Conference: Biodiversity of Tropical Andes and Amazon Rainforest
Miguel Araújo will give provide a plenary talk at the upcoming International Conference "Biodiversity of the Tropical Andes and the Amazon Rainforest" (15-18 October 2015). He will be speaking about the next-generation forecasting models of biodiversity under climate change and the need to better understand the role of biotic interactions in species and community dynamics. Miguel is thrilled . . . [ Read More ]