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Miguel B. Araújo Lab | Blog

Predicting the effects of environmental change on biodiversity

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Environmental debate – Fundação Eugénio de Almeida

I was thrilled to participate in one and half hour discussion about environmental issues, sustainability and disease in webinar organised by the Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, together with Teresa Pinto Correia and Alfredo Cunhal Sendim. You can follow the discussion at: https://www.facebook.com/fundacaoeugeniodealmeida/videos/216258779414860   . . . [ Read More ]

Interview Expresso

About pathogens and biodiversity, the European Green Deal, Climate Change, and Great Decoupling. A pdf to the interview to be provided soon.  . . . [ Read More ]

Interview Jornal de Negócios

Full text here.       . . . [ Read More ]

BBC: Will warmer weather really kill-off Covid-19?

Recent article from BBC covering some of our recent ongoing work about COVID-19 and climate.  An excerpt: “Climate comes into play because it affects the stability of the virus outside the human body when expelled by coughing or sneezing, for example,” says Miguel Araújo, who studies the effects of environmental change on biodiversity at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in . . . [ 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 ]

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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