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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 ]
2020 Edition of the SDM course
COVID-19 note: We are living difficult times, but we cannot bend to despair. So, we decided to still to hold the SDM course with a number of adaptations. A small cohort of students who have no problem with travel will be attending the course on site while others sitting in more remote places will participate though video conference. So, if you were withholding registration owing to . . . [ Read More ]
Postdoc Position in Alien Trade Project
Link to the official call Background The deliberate or accidental introduction of species outside their native range is one of the main components of anthropogenic–induced global changes. Biological invasions have been increasing in number and affecting larger areas, with deep reaching impacts on ecosystems, economic activity and human welfare. As a result, invasive species now rank among . . . [ Read More ]
Interview to Jornal de Negócios
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2019 Edition of the SDM course
We are thrilled to announce the 6th edition of the "Species Distributions Modelling Course: Concepts, Methods, Applications, and Challenges" that Babak Naimi and I give every year. This is a 7 days course for graduate students, researchers and professional. It introduces the fundamental concepts underpinning species distribution models, or ecological niche models (ENM), describing . . . [ Read More ]
Standards for distribution models in biodiversity assessments
https://youtu.be/iS31WaKMW_Y Would you have your cancer treatment be defined by one doctor supported by the opinion of two additional referees? Surely, you would hope the treatment to follow best practice standards reached by consensus among several doctors working in the field. Surprisingly, no such standards exist in models entering biodiversity assessments, but we now provide such . . . [ Read More ]
2018 Species Distributions Course
SDM model for the Caribbean spiny pocket mouse Source: Radosavljevic, A. and R. P. Anderson. 2014. J. Biogeogr 41:629-643 We are organising the 5th edition of the course “Species distributions models: concepts, methods, applications, and challenges”, which introduces the fundamental concepts underpinning ecological niche models (ENM), describing some of the most prominent methods currently in . . . [ Read More ]