Biogeography ▪ Conservation ▪ Evolution ▪ Macroecology ▪ Modelling ▪ Planning

Welcome to iBiochange

The Group

Led by Miguel B. Araújo and David Vieites, the Integrative Biology and Global Change group brings together researchers and students who seek to further understanding in the fields of biogeography, conservation biology, evolution, global change biology, and macroecology.
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New book

This book provides a synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography, linking individual- and population-level processes to geographic distributions and biodiversity patterns. The book focuses on correlative approaches known as ecological niche modeling. This approach has broad applicability to ecology, evolution, biogeography, and conservation biology, as well as to understanding the geographic potential of invasive species and infectious diseases, and the biological implications of climate change.
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Research highlights (2006-2011)

Nature (2011): Additive threats from pathogens, climate and land-use change for global amphibian Diversity
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Ecology Letters (2011): Climate change threatens European conservation areas
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Nature (2011): Consequences of climate change on the tree of life in Europe
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Science (2010): Scenarios for global biodiversity in the 21st century.
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PNAS (2009): Reconstruction of the climate envelopes of salamanders and their evolution through time
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PNAS (2009): Re-opening the climate envelope reveals macroscale associations with climate in European birds.
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PNAS (2009): Vast underestimation of Madagascar’s biodiversity evidenced by an integrative amphibian inventory
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TREE (2009): Madagascar as a model region of species diversification
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Nature (2008): Scale effects and human impact on the elevational species richness gradients
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PLoS Biology (2008): Climate change, humans, and the extinction of the mammoth
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TREE (2007): Ensemble forecasting of species distributions
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Science (2006): How does climate change affect biodiversity?
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