Community trophic structure typical of seasonal tropical climates In Spanish here Climate determines the arquitectures of trophic structures and human activities simplify them. This is the main conclusion of a study published today in Nature Communications, by Manuel Mendoza and Miguel B. Araújo. Using the geographic distributions and feeding preferences of all terrestrial large . . . [ Read More ]
Miguel B. Araújo wins National Environmental Prize “Fernando Pereira”
Miguel Bastos Araújo was awarded the National Environmental Prize "Fernando Pereira" by the Portuguese Confederation of the Environmental NGOs (CPADA in Portuguese). This prize is awarded annually to outstanding personalities in the environmental conservation fields. "I am deeply honoured to have received this award by fellow environmentalists", says Miguel Araújo. "Prior to being undergraduate . . . [ Read More ]
Workshop: Climate Change for Journalists
Happy to have accepted the challenge by Ricardo Garcia to co-organise this workshop for journalists. It is important that journalists acquire the competencies to communicate complex issues, like climate change, with objectivity. Thrilled that the idea was well received by EEA Grants Portugal. It will take place in January 2020 and be opened to journalists based in Portugal and Norway. The . . . [ 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 ]
Networks of global bird invasion altered by regional trade ban
In 2005, the European Union imposed a ban in trade of wild exotic species as part of a package to control the sprea d of avian flu into the Continent. In a paper published in Science Advances we demonstrate that the ban reduced fluxes of trade in about 90%, from 1.3 million to 130 thousand birds traded. This mighty achievement had non predicted consequences: the market adjusted and new . . . [ Read More ]