Join us on Thursday, September 28, at 4 pm UTC for the first Funk Lecture of the new season, given by Joaquín Hortal.
“Mapping ignorance on biodiversity: towards a fair account of data-driven uncertainty in biogeograpical analyses”
Joaquín Hortal is a biogeographer and community ecologist working at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Natural History Museum) of the Spanish Scientific Council in Madrid. He also collaborates with the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes of the University of Lisbon, and the Department of Ecology of the Federal University of Goiás in Brazil, and before he worked at the University of the Azores, University of Copenhagen and Imperial College London. He served as EiC of Frontiers of Biogeography betwen 2009 and 2019, and now is the chief editor of npj Biodiversity.
Joaquín studies the effects of current and past environmental conditions and ecological processes on the geographic patterns of biodiversity, the role of species niche and ecological interactions in the organization of biological communities in time and space, and the use and misuse of biodiversity big data. Although he is specialist in dung beetles, he also works regularly with mosses, seed plants, vertebrates and other insect groups.
