October 25, 2023 4-5 pm UTC Join us on Wednesday, October 25, at 4 pm UTC for the Funk Lecture given by Crystal McMichael. Talk Title: "Ecological legacies and forests resilience in Amazonia" Crystal McMichael is a paleoecologist, tropical ecologist, and biogeographer working in the Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics at [...]
TIBS Distinguished Fellow Award The International Biogeography Society is proud to announce the 2024 Distinguished Fellows! Fellows are chosen for their significant contributions to our scientific society's objectives via brilliance in basic research and great service to the area of biogeography. Biogeographers employ data and methodologies from many disciplines in the physical and [...]
The Doctoral Dissertation Award was created by The International Biogeography Society in 2013, to recognize outstanding work done by students and recent PhD graduates. It aims to recognize and promote innovative dissertation work that brings together diverse fields of study, and in so doing, is likely to make major contributions to the field [...]
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) to teach courses in plant biology, evolutionary biology, or plant diversity, and an advanced course in evolutionary and molecular systematics; develop an active research program leading to publications and external funding; advise undergraduate and graduate students; provide service to the department and university including serving as Director of the W.S. [...]
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 [...]
The International Biogeography Society is looking for members of the abstract review committee for the upcoming TIBS meeting in Prague, Czechia. This committee is key in helping choose talk presentations for the sessions and has a great deal of relevance in shaping the meeting overall. Each reviewer will be responsible for ranking about [...]
June 28, 2023 5-6 pm UTC Join us on Wednesday, June 28 at 5 pm UTC, for a talk by Luís Valente. Islands: laboratories of biogeography threatened by anthropogenic extinction Luís Valente is an evolutionary biologist and island biogeographer interested in biodiversity in isolated environments. He uses fieldwork, phylogenetics, modelling and genomics [...]
To do research on a hot topic in biodiversity science: How do species survive climate change, land use and other human pressures? Students will be enrolled in a joint award PhD program between the University of Adelaide and University of Copenhagen. Here they will be supervised and mentored by leaders in macroecology and biodiversity conservation, [...]
May 31, 2023 5-6 pm UTC Join us on Wednesday, May 31 at 5 pm UTC, for a talk by Professor Jennifer McElwain. In this talk 'Tropical Arctic' Jenny will/ explain our planet’s story of environmental upheaval, mass extinction, and resilience as revealed by fossil plants unearthed from Triassic and Jurassic strata of East [...]
The TIBS Education Committee seeks an early career member representative! The main mission of the Education Committee is to promote the training and education of biogeographers so that they can develop sound strategies for studying and conserving the world's biota. Thus, the Committee brainstorms on strategies to expand and enhance the teaching of [...]
