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Workshop — TIBS-TABS workshop: R package for reconstructing altitudinal shifts in biogeographical systems over time

Understanding paleoclimatic variations is crucial for deciphering the historical shifts in global ecosystems, which have shaped today's biodiversity. The Temporal Altitudinal Biogeographical Shifts (TABS) R package is a powerful tool designed to model these shifts, providing spatially detailed reconstructions over continuous time series. This workshop aims to equip participants with the knowledge and skills [...]

Reymond Miyajima2024-09-03T11:30:14-04:00Categories: Featured, News, upcoming workshops, workshop|

Miami University, Oxford Ohio — Associate or Full Professor

Associate or Full Professor – Ohio Eminent Scholar of Ecology with a strong track record of research in ecosystem ecology or related fields. Study areas may include, but are not limited to, the effects and consequences of global change on ecological systems (e.g., effects of climate change, biodiversity loss, or habitat degradation); ecosystem processes (e.g., [...]

Reymond Miyajima2024-08-26T14:15:57-04:00Categories: Featured, Jobs, Misc posts, News|Tags: associate professor, full professor, miami|

Workshop — Building species distribution models in accordance with the ecological niche theory

Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used as a tool for understanding species spatial ecology. They link species occurrence or abundance with environmental features of the location, via statistical modelling. According to ecological niche theory, species response curves are unimodal with respect to environmental gradients. A general problem with most habitat modelling approaches is that [...]

Reymond Miyajima2025-01-20T11:49:21-05:00Categories: Featured, Meetings, Misc posts, News, upcoming workshops, workshop|

Workshop — sdm: a reproducible and extensible R package for species distribution modelling

sdm is a comprehensive modelling and simulation framework that enables fitting of individual and community-based species distribution models, while supporting markedly different modelling methods including correlative, process-based (mechanistic), agent-based, and cellular automata. It generates ensembles of models, and several options for evaluation of model results and projection of species potential distributions in space and [...]

Reymond Miyajima2025-03-06T12:52:18-05:00Categories: Featured, Misc posts, News, past workshop, workshop|

Workshop — Take your species distribution models to the next level with Bayesian non-parametric regression

Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) are a powerful machine learning technique with very promising applications in ecology and biogeography in general, and in species distribution modelling (SDM) in particular. BART can produce highly accurate predictions without overfitting to noise or to particular cases in the data. Notably, unlike most SDM methods, BART generally shows [...]

Reymond Miyajima2025-03-06T12:47:26-05:00Categories: Featured, Misc posts, News, upcoming workshops, workshop|Tags: Bayesian, SDM, workshop|

Workshop — Biodiversity Data Publishing in GBIF and Data Papers – Darwin Core

Workshop — Biodiversity Data Publishing in GBIF and Data Papers – Darwin Core

Biodiversity data publishing is critical for several reasons, ranging from scientific research and conservation to policy-making and education. Darwin Core, a standardized framework for sharing biodiversity information, plays a crucial role in facilitating the effective use of biodiversity data. We this approach we are responding to WALLACEAN SHORTFALL - The Wallacean shortfall is named [...]

Reymond Miyajima2024-10-04T12:02:28-04:00Categories: Featured, Misc posts, News, past workshop, workshop|Tags: GBIF, workshop|

Relaunch – Frontiers of Biogeography

Relaunch – Frontiers of Biogeography

The International Biogeography Society (TIBS) has relaunched its flagship open-access scientific journal, Frontiers of Biogeography (FoB), on the ARPHA platform, where it will be co-published with Pensoft Publishers.

Karen F2024-07-02T13:19:08-04:00Categories: Featured, Frontiers, Misc posts, News|Tags: 2024, Frontiers, Frontiers of Biogeography, relaunch|

July 2024 Funk Lecture

July 2024 Funk Lecture

Join us on Wednesday, July 31, at 4 pm UTC for the Funk Lecture given by Dolors Armenteras Pascual. Talk Title: "Biogeographic Perspectives on Amazon Forest Degradation" Dolors Armenteras is a Full Professor of Landscape Ecology at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá. Initially trained as a biologist at the University of [...]

Reymond Miyajima2024-07-31T13:43:18-04:00Categories: Featured, Funk Lectures, Misc posts, News|Tags: 2024, Funk Lecture, may, news, webinar|

June 2024 Funk Lecture

June 2024 Funk Lecture

Join us on Wednesday, June 26, at 4 pm UTC for the Funk Lecture given by Michael Douglas. Talk title: "Promoting Biogeography Through Cruise Ship Lecturing" Dr. Douglas is a retired NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) research meteorologist who worked for 22 years at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma. [...]

Seda Akkurt2024-06-27T16:26:51-04:00Categories: Featured, Funk Lectures, Misc posts, News|Tags: 2024, Funk Lecture, june, news, webinar|

April 2024 Funk Lecture

April 2024 Funk Lecture

Join us on Wednesday, April 24, at 5 pm UTC for the Funk Lecture given by Barnabas Daru. Talk Title: "The biogeography of native botanical diversity in the age of humans" Barnabas Daru is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Stanford University. Research in his lab focuses on the broad patterns of plant [...]

Seda Akkurt2024-08-13T15:46:13-04:00Categories: Featured, Funk Lectures, Misc posts, News|Tags: 2024, april, Funk Lecture, news, webinar|