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New article: Prominent role of invasive species on bird diversity loss at the global scale

In this article published in the journal Biological Conservation, Miguel Clavero and coworkers have analysed the role of different threats to avian biodiversity at the global scale and found that invasive species have a major role in driving species loss and biotic homogenisation in this taxa.The rise of extinction rates ...
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7th Conference of the European Ornithologist’s Union, Switzerland

Between 21 to 26th August, Lluís Brotons will attend the 7th conference of the EOU in Zurich Switzerland.Lluís Brotons has been invited as a keynote speaker to the symposium"Advances in ornithological knowledge through species distribution modelling".The presentation, entitled "Predicting bird distribution in mediterranean dynamic landscapes in a context of global ...
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PhD defence: Assu Gil-Tena

Assu Gil-Tena successfully defended her PhD on July 21stFactors behind richness, distribution and dynamics of forest birds at the landscape scale in Catalonia : implications for sustainable forest management.The defence took place at ETSEA in Lleida.-------------------------------------------------------------------------Tesi doctoral: Assu Gil- TenaEl dia 21 de juliol l'Assu Gil-Tena va llegir la seva ...
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Stay at the University of Queensland

Stay at the University of Queensland.Sara Vallecillo has completed a five month stay (jan-june, 2009) at the spatial ecology lab of Hugh Possingham in Brisbane, Australia. Thiis lab is part of the AEDA research center (Applied Environmental Decision Analysis). During this stay we have been investigating the integration of fire ...
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Stay at the University of Toronto

Integration of the MEDFIRE landscape and species distribution modelsDuring two weeks (18/6-30/6) Lluís Brotons and Miquel de Cáceres have joined Mariee-Jossé Fortin and Andrew Fall in Toronto in order to work on the development of new approaches to develop more sound approaches to build dynamic species distribution models. These efforts ...
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New article: Large scale forest change and bird dynamics

In this new article, Assu Gil and coworkers have been analysing bird change data and forest dynamics estimated from forest inventory data and conclude that forest maturation is currently driving forest bird distribution changes at the regional scale in Catalonia.Processes derived from global change such as land-use changes, climate warming ...
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