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Workshop: SCALES meeting in Solsona
From November 17-19th there will be a meeting of the EU project Scales.This meeting will take place at the CTFC headquarters in Solsona and will discuss the development of large scale biodiversity traits to be used in various modelling exercises ...
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MOBIMO: Application of niche-based modelling techniques to long-term common bird monitoring data
New collaboration project started with the Gabriel Lippmann research center in Luxembourg.The MOBIMO project lead by Dr. Nicolas Titeux will allow the recruitment of a PhD. student Olatz Aizpurua that will join the group from Luxembourg to deal with the applciation of predictive distribution models to the monitoring of biodiversity ...
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New article: Threatened bird species booms in burnt areas
Many farmland species are having bad times in Europe...but some are boosting in burnt areas. In this study with Swiss Colleagues from the University of Bern we analyse the habitat selection patterns of one of these species the Ortolan bunting in a recently burnt area in Catalonia.The Ortolan Bunting Emberiza ...
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New article: Patterns of distribution change and species population trends
Looking at the shape of species distributions!A new paper with our collaborators at the CEFE-CNRS in Montpellier has analysed the relationship between changes in distribution shapes and population trends in an area affected by strong land abandonment. The results indicate that the information contained on the shape of spatial distributions ...
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Ecochange summer school attended
From 7th to 10th of September 2009 Dani Villero has assisted to the ECOCHANGE Summer School “Predictive habitat distribution models: tools for building projections of global change impact on biodiversity” at Laussane (Switzerland), organized by Antoine Guisan, Willfred Thuiller & Nick E. Zimmermann, and with the participation of Thomas Edwards, ...
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INOAC: Development of sound functional indicators of biodiversity change
The INOAC project “Development of farmland biodiversity indicators from bird monitoring programs" has been completed. The project funded by Obra Social de la Caixa de Catalunya has been run in collaboration with the Catalan Ornithological Institute. The project has been centered in the development of an effective methodology based on ...
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