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Highlighted papers
An update of Wallace's zoogeographic map
2013-01-07
Published in Science in January 2013, “An Update of Wallace’s Zoogeographic Regions of the World” by Ben Holt, Jean-Philippe Lessard, Carsten Rahbek and 12 other CMEC researchers, provides a long overdue update to one of the most fundamental maps of global biodiversity.
Migrants delayed by drought in Africa
2012-12-07
A recent paper in Science: “Drought in Africa caused extreme delayed arrival of European songbirds”, by the CMEC researchers Anders P. Tøttrup, Mikkel Willemoes Kristensen, Carsten Rahbek and Kasper Thorup
Early human arrival
2012-08-07
A Letter in PNAS entitled “Human arrival scenarios have a strong influence on interpretations of the late Quaternary extinctions” by Nogués-Bravo and Marske
Vangas Beat Darwin’s Finches in Diversity
2012-05-07
A recent paper in PNAS: "Ecological and evolutionary determinants for the adaptive radiation of the Madagascan vangas" by Jønsson KA et al.
Communities under climate change
2011-11-28
A recent Perspective in Science by Nogués-Bravo and Rahbek highlights the need of better integrating biological disciplines for unveiling impacts of climate change in biodiversity
Rethinking species’ ability to cope with rapid climate change
2011-08-15
A recent study in Global Change Biology by CMEC researchers lead by Christian Hof and Irina Levnisky
Long-term climate change and diversity patterns
2011-07-29
A study in Ecology Letters co-authored by David Nogués-Bravo shows that biodiversity is controlled by past climatic changes.
Regional species pools shape local communities
2011-06-16
J.-P. Lessard et al. have a new paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Biodiversity - species loss revisited
2011-05-23
Carsten Rahbek and Rob Colwell writes in Nature about study demonstrating that Species-Area-Curves often overpredicts rate of species extinctions
Climate change threatens European conservation areas
2011-05-03
A study in Ecology Letters co-authored by David Nogués-Bravo shows that Natura 2000 areas don't retain climate suitability better
PNAS-paper by K.Jønsson et.al. (CMEC):
2011-02-28
Major global radiation of corvoid birds originated in the proto-Papuan archipelago
21st century climate change threatens mountain flora unequally across Europe
2011-01-27
A recent study in Global Change Biology co-authored by David Nogués-Bravo
Sequential forest degradation spreading from Dar es Salaam
2010-08-10
Paper in PNAS by Neil Burgess (CMEC) and scientists from 11 other organisations in Europe
Link found between ‘Climate Footprints’ and mass mammal extinction
2010-05-19
David Nogués-Bravo et al. has published a study using global data modelling to build continental ‘climate footprints'
Body size variation at risk in the world’s mammals
2010-04-07
Susanne Fritz (CMEC) and Andy Purvis (Imperial College London) have a paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B
Towards a mechanistic understanding of distribution-abundance relationships
2010-03-25
In a recent paper in QRB, Borregaard and Rahbek reviews the causality of one of ecology's most pervasive patterns.
Species assemblages at larger geographical scale
2010-03-24
Carsten Rahbek has a paper published in PNAS on macroecological signals of species interactions
The Longest Migration
2010-01-20
Carsten Egevang has a paper published in PNAS on tracking Arctic tern throughout their migration period showing an incredible pole-to-pole journey.
Hindcasting species climatic niches
2009-08-18
A recent paper in GEB reviews and offer new venues to predict the past distribution of species climatic niches using climate envelope models. Read More
Projected impacts of climate change on a continent-wide protected area network.
2009-08-18
A recent paper in Ecology Letters using sub-Saharan Africa's entire breeding avifauna shows that rigorously defined networks of protected areas can play a key role in mitigating the worst impacts of climate change on biodiversity. Read More
