Welcome

Our work is interdisciplinary and combines elements of biogeography, community ecology, landscape ecology, macroecology, global change ecology, evolution, comparative biology, biodiversity informatics and conservation. We use mostly terrestrial vertebrates and plants as study systems. In its sum, our research attempts to integrate across scales of geography and ecological organization - from global to local assemblages.

Lab News

Essential Biodiversity Variables


Fri, 01/18/2013

Walter Jetz and others have published a paper in Science outlining the need to develop Essential Biodiversity Variables [1]. EBVs facilitate the...

Downscaling of species distribution models: a hierarchical approach


Tue, 11/27/2012

Lab post-docs Petr Keil and Adam Wilson, along with Walter Jetz published a paper on hierarchical Bayesian models and downscaling in Methods in Ecology and Evolution...

The global diversity of birds in space and time


Thu, 11/15/2012

Walter Jetz and others published [1] the most comprehensive family tree for birds to date, connecting all living bird...