Lab News

July 27, 2021
The idea of the niche has been the cornerstone of ecology: the set of environmental conditions that a species can live and reproduce in determines the outcome of the...
May 13, 2021
Traditional naming practices when naming new species have generally Latinized personal names using Latin grammatical gender, adding the suffixes -i to identify species...
April 29, 2021
In a study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution research associate Dirk Karger, two expert botanists and Walter Jetz teamed up to show that despite significant...
March 23, 2021
A study  published in Nature Ecology & Evolution by Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change scientists Mario Moura and Walter Jetz puts yet to be discovered...
February 23, 2021
  A new study led by BGC PhD student Diego Ellis Soto and BGC Director Walter Jetz in Ecography a continental scale view of hummingbird diversity. By borrowing strength...
October 23, 2020
Did you miss Half-Earth Day? Not to worry! Watch highlights from the events that featured BGC below:   Putting Species on the Map The fate of species and their many...
October 15, 2020
Join Us for Half-Earth Day right from your own home!  Register here! Half-Earth Day® brings together people from around the world and across disciplines to share their unique...