Lab News

October 8, 2019
Walter Jetz and members of the Yale team represented Map of Life research at this packed whole-day event. Highlight was an evening that included contributions by former...
June 12, 2019
“Life imitates Art,” was the bold claim of Oscar Wilde, “more than Art imitates Life”. However, what if Art imitates the Tree of Life?  That question was pursued by Jetz Lab...
May 10, 2019
NPR’s ‘Science Friday’ covered our involvment in the UN Biodiversity Report (IPBES Global Assessment) and our work on predicting amphibian extinction risk.  Listen to...
May 6, 2019
Frogs already knew it wasn’t easy being green, but the going just got a lot tougher for the 1,012 additional species of amphibians who have now been newly identified as at...
April 16, 2019
Brett Jesmer, a postdoctoral associate with the Max-Planck Yale Center for Biodiversity Movement and Global Change, is the 2019 recipient of the prestigious George Mercer...
March 27, 2019
The outcome of a multi-year process developing a framework addressing Species Population Essential Biodiversity Variables is now published: Jetz, W., M. A. McGeoch, R....
March 4, 2019
Powers and Jetz use global decadal land-use projections to year 2070 for a range of shared socioeconomic pathways, to reveal important spatial and categorical insight into...