Lab News

March 4, 2018
A New York Times article by EO Wilson showcases the scientific efforts of Map of Life and the Jetz Lab for the Half-Earth Project, an initiative led by a group of...
February 21, 2018
A paper in Nature by Lab graduate student Ignacio Quintero and Walter Jetz offers a new and global look at the elevational gradient in diversity and its macroevolutionary...
November 15, 2017
Work led by former Lab Postdoc Dan Rosauer (now at ANU) shows that phylogenies and species distribution data allow an effective identification of high-priority areas for...
October 23, 2017
The Map of Life team joins E.O. Wilson and the Half-Earth Project for a splendid Half-Earth Day event held at the National Geographic headquarters in DC.   Walter presenting...
July 18, 2017
A new paper,  jointly developed with Uli Brose’s group at iDiv during Walter’s sabbatical there, provides a simple scaling explanation for this long-standing...
June 1, 2017
Map of Life has released a first suite of maps that aggregate biodiversity patterns. These pages feature global biodiversity patterns based on publications in Nature and PNAS...
May 31, 2017
Our new study published in Nature (by Laura Pollock, Wilfried Thuiller, and Walter Jetz ) finds that major gains in global biodiversity can be achieved if an additional 5% of...