Lab News

New paper in TREE: Detecting the multiple facets of biodiversity
May 18, 2016
An opinion piece by postdoc Marta Jarzyna and Walter Jetz on the pitfalls of ignoring imperfect detection of species in studies of functional and phylogenetic diversity was...
Lab senior thesis student Gawain Antell wins Yale William R. Belknap prize
May 11, 2016
The award recognizes excellence in natural history studies of undergraduates in their senior year. Gawain wrote a thesis on the niche partitioning of East African hornbills....
Lab senior thesis student Rebecca Beilinson wins Yale 2016 Library Map Prize
May 11, 2016
For her research project on ‘Species Distribution Modeling of North American Odonates’, supervised by Walter Jetz and Sami Domisch. This award is conferred on a Yale College...
A global cloud atlas for predicting biodiversity and ecoystems
April 2, 2016
A study by former postdoc Adam Wilson and Walter Jetz provides a new 1km map of global cloud cover variation that provides striking insights into the fine-scale variation of...
Future Earth symposium: Global Biodiversity Monitoring
March 10, 2016
The Future Earth Cluster on ‘Global Biodiversity Monitoring, Prediction and Reporting’ symposium held its second symposium at Monte Verita Switzerland, with a strong...
New study in PLoS Biology: energy and species richness
March 2, 2016
A new paper in PLoS Biology takes a combined spatial - evolutionary perspective on how more productive locations come to harbor a greater number of species. The study is by ...
Jetz Lab team teaches workshop at the Species on the Move conference in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
February 8, 2016
Approximately 60 people participated in a workshop entitled “Bioinformatics tools to assess climate change impacts on composition and structure of ecological communities”...