Lab News

Lab senior thesis student Gwen Antell wins Yale William R. Belknap prize
May 11, 2016
The award recognizes excellence in natural history studies of undergraduates in their senior year. Gwen wrote her 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”...
New lab paper on near-global freshwater environmental variables
December 12, 2015
A new study by Sami Domisch, Giuseppe Amatulli and Walter Jetz in Scientific Data provide near-global and contiguous freshwater environmental variables on a 1 km spatial...