March 2026 Funk Biogeography Seminar — Catherine Graham
Coming soon! Our speaker for the March 2026 installment of our Funk Biogeography Seminar series will be Catherine Graham from the Swiss Federal Institute for [...]
February 2026 Funk Biogeography Seminar — Juan Pablo Quimbayo
Scaling Marine Biodiversity: Insights from a Trait-Based Framework Marine ecosystems are shaped by complex ecological and evolutionary processes that operate across spatial scales, from fine local [...]
January 2026 Funk Biogeography Seminar — Pedro Peres-Neto
Ecology & Evolution in Spatial Structured Environments Ecological and evolutionary dynamics occur in environments that are intrinsically spatially structured, yet spatial environmental heterogeneity is often treated [...]
2026 Dissertation Awardee
The research of Aliaga Samanez spans biogeography, conservation biology, species distribution modeling, and public health. By integrating biogeography with disease ecology, she addresses urgent global challenges related to infectious [...]
2026 MacArthur & Wilson Awardee
Daru’s research leverages herbarium specimens as untapped sources of plant functional traits to explore shifting functional biogeography across ecological scales. His recent work on seagrasses, being the only [...]
2026 Alfred Russel Wallace Awardee
Mark Lomolino has made important contributions to island biogeography, especially to the concepts ‘habitat corridors’, ’small island effect’, and the species-area relationships. His dedicated support for The International [...]
2026 Alfred Russel Wallace Awardee
Michael Donoghue's conceptual creativity and impact in the field of biogeography, specifically his role in bringing “tree-thinking” to biogeography and in fostering connections between the phylogenetics community and [...]
November 2025 Funk Biogeography Seminar — Laura Pollock
Mind the Wallacean Gap: What is our strategy for improving biogeographic data? What we don't know about biogeographic data is very well-known. Studies routinely demonstrate [...]
October 2025 Funk Biogeography Seminar — Brett Scheffers
Scaling Down to Scale Up: The Role of Micro in Biogeography Complex forest vegetation creates steep vertical gradients in climate, habitat, and resources that rival [...]