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 [...]
September 2025 Funk Biogeography Seminar — Brian McGill
Species ranges: fundamental ecological units or intractable complexity? Several have argued that the geographic range of a species is a fundamental unit of biogeography and [...]
July 2025 Funk Biogeography Seminar — Mario R. Moura
Uncovering the Blind Spots in Biodiversity Data The gaps in our understanding of biodiversity have long been recognized as a critical challenge. These knowledge shotfalls [...]
June 2025 Funk Biogeography Seminar — Jamie M. Kass
Addressing Wallacean shortfalls for understudied taxa with species distribution models There is now a wealth of open data on species distributions, but taxonomic biases in [...]
May 2025 Funk Biogeography Seminar — Jacqulyne Gill
Megafaunal diets reveal top-down mechanisms of ecological resilience on the Pleistocene mammoth steppe While there is a growing appreciation of the role that large herbivores play [...]