TIBS Newsletter – Autumn 2026
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Training Course — Beyond binary maps: fuzzy logic for threshold-free estimates of diversity, similarity and change
Moderator: Dr A. Márcia BarbosaDatesDay 1: Tuesday, February 16, 14:00-16:30 UTCDay 2: Wednesday, February 17, 14:00-16:30 UTCDescription:Species have continually changing distributions, and they occur with varying frequency across space. Categorical occurrence maps, whether observed or model-derived, are thus incomplete and oversimplified representations of species’ actual distributions. Moreover, categorical occurrence derived from model predictions normally relies [...]
Training Course — Take your species distribution models to the next level with Bayesian non-parametric regression trees
Moderator: Dr A. Márcia Barbosa Dates:Day 1: Tuesday, December 15, 14:00-16:30 UTCDay 2: Wednesday, December 16, 14:00-16:30 UTCDay 3: Thursday, December 17, 14:00-16:30 UTC Description:Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) are a powerful machine learning technique with very promising applications in ecology and biogeography in general, and in species distribution modelling (SDM) in particular. BART [...]
Training Course — Strategic Coding Practices: Reproducible Coding For Large Open-Ended Projects
Moderator: Dr. Nicholas J. Gotelli Dates Day 1: Wednesday, October 14, 14:00-16:00 UTC + 17:00–19:00 UTC Day 2: Thursday, October 15, 14:00-16:00 UTC Description: Most researchers know how to write a script of computer code to execute a relatively simple set of instructions. But this kind of coding quickly becomes slow, inefficient, and not [...]
October 2026 Funk Biogeography Seminar – I-Ching Chen
The Moving Baseline: Global Biodiversity Redistribution and the Paradigms It Leaves Behind Check back soon! Keep an eye on our social medias and e-mail feed to get the latest updates. BlueSky Facebook Register here! In the meantime, learn more about our speaker... National [...]
September 2026 Funk Biogeography Seminar – Fangliang He
Are rare species maintained by stronger NDD? A still-unresolved problem A central focus in ecology is identifying mechanisms that maintain species diversity, particularly the coexistence of rare and common species. Substantial empirical evidence shows that rare species experience stronger negative density dependence than common species. This result is inconsistent with classical [...]
Postdoc position in Landscape Ecology & Biodiversity Science, University of Potsdam
The Landscape Ecology Group at the University of Potsdam invites applications for a 3-year postdoctoral position (100%, TV-L 13), starting as soon as possible. We work at the interface of biodiversity science, trait-based and functional ecology, spatial/community ecology, and quantitative modelling, aiming to understand and predict biodiversity patterns across spatial scales. The position offers [...]
August 2026 Funk Biogeography Seminar – Carlos Daniel Cadena
The origin and fate of megadiversity: A look from the northern Andes Northern South America harbors an extraordinary share of the world's biological diversity, and explaining how that diversity came to be has long occupied biogeographers. This talk brings together two lines of work in my lab on how tropical [...]
TIBS Newsletter – Summer 2026
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July 2026 Funk Biogeography Seminar – Mark Costello
Revisiting generality in the global latitudinal gradient in species richness across ocean and land (and the 20°C effect) Recent discoveries show that the global latitudinal gradient in marine species richness is bimodal, peaking in mid-latitudes (not at the equator as commonly believed). The dip at the equator has been getting [...]