Author: lajosy
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Protecting biodiversity and ecosystem services
The many values of nature: Intrinsic value reflects the high value attributed to biodiversity (e.g. species) and ecosystem functioning, independently of human presence. Cultural value reflects the high value placed on natural heritage and traditions rooted in nature (e.g. the diversity of mushroom and plant species for gathering, heritage landscapes, nature tourism). Regulating value places…
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adieu la france, bonjour le canada
So, I’m incredibly excited (and a little heartbroken!) to be finally leaving France and completing my full circle around the globe to end up back in North America. I’ll be starting as Asst. Professor in the Biology department at McGill University in Montreal this summer. It’s been an amazing journey and my life has been so…
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A great surprise to end a rollercoaster year
To cap off a crazy year, it was a fabulous surprise to find out that we won a Research Prize for our nature paper- the La Recherche Prix 2017 for the Environment category. La Recherche is a popular science magazine (similar to the New Scientist). Thanks to La Recherche for a great honour and…
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Where in the world is the unprotected diversity? New paper out in Nature
The world’s biodiversity is in crisis. Species are declining at an alarming rate. And this is happening at just the time we are really beginning to understand this diversity through an unprecedented cataloging and compiling of information. Data repositories are filled with hundreds of thousands of entries about species, where they live, how they live, and…
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Climate change threatens eucalypt diversity
We have a new paper out in Nature Climate Change that combines Species Distribution Models (SDMs), climate change and phylogenetic diversity metrics. This is very exciting as it is the first paper from our PD working group. Some highlights: -We explore the effect of climate change on various PD metrics (including endemism-based metrics) for all eucalypts…
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The tangled past of eucalypt communities
After a long road, that began with a comment, ‘Of course related eucalypts don’t coexist, most of them are distributed allopatrically, and if they do re-mix, they will hybridise anyway’.. followed by many years of field-work, lab work, running models, revisions, more revisions, even more revisions.. we came to the conclusion, that indeed, evolutionary history probably explains why closely…