New paper! AI will play a critical role in helping to fill the seven well-defined gaps in biodiversity knowledge: from species descriptions to their ecological roles and interactions.
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Marta was invited to give a Distinsguished Alumni lecture on biodiversity dynamics as part of the Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior program at Michigan State University.
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François joins at part of the NSF-funded Global Center on AI and Biodiversity Change. His project will explore building demographic models in a machine learning framework, and then applying these models to understand the drivers of the demographic processes for birds. We are excited to welcome François to our lab!
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The team is presenting a suite of research on the influences of 3D vegetation structure to avian diversity, ways to use LiDAR data to characterize habitat fragmentation, and obtaining continuous predictions of 3D vegetation structure from GEDI.
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Chenyang will work on the NSF-funded project to elucidate the relationships between 3D vegetation structure and avian diversity. He will use NEON and GEDI LiDAR data to quantify the multiple aspects of 3D vegetation structure, and explore how these vegetation indices drive taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic avian diversity.
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The lab travelled to Prague, Czech Republic for the 11th Biennial Conference of International Biogeography Society. We are presenting a suite of research that is currently happening in our research group. Come check our research out if you’re in Prague!
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Applications are invited for one (1) graduate student position and one (1) postdoctoral researcher position. The successful candidates will work on an NSF-funded project and conduct research in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Biodiversity Change, as part of a larger collaboration—The AI and Biodiversity Change (ABC) Global Climate Center.
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New preprint out! Juan Pablo, Stephen, and Marta have published the first continental-scale characterization of change in multiple facets of wintering bird communities over the past 50 years. Their manuscript demonstrates strong functional reorganization of wintering avifauna likely driven by changing climatic conditions.
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New grant alert! Marta is a co-PI on a newly awarded NSF project to lead a new global climate center on AI for biodiversity change. The AI and Biodiversity Change (ABC) Global Climate Center will bring together ecologists and computer scientists from six universities in the United States and Canada, with partners in UK, Europe, and Australia, to develop new AI-enabled, data-supported approaches to study how changes in climate are impacting life.
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New grant alert! Marta and collaborators—Kaiguang Zhao and Benjamin Zuckerberg—have recently been awarded a new NSF grant to investigate the avian diversity-vegetation associations. The project will explore the relationships between avian diversity and 3D heterogeneity of vegetation structure across spatial scales from local to continental.
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