Hikaru, Marta and Reymond travelled to Denmark for the 2026 bi-annual meeting of The International Biogeography Society.
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Chenyang presents two talks at the 2025 AGU conference. First, he shared his ongoing research on linking bird occurrence to vertical vegetation structure across the United States. In his second talk, he stepped in for Colin Sweeney, who was unable to attend, to present our collaborative work comparing airborne laser scanning (ALS) and GEDI LiDAR in their ability to capture vegetation structure and its effects on bird diversity. Way to go, Chenyang!
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Collaborators from The Ohio State University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology met in Columbus to review progress and plan future work. This NSF-funded project aims to understand how vegetation complexity—quantified using LiDAR—shapes the assembly of bird communities. We had a great time brainstorming new ideas and developing exciting directions for future projects.
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Reymond has successfully defended his Masters thesis on seasonal variation in avian functional distinctiveness across the globe. His work delves into what makes bird species unique at both local and global scales, how these species-level distinctiveness values affect assemblage-level distinctiveness, and how this all changes across seasons. Congrats, Reymond! You made us proud!
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Marta and François travelled to Bogotá for the Living Data conference that brings together members of biodiversity networks, alongside hundreds of scientists, researchers, practitioners and other experts from around the world.
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Marta was invited to give a seminar on avian diversity dynamics as part of the Department of Biology seminar series at the University of Miami.
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Marta and Reymond travelled to Baltimore for the 2025 annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America.
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Chenyang and Hikaru taught a module at the Data Science Summer Camp organized by Ohio State University’s Translational Data Analytics Institute.
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To celebrate Colin’s dissertation defense, we went to a local game cafe and played (what else!) Wingspan. Colin might be a Dr. now, but it was not enough to beat Marta. Congratulations again to Colin on his graduation!
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Colin has skillfully defended his PhD dissertation on harnessing the power of LiDAR technology to quantify 3D habitat structure and understand its impacts on biodiversity. We are so proud of him!
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New paper! Marta and collaborators published a new paper on the need to prioritize the study of Regional Species Pools.
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Marta and collaborators hold a panel on AI and Biodiversity change at the World Bank
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New paper! Colin, Marta, and collaborators published a new paper on the relationships between LiDAR-derived 3D vegetation structure and the multiple dimensions of avian diversity.
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New preprint! André, Reymond, and Marta publish a global-scale assessment of the seasonality of dietary space and its environmental drivers. We show strong seasonal variation in birds’ dietary space at both the assemblage and species levels globally, with the most pronounced intra-annual dietary shifts occurring in the temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
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New paper! In this review, we explore how ecological niche modeling has contributed to understanding the spatiotemporal distribution of past biodiversity and past ecological and evolutionary processes.
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Chenyang wins 1st place for his oral presentation at the Hayes Advanced Research Forum in the Biological, Life, Health Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering category . We are so proud!
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Leah presented her undergraduate thesis research on the effects of urbanization on avian diversity across the Midwest.
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Chenyang presented his amazing work on GEDI-Informed characterization of vegetation structure in Eastern North America.
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Colin was recognized for his poster presentation on exploring ways in which LiDAR data can be used to quantify habitat fragmentation and edge effects. So well deserved!
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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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