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.
Read MoreReymond 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!
Read MoreMarta 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.
Read MoreMarta was invited to give a seminar on avian diversity dynamics as part of the Department of Biology seminar series at the University of Miami.
Read MoreMarta and Reymond travelled to Baltimore for the 2025 annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America.
Read MoreChenyang and Hikaru taught a module at the Data Science Summer Camp organized by Ohio State University’s Translational Data Analytics Institute.
Read MoreTo 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!
Read MoreColin 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!
Read MoreNew paper! Marta and collaborators published a new paper on the need to prioritize the study of Regional Species Pools.
Read MoreMarta and collaborators hold a panel on AI and Biodiversity change at the World Bank
Read MoreNew 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.
Read MoreNew 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.
Read MoreNew 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.
Read MoreChenyang 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!
Read MoreLeah presented her undergraduate thesis research on the effects of urbanization on avian diversity across the Midwest.
Read MoreChenyang presented his amazing work on GEDI-Informed characterization of vegetation structure in Eastern North America.
Read MoreColin 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!
Read MoreNew 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.
Read MoreMarta was invited to give a Distinsguished Alumni lecture on biodiversity dynamics as part of the Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior program at Michigan State University.
Read MoreFrançois 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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