The idea of the niche has been the cornerstone of ecology: the set of environmental conditions that a species can live and reproduce in determines the outcome of the...
The Max Planck-Yale Center for Biodiversity Movement and Global Change is hosting a virtual mini-conference to foster engagement and connect communities across the partner...
Ecological theory predicts that fragmentation (the breaking apart of contiguous habitat) should have negative impacts on biodiversity beyond what can be explained by a...
Abstract: The global expansion of human activity has had profound consequences for wildlife. Research has documented the effects of habitat destruction and defaunation on...
Species distribution models (SDMs) are used to estimate organisms’ climate niches and potential distributions. They are one of the most widely used tools in studying many of...
The Symposium entitled “Research and infrastructure to track and sustain animal movements and lives in a changing world”, originally scheduled to take place at Yale...
Ruth’s research involves developing innovative computational methods to analyze large data sets to determine how global biodiversity responds to environmental change.
As a...
