Studying geo-ecosystems and the distribution of life on Earth
The Biogeography & Macroecology (BIOMAC) lab is a research group at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), the Netherlands. We are part of the Department Theoretical and Computational Ecology (TCE) within the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED). The central aim of our work is to quantify how the biotic and abiotic components of the Earth system vary across space and time, how they interact, and how responses of biodiversity to changing environmental conditions can be predicted.
The group comprises associate and assistant professors, lecturers, post-docs, students (PhD, MSc and BSc levels) and support staff. We cover a wide variety of scientific backgrounds, including macroecology, physical geography, biodiversity, geomorphology, island biogeography, geodiversity, macroevolution and global change. Please read more about our research and our teaching, have a look at our news page, or get in touch with our lab members.
Onstein, R.E., Baker, W.J., Couvreur, T.L.P., Faurby, S., Svenning, J.-C. & Kissling, W.D. (2017): Frugivory-related traits promote speciation of tropical palms. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1: 1903–1911. [ABSTRACT] [DATA & CODE] [PRESS RELEASE] [BLOG]
Norder, S.J., Baumgartner, J.B., Borges, P.A.V., Hengl, T., Kissling, W.D., van Loon, E.E. & Rijsdijk, K.F. (2018): A global spatially explicit database of changes in island paleo-area and archipelago configuration during the late Quaternary. Global Ecology and Biogeography (in press). [ABSTRACT] [DATA]
Heinen, J.H., van Loon, E.E., Hansen, D.M. & Kissling, W.D. (2018): Extinction-driven changes in frugivore communities on oceanic islands. Ecography (in press). [ABSTRACT] [BLOG]
Seijmonsbergen A.C., De Jong M.G.G., Hagendoorn B., Oostermeijer J.G.B., Rijsdijk K.F. (2018): Geodiversity mapping in alpine areas, p. 155-170. In: Hoorn C., Perrigo A. & Antonelli A. (eds.): Mountains, climate and biodiversity. 544 pp. Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN: 978-1-119-15987-2. [TABLE OF CONTENTs OF BOOK]
Davidson, M.D. (2017). Equity and the conservation of global ecosystem services. Sustainability 9: 339. [ABSTRACT]
2018-03-19
A new paper from the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) shows how we can achieve monitoring of global biodiversity change.
2018-03-12
GloBI, an open infrastructure, allows to share your species interaction datasets in an interoperable way.
2018-02-26
The fourth workshop of the Horizon 2020 project GLOBIS-B was held in Bari, Italy, with >50 participants from all over the world.
2018-02-24
Our new publication in Global Ecology & Biogeography provides data on sea level-driven palaeo-geography changes on islands worldwide.
2018-01-13
Our Postdoc Renske Onstein has been offered a junior research group leader position at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) in Leipzig, Germany. Congratulations!
In the last three years the EU funded project GLOBIS-B (global infrastructures for supporting biodiversity research) has explored together with global research infrastructures the feasibility of a common approach for the large-scale production of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) in support of scientifically based indicators of biodiversity change. On 8-9 May 2018, a high-level policy workshop will be held in Amsterdam to discuss and agree on recommendations for producing EBV data products.
the European Network of Palm Scientists annual meeting (EUNOPS 2018) will be held from 12-13th May 2018 at the Gothenburg Botanical Garden, Göteborg, Sweden. It will allow to exchange information on palm research and to promote integration and collaboration among palm researchers in Europe.
The 16th Islands of the World Conference 2018 (ISISA2018) with focus on the changing futures of islands will take place from 10–14 June 2018 in Leeuwarden and Terschelling (the Netherlands). Conference webpage.
The GEOBIA 2018 conference will be held from 18-22 June 2018 in Montpellier, France. It will gather scientists, professionals and users, from academia, industry, the public sector and government from all over the world. Topics will include big data integration, open sources solution, cloud analyses, semantic and knowledge integration, with focus on object-based image analysis.
The second joint congress on Evolutionary Biology (Evolution 2018 Montpellier), gathering the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), the American Society of Naturalists (ASN), the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB) will be held from 19-22 August 2018 in Montpellier, France. The meeting will bring together evolutionary biologists from four of the world's largest academic societies in this field.
The INQUA-PAGES conference for early-career researchers on 'Impacts of sea-level rise from past to present' will be held from 26-29 August 2018, Utrecht, the Netherlands. It will facilitate scientific exchange between early-career researchers (ECRs) from a broad range of disciplines working with sea-level change.
The 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics (ICEI2018) will be held from 24-28 September 2018 in Jena, Germany. It will bring together researchers interested in data-intensive ecology – both from an ecological and a computer science point of view.
BIOMAC contact
Dr. W.D. (Daniel) Kissling
Email: wdkissling@gmail.com
Phone: +31 (0)20 525 8423
Postal address
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED)
P.O. Box 94248, 1090 GE Amsterdam
The Netherlands
