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Fields of interest:

• biogeography
• conservation biology
• global change biology
• macroecology
• species distribution modelling

Recent publications:

Araújo, M.B., Thuiller, W. & Yoccoz, N.G. 2009. Re-opening the climate envelope reveals macroscale associations with climate in European birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. E45-46

Araújo, M.B. and New, M. 2007. Ensemble forecasting of species distributions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22:42-47

Willis, K.J., Araújo, M.B., Bennett, K.D., Figueroa-Rangel, B., Froyd, C.A. & Meyers, N. 2007. How can a knowledge of the past help to conserve the future? Biodiversity conservation strategies and the relevance of long-term ecological studies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society – Biological Sciences 362: 175-186

Araújo, M.B. & Guisan, A. 2006. Five (or so) challenges for species distribution modelling. Journal of Biogeography 33: 1677-1688

Araújo, M.B. and Rahbek, C. 2006. How does climate change affect biodiversity? Science 313: 1396-1397

Araújo, M.B., Thuiller, W., & Pearson, R.G. 2006. Climate warming and the decline of amphibians and reptiles in Europe. Journal of Biogeography 33: 1712-1728

Araújo, M.B., Pearson, R.G., Thuiller, W., and Erhard, M. 2005. Validation of species-climate impact models under climate change. Global Change Biology 11: 1504-1513

Araújo, M.B., Whittaker, R.J., Ladle, R.J. and Erhard, M. 2005. Reducing uncertainty in extinction risk from climate change. Global Ecology and Biogeography 14: 529-538

Nogués-Bravo, D., Araújo, M.B., Romdal, T., and Rahbek, C. 2008. Scale effects and human impact on the elevational species richness gradients. Nature 453:216-220

Nogués-Bravo, D., Rodríguez, J., Hortal, J., Batra, P. & Araújo, M.B. 2008. Climate change, humans, and the extinction of the mammoth. PLOS Biology. 6: e79. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060079