Macroecology of the Anthropocene in the Morueta-Holme Group
The group explores the role of humans and natural drivers on biodiversity change from local to global scales.
Our research focuses on the drivers of species distributions, composition, and diversity, the impacts of anthropogenic environmental change, and the development of predictive models of biodiversity across spatial scales. We use a combination of field resurveys, remote sensing, functional ecology, historical data, genomics, and modeling to try to understand and predict “what grows where and why in the Anthropocene”. In particular, we are interested in disentangling the influence of climate and land use change on biodiversity. A strong motivation behind our research is to promote science-based biodiversity conservation.
- Davison, Rahbek & Morueta‐Holme (2024) Changes in Danish bird communities over four decades of climate and land‐use change. Oikos, 2024(12), e10697.
- Morueta-Holme et al. (2024) Unlocking ground-based imagery for habitat mapping. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 39(4), 349–358.
- Davison, Rahbek & Morueta‐Holme N (2021) Land‐use change and biodiversity: Challenges for assembling evidence on the greatest threat to nature. Global Change Biology, 27(21), 5414–5429.
- Morueta-Holme & Svenning (2018) Geography of plants in the New World: Humboldt’s relevance in the age of Big Data. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 103: 315–29.
- Morueta-Holme et al. (2015) Strong upslope shifts in Chimborazo’s vegetation over two centuries since Humboldt. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 112 (41): 12741–45
See full list of publications by Naia Morueta-Holme
Our research is currently funded by a DFF Sapere Aude grant “ATEMPO: Anthropogenic impacts on Temporal Biodiversity Change” and Villum Young Investigator grant “DORA: Drivers of biOdiversity change through Resurveys in the Anthropocene”.
Group Members
| Name | Title | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maj Sofie Paornak D Christensen | PhD Fellow | +4535331585 | |
| Naia Morueta-Holme | Associate Professor | +4535335329 |
| Name | Title | ||
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| Carlos González-Orozco | Visiting Researcher | ||