Events

Phytoplankton form the foundation of the marine food web and play a central role in the global carbon cycle. Their diverse morphological, genetic, physiological, and ecological traits contribute to the […]

Admixture from other hominin groups such as Neanderthals and Denisovans has played an important role in shaping the genetic diversity among human populations. Meanwhile, genomic characterization of present-day human populations […]

 Extreme climate events pose an increasing threat to natural and human ecosystems, especially when they co-occur, amplifying the effect of stand-alone events. In this seminar, insights regarding the compound occurrence […]

The Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis, is an obligate hematophagous ectoparasite of vertebrate hosts, including humans. As a vector of diverse pathogens, including severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV), […]

The talk “Primary Dispersal of Humans, Climate Change, and Megamammal Extinctions in the Americas at the End of the Pleistocene” will address what could be considered the first event of the Anthropocene: the widespread extinction […]

Deforestation in the Amazon has been predicted to cause irreversible forest dieback, primarily due to significant reductions in mean precipitation driven by decreased evapotranspiration. However, these results are based on […]

In the first part of the talk, I’ll give an overview of the current knowledge of tropical cyclones (TCs) trends.  I’ll discuss recent trends of  TC frequency in the last […]