Published: Sep 11th, 2018
By Jessica Whelpley By Stephenie Livingston/UF News “The deep sea is a harsh, otherworldly environment few humans get the chance to see. That is, without advanced technology. This month, University of […]
Published: Sep 7th, 2018
By Diego A. García Olaechea When one thinks of tropical forests, often the first thing that comes to mind is the exuberant and lush rainforests that served as inspiration for the adventures of Tarzan and […]
Published: Aug 27th, 2018
By Julie T. Shapiro On July 24th, the Biodiversity Institute hosted Prof. Anders J. Hansen. Prof. Hansen is the Director of Research at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, professor at the […]
Published: Jul 19th, 2018
This past March-April 2018, QuestaGame held a new annual competition, “University bioQuest: Universities Prepare for Global Competition to Map Nature.” The competition was part of a mobile gaming […]
Published: Jul 16th, 2018
*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT Biodiversity Institute Quarterly Newsletter Summer 2018 Top Stories in this Newsletter UFBI & IFAS 2nd Annual Symposium: Collaborations in Biodiversity Research The UF Biodiversity Institute (UFBI), in concert […]
Published: Jul 16th, 2018
By Julie T. Shapiro You might not have heard of coronaviruses, but maybe you have heard of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) and MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome). These two diseases were […]
Published: May 31st, 2018
By Xavier Haro Carrion I study tropical ecosystems and when discussing climate change and its implications for tropical ecosystems I am used to talk about the potential savanization of Amazonia, the loss […]
Published: May 15th, 2018
By Farah Carrasco-Rueda There are around 1300 species of bats in the world. In the Neotropics, approximately half of the bat species cannot be captured using mist-nets because the bats […]
Published: Apr 11th, 2018
Students Use Phones to Help Protect Biodiversity UNIVERSITIES PREPARE FOR GLOBAL COMPETITION TO MAP NATURE The competition throughout April, the University bioQuest, is part of a mobile gaming app […]
Published: Mar 14th, 2018
By Jonathan Spoelhof When reading about biodiversity, it’s common to find a sentence like this: “There are an estimated 352,000 species of flowering plants, or angiosperms1”. It’s also common to […]