Marius Somveille
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Tel: 336676 Position: PhD Student |
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Research
The ecology and evolution of bird migration
Nearly one in five bird species have different breeding and overwintering grounds, and their regular migrations cause a significant redistribution of avian diversity across the world. However, despite its ecological importance, bird migration has been mostly ignored in global studies of avian biodiversity.
The aim of my PhD is to advance understanding of bird migration using a macroecological approach. I am interested in answering the following questions: (a) what are the global macroecological patterns of migratory birds diversity; and, (b) what are the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that underpin those patterns?
Answering those questions will involve quantifying the macroecological patterns using a new global dataset collected by BirdLife International, as well as using various modelling approaches, including species distribution modelling and spatially-explicit mechanistic modelling of synthetic bird communities across a heterogeneous space.
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