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We are pleased to announce that the call for abstracts for TiBE 2024 is now open.

African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) are unique and crucial inhabitants of the Congo rainforest in Central Africa, with smaller populations in West Africa....

The 13th edition of the annual Trends in Biodiversity and Evolution (TiBE) Conference, organized by CIBIO, will be held as part of the TROPIBIO project from December 4th to 6th...

Max’ fascination with invertebrates – ranging from centipedes to spiders to scorpions and insects – began at an early age, earning him the title of a self-proclaimed...

Through seven years of dedicated research, Luke L. Powell and colleagues have shed light on the fascinating interactions between birds and driver ants (Dorylus sp.) in the lush...

Last October, TROPIBIO teamed up with the Tropical Biology Association (TBA) embarking on a journey to Guinea-Bissau with the mission to train the next generation of...

Ana Malhado, Luana Santos and Karoline Azevedo participated in the VII International Environmental Education Congress in Portuguese-Speaking Countries and Communities, held in...

Ana Malhado, Luana Santos, and Karoline Azevedo, from the Tropibio project, met with professors e researchers from Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) in Mozambique on July 2023...

Richard Ladle and Ana Malhado are participants in the project "Plastic oceans: Monitoring the plastic production chain integrating disposal and recycling strategies to tackle...

Luke L. Powell hosted an Invited Seminar in Biodiversity and Evolution in CIBIO on the Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program: Unlocking Biodiversity Research and Conservation...

Richard Ladle travelled to Madrid, Spain, on May 24th for a meeting with Tropibio collaborator, Dr. Joaquín Hortal, at the Natural History Museum.

Tropibio researcher Fernanda Alves Martins delivered the third edition of the 30-hour Course on Structural Equations Modeling for Ecology from 15-17th of May for post-graduated...

TROPIBIO and TBA invite applicants for Fieldcourse in Ecology and Conservation to be held in Guinea Bissau from 16 to 27 of October, 2023.

TROPIBIO e TBA convidam para Curso de Campo em Ecologia e Conservação que será realizado Guiné-Bissau, em outubro de 2023.

The TROPIBIO researcher Raquel Vasconcelos attended in May the ‘Flora and Natural Resources of the Cabo Verde Islands Symposium’, in Cabo Verde.

ERA Chair Richard Ladle delivered the Plenary Talk on Reconnecting Societies with Nature at BIODIV Annual Meeting 2023.

Luke L. Powell hosted the seminar The effect of agricultural management on bird communities in tropical Africa: implications for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem...

Claudia Malhado was a monitor at the science dissemination fair "Mostra UP 2023”

Fernanda Martins and Javier Arribas will be delivering the course on Structural Equation Models (SEM) from 27-29 March 2023 in CIBIO.

Tropibio team published a new paper entitled Eponyms have no place in 21st-century biological nomenclature at Nature Ecology and Evolution

From February 27th to March 3rd, the CIBIO organized its first Advanced course on Ecological Networks, organized by Ana Filipa Palmeirim.

On Friday 3rd March, Tropibio hosted an invited seminar in biodiversity and evolution titled "Eco-evolutionary aspects of species interactions through the lens of networks."

New Book "Strategic Opportunism: What Works in Africa" by Brian John Huntley presents lessons learned from six major conservation and research projects across ten African...

Filipa Palmeirim will be delivering the course INTRODUCTION TO NETWORK ECOLOGY from 27 February to 3rd March 2023 in CIBIO.

TROPIBIO project has launched a new site on GitHub to enhance collaboration among researchers and the wider scientific community.

TROPIBIO project invites to the roundtable on How to ensure good practices when doing fieldwork in the tropics. On February 3rd, 2023 at 3:30pm (WEST).

The Tropibio project hosted on 3rd of February a roundtable discussion on how to ensure good practices when doing fieldwork in the tropics.

Mariana Carvalho and Rosie Trevelyan, visited Tropibio in February to co-organize a fieldwork course aimed at training 20 students from the PALOP and CIBIO

Claudia Malhado has enrolled in Ignition PBS's professional development courses to enhance her skills and knowledge in the field.

A new book titled "Ecology of Angola: Terrestrial Biomes and Ecoregions" by Brian John Huntley and published by Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland is now available.

The ERA Chair, Richard Ladle, gave a talk entitled "Biodiversity Ignorance" at the Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona in January 2023.

Richard Ladle visited Professor Daniel Brockington at the Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona in January 2023

Claudia Malhado had a new project entitled "Conservation with Innovation and Art: New Horizons for Seeing the Sea" approved in January 2023.

The Tropibio team met online with the EC project officer and EC expert to present progress made up to September 2022 on the Tropibio project and to discuss future plans for...

Jr. Researcher Anna Ludmilla da Costa-Pinto from Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) visited CIBIO in November and December 2022

Richard Ladle, and Ana Malhado visited Federal University of Alagoas to strengthen collaborations with students, researchers and coordinators in December 2022.

The ERA Chair Richard Ladle gave a talk at the University of Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil in December.

Tropibio team visited Guinea-Bissau in October-December 2022 with the aim to strengthen relationships with local partners.

Three Tropibio early researchers took part of Tropibio expedition to Guinea Bissau in 2022 to conduct fieldwork and develop their research projects.

Junior researcher Thainá Lessa and Fernanda Alves Martins met with Geiziane Tessarolo to learn about the Biogeographic Ignorance Maps (MoBIs) methodology in Goiania, in...

A new project entitled "Harnessing iEcology and culturomics to advance invasion science" has been funded and will run for three years.

PhD student Ludmilla da Costa Pinto gave a talk about bats for a School in Póvoa de Varzim, on 24 November 2022.

Filipa Palmeirim gave a talk about biodiversity to students in a School in Labruge, Porto, on 23 November 2022.

Dr Joaquin Hortal and Dr Juliana Stropp visited CIBIO for a week-long research secondment on the 14-18th November 2022.

TROPIBIO invites to the Workshop: Biodiversity, Knowledge and Ignorance: on November 16, 2022 at 3pm (GMT+1/WEST). The speakers are Joaquin Hortal, and Juliana Stropp from ...

TROPIBIO project delivered the Workshop on Biodiversity, Knowledge and Ignorance: on November 16, 2022 at CIBIO and online.

On the 8-11th of November the ERA Chair, Richard Ladle, gave a course on Biodiversity and Conservation Management (BCM) to 21 students from CIBIO’s BioDiv Programme.

During the TROPIBIO team's trip to Guinea-Bissau in 2022, Tropibio researcher Ana Filipa Palmeirim gave a lecture on wildlife survey techniques at the Universidade Lusofona da...

Tropibio researcher led the expedition that described a new species of owl from Príncipe Island, Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe.

Richard Ladle joins advisory board of the ERC CONDJUST project and Dan Brockington joins the ERA Chair Board

Tropibio member edited an open access book about Biodiversity of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands on Science and Conservation, the book is now out and available for download.

Tropibio and TBA met to discuss the Tropibio fieldcourse in Guinea Bissau 2023.

Raquel Vasconcelos gave classes on Biogeography to students of Wildlife Management and Tourism course, University of Namibia, Katima Mulilo Campus in October 2022.

Claudia Malhado participated on the “Coffee with science" seminar series organized by CIIMAR entitled Promoting environmental awareness and preserving biodiversity through...

PhD Student, Sonia Llorente-Culebras, from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, visited CIBIO in October, 2022.

TROPIBIO project invites to the roundtable:TROPIBIO virtual roundtable on the declines of avian insectivores inhabiting tropical rainforest on October 7, 2022 at 3pm...

TROPIBIO organized a roundtable on the declines of avian insectivores inhabiting tropical rainforest on October 7, 2022.

Richard Ladle and Tropibio collaborators present a video abstract and a podcast illustrating research on biogeographical ignorance within biodiversity modelling

Richard Ladle had a new project to train four young Brazilian researchers in Europe for six months approved.

Daniel Velarde, a Junior Researcher from CIBIO-BIOPOLIS, recently embarked on a transformative journey to São Tomé and Príncipe as part of a collaborative project between...

The ERA Chair, Richard Ladle attended a special workshop to discuss a proposal for the upcoming EC Cost Action.

The ERA Chair, Richard Ladle attended the ECCB conference hosted at the Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, from the 22-26th August 2022.

Luke L Powell (the TROPIBIO Principal Researcher) visited Equatorial Guinea during the 3rd of July and the 8th of August, 2022.

João Gaia Almeida, a student from the Federal University of Alagoas, attended the 2022 Marine Robotics Summer School, in the Azores, and visited CIBIO in July 2022.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers, PhD students and Tropibio technician visited São Tomé from 10 to 28 July to conduct research fieldwork within the subproject...

Members of the TROPIBIO team visited the National Agrarian Research and Development Institute and the University of Cabo Verde on the Island of Santiago on the Cabo Verde...

Tropibio, the Technical University of the Atlantic, GBIF Portugal, and the Higher Institute of Agronomy delivered the Fieldcourse Advanced training in biodiversity data...

Tropibio, the Technical University of the Atlantic, GBIF Portugal, and the Higher Institute of Agronomy call for applicants to the Fieldcourse Advanced training in biodiversity...

Tropibio researcher Raquel Vasconcelos delivered a training course on reptiles on São Vicente and Santa Luzia islands, Cabo Verde in July 2022

Members of the TROPIBIO team visited the headquarters of the Projeto Vitó Association on the Island of Fogo on the Cabo Verde archipelago.

Tropibio invite for the roundtable The potential of social media for Conservation Ecology on June 23rd at 15:30h (GMT+1/ WEST)

The TROPIBIO team organized a thought-provoking roundtable on June 23, 2022, to discuss the potential of social media for Conservation Ecology.

LineekelaOmwene Tuhafeni Nauyoma, a Junior Researcher in Wildlife Management and Conservation at the University of Namibia (UNAM), embarked on an enriching research journey by...

Tropibio, Twinlabs and FCT invite for the live broadcast of the EU-Africa cooperation workshop on 7th of June 2022 at 9 am (GMT+1)

Tropibio, Twinlabs and FCT delivered the live broadcast of the EU-Africa cooperation workshop on 7th of June 2022.

Tropibio and Taxon-time projects invite to two webinars on Preparing an application for the Marie Curie post-doctoral fellowship in June 2022

Tropibio researcher Raquel Vasconcelos delivered a training course on reptiles on Santiago, Cabo Verde in June 2022

Tropibio delivered two webinars to early career researchers on Preparing an application for the Marie Curie post-doctoral fellowship in June 2022.

The ERA Chair Richard Ladle gave a talk at the Spring Seminar of CIBIO in the Azores in May 2022

Quentin Hazard a master student from the TROPIMUNDO programme visited Tropibio team in April and May 2022

Tropibio junior researcher Laura Torrent delivered a workshop about Bats Ecology in Equatorial Guinea in May 2022.

Tropibio researcher Fernanda Alves Martins delivered an online Course on Structural Equations Modeling for Ecology from 16-19 of May for students in Brazil.

Richard Ladle met with Professor Rosie Trevelyan and with Professor Jorge Palmeirim, two of the members of the ERA Chair Board.

Ricardo Correia from Helsinki University met with the Tropibio team to discuss research and collaborations

Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva delivered a Workshop in Guinea-Bissau on Conservation Genetics and Research Methods in April 2022

Ana Margarida Santos and Sonia Llorente-Culebras from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid met with the Tropibio team to discuss research and collaborations.

Tropibio visitor Ana Margarida Santos made an oral presentation about Island Biogeography at CIBIO.

Tropibio visitor junior researcher Sonia Llorente-Culebras made an oral presentation about her PhD research at CIBIO.

Ana Claudia Malhado and Fernanda Alves-Martins were monitors at the science dissemination fair “Mostra UP” organized by the University of Porto.

Luke L. Powell delivered an invited seminar entitled The Birds, the Bees and the African Chocolate Trees at Tufts University, USA.

Mount Moco, Angola - A new conservation project titled "Establishing a conservation area at Mount Moco: protecting Angolan Afromontane forest to benefit biodiversity and...

Two Tropibio junior researchers participated of the Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS) in Cambridge. UK, event organized by Cambridge University and Tropical...

Tropibio team members and FCT team member had a meeting to discuss ideas and collaborations for organizing Public training events on EU-Africa Cooperation

Felipe Alexandre Vieira a doctoral student from the Federal University of Alagoas visited Tropibio team in March 2022

Tropibio junior researcher Felipe A Santos from Brazil made an oral presentation about his research at CIBIO.

Tropibio Field technician Patricia Guedes attended the Advanced course- Methods in Research synthesis: Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis. Organized by CIBIO/BIOPOLIS.

The Tropibio team and Professor Jeremy Searle discussed ongoing research and potential for new collaborations with Cornell University

Martim Melo (a CIBIO/BIOPOLIS participant in TROPIBIO) attended the Southern African Mountain Conference (SAMC) in Cathkin Park/Drakensberg, SA from 14th – 17th of March.

Tropibio team members participated of the Public Conference organized by the European Universities with the main theme: a new dynamic for the Europe-Africa partnership?

An expedition organized by the TROPIBIO project ventured into Guinea Bissau from February 10th to March 1st, 2022, with the aim of studying and documenting the biodiversity of...

Tropibio junior researcher Laura Torrent Alsina made an oral presentation about her phD thesis project at CIBIO.

Richard Ladle took part in the roundtable “Conservation culturomics: an innovative approach to human-nature interactions” together with Sofia Vaz (CIBIO-InBIO) and Ricardo...

Tropibio member Raquel Vasconcelos host Dr Evandro Lopes from the Technical University of the Atlantic, Cabo Verde (UTA) to discuss research and collaborations.

Richard Ladle met with Prof. Joaquín Hortal and Dr Juliana Stropp in the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain

The TROPIBIO team attended on-line sessions of the AERAP Africa-Europe Science Collaboration Platform at the EU-AU Summit 2022 in February 2022.

Richard Ladle and Claudia Malhado met with Professor Ana Costa at CIBIO Azores to discuss research and outreach activities

Tropibio junior researcher Cristian Pizzigalli made an oral presentation about his thesis project at CIBIO.

The Tropibio ERA Chair board, responsible for guiding the strategic direction and overseeing the progress of the project, is now complete and fully functioning.

Tropibio researchers and collaborators got together on January 24th to plan actions and research for the Tropibio project in 2022

Tropibio researcher Raquel Vasconcelos approved a grant for investigating character displacement in Cabo Verde.

Tropibio team attended the 30th International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB 2021) meeting Kigali, Rwanda

Richard Ladle and Claudia Malhado met with undergraduate, masters and PhD students in Maceió, Brazil

Richard Ladle and Claudia Malhado participated of the XIII Strategic Assessment and Planning Seminar in Maceió, Brazil

Tropibio member Claudia Malhado was a member of the roundtable on Science Communication in the XXXV Biology Week at the Federal University of Alagoas (SEMABio-UFAL).

Tropibio Researcher Fernanda Alves Martins gave an online talk at the Universidad Autónoma de México

Tropibio Researcher Fernanda Alves-Martins gave a talk on the Welcome Seminar on Biodiversity and Evolution.

Tropibio Collaborator Paul Jepson gave a talk on Making Rewilding Investible in CIBIO

Tropibio team went to Guinea Bissau in November 2021 to develop collaboration for research.

Tropibio Collaborator Paul Jepson visited CIBIO and met with the Tropibio team to discuss research and collaborations.

Tropibio Researcher Filipa Palmeirim attended and presented at ECONET - Symposium on Ecological Networks

Tropibio Researcher Filipa Palmeirim has given a talk on the Welcoming Seminar on Biodiversity and Evolution at CIBIO

Tropibio Researchers Luke Powell and Diogo Ferreira attended an integrated modelling workshop in Glasgow.

Tropibio Researcher Fernanda Alves Martins attended and presented at The XV National Congress of AEET, Spain.

Tropibio team went to São Tomé e Príncipe in October 2021 to scout the islands and develop collaborations.

Tropibio Researcher Filipa Palmeirim taught at the discipline ‘Use and conservation of biodiversity across the Pantanal, Amazon and Cerrado biomes’ at the Post-Graduation...

Tropibio Researchers participated in the workshop ‘Diversity – a challenge for the life and health sciences’ at the Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde,...

The Tropibio team host Professor Brian Huntley for discussing collaborations in Angola.

Tropibio/Cibio researcher Dr Raquel Vasconcelos and her student Catarina Pinho went to island of Fogo in Cabo Verde to research terrestrial reptiles.

Tropibio Researcher Filipa Palmeirim participated of a doctoral assessment (qualification board) of the PhD candidate Lais Brasileiro at the University of Brasilia (Brazil)