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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...