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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