Jose Valdez

Aug 7, 2024 | phys.org | Jose Valdez

The global biodiversity crisis demands comprehensive, collaborative solutions that draw upon diverse knowledge and perspectives from around the world. Yet, a critical gap exists in biodiversity research, where the expertise and insights of local scientists and communities in biodiversity-rich regions are frequently overlooked and undervalued.

Jun 27, 2024 | phys.org | Jose Valdez

Despite hosting some of the world's most biodiverse ecosystems and the urgency of the region's conservation challenges, researchers in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru often struggle to share their unique insights into these complex ecosystems with the global scientific community. This results in a "publication gap," where crucial biodiversity knowledge from the region remains underrepresented in global conversations.

Jan 3, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | John Gould |Jose Valdez

1 INTRODUCTION Plants often rely on external factors to complete steps within their reproductive cycle (Seale & Nakayama, 2020). Abiotic factors such as wind can transport pollen and seeds over long distances (Cummins et al., 2018), but as climatic conditions can be unpredictable, there is no guarantee they are moved towards a suitable location (Kuparinen et al., 2009). Biotic factors such as mobile animals can also be exploited for pollen and seed dispersal.

Feb 9, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jose Valdez |Corey Callaghan |Andy Purvis |Jessica Junker

Discussion Our study suggests that aggregating local estimates of species richness change are unlikely to provide estimates of global trends of local species richness that are accurate enough to be practical or useful for policy. We found that detecting global trends in local species richness reliably over short sampling intervals required a large number of monitoring sites.