BD-Seminar 2021/10/20: Spatial modelling of biodiversity and ecosystem services

Title: Spatial modelling of biodiversity and ecosystem services – a key tool in the Anthropocene?
Speaker: Antoine Guisan
Abstract: With the increasing anthropogenization of the world, spatial approach to conservation planning become increasingly needed. In the last two decades, species distribution models (SDMs) have become central tools to generalize information on the distributions of community, biodiversity, ecosystems and their services in time and space. As such, they not only represent the major source of projections for major biodiversity assessments, but additionally bear a high potential for supporting spatial conservation prioritization and landscape planning. Here, I will review recent advances and ways forward in SDM science, and illustrate some promising use of SDMs for spatial conservation planning in anthropogenized mountain landscapes.