Island biodiversity (and extinction)
Welcome to the website of Luis Valente and his team. We use modelling, phylogenetic and genomic approaches to reconstruct diversification dynamics over evolutionary time scales. We work on a variety of organisms (plants, birds and mammals) from marine islands and continental biodiversity hotspots. We are part of the Understanding Evolution group of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center.
NEWS:
New paper in Nature, where we use a large global phylogenetic dataset of islands birds to test the theory of island biogeography.
News and Views feature in Nature about our paper, written by Kostas Triantis and Tom Matthews.
Follow me on Twitter! @evo_island
CONTACT EMAIL: luis.valente@naturalis.nl
