Island biodiversity (and extinction)
Welcome to the website of Luis Valente and his team. We use fieldwork, phylogenetic, genomic and modelling approaches to reconstruct diversification dynamics over evolutionary time scales. We work on a variety of organisms (plants, birds and mammals) from islands, island-like systems and continental biodiversity hotspots.
We are part of the Understanding Evolution group of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, and of the Theoretical & Evolutionary Community Ecology group of the Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences.
Pulicaria canariensis, Lanzarote. Credit: Jaime Gil
Pleurophyllum speciosum, Campbell Island. Credit: Phil Garnock-Jones
NEWS:
New paper on the global island biogeography of Asteraceae published in Nature Communications - first chapter of Lizzie's PhD!
New global review of radiations of birds on islands, collaboration with a great team of ornithologists.
Follow me on Twitter! @evo_island
CONTACT EMAIL: luis.valente@naturalis.nl