In response to Chile's public policy to establish a national biodiversity inventory and monitoring system, we launched the HerbarioDigital.cl portal. We have digitised over 120,000 specimens represen....

Un nuevo estudio reconstruyó la historia evolutiva de Weinmannia, un género con más de 90 especies de árboles emblemáticos.

The Andes are a relatively young mountain range with impressive biodiversity, but the biogeographic processes underlying its hyperdiversity are still …

Aim Understanding the origins of species richness patterns (especially high tropical richness) is a long-standing challenge at the intersection of biogeography, ecology, and evolutionary biology. On...

npj Climate Action - The activism responsibility of climate scientists and the value of science-based activism

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. A global consortium of over 660 contributors, BHL has made more …

Despite continued negotiations in 2024, the regulatory framework meant to govern commercial-scale deep-sea mining is still years from being finalized by members of the International Seabed Authority (...

El Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad -IEB-, a través de su programa BIODATA, está comprometido con aportar a mejorar la calidad de los datos de biodiversidad. Su presencia nacional se extiende al ...

Biodiversidad / El Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB), a través de su programa integrador BIODATA, realizó el seminario “Datos de biodiversidad para el futuro de Chile”, marcando un hito en l...

​ Un ciudadano italiano fue sancionado por el contrabando de casi mil ejemplares de cactus endémicos de Taltal, condena que incluye una multa de 5 millones de pesos y la prohibición de reingreso al pa...

Climate change is driving inflation and instability, which harms climate action. But it’s not too late to escape the doom loop.

“One Health” needs ecology

El programa BIODATA utilizará las colecciones biológicas de instituciones que participan en el IEB junto a datos de otras instituciones como museos y jardines botánicos con el objetivo de proveer acce...

The first humans who spread across North America during the last Ice Age put mammoths at the top of their menu, according to scientists who secured the first direct evidence of the diet of these ancient people.

A study into the devastating wildfires that struck British Columbia's Okanagan region in 2023 has recommended that government and industry limit development in high-fire-risk areas.

Ricardo Segovia, integrante del Programa BIODATA, participó en el VI Foro Internacional de Justicia Ambiental, encuentro interdisciplinario en el que se debatieron experiencias sobre aspectos legales,...

Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...

YouTube video by International Biogeography Society TIBS

Frequent fuel-reduction burning appears to prime ecosystems for major disruption when the next wildfire hits.

Frequent fuel-reduction burning appears to prime ecosystems for major disruption when the next wildfire hits.

Platform’s coverage of US election crystallised longstanding concerns about its content, says Guardian

In 2023 a research group from Aarhus University in Denmark found that light woodland and open vegetation dominated Europe's temperate forests before Homo sapiens. In a new study, recently published in...