Speakers: Jorge Soberon, PhD

Jorge Soberon, PhD

University Distinguished Professor
University of Kansas

 

Jorge Soberon, born in Mexico, has a first and masters degrees in biology from the National University of Mexico, and a PhD from the university of London, in England. Currently he is University Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas. He is interested in biogeography, from a theoretical point of view. He has more than 150 scientific publications, with close to 50,000 citations to his work.

 

The Time-machine of Biodiversity. Change in the distribution of species in North America

We know, because we have the data, that climate is changing. What would be the effect on wild species? One way to address this is by doing modeling of the areas of distribution as driven by climatic variables. In this example I show the cases of three threatened species of North America, and the effect of climate change on their distribution, since the last Interglacial period (120,000 years ago) to today.