Map of Life

Putting biodiversity on the map.
Max Planck-Yale Center

The Max Planck-Yale Center for Biodiversity Movement and Global Change is a partnership between Yale University and its Center for Biodiversity and Global Change and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior.
Jetz Lab

Work in our group addresses the patterns and processes behind the distribution of species and their traits in space and time.

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Grizzly bear standing in a shallow river. The animal is looking past the camera and wear a radio collar around its neck.

At Yale symposium, experts envision the future of spaceborne animal tracking

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

In Italy, a herd of sheep predicts impending earthquakes. In the Bahamas, a school of tiger sharks discovers the world’s...

Diego Ellis Soto Wins Sidnie Manton Award, NASA FINESST Grant

Thursday, January 26, 2023

Movin’ and poopin’ are two things often on Diego Ellis Soto’s mind – the movin’...

BGC Member Spotlight: Muyang Lu

Monday, January 9, 2023

If you ask an ecologist to tell you how they first got interested in the field, most of the time you’ll hear about a childhood memory of being in the great outdoors....

New York Times Feature: Animals Are Running Out of Places to Live

Thursday, December 1, 2022

33%, 45%, even upwards of 60% – these are the staggering amounts of...

Colorful COP15 Montreal sign in front of a colorful building.

Map of Life Indicators formally adopted into the GBF at COP15

Thursday, December 1, 2022

As COP15 came to a close in Montreal on December 19th, nearly 200 parties agreed...

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