• 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.
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...

Thursday, January 26, 2023

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

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....
Wednesday, December 21, 2022

BGC members co-authored a guest article on the Google Earth Engine Medium blog detailing the adoption of the Map of Life Biodiversity Indicators into the Global...

Thursday, December 1, 2022

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