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David Nogués Bravo
@noguesbravo.bsky.social

Professor at GLOBE, University of Copenhagen | Head of the Biodiversity Section

Environmental science 46%
Geography 13%

Today we publish a new paper at The British Medical Journal on the links between biodiversity, climate and health in relation to the hashtag#COP30 in Brazil

Here we argue that climate resilience depends on nature—and both are vital for the health of people.

www.bmj.com/content/391/...
The Amazon is one of Earth’s major climate stabilisers—we must protect the rainforest and its biodiversity
The twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change have clear implications for human health and must be central to discussions at COP30, argue David Nogués-Bravo and Helena Alves-Pinto The acce...
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I am organizing a one-day symposium (no online option) on Biodiversity and Health in a Warmer World

Learn more here www.biodiversityhealth2025.com
Biodiversity & Health Symposium 2025 | Copenhagen
Join leading experts in Copenhagen for a one-day symposium on the critical links between biodiversity, climate change, and health. Register now.
www.biodiversityhealth2025.com

Reposted by Ludovic Orlando

"Biodiversity loss is a public health problem – let's treat it as such"...this is the topic of a popular science article I just wrote for a Danish Media Outlet.

Check it here: naturmonitor.dk/nyheder/deba...
Professor: Tab af biodiversitet er et folkesundhedsproblem – lad os behandle det som sådan
Landene har forpligtet sig under FN’s konvention om biologisk mangfoldighed til at anerkende sammenhængen mellem biodiversitet og menneskers sundhed.
naturmonitor.dk

ICYMI: PLOS Global Public Health published a really stellar Review article last month:

Metrics for biodiversity and health policy integration

by @noguesbravo.bsky.social, @sarahwhitmee.bsky.social‬, and Liz Willetts

journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Metrics for biodiversity and health policy integration
Despite over a decade of progressive commitments from parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), integrated biodiversity and health indicators and monitoring mechanisms remain limited, h...
journals.plos.org
🦌 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🦌

Our paper on wild #reindeer and #caribou is out in Science Advances! Thanks to the team: Eric Post, @nmschmidt.bsky.social, Stuart Brown, @noguesbravo.bsky.social and Damien Fordham that co-lead this research.

doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Mismatch in reindeer resilience to past and future warming signals ongoing declines
Rangifer population dynamics over 21,000 years reveal that future climatic warming will cause losses that surpass safe boundaries.
doi.org

Reposted by Jonathan von Oppen

Today we publish a new paper on the past and future resilience of the reindeer under global change...the future looks grim

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Mismatch in reindeer resilience to past and future warming signals ongoing declines
Rangifer population dynamics over 21,000 years reveal that future climatic warming will cause losses that surpass safe boundaries.
www.science.org
📢 Biodiversity loss is not just about nature: Researchers call for the need to bridge the gap between nature and public health in @plosglobalpublichealth.org 🔗 🌍 @noguesbravo.bsky.social macroecology.ku.dk/news/2025/re...
Researchers call for tools to link nature and public health
New study urges governments to rethink how the measure and address the health of both people and the planet.
macroecology.ku.dk
Last first-author paper finally published! This took too many years but even after leaving research we manage to get it done, with Odile Maliet, @leandrist.bsky.social, @noguesbravo.bsky.social, @n8upham.bsky.social, Walter Jetz, and really supportive Hélène Morlon

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Negative global-scale association between genetic diversity and speciation rates in mammals - Nature Communications
Genetic diversity and speciation rate support adaptability and species richness patterns, respectively. Here, the authors find a negative association between mitochondrial genetic diversity and specia...
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I publish today a new paper! has been great to work with Liz Willets and Sarah Whitmee in this piece on #biodiversity and #health

journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Metrics for biodiversity and health policy integration
Despite over a decade of progressive commitments from parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), integrated biodiversity and health indicators and monitoring mechanisms remain limited, h...
journals.plos.org

Would you like to come to work with us here at @Macroecology ? The Center is opening six new positions!

macroecology.ku.dk/people/posit...
Open Positions
Positions and vacancies at the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate
macroecology.ku.dk

Applied botany: last autumn I went to pick up berries of prunus spinosa…now I can taste my own home-made patxaran here in Denmark :-)

@harvard.edu motto is Veritas. No motto can be more adequate right now.

#JesuisHarvard

We can now predict the loss of genetic diversity—from space!!!

This is the breakthrough of our new paper, led by Spyros Theodoridis

www.cell.com/current-biol...
Satellite-observed mountain greening predicts genomic erosion in a grassland medicinal herb over half a century
Biodiversity is under threat due to habitat transformation, yet monitoring its loss—particularly at the genetic level—is challenging. Theodoridis et al. show that vegetation change captured through sa...
www.cell.com