Asunción Semper Pascual

Asunción Semper Pascual

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  • Seksjon for økologi og naturforvaltning

My main interests are focused on understanding how different factors, such as land-use change, hunting pressure and climate change, shape current biodiversity patterns. I am particularly interested in finding out why, when and where species are likely to go extinct in tropical forests. To do so, I use novel statistical analyzes and develop approaches which help to spatially identify threats to biodiversity, and reveal how such threats change over time. I conduct policy relevant research by developing approaches that can be addressed by conservation strategies to prevent species' extinctions.

During my Postdoc at NMBU, I will contribute to the research project “Empty forests and extinction filters” lead by Richard Bischof and Douglas Sheil. In particular, I will study how different factors such as habitat loss and fragmentation, hunting, climate change and interactions among species influence occupancy, local extinction and colonization rates of mammal species in tropical forests. This will help to understand species distribution dynamics in the tropics.

More information about me can be found here https://semper-pascual.weebly.com/