Resistance Radio interview of Joaquin Hortal

Joaquín Hortal is a biogeographer and community ecologist working at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Natural History Museum) of the Spanish Scientific Council in Madrid. He also collaborates with the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes of the University of Lisbon, and the Department of Ecology of the Federal University of Goiás in Brazil, and Before he worked at the University of the Azores, University of Copenhagen and Imperial College London.

He studies the effects of current and past environmental conditions and ecological processes on the geographic patterns of biodiversity, the role of species niche and ecological interactions in the organization of biological communities in time and space, and the use and misuse of biodiversity big data. He works with mosses, seed plants, vertebrates and insects, and has been studying the ecology and biogeography of dung beetles for more than 25 years.