Resistance Radio- Interview of Joaquin Hortal Resistance Radio

Joaquín Hortal is a biogeographer and communityecologist working at the Museo Nacional deCiencias Naturales (Natural History Museum) ofthe Spanish Scientific Council in Madrid. He alsocollaborates with the Centre for Ecology,Evolution and Environmental Changes of theUniversity of Lisbon, and the Department ofEcology of the Federal University of Goiás inBrazil, and Before he worked at the University ofthe Azores, University of Copenhagen and Imperial College London.He studies the effects of current and pastenvironmental conditions and ecological processeson the geographic patterns of biodiversity, therole of species niche and ecological interactionsin the organization of biological communities intime and space, and the use and misuse ofbiodiversity big data. He works with mosses, seedplants, vertebrates and insects, and has beenstudying the ecology and biogeography of dung beetles for more than 25 years.