Congratulations to Prabhat Raj Dahal, awared today a Doctoral degree by Sapienza Università di Roma, for his thesis project entitled Production and validation of Area of Habitat maps for terrestrial birds and mammals. Following a public presentation by videoconference, the degree was awarded with the distinction “outstanding”.
This project was a collaboration between the Sapienza Università di Roma (supervisors: Carlo Rondinini) and BirdLife International (supervisor Paul Donald, collaborator Stuart Butchart).
One chapter is already published:
Jung, M., Dahal, P.R., Butchart, S.H.M., Donald, P.F., De Lamo, X., Lesiv, M., Kapos, V., Rondinini, C., Visconti, P. (2020) A global map of terrestrial habitat types. Scientific Data 7, 256. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00599-8 
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