Natalia Targhetta

Natalia Targhetta is a researcher affiliated with the University of Cumbria, as indicated by her publication in the university's Insight repository. She is an active academic researcher who co-authored a significant 2023 paper in Current Biology.

Her research focuses on Amazonian ecological studies, particularly examining gaps in biodiversity research across the Amazon region. Her work addresses critical issues related to biodiversity loss, environmental change impacts on ecological communities, and the underrepresentation of tropical regions in global biodiversity databases.

The research she contributed to analyzed 7,694 sampling sites across the Brazilian Amazon using machine learning to map research probability while identifying vulnerable regions facing climate and land use changes. Their findings revealed that 15%-18% of the most neglected research areas are projected to experience severe environmental changes by 2050.

This work highlights the urgent need for expanded ecological research in understudied Amazonian regions before irreversible biodiversity loss occurs due to human-induced environmental changes.