Miguel Ángel Blanco Rodríguez

Population Structure Plays a Key Role in Community Stability Population structure is a widespread yet underappreciated feature of ecological communities. Here, we develop a general theoretical framework integrating life-stage structure into community matrix mo...

New article out in Ecology Letters!

Developing a general math model, we show how cross-stage interactions modify the stability predicted by classic unstructured models.

📄 Population Structure Plays a Key Role in Community Stability. @ox.ac.uk @ifisc.uib-csic.es @ceabcsic.bsky.social @csic.es

On Thursday 11th December, at 3 PM CET, we will present results from our #CESAB working group #BIOSHIFTS on species range shifts in response to climate change 🌡📈🌳🦔🦉🐝🦎🐟🐚🦈

CESABINAR #12

Find the Zoom link on the webpage of #FRB below & attend 😊

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@frbiodiv.bsky.social

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El curioso comportamiento de algunas aves que usan plantas frescas y aromáticas en sus nidos Algunas aves incorporan a sus nidos plantas frescas, generalmente aromáticas. Aunque se han propuesto varias posibles explicaciones para este comportamiento (evitar enfermedades, atraer potenciales pa...

¿Sabías que hay especies de aves, como el estornino o el herrerillo, que incorporan plantas frescas y aromáticas a sus nidos? Te lo cuento en este artículo que publico hoy en
@es.theconversation.com.
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Más del 75% de los cultivos alimentarios dependen de insectos polinizadores...

Two years ago we got together in a beautiful mountain to learn and develop #rstats packages for ecology

After {labeleR} (ecologyr.github.io/labeleR/) and {BlueCarbon} (ecologyr.github.io/BlueCarbon/), {mappestRisk} is now officially out! See thread by lead author @dario-ssm.bsky.social 👇

Key Factors Influencing Post‐Fire Vegetation Recovery in Pinus halepensis Forests: Divergent Effects for Canopy and Shrub Species Rapid revegetation of burnt forest is essential for recovering ecosystem functioning, especially in the context of climate change-driven shifts in fire regime. We provide a field-based assessment of…

Paneghel et al. aimed to provide insight into how abiotic & biotic factors influence the 🔥 post-fire 🤕 recovery of🌲 Pinus halpensis forests and how their effects vary between the shrub layer and the canopy.
#wildfire #forests #recovery
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🧵Con la llegada de una masa de aire ártico aprovechamos para contaros en este hilo cuáles son los tipos de masas de aire que nos suelen afectar y cómo las clasificamos según su origen, temperatura y humedad. Dentro hilo.
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Para comprender y gestionar mejor los incendios forestales debemos observar el paisaje En el contexto actual de cambio climático, las plantaciones de pino, muy abundantes en España, pueden ser puntos críticos para los grandes incendios.

"las plantaciones de pino ardieron con mayor severidad que robledales, bosques mixtos o matorrales ... la intensidad del fuego en la vegetación colindante fue mayor cuanto más cerca estuvieran de dichas plantaciones." @irene-repeto.bsky.social
🧪🌍🔥🍁🌿🌳🔥 #wildfire
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🌊The diversity of native aquatic plant communities makes them more able to resilient to climate change than the invasive alga, starry stonewort, which may lessen the impacts of invasion👇
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Estudiando el éxito de establecimiento de las plántulas del enebro marino (Juniperus oxycedrus subsp. macrocarpa) en ecosistemas dunares. Una especie con problemas de reclutamiento.

Relationship between fire severity (dNBR, x axis) and early postfire recovery (y axis) for the different vegetation types affected in the Bermeja, Culebra and Hurdes wildfires (Spain). A: based on the Spanish Forest Map (MFE) data; B: based on the Spanish National Inventory (IFN). Dashed lines correspond to global means.

Pine plantations burn more severely & recover more slowly than other vegetation types. This is observed using the forest map (L) or the forest inventory (R), Spain
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🧪🌎🔥🍁🌳🔥 wildfire @jappliedecology.bsky.social

Una reciente imagen satelital captó al extremo sur de Sudamérica libre de nubes (inusual), permitiendo apreciar a detalle los contrastes climáticos entre #Chile y #Argentina.

The banks financing fossil fuel exploitation in the Amazon
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Fire-stimulated flowering ... 🌎🔥🌿
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Fire severity shapes landscape heterogeneity in Mediterranean forest ecosystems - Landscape Ecology Context In Mediterranean forests, the increasing frequency of high severity fires poses a challenge to current landscape management. In addition, these areas are experiencing a generalized process of ...

The second chapter of my thesis is now published 👀

"Fire severity shapes landscape heterogeneity in Mediterranean forest ecosystems" 🔥

Great team!😀 @spinedaz.bsky.social @lluiscoll.bsky.social @juditlecinadiaz.bsky.social Aitor Ameztegui and Josu Alday.

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Pino enano sobre suelo pedregoso

Pino salgareño (Pinus nigra) en la solana de los Trancos de Cabañas, Sierra del Pozo, ~1850 m altura. En esa zona rocosa y absolutamente inhóspita (mirad qué suelo pedregoso) crecen los pinos más viejos datados hasta ahora en Iberia, alguno con mas de 1000 años.

An Indigenous women-led revolution fights fires in Brazil’s Cerrado When they closed their eyes, the Bakairi people of the Santana Indigenous Territory in Brazil heard a sound similar to rain in the forest. It was reminiscent of a summer storm, the kind that arrives…

Brazil’s Cerrado savanna has experienced its worst fire season on record, but a tiny Indigenous territory here has for four years now kept the flames at bay.

The volunteer brigade made up largely of Bakairi Indigenous women has been instrumental in preventing major fires.

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.

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#NoKings

How indigenous practices can help protect forests The Post followed cultural burning practices, an Indigenous tradition now permitted under California law and used to help protect forests from wildfires.

In June, the @washingtonpost.com sent me and @byaliceli.bsky.social to witness cultural burns in California. We learned how they encourage beneficial vegetation, reduce wildfire risk, and provide traditional food and craft sources for tribes in the Klamath region.

🎁: wapo.st/3J7BQTL

In such a beautiful piece about cultural burning, I was able to share a bit of my own work on how “good fire” can bring a host of benefits to wildlife and forests. Thanks @sadbumblebee.buzz for including me. And what a great spotlight on fire as a form of art, deeply human.

🌳 Most dominant tree species in European unmanaged forests show no consistent long-term increase in mortality over the last decades. This highlights their high resilience and adaptability to environmental stress. @WSL_research @ForEco_ETH @jokinidol

🔎 Read the full article here:

El pelo de una ortiga forzando los límites de mi equipo macro. La longitud del pelo podría ser de un par de milímetros.

Esa pequeña ampolla que se ve en la punta tiene la función de romperse por contacto y liberar las sustancias que dan tanto gusto cuando rozas una ortiga.

Illustration of a branch of Betula glandulosa (Resin birch). Illustration by Alberto S. Ballesteros (@asbillustration.bsky.social).

🌲 Boreal-tundra species drive Arctic plant borealization 🌲

Our new study in #EcologyLetters quantifies tundra plant borealization, assesses its main drivers and identifies the species & traits contributing to borealization.

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No contento con su "abrigo" de polen, este sírfido apoya una pata delantera justo en el estigma de una flor de Drimia, como si quisiera asegurar la faena. Esto sí que es polinización manual...

As people get more & more obsessed with ‘big’ data and new tech for gathering loads of data

It is worth remembering that science is about asking useful questions & gathering the right data to answer them

Patterns and Determinants of Mortality in Grey Wolves (Canis lupus) This systematic review reveals the global patterns and drivers of grey wolf mortality, highlighting the high mortality risk associated with human coexistence for this cursorial carnivore, and reshapi...

Out today, expertly guided by Ana Morales. It will come as no big surprise to read that wolves across their vast range are dying at far higher rates than they should be, due to human hunting. But now there are numbers, to check, discuss, and ponder.
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Logo and lema of the WTREX, Colombia 2025: "Fuego con propósito, mujeres que ecienden el cambio"

Nice to be visiting the first WTREX performed in South America!
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El fuego sigue arrasando España

A día de hoy con los nuevos datos, ya van 382.000 hectáreas que han sido devastadas por el fuego en este 2025

Incredible growth in the scale of devastating Iberian Peninsula #wildfires through mid-August reflected in #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS estimated fire emissions with Spain reaching it's highest annual total of past 23 years (& Portugal's since 2017) @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int #IIFF