@miguelangel-blanco.bsky.social
PhD student in Forest Ecology @ctforestal. Also ethnobotany at @omanayluna.
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.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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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...
12.09.2025 14:29 — 👍 101 🔁 18 💬 4 📌 0As 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
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.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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
18.08.2025 07:37 — 👍 110 🔁 68 💬 4 📌 6
By far my favorite paper this year.
A collaboration between Mapuche elders—including Machi Patricia—and ecologists, reflecting on building trust and shared understanding in the face of environmental crisis.
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Statistics on Canadian wildfire activity thus far in 2025
GOES satellite geocolor image showing lots of wildfire smoke over Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario
Canada has 405 out of control wildfires (149 actioned & 256 monitored). Area burned in 2025 thus far is 6.3 M ha (an area larger than Nova Scotia. These fires produce lots of smoke as can be seen on the GOES- East geocolor image below.
www.ciffc.ca
Una de las estrategias de la flora alpina para sobrevivir en los ambientes tan extremos donde se asientan es cambiar el color de sus flores una vez polinizadas hacia colores más cálidos, como el rojo.. #Lotusalpinus #inteligenciavegetal #floraalpina #ordesaymonteperdido
27.07.2025 13:27 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Florecer en verano en ambientes áridos exige sacrificios.
El lirio de mar (Pancratium maritimum) se desprende de sus hojas para destinar a la floración todos los recursos almacenados en el bulbo.
🌲 New R package: forestdata makes it easy to download forestry and land cover data from multiple sources (Copernicus, ESRI, EU-Trees4F, and more). Supports sf, SpatRaster, and tidy outputs.
Explore it here: cidree.github.io/forestdata/
#rstats #rspatial #forestry #landcover
@chikichanka.bsky.social cita extraída del libro "Delta" de Gabi Martínez. Hay algunas páginas interesantes sobre las anguilas!
12.07.2025 10:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
⬆️🌡️Increasing temperatures,☀️ drought,🐮🐑🚫 grazing cessation and nitrogen deposition amount to tough times for vulnerable dry grasslands. A three-decade long case study in Germany by Horka et al. gives us more insights on the changes these communities face.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
First paper of my PhD! 🎉 about biomass systems and their potential role on land use diversity. Published in @gcb-bioenergy.bsky.social
Check it out here:
dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcbb...
This is a fantastic plant! 😍
20.06.2025 20:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@miguelangel-blanco.bsky.social is presenting our amazing study on landscape heterogeneity after 🔥
If you are at the #9CEF, grab some snacks and go check it out! 😎
This week we will be in Pontevedra during #SIBECOLAEET2025. Yesterday I have presented our work "Fire severity shapes landscape heterogeneity in Mediterranean forest ecosistems" @ctforestal.bsky.social @udl.cat
03.06.2025 15:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sequoia sempervirens resprouting epicormically
Sequoia sempervirens resprouting epicormically
Sequoia sempervirens resprouting epicormically
Sequoia sempervirens resprouting epicormically
Spectacular epicormic resprouting of majestic redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) after the 2020 fire in the Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Santa Cruz, California. About 95% of the redwoods resprouted; they are used to crown fires! You just can’t stop taking photos ...
doi.org/10.1016/j.tp...
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Here is a very nice example of lignotuber!
Arctostaphylos cf manzanita ssp roofii, Point fire 2024, Sonoma county, California
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Two unearthed plants showing their lignotuber: Arctostaphylos manzanita (left) & Ceanothus lemmonii (right). North of California, USA
Arctostaphylos & Ceanothus are the 2 most iconic genera of the Californian chaparral. Some species are obligate seeders, others are lignotuber resprouters, such as Arctostaphylos manzanita (L) & Ceanothus lemmonii (R)
Lignotuber:
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Una noticia excelente : después de décadas considerada extinta en Andalucía reaparece ‘Gyrocaryum oppositifolium’ - más información 👇🏻
www.juntadeandalucia.es/presidencia/...
EVA-MAP: www.EVAMAP.eu
We have launched a new online map of vegetation plots in the European Vegetation Archive (EVA) and ReSurveyEurope database. You can select plots using a filtering form or drawing an area in the map, explore plot metadata and export lists of selected plots with metadata.
Parcela quemada dos veces (1986 y 1995) sin presencia de Pinus halepensis
Cistus albidus, Gladiolus illyricus, Thymus vulgaris y Phlomis lychnitis en plena floración
Un intervalo corto entre incendios recurrentes (1986 y 1995) puede provocar la transición de un pinar de Pinus halepensis hacia un matorral dominado por Salvia rosmarinus y Thymus vulgaris sorprendentemente diverso!
Joncosa del Montmell, Tarragona
Two common European pink-flowering Lamium species. When growing side by side, the differences are clear, but they are sometimes confused.
- Lamium maculatum (left): larger, curved corolla tube, wet forests.
- Lamium purpureum (right): smaller, straight corolla tube, human settlements and farmland.
The Cistaceae plant family is important for wild bees and other pollinators in Doñana.
1. Cistus monspeliensis
2. Cistus libanotis
3. Cistus ladanifer
4. Cistus albidus
5. Cistus salviifolius
6. Cistus crispus
7. Tuberaria guttata
8. Halimium calycinum
9. Halimium halimifolium
@ebdonana.bsky.social
Chamaeorops humilis rebrotrando tras un incendio de 1986
El palmito (Chamaeorops humilis) es una palmera arbustiva que se distribuye por el oeste de la cuenca mediterránea. Además, es una especie con alta capacidad de rebrote tras un incendio.
22.04.2025 19:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hoy hemos organizado una plantación de 45 olmos resistentes a la grafiosis en el ayuntamiento de Torrelacárcel, Teruel. Ha sido emocionante ver a tres generaciones reunidas alrededor de este árbol y su tradición.
12.04.2025 14:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thymus vulgaris
Helianthemum hirtum
Esta semana hemos comenzado a muestrear la composición florística en áreas mediterráneas con incendios recurrentes. Las lluvias del pasado mes de marzo han dejado una floración muy intensa.
11.04.2025 14:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
