Iberian Group of Urban Ecology

Our next seminar on #UrbanEcology is in less than two weeks. This time it's on a Wednesday!
This time, Juan Diego Ibáñez Álamo (@animalecpurban.bsky.social) from @universidadgranada.bsky.social will be talking about landscape configuration of urban green areas.
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Izquierdo et al (2026) Urban landscape organization is associated with differences in avian-mediated regulating ecosystem services - Landscape and Urban Planning

@animalecourban.bsky.social

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Arjona et al. (2025) Influence of Mediterranean university campuses on taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity of urban spiders (Araneae) - Front. Ecol. Evol
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We are looking for a PhD student to join the Animal ECO Urban group (University of Granada).

@eco-aeet.bsky.social

Our next seminar on #UrbanEcology is in less than two weeks. This time it's on a Wednesday!
This time, Juan Diego Ibáñez Álamo (@animalecpurban.bsky.social) from @universidadgranada.bsky.social will be talking about landscape configuration of urban green areas.
🔗 teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

🚨 New Research Alert!
Urban air pollution harms wildlife too. A study in Journal of Hazardous Materials shows yellow-legged gull chicks in Barcelona act as sentinels for air quality. 🐦🌆

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.140518
#OneHealth

@icmcsic.bsky.social 
@jnavarro.bsky.social

YouTube video by Iberian Group of Urban Ecology IGUE - Gema Trigos Peral: Background mechanisms shaping ant communities in urban ecosystems

You can already watch (or watch again) the seminar given by @trigos-peral.bsky.social from @mizpas.bsky.social in our #UrbanEcology seminar series.
Would you like to know more about how urbanization (♨️💡) shapes ant 🐜 performance and behaviour?
Have a look here: youtu.be/G8N-bkMA-oA?...

Horváth et al (2025) - Urban Ponds and the Emerging Role of Garden Ponds: Ecosystem Services and Disservices, Multifunctionality, and Trade-Offs - WIREs water
doi.org/10.1002/wat2...

YouTube video by Iberian Group of Urban Ecology IGUE - Gema Trigos Peral: Background mechanisms shaping ant communities in urban ecosystems

You can already watch (or watch again) the seminar given by @trigos-peral.bsky.social from @mizpas.bsky.social in our #UrbanEcology seminar series.
Would you like to know more about how urbanization (♨️💡) shapes ant 🐜 performance and behaviour?
Have a look here: youtu.be/G8N-bkMA-oA?...

En las grandes ciudades, los barrios más ricos suelen tener más árboles, más aves y, en definitiva, más espacios verdes. Este fenómeno, conocido como “efecto lujo", revela una desigualdad ambiental.

https://efeverde.com/efecto-lujo-biodiversidad-ciudades/

Finally, 254 nests of three urban species were examined. I think this is a very interesting contribution to the topic of plastic pollution and urban wildlife.

What about this one?

Only two days until our next online seminar!

This time with @gematsu.com from @mizer.bsky.social

Ready to know more about Ants 🐜 in the city🌇?

#brigadasdeseucaliptizadoras
Sábado 22 nov: Monte Santo André Corcubión
Asoc Boca de Sapo precisa axuda para atallar rebrotes eucalipto. Concello está declarado libre eucaliptos desde 2017. Boca de Sapo manten acordo custodia territorio para favorecer rexeneración
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🌿🐜 Don’t miss it this Thursday - 16:30h!
Join our colleague Gema Trigos-Peral (MIZ, @trigos-peral.bsky.social ) for an online seminar on urban ant ecology organized by @igue-aeet.bsky.social . Discover how these tiny creatures play a big role in shaping our cities!
🔗 rb.gy/hvikb1

Salvo-Tierra & Ruiz-Valero (2025) Why urban greening requires more than just species biodiversity - Academia Environmental Sciences and Sustainability
@univmalaga.bsky.social

www.doi.org/10.20935/Aca...

Garrido et al., (2025) Mosquitoes and the city: effects of urbanization on Aedes albopictus and Culex pipiens captures in southern Spain - Parasites & Vectors
doi.org/10.1186/s130...

@jmartinezpuente.bsky.social @gaiarrido.bsky.social

Este hilo del otro día lo escribí para hacer este reel que os enlazo, en realidad. Y sí, se me ve cansado —yo creo—, porque últimamente no paro.

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IGUE November Newsletter Each month, we complie news about the group, details of new urban ecology papers published in Spain and Portugal, information about upcoming events.

November #IGUE 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 is OUT!

Info of next seminar, some new papers, job offers and much more!

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La paradoja verde: gentrificación, desigualdad y biodiversidad en la ciudad Seguimos con la publicación de los cinco posts mejor clasificados en el concurso de divulgación ¡Sé Ecomandanga por un día!. Hoy, tenemos el placer de presentaros al 2º clasificado, …

La desigualdad social condiciona nuestro contacto con zonas verdes y su biodiversidad, claves para nuestra salud

Nos lo cuenta Adrián Sánchez, 3er clasificado en el concurso de divulgación "Sé Ecomandanga por un día"

ecomandanga.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/l...

Artículo: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The next newsletter will be out in two days!

Do you have any new paper? Any job position? Conferences? Let us know!

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Quiroga et al (2025) Bottom–up and top–down drivers influence urbanization effects on insect herbivory in oaks @oikosjournal.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/oik....

@xmoreira.bsky.social

Wait, what? A RAT caught and ate a BAT? And there's video! What does it portend? Scientists filmed bats to see how they communicate while swarming. They found a surprise: In urban settings, rats attack bats. What are the implications for bats ... and virus spread to humans?

Scientists filmed bats to see how they communicate while swarming. They found a surprise: In urban settings, rats attack bats. What are the implications for bats ... and virus spread to humans? n.pr/3WNy2KL

Interested in spatial ecology & One Health in urban gulls?
🧪 Join us at @imares-group.bsky.social @icmcsic.bsky.social as a #JdC postdoc in the #ALLIES project!
📅 Apply by Dec 10
📩 Contact: joan@icm.csic.es
🔗 See the call: acortar.link/yhYLRt
#Postdoc #AppliedEcology #UrbanEcology #OneHealth

Interested in a PhD studying the evolutionary ecology of animal behavior in Barcelona?

Final days to apply for this open PhD position in our lab! 👇

For more information about the position:
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Urban forests as essential infrastructure for climate resilience and biodiversity: A call to policymakers Click on the article title to read more.

Esperón-Rodriguez et al. (2025) Urban forests as essential infrastructure for climate resilience and biodiversity: A call to policymakers - @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

New seminar on urban ecology by @igue-aeet.bsky.social

"Background mechanisms shaping ant communities in urban ecosystems" by Gema Trigos Peral (Polish Academy Sciences)

20 November at 16:30 (Madrid time, CET)
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Patrick et al. (preprint) Beneath the Pavement: Understanding mycorrhizal fungi in urban ecosystems and the path forward - @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social

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@thecrobe.bsky.social @balachaudhary.bsky.social @tobykiers.bsky.social @coline-micro.bsky.social

The nature extinction crisis is mirrored by one in our own bodies. Both have huge implications for health Modern life is waging a war against ecosystems around us and inside us. Keeping our own microbes healthy is another reason to demand action to preserve the natural world

Taking action for biodiversity means you're taking action for people too💪

🏙️🌳More biodiversity in cities = better physical & mental health, healthier childhood development & stronger social connections

@peopleandnature.bsky.social research in @theguardian.com 🧪

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