Pedro Alonso

A close up photo of a sand cat peering at the viewer with narrowed eyes. Its coat is golden in color.

Meet the sand cat. Thick soles on its paws allow it to withstand the temperature extremes of desert sand. In parts of its range, days can reach 124° Fahrenheit (51° C) and then plummet to 31° Fahrenheit (-0.5° C) by night!
Photo: Cloudtail the Snow Leopard, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, flickr

European red list of bees - Publications Office of the EU

IUCN updated Red List of Bees finally published: op.europa.eu/en/publicati...

Graphic with two parts, a map and a chart. Top section: A map showing intact tropical forests in northern South America, most of them in the Amazon River basin. Three locations are called out: 1 is in Panama; 2 is on the eastern border of Ecuador, near the borders with Colombia and Peru; and 3 is in Brazil, on the Amazon River. Undisturbed tropical forest areas are defined as areas where no disturbances were detected in a comparison of satellite imagery from 1990 to 2024. Bottom section: Dot plot with confidence intervals. For each of the three map locations, the chart shows the average annual change in mist net captures for insectivores and for the total bird community. For all three locations, the average annual change for insectivores is in the negative and is lower than for the total bird community.

Intact tropical forests are seeing mysterious bird declines. Is another “silent spring” brewing?

Learn more: https://scim.ag/4aCs0Er

Canopy openings can harm the biodiversity of dung #beetles 🪲: Scientists of the University of Würzburg examined 234 areas in eleven #forests across Germany. Rising temperatures exacerbate the problem. ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-... 📸 Johanna Asch

From the Amazon to the Cloud forest, the elevational gradient we study in Peru in 3 pictures 🌎🐝

Bombus butteli, a cloud forest dweller of the tropical Andes, at 2600 m asl, Peru

Bombus transversalis, the only lowland bumblebee in the Peruvian Amazon

Thank you all for coming to Tortosa to share your ideas and research! See you next year!

Enjoying the rest of the talks after giving ours at @ecoflor.bsky.social what a great experience!! 😄

Also… we’re on the lookout for a postdoc opportunity 👀 If you think we might be a good fit for your group, let’s talk! 🐝🌳 @pedroecology.bsky.social

Joining the lab 2-year Postdoctoral position on VALOR EU-project: We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position to join the Horizon EU project: Values and dependence of society on pollinators (VALOR; The candidat…

We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position to join the @valor-project.eu Horizon EU project: Values and dependence of society on pollinators bartomeuslab.com/joining-the-...

Bergen landscape

Würzburg grassland

Bergen city

Würzburg city, ©Peter Schumann

Exciting news: Our Global Change Ecology Double Degree Program with Norway is OFFICIAL! #JMU #UiB. This programme provides advanced training in the fields of Ecology, Conservation Biology and Global Change Biology. We welcome all students in Bioscience to join us here in Würzburg and Bergen!✊

Anyone with access to the pdf?

Extinction of experience among ecologists Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining. We call for greater attention to this ongoing loss of direct field experience within the ecology community, as it could have widespread consequences for science and education, ultimately hindering efforts to address the ongoing biodiversity crisis.

"There has been a progressive decline in fieldwork-based research and education in ecology over recent decades", precisely at a time when we most urgently need a better understanding of how natural systems work. So sad.

Trends in Ecology & Evolution [paywalled] www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

El desconocido papel de las urracas en la regeneración forestal: “Se desmontan mitos que revelan su contribución a la dispersión de semillas” Una investigación de la Universidad de Alcalá desvela que utilizan una eficaz estrategia territorial para asegurar el alimento durante el invierno, aunque no se basa en la memoria espacial como se cre...

El desconocido papel de las urracas en la regeneración forestal: “Se desmontan mitos que revelan su contribución a la dispersión de semillas”

A photo of Javier Blasco standing in front of a cave. He is wearing a t-shirt and a headlamp.

A photo of Euscorpius studentium. The scorpion is illuminated by UV light and is bright blue in color.

🚨Research alert! A study led by Javier Blasco, a Ph.D. student from the University of Lisbon & Museum curator Lorenzo Prendini reveals new insights about the cave-dwelling scorpion Euscorpius studentium—previously known only from juvenile specimens.

Si, perdón a eso me refería. Hay que guardarla y analizarla cuando hay conexión.

BirdNET puede reconocer muchas más especies, pero necesita conexión. Si no estás en Europa o Norteamérica Merlín solo identifica las especies más comunes :)

Just a pretty lizard (Sceloporus malachiticus) from Costa Rica to start this account.