Dense and continuous pine plantations fuel severe wildfires and hinder recovery 🔥
Reducing tree density can lower impacts, guiding more resilient afforestation and fire management strategies in Mediterranean ecosystems 🌲
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
29.10.2025 13:58 — 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by Álvaro Pérez Gómez
Vídeo presentación Tesis Doctoral Álvaro Pérez Gómez
Álvaro Pérez Gómez defendió ayer su tesis doctoral en la UCA. Ha sido fácil y fascinante trabajar con él; entre otras cosas, por su formación naturalista, que traía ya de su mentor desde pequeño: Íñigo Sánchez. Álvaro ha realizado este breve documental de su tesis:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kjpp...
04.10.2025 08:14 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Flor De Toloache
2. Flor de Toloache - Toloache (Audio Oficial)
Esa Amegilla sale enamorada. Flor de Toloache. Por cierto, un mariachi de mujeres fantástico que le canta a esa flor (m.youtube.com/watch?v=t147...). Pero tristemente conocida por como se ha abusado con ella (burundanga).
30.08.2025 07:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Huge, severe fires roasting the soil’s life, and the pine plantation self-perpetuating. Someone is making a lot of money with everyone’s biodiversity. Sad and outrageous.
28.08.2025 05:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Una barbaridad difícilmente explicable sin tener en cuenta el paisaje forestal.
26.08.2025 18:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Qué raro. Science Media Centre está asociado a la FECYT. Es un sitio oficial del Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades.
13.08.2025 17:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Summer blooming in the Mediterranean offers cooling stopovers to pollinators, as @cmhmaliani.bsky.social convincingly suggested (esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....). I wonder whether plants also benefit from enhanced flower showiness in a summer-whithered landscape.
12.08.2025 10:59 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Así las he visto yo casi siempre. Y yo soy de los que va con pantalón corto 🤦🏼♂️
04.08.2025 12:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
El Levante en verano deja estas imágenes en el campo de Gibraltar. Las “barbas de Levante” (nubes de estancamiento) alivian la sequía estival en las sierras y contribuyen a explicar la riqueza y singularidad botánica del área del estrecho de Gibraltar.
01.08.2025 20:49 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Although diptera constitute their prevalent prey, moths are a frequent capture in summer. The aldehyde nonanal, a potent atttrating semiochemical for moths, is one of the most abundant VOCs emitted by Drosophyllum leaf-traps. See more here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
01.08.2025 20:26 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In summer, Drosophyllum plants display their dry, open capsules upright on their stalks. Winds shake the stalks, helping to spread the seeds. We have also seen goats eating the stalks with the capsules (never the leaves!), suggesting the potential for ungulates as effective seed dispersers.
01.08.2025 20:26 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
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They meant C4 grasses.
29.07.2025 14:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today, my student (María Salces) has recorded this fascinating scene of a spider (likely Euryopis episinoides) stealing a prey ant (likely Aphaenogaster). Thanks to @biolvaro.bsky.social for identifications. Although not seen, the spider succeeded!
25.07.2025 10:39 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Although not often, we have seen spiders crawling up and down Drosophyllum leaves and presumed the existence of kleptoparasitism (slide from a presentation in 2019).
25.07.2025 10:39 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Gracias, Profesor. Por empezar por algo: ¿Hay mayor presencia de elaiosomas en semillas de plantas rupícolas que en las de plantas de comunidades adyacentes no rupícolas? ¿Y en plantas de floración veraniega que en primaverales?
24.07.2025 16:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Muchas de estas plantas rupícolas son mirmecócoras (dispersión por hormigas). Ahí puede estar la clave: producirán semillas cuando la actividad de hormigas es elevada (final del verano). Por eso florecen ahora.
24.07.2025 14:40 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by Guillermo Ojeda Muñoz
He visto un lindo asesino
Comparto un breve documental que ha realizado mi hijo como TFM de su máster en Comunicación Científica y Medioambiental de la UPF. Ha contado con el asesoramiento científico de investigadores reconocidos (y amables!!) Espero que os guste.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=emk2...
22.07.2025 05:28 — 👍 52 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 6
My pleasure! And many thanks to you for your comment.
13.07.2025 17:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Drosophyllum plants with leaf-traps fully covered with mucilage in a summer day (10 july) on bare, dry soils. How do they manage? We’re working on it.
10.07.2025 19:25 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Cultura Científica · UCA
Our carnivorous plant Drosophyllum lusitanicum - one of the rarest plants on Earth
Drosophyllum lusitanicum is one of the rarest plants on earth. Find out more here:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vy-f...
10.07.2025 18:41 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Hi there. This is Fernando Ojeda. Just landed from X where I left everything behind (posts, the few followers I had, and what have you. My interests are ecology, biodiversity and conservation of Mediterranean heathlands (herriza, fynbos), fire ecology and biotic interactions in carnivorous plants
10.07.2025 17:49 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Driving forward the field of applied ecology through a high-quality evidence base for scientists, managers and policymakers. A British Ecological Society journal.
'Viera & Clavijo' Researcher at the University of La Laguna, Canary Islands.
Interested in understanding the evolutionary processes shaping genetic variation patterns over space, from population to community level.
https://victornoguerales.weebly.com
PhD student at the University of Cádiz
Just here to share nice and beautiful about my work
From genes to petals
Evolution | Botany | Genetics
Associate Professor at University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) - Interested in beetles, biogeography and macroecology
Santiago de Compostela. Web: http://biogeography-usc.org/
Ecologist • postdoc at Basque Centre for Climate Change • diversity × interactions × stability × function • 🌱🌊 — he/him
Formerly: Fulbright @ncstate.bsky.social, Santander Iberoamérica UNESP-Río Claro, FPU @unisevilla.bsky.social
Postdoc, UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social | 🔥 plants, fire, and climate
Associate Professor & Forest Fire Ecologist, University of Washington
Research in fire/disturbance/landscape/forest ecology in western US
2015 cohort in Smith Fellows Program
https://depts.washington.edu/bjhlab/
Working at CIDE (@CidEinvestiga) - CSIC (@CSIC) on #fireecology, #wildfire 🔥
Plant scientist working on PhD at the University of Bristol. Interested in evo-devo and natural history. Microbotanist - bryology and bryo-mycology
Plant ecologist at the University of Sevilla
🌦️ Meteo, clima local (Cádiz) y también algunas meteofotos.
Ecologist working with species interactions, community dynamics and biodiversity maintenance 🌺🐝🌿
📍Berlin, Germany
President-Elect, Botanical Society of America.
Prof + Herbarium Director at Bucknell.
#FirstGen college.
Sexual systems evolution, conservation, taxonomy.
"Plants are Cool, Too!": https://tinyurl.com/mr3nv85w
#iamabotanist #plantpeopleFTW #SICB2026
Pájaros, flores, abejas y todo lo demás.
#divulgación #fauna #flora #evolución
Escribo hilos de Biología (a veces muy largos 😅)
CIDE-CSIC, ecology & evolution in fire-prone ecosystems🧪🌍🔥
Web: https://www.uv.es/jgpausas/index.htm
Blog: http://jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/
Ecologist, interested in plants and pollinators
Biodiversity and Conservation researcher at @ebdonana.bsky.social (Sevilla, Spain). Historical ecologist. Musician (kind of). Father of two