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🌐 http://www.biogeography-usc.org ⚙️ A. Baselga & C. Gómez-Rodríguez Unified Models of Biological Diversity | Beta Diversity | Distance-Decay | Beetles | betapart (R) CRETUS Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

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Son cegos os morcegos? Desmentindo un mito tan vello como o seu nome
YouTube video by GCiencia Son cegos os morcegos? Desmentindo un mito tan vello como o seu nome

Os morcegos non son cegos: teñen ollos plenamente funcionais e unha visión adaptada á noite.

Coñece máis no novo episodio de Desmontando Mitos da man de Javier Iglesias, director do Museo de Historia Natural da
@usc.gal

05.11.2025 08:40 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Huge congratulations to Andrés Baselga, who has just been promoted to Full Professor of Zoology at Univ. Santiago de Compostela @usc.gal

Yesterday we enjoyed his talk - from collecting beetles as a teen to developing methods for studying biodiversity.

@andresbaselga.bsky.social
@cretus.usc.gal

11.10.2025 08:37 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Evolutionary "hills" or "islands"? Very interesting new approach to measure the uniqueness of a biological community, with great potential use as baseline to identify high-value biodiversity sites at multiple scales.

23.09.2025 17:56 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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We usually post about #Macroecology #Biogeography in English.

Pero también hacemos divulgación de nuestra investigación en castellano.

Abro hilo sobre distance-decay (= descenso de la similitud en las comunidades biológicas con la distancia (espacial)) 👇🏽

revistas.usc.gal/index.php/na...

19.11.2024 05:58 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

We have developed a new methodological framework to measure biodiversity.
We focus on the uniqueness (or singularity) of biological communities and apply it to the GBF 30x30 target.

If you only have 4:35 min, check the visual abstract to know a little bit more about it ☺️:
youtu.be/dHMBhVJ8dns?...

23.09.2025 08:18 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Esta semana os IPs @andresbaselga.bsky.social e #C.Gómez-Rodriguez imparten “Código para biólogos: introdución a R” Curso da #UniversidadeDeVerán no que guiarán aos asistentes na aprendizaxe de R desde as bases ata a súa aplicación no ámbito da bioloxía. @biogeography-usc.bsky.social @usc.gal

01.09.2025 12:37 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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And we’re off!
The III SIBECOL & XVII AEET Meeting has officially begun! A day full of workshops, reunions, first connections, and an energizing welcome cocktail.
This is just the beginning of a truly special week 🌿
#SIBECOLAEET2025 #Ecology #EcologyMeeting #AnotherScienceIsPossible

02.06.2025 20:11 — 👍 25    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 2
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Un total de 40 cursos integran a oferta da Universidade de Verán da USC para os vindeiros meses | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela A USC bota a andar unha nova edición da súa Universidade de Verán, na que un total de 40 cursos, espallados por Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Ribeira, Vilagarcía de Arousa, Lalín, Meis, Oia e Ribadeo,...

CRETUS organiza 3 cursos da #UniversidadeDeVerán:
🧫A bioloxía das pequenas e grandes cousas 10-12/06
⚗️Química, a ciencia que envolve a nosa vida 10-12/06
🐛Código para biólogos: introdución a R 01-05/09
#JesusRomalde, #LIDSA, @biogeography-usc.bsky.social #FondosEuropeos

www.usc.gal/gl/xornal/no...

12.05.2025 11:41 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Altri non, non che deixes enganar - 210
YouTube video by La salud de la humanidad Altri non, non che deixes enganar - 210

Un fin de semana de rabia y preocupación nos ha hecho componer una especie de himno en defensa de la naturaleza gallega, un Altri NON apelando a la emoción. Sumando narrativas, estilos y voluntades contra un proyecto que no debe ver la luz

youtu.be/tzb6GbHdVzQ?...
#AltriNon #fernandovalladares

17.03.2025 13:13 — 👍 53    🔁 27    💬 3    📌 1
Grupo de Innovación Docente en Biodiversidad con R [BioR]

Más información:

www.usc.gal/gl/instituci...

19.03.2025 18:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Sintaxis en R: Tipos de objetos básicos
YouTube video by Biogeography Lab (BiBiCI-USC) Sintaxis en R: Tipos de objetos básicos

Video del Grupo de Innovación Docente “Biodiversidad con R” de la @usc.gal

youtu.be/8GRW2gfUezw?...

19.03.2025 18:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Introducción a R y R Studio
YouTube video by Biogeography Lab (BiBiCI-USC) Introducción a R y R Studio

Hemos creado un Grupo de Innovación Docente “Biodiversidad con R” en la @usc.gal.

El objetivo es facilitar la iniciación en R al alumnado de Biología Ambiental, especialmente al interesado en los estudios de diversidad biológica.

Y ya tenemos un par de videos!

youtube.com/watch?v=XznC...

19.03.2025 18:11 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
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University Departments and Faculties of the three Universities in the region have formally endorsed the “Open Letter (Manifesto) Against Altri”, after holding official internal votes.

This extraordinary alignment represents a historic act of collective academic dissent.

Official Endorsements 👇🏽

19.03.2025 05:09 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Scientists oppose the new macro-cellulose project (ALTRI’s) in NW Spain The project of a large pulp mill in Galicia (NW Iberian Peninsula) has raised serious environmental and social concerns. Notably, the scientific and academic community working in environmental and nat...

The scientific community working in environmental and natural sciences has taken an unprecedented, united stand against a new macro-scale pulp mill in NW Spain. We voted against

However, the regional government gave its green light last week.

The scientists’ manifest:
www.usc.gal/gl/investiga...

19.03.2025 04:57 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Climatic stability predicts the congruence between species abundance and genetic diversity
YouTube video by Biogeography Lab (BiBiCI-USC) Climatic stability predicts the congruence between species abundance and genetic diversity

Our article on the congruence between species abundance and genetic diversity in leaf beetles has been assigned to an issue in @ecography.bsky.social

Paper:
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Visual abstract in YouTube (with Abril's cute narration ☺️):
youtu.be/8ALxwQ2e5-E?...

06.03.2025 14:38 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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🪱 O grupo Biodiversidade, Bioxeografía e Conservación Integrativa (BiBiCI), vinculado ao @cretus.usc.gal, acaba de rematar un estudo de catro décadas sobre as lesmas do xénero Arion na Península e Baleares.

O estudo contou cunha mostraxe de 5.000 exemplares.

🗞️ www.usc.gal/gl/xornal/no...

05.03.2025 13:13 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Investigadores de CRETUS do grupo @biogeography-usc.bsky.social publican un exhaustivo estudo sobre as lesmas Arion da Península Ibérica e as Illas Baleares e ademais describen dúas novas especies para a ciencia! 👏 👏@andresbaselga.bsky.social #C.Gómez-Rodriguez

05.03.2025 14:50 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Taxonomía integrativa de las babosas del género 'Arion' (Gastropoda: Arionidae) de la Península Ibérica Esta monografía desarrolla un exhaustivo estudio morfológico, anatómico, molecular y sistemático de los ariónidos de la Península Ibérica. El estudio anatómico y morfológico se realizó incor

If you are interested, you can purchase it here (Servicio de Publicaciones de la @usc.gal):

libros.usc.gal/gl/categoria...

@culturausc.bsky.social

27.02.2025 12:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fresh off the press! 📚

Our book about Arion is finally here!
With the revision of the genus in the Iberian Peninsula, the description of two new species and numerous plates with drawings and photographs.
Not for a quick read (almost 400 pages) but definitely interesting! :-)
@cretus.usc.gal

27.02.2025 11:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

@usc.gal @adegagz.bsky.social @ulloaviva.bsky.social @ecologistasenaccion.org @ecoloxistasenaccion.gal

19.02.2025 11:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Our students are great! Look what they made!

The Biology building looks cool and it also shows that we are against the project of a huge paper mill in Galicia. It will be a disaster for biodiversity.

#AltriNON

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Nuestra facultad viste sus mejores galas contra Altri. Obra de arte del alumnado 🙌🏽

19.02.2025 11:00 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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Rapid shifts in grassland communities driven by climate change - Nature Ecology & Evolution Plant community responses to climate change tend to be lagged in forests, but could be faster in grasslands. Here, the authors integrate long-term experimental data with >1 million occurrence recor...

Very rapid #thermophilization & #xerophilisation of grassland #plant #communities 🌾🌼🍀🌸in the California Floristic Province #CFP attributed to #climate #change ⬇️ An important study relying on both field surveys & long-term experiments ⬇️ Congrats to Kai Zhu & team

shorturl.at/3FsVm

09.12.2024 11:57 — 👍 35    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 2
Darwin Day - Baba Brinkman
YouTube video by Baba Brinkman Darwin Day - Baba Brinkman

Today, is the 216th anniversary of the birth of Charles #Darwin, a day to celebrate Darwin, natural selection and #evolution.

Let's celebrate with a bit of (much needed) music

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry7N...

Happy #DarwinDay!!!

12.02.2025 07:47 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 3

We are very happy to be part of #CIGUSNetwork!

🪲 Biodiversity at @cretus.usc.gal

cigus.gal/en/

“The CIGUS Network comprises 10 research centres. It’s a superstructure promoted by the Autonomous Government to strengthen and boost excellence in university research and drive progress in Galicia.”

11.02.2025 19:46 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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CRETUS súmase á conmemoración do #11F Día Internacional da Muller e a Nena na Ciencia e aproveita a ocasión para destacar o talento científico feminino que ten! @usc.gal #11F #11F2025 #mujeryciencia #mullereseciencia

11.02.2025 10:01 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
Reflections on Maternity,by Carola Gómez-Rodríguez

Happy #11F everyone! 🎉👩‍🔬

To celebrate, we’ve added a transcript of Carola’s talk on Maternity & Academia to our website—for those who prefer a quick read over a video.

Check it out here, along with the video of her invited talk at WISE 2020
www.biogeography-usc.org/carola_wise....

@cretus.usc.gal

11.02.2025 14:34 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Do abyssal species that grow on polymetallic nodules have more restricted dispersal than fauna not depending on this resource? Contrasting distance-decay patterns in community similarity across the NE Pacific basin suggest they do! See our new study doi.org/10.1111/geb.... on time for #17DSBS!

15.01.2025 11:13 — 👍 27    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 0
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Cristina Gómez: "Movilizarse por temas ambientales es también una acción política" Su perfil internacional e interdisciplinar llamó la atención de la Real Academia Galega de Ciencias, que premió la trayectoria de esta joven vilalbesa, centrada en la psicología política y la acción c...

💡 Hoy comparto con ilusión una entrevista que me hicieron en El Progreso a raíz del premio RAGC-UIE para jóvenes investigadores. 💡
www.elprogreso.es/articulo/a-c...

@usc.gal @cretus.usc.gal @elprogresodelugo.bsky.social

13.01.2025 13:29 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

@usc.gal

13.12.2024 15:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@ulloaviva.bsky.social‬

13.12.2024 06:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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