Personal blog on science, outreach, policy making and social change
This is an English version of a joint press release. Below you can find a link to the paper. Puedes leer una versión en español en la página de Comunicación del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), y en la de actualidad del CSIC. Pode consular uma versão...
I was lucky enough so as to spend over 50 minutes talking about the ecology, evolution and conservation of dung beetles with Derrick Jensen. You can listen to this podcast at Resistance Radio, where Derrick Jensen interviews a broad spectrum of activists and...
En una larga entrevista para el pódcast "Hablando con Científicos" repasamos el trabajo publicado recientemente sobre cómo la diversidad de coleópteros coprófagos mejora el funcionamiento de los escosistemas (Noriega et al. Nature Communications 2023). Además de...
Drylands occupy over 40% of the Earth’s land surface but there are many challenges to organisms colonizing these environments, such as aridity and extreme weather conditions. Despite these challenges, drylands support a high level of biodiversity that has developed...
Alike other animals, cows generate excrement due to the digestive process. An average bovine produces approximately 30 kilograms of excrement daily, adding up to more than 10 tons per year per individual. In Spain, with more than 6.5 million head of livestock,...
This is the question we made in a recent paper with Javier Nori and other colleagues, specialists in amphibians and reptiles. To answer it, we measured the coverage that two different global databases on species populations provide about the impact of land use change...
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