New article “Urbanization correlates with the prevalence and richness of blood parasites in Eurasian black birds”. An investigation conducted by our member Ibáñez-Álamo and his collaborators, which is described in the following link:

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What are the drivers of human-nature interactions in Africa?

What are the correlations between real & perceived neighborhood urban nature?

Get the full gist from my 2nd PhD paper (open access).

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Read & help share it widely!

New paper published as a result of Adewale Awoyemi’s PhD. Human-nature interactions in the Afrotropics: Experiential and cognitive connections among urban residents in southern Nigeria. Congratulations to the authors!

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Our colleagues from the Zoology Department have recently published an intriguing article on anthropogenic materials in blue tit’s nests. You can find it following this link.

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'La configuración de las zonas verdes de las ciudades determina las características de sus aves' es el título que encabeza la nota de prensa donde resaltamos la importancia de la estructura urbana para nuestros vecinos alados, que podéis ver aquí:

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📢 Happy to share our new paper on #UrbanEcology now available!

We found that the way cities are designed (land-sharing vs land-sparing) filters species based on their specific-traits 🐦‍⬛

AnimalEcoUrban
Universidad Granada

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Three of our collaborators have published a very interesting article entitled “Urban landscape is associated with species-specific traits in European birds”. You can see this amazing work in the link below. Congratulations Lucia Izquierdo Extremera, Tomás & Juan Diego!

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Si vas a estar en Granada desde el día 30 de octubre hasta el día 3 de noviembre, hemos preparado en la Sala de Exposiciones de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad de Granada, esta exposición por el Día de las Ciudades. ¡Os esperamos!

¿Queréis conocer un poco más sobre biodiversidad urbana? Mañana nos sumamos a la Noche Europea de los Investigadores 2023 en el Paseo del Salón (Granada). Estaremos en el stand 7 a las 19:00. ¡No os lo podéis perder!

Las #EspeciesExóticasInvasoras suponen una grave amenaza mundial para la #naturaleza 🐀, la economía 📉, la seguridad alimentaria 🍎 y la salud humana 👩‍⚕️

ℹ️ Informe de la evaluación sobre las especies exóticas invasoras y su control del IPBES en español (@IPBES)

divraster: an R package to calculate taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity from rasters
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #biodiversity #climatechange #macroecology #RStats

Applications for the SCB 2023 Graduate Student Research Fellowship Awards are now open!
The fellowship is designed to support grad students who need assistance with costs toward field expenses in order to complete their degree.
Deadline: October 21. conbio.org/mini-sites/scb…

A Spanish magazine has just published an article where they interviewed our collaborator Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo. The article emphasizes the importance of fast actions to control the increasing monk parakeet populations in the metropolitan area of Granada.
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La madera muerta es, para muchos insectos, una fuente indispensable de alimento y refugio tanto directa (ej. insectos xilófagos) como indirecta (ej. insectos parasitoides de larvas xilófagas). Este hecho es (o debería ser) uno de los grandes pilares de la gestión forestal 🌲🌳🌲.

What are #NaturebasedSolutions and what global challenges can they help with?

Learn more ➡️ shorturl.at/wyzAV