New Publication: Exotic kiwi and blueberry crops depend largely on wild pollinators for production
Many pollinator-dependent crop plants are being cultivated very far from their original areas, having to cope with pollinator assemblages to which plants may be poorly adapted. This frequently pushes farmers to rely on domestic bees to ensure yield, summing an additional management action whose effectiveness is, in most cases, unknown. In our new paper in…
New Publication: Different ecosystem services provided by birds in agroecosystems depend on distinct components of avian biodiversity
In the context of Rocío Peña’s PhD research, we studied how birds supply two ecosystem services, seed dispersal and pest control through insect predation, across wide regional gradients in two different agroecosystems, woodland pastures and apple orchards. We analysed how these services depend on different components of avian biodiversity (species abundance, trait-based functional diversity, phylogenetic…
I Jornadas “Biodiversidad: de la investigación a la conservación”, organizado por el Instituto Mixto de Investigación en Biodiversidad (IMIB) y la Facultad de Biología de la Universidad de Oviedo
Estas Jornadas celebran el Día de la Biodiversidad de 2022 mediante un ciclo de conferencias de los investigadores del Instituto Mixto de Investigación en Biodiversidad (IMIB, Universidad de Oviedo-CSIC-Principado de Asturias) en la Facultad de Biología de la Universidad de Oviedo. Las conferencias divulgarán los conocimientos científicos generados por el IMIB y su aplicación en…
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Lab 