Nueva publicación: Cómo y porqué se renaturaliza de forma pasiva la Cordillera Cantábrica
En el último número de Ecosistemas, catorce investigadores/as del ámbito de la Cordillera Cantábrica revisamos los patrones, los procesos y las consecuencias de la renaturalización pasiva (rewilding) en los ecosistemas de este territorio del norte de España. Se observa un patrón de recuperación de bosques y matorrales en áreas anteriormente ocupadas porpastizales ganaderos y campos…
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…
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