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What is an urban forest?
Our researcher Mariona Ferrandiz considers 10 basic aspects about urban forests that we want to share.
16 de August de 2024
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Our researcher Mariona Ferrandiz considers 10 basic aspects about urban forests that we want to share.
Science has succeeded in unravelling the origin of the butterflies population explosion in 2019 and how they spread across several continents.
An international scientific team with the participation of CREAF and CSIC has recently published an article in Nature Climate Change explaining that biodiversity protects forests from premature leaf out.
In recent decades there have been significant declines in bees populations, which are linked to factors such as climate change, changes in land use, the arrival of new natural enemies and the use of pesticides.
When someone is indecisive, or goes after someone to get something, they are said to do the butterfly, or to go from flower to flower… These are popular sayings that perhaps nowadays people do not keep in mind, especially those who do not go out in the countryside, or who wear the green glasses of naturalism. Today, on World Bee Day, we want you to put on these glasses and see how the insects that visit our flowers behave.
On the International Biodiversity Day promoted by the Convention on Biological Diversity we want to emphasise its intimate link with climate change, of which it practically becomes the other side of the coin.
The scientific career of Marcos Fernández Martínez on the effects of the climate, the availability of nutrients and the human impact on the functioning of ecosystems receives the Pius Font i Quer 2024 Prize for life sciences, awarded by the Institut d’Estudis Catalans and included in the Sant Jordi Awards.
The Pyrenees region is experiencing a warming rate higher than the global average, making it a critical observatory for the impacts of climate change. Researchers have begun efforts to chart the biodiversity of microorganisms living under the surface of 300 different lakes across the Pyrenees.
Frans de Waal, the Dutch primatologist who revolutionised the perception of emotions in primates, has died at the age of 75. CREAF pays tribute to his research career and prolific writing.
CREAF has obtained for the second consecutive time the Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence distinction awarded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of the Spanish government, with the aim of “promoting the quality of Spanish scientific research by recognizing the best centers and units, that stand out for the relevance and impact of their research results on an international scale”.