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Long-term monitoring of the flooding regime and hydroperiod of Doñana marshes

This paper presents a semi-automatic procedure to discriminate seasonally flooded areas in the shallow temporary marshes of Doñana National Park by using a radiommetrically normalized long time...

Interpreting bioaccumulation of trace elements in feather shafts

Environmental trace element composition can have an important impact on ecosystem and population health as well as individual fitness. Therefore, carefully assessing bioaccumulation of trace...

Sixteen years of change in human footprint

Human pressures on the environment are changing spatially and temporally, with profound implications for the planet’s biodiversity and human economies. Recently available data on infrastructure,...

Total bee dependence on a single flower species

A new study provides multiple lines of evidence on the total dependence of the solitary bee Flavipanurgus venustus on the flowers of a common Mediterranean scrub (Cistus crispus). This association...

SpotEgg: a tool to analyse colour in digital images

A user-friendly tool, called SpotEgg, has been developed to analyse colour and pattering in digital images. The tool, operated through a Graphical User Interface, runs over Matlab 2012b or latter...