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The Iberian hare population increases in Doñana after the decline of the European rabbit

Competition, predation, and diseases are key factors shaping animal communities. In recent decades, lagomorphs in Europe have been impacted by virus-borne diseases that have caused substantial...

Citizen science to study five common spider species

Nowadays there is a significant lack of information on the distribution of the Iberian spider species. In the case of common spiders, this insufficiency is due to the fact that these species are...

Current sanitarian regulations are not enough for avian scavengers' conservation

A scientific team has studied how the use of human-origin food resources, such as landfills and intensive livestock farms, by Eurasian griffon vultures can negatively impact their conservation. ...

The economic costs of invasive alien ants total 46.000 million euros

An international scientific team led by the CSIC cuantifies the effects of the invasion of these insects in agriculture and public health
This work takes data from Invacost, the first database...