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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...

Temperature or competence, which has more influence on Mediterranean ant communities?

A scientific team at the Doñana Biological Station – CSIC studied the competitive interactions between several ant communities in three different habitats in Doñana.

Loggerhead turtles nest more at mixed sand beaches where predation by ghost crabs is lower

A group of researchers, with the participation of the Doñana Biological Station – CSIC, has carried out a study to know if the predation rate of loggerhead turtle nests changes across...